The fourth episode of “Saturday Night Live U.K.” opened with a sketch spoofing both Melania Trump’s statement on Jeffrey Epstein and Kanye West’s Wireless Festival controversy.
The sketch began with Jack Shep, Al Nash and Annabel Marlow enjoying some rare London sunshine and playing a game of “Never Have I Ever.”
“Never have I ever kissed two boys on one night,” Shep offers, to which Marlow replies: “Guilty!”
But the game then gets darker. “Never have I ever accidentally booked a Neo-Nazi to headline a music festival for three nights,” Marlow says, referencing the recently cancelled Wireless Festival, which West was set to headline.
“Girl, you said you wouldn’t bring that up!” Shep fires back.
Melania Trump then appears from behind a bush, played by Emma Sidi. “Never have I ever been friends with Jeffrey Epstein!” she exclaims, to the surprise of the other three. Sidi as Melania then suggests a game of “Truth or Dare,” starting with: “How dare you accuse me of female friendship with short-haired sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell?”
“Why do you keep bringing up all the Epstein stuff?” Marlow asks, while Shep adds: “Yeah like, your husband literally started a war to distract us all from it.”
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Earlier this week, Trump made a seemingly out-of-the-blue statement about Epstein, saying that she never had a relationship with him or Maxwell. “The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,” the First Lady said.
At the end of the “SNL U.K.” sketch, Sidi’s Melania then begs for “one last chance” with her new friends, saying that she no longer has any “since they all died in a maximum security prison.”
To prove it, she offers up “two truths and a lie”: “I love my new friends, I like poor people – wink, wink – and live from London, it’s Saturday Night!”
From Variety US