During the latest episode of Saturday Night Live, comedian Michael Che caught the audience off guard with a risqué joke aimed at Donald Trump, as he took a jab at the BBC.

In the previous night’s edition of The Weekend Update, Che, who co-hosts the segment, remarked, “President Trump is reportedly planning to sue the BBC for $5 billion over a documentary that removed the segment of his January 6 speech where he urged protestors to remain peaceful.”

Che added, “To provide clarity, here is the complete, unedited, and entirely accurate clip of Trump’s remarks from that day.”

The broadcast then humorously cut to a heavily edited version of the speech, splicing together various phrases Trump had uttered from the podium.

The fabricated sentence humorously declared, “Everybody knows I went down on Bill Clinton.”

The two-part joke was in reference to an edited speech in a BBC documentary that the corporation’s Board Chair, Samir Shah, acknowledged ‘did give the impression of a direct call for violent action.’

It also referenced the 20,000 emails from Epstein’s estate that were released on November 12 by Democrats in the House Oversight Committee, in which Trump’s name appeared several times in damning contexts.

In particular, the joke referenced a 2018 email between brothers Mark and Jeffrey Epstein, in which Mark suggested Jeffrey ask former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon ‘if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba.’

On the most recent segment of Saturday Night Live’s The Weekend Update, co-host Michael Che made a joke that mocked the BBC’s misleading edit of Trump’s January 6 speech as well as the president himself

The joke included a clearly edited clip of the speech that cut together words and phrases Trump said into this sentence: ‘Everybody knows I went down on Bill Clinton’

That email was heavily circulated on social media, and rumors about the identity of ‘Bubba’ abounded. 

Many have suggested it was Bill Clinton, as ‘Bubba’ was a popular nickname for the former president, who had a social and business relationship with Epstein for many years. Clinton has denied being close to Epstein, and his office has previously stated that he ‘knows nothing about the terrible crimes.’

The identity of Bubba has not been verified, and Mark Epstein told Newsweek that it was not Clinton, but he did not provide any additional information about the identity or the meaning of the emails.

Trump has called the emails a ‘hoax,’ and accused Democrats of releasing them ‘because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown.’

SNL’s audience were stunned by the sex jokes, with one writing: ‘Jeezus… this SNL cold open is bizarrely unreal in how it frames the release of the Epstein emails as condemning Trump more than, oh say Bill Clinton.’ 

Another said: ‘Trump blowing Bill Clinton SNL cold open mention achieved. We are rapidly reaching mid-90s era mainstream comedy casual brutality and now it involves that same man from the mid-90s who got so much of it.’

While a third simply said: ‘Who’s gonna play Bill Clinton on SNL.’ 

The joke was in reference to a recently released email from Epstein’s estate that said: ‘Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba.’ People on social media have speculated that ‘Bubba’ is Clinton, but that has not been verified

In the released emails, Trump’s name appears several times in damning contexts

The president was outraged by the BBC documentary that left out key parts of his January 6 speech. His lawyers have threatened to sue for at least $1billion unless the corporation issues a retraction, apologizes and compensates him. 

On Friday, Trump raised the stakes and told reporters on Air Force One: ‘We’ll sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5billion, probably sometime next week.’

‘They actually changed the words coming out of my mouth… I think I have to do it. I mean, they’ve even admitted that they cheated,’ the president said.  

The BBC has issued a formal apology to Trump, and it has agreed to not rebroadcast the documentary, which first aired in Britain in October 2024. It did not, however, agree to compensate the president and publicly stated: ‘We strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim.’

Epstein had personal and professional relationships with Trump and Clinton, but both have denied any wrongdoing and assert that they had no knowledge of Epstein’s crimes

Trump has threatened the BBC with a $5billion lawsuit in response to the corporation’s misleadingly edited documentary

Trump has been using billion-dollar legal threats to fight his political adversaries for a long time. 

In September, he hit the New York Times with a $15billion defamation lawsuit. The initial complaint was dismissed, but Trump’s lawyers filed an amended version in October.

In 2018 during Trump’s first term, he suggested that he might sue SNL after the show aired a segment imagining a world where he had never been elected. 

That never went anywhere, and although Trump has consistently been critical of SNL, he has not taken legal action against the show.