Overview
- During Weekend Update, co-host Ania Magliano said she hoped Mark Zuckerberg would use his reported bunker “in exactly the same way Hitler did,” drawing audible gasps from the studio audience.
- Viewers posted criticism on X questioning whether the gag encouraged suicide and asking how such a line counted as comedy.
- Comedian Josh Howie condemned the broadcast as antisemitic in posts on X, pointing to the Hitler reference and a separate line about Jesus.
- Coverage linked the joke to reports that Zuckerberg has built a large subterranean space at his Palo Alto home that outlets have described as a bunker.
- The controversy comes early in SNL UK’s run on Sky, which opened near 226,000 viewers and then dropped for its second episode.