Colin Jostis calling attention to aSaturday Night Liveepisode that aged like milk.
“Actor Russell Brand was charged in England with sexual assault,” Jost began.
Which somehow makesthisvideo even creepier."
Colin Jost on ‘Weekend Update’ on ‘SNL’.NBC
We really know how to pair em up," he quipped.
Offscreen, Jost’s Weekend Update cohost,Michael Che, broke into laughter.
He is set to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on May 2.
The charges relate to four separate women, whom Brand is accused of sexually assaulting.
He swiftly denied the allegations ina YouTube reelpublished on Friday.
I was a fool, man.
I was a fool before I lived in the light of the Lord.
I was a drug addict, a sex addict, and an imbecile.
But what I never was, was a rapist, he said.
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“Ive never engaged in non-consensual activity.
I pray that it’s possible for you to see that by looking in my eyes.”
As for Brown, he, too, has publicly courted controversy.
Five years later, he wasarrested in Washington, D.C., for his involvement in a hotel altercation.
The singerpleaded guiltyto misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to time served.
Watch Jost call out theSNLepisode in the fullWeekend Updatesegment above.
