Best of Saturday Night Live Season 49

Also: Jon Stewart, Desi Lydic, Ronny Chieng, and Geoffrey Asmus

Happy First Day of Summer! I’m Geoff Plitt, and welcome to What You Need to Know, the brief, weekly newsletter where I share the best comedy videos I’ve seen all week. It will always be free, and you’re welcome to become a friend by following me on Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok, where I share my own jokes every week.

And now, the videos you came for:

1. Saturday Night Live might be taking a break for the summer, but you can catch up on the best sketches from the season with this new recap they just released:

2. I can’t get enough of The Daily Show. This week, Jon Stewart roasted Trump for calling the RNC host city of Milwaukee a horrible place, and also covered the Right's fearmongering and false obsession with crime rates:

3. More from The Daily Show: Desi Lydic and Ronny Chieng have a special report on Indecision 2024, going behind the campaigns of rage-baiting candidates like Senate hopeful Royce White, who’s turned the race into an episode of “Jerry Springer,” and Valentina Gomez, who hopes to become Secretary of State in Missouri by burning books and yelling at gays:

4. Finally, you should really check out Geoffrey Asmus’ new Don’t Tell set, where he shares his hot takes on STDs, racist boomers, and if the president is actually to blame for life's problems:

Thanks for reading! Have a great weekend.

- Geoff

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