SNL & John Oliver took parting shots at George Santos after he got kicked out of the House

Following his expulsion from Congress on Friday, former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) received the first of what are sure to be many fittingly hilarious send-offs from Saturday Night Live and late-night host John Oliver.

On Saturday night, SNL opened with cast member Bowen Yang playing the disgraced former congressman as he conducted a press conference on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

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“Why would I want to stay here? To hell with this place,” he said immediately after getting expelled.

“OK, enough!” Yang said. “Everyone stop assaulting me. I’m being assaulted. This entire country has been bullying me just because I’m a proud, gay thief. But what else is new? America hates to see a Latina queen winning.”

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“Since the day I was elected, it’s been a witch hunt, but if I’m guilty of anything it’s for loving too much/fraud,” he continued.

Throughout the sketch, Yang’s Santos complained about reporters’ invasive questions, while the actors playing the press responded that it was he who called the press conference in the first place.

“America needs closure,” Yang fired back. “One of their favorite sons, me, has been cut down in the prime of his life at 17 years old.”

Yang also repeatedly tried to get reporters to give him their credit card information—a call back to the 23-count federal indictment Santos faces, which includes charges of fraudulently charging tens of thousands of dollars to donors’ credit cards.

“You want me to say that I lost? That I’m humiliated?” Yang said. “Fine. So I’m no longer Congressman Santos. I’m just regular, old Professor Major General Reverend Astronaut Santos, protector of the realm, princess of Genovia.”

“Is being expelled and prosecuted for 23 felonies a setback? Sure,” he continued. “But I promised myself I wouldn’t let it ruin my Kwanzaa.”

Yang’s Santos claimed that history would remember him as “a martyr, as a champion of the people” and “the modern Princess Diana and the modern Marilyn Monroe.” The sketch then transitioned to a musical number, with Yang performing a parody of Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind.”

On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver tipped his hat to Santos for the diva-level crimes he’s accused of, including spending campaign cash on Botox, luxury items at Hermes and Ferragamo, lavish vacations, and an OnlyFans subscription.

“I have to say, if you’re going to do something you’re not supposed to do, that is the way to f–king to do it!” Oliver joked. “Looking good, going out, and getting off on gig economy porn? How am I supposed to be mad? He spent campaign funds vibing out on diva s–t.”

“Not to be a total astrology girlie here, but it makes so much sense that he’s a Cancer/Leo cusp,” the host said of Santos’s response to his expulsion. “Prone to fits of emotion, loves to be the center of attention, and recently hard launched a husband. That s–t is textbook!”

Oliver added that Santos obviously never belonged in Congress. “He belongs on Bravo,” Oliver said. “Santos clearly didn’t deliver for his constituents, but he delivered hard for the rest of us. And I don’t want him to be in my government, and I don’t want to sit next to him on an airplane, but I definitely want him in Andy Cohen’s menagerie of damaged human beings. Call this man now, Cohen, and pay him what he is worth.”

While Santos’s time in Congress has come to an end, the jokes are sure to keep coming. On Saturday, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that HBO Films is developing a “darkly comic” film based on Mark Chiusano’s recent book, The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos. The logline for the film from Veep and Succession producer Frank Rich describes it as“the story of a seemingly minor local race that wound up a battle for the soul of Long Island, and unexpectedly carved the path for the world’s most famous (and now disgraced) congressman. The Gatsby-esque journey of a man from nowhere who exploited the system, waged war on truth and swindled one of the wealthiest districts in the country to achieve his American Dream.”