The season finale of Saturday Night Live's 51st series opened in the Oval Office, where President Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) commiserated with Vice-President JD Vance (Jeremy Culhane) after a diplomatic trip to China. After dismissing Vance, Trump fell asleep using a gold bar as a pillow and was visited by the ghost of his friend Jeffrey Epstein, played by host Will Ferrell.
Epstein, who has been keeping busy in hell playing mahjong with Stalin and John Wayne Gacy, showed Trump visions of the future including Kristi Noem selling vacuum cleaners on infomercials and Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel hosting a drunken podcast after the Iran war. The two sang 'Just the Two of Us' before almost kissing.
In another sketch, Ferrell played a doctor who accidentally removed a patient's penis and testicle during an appendix operation. The show also featured a short film parodying the Battle of Helm's Deep from The Lord of the Rings, with Ferrell as a hobbit who betrays his comrades to the orcs.
Ferrell revived his character Mr Koeing, a menacing drama teacher, alongside Molly Shannon as a bossy choir teacher. On Weekend Update, Colin Jost and Michael Che performed their annual joke swap, with Jost landing a controversial line about Michael Jackson.
