THE SHORT VERSION
- Weekend Update’s Halloween edition went after two of Donald Trump’s closing messages before the midterms, Rolling Stone reports: a request that voters pretend he is on the ballot, and an interest in the appearance of the candidates he has campaigned for.据 Rolling Stone 报道，Weekend Update 万圣节版拿特朗普在中期选举前的两句收尾话做文章：请选民假装他也在选票上，以及对助选对象身体外观的兴趣。
- Jost named Ohio Sen. Jon Husted as the butt of the running joke and read out a line about him, while Variety records the same JD Vance punchline with different punctuation.Jost 点名俄亥俄州参议员 Jon Husted 作为这个连环玩笑的靶子，并念了一句关于他的话；Variety 记录的同一段 Vance 台词标点不同。
- Variety reports that Michael Che then joked about Israel’s election and left Jost grimacing, and treats the line as the show’s belated first word on the subject.据 Variety 报道，Michael Che 随后讲了一个关于以色列选举的笑话，让 Jost 皱眉；该媒体把这个笑话视为节目首次真正触及这一话题。
Jost opened on the closing pitchJost 从收尾诉求开场
Colin Jost opened the Halloween edition of Weekend Update on two of Donald Trump’s closing messages before the midterms, Rolling Stone reports: a request that voters pretend the president is on the ballot, and an interest in the appearance of the candidates he has been campaigning for. Jost, identified by the outlet as a co-anchor, framed the first as the president’s own message to voters: “Just close your eyes and pretend I’m on the ballot”. The report treats the two messages as one run of material rather than separate bits.据Rolling Stone报道，Colin Jost 在万圣节版《Weekend Update》开场就盯上 Donald Trump 在中期选举前的两句收尾话：一句是请选民假装他本人也在选票上，另一句是对他正在助选的候选人身体外观的兴趣。该媒体把 Jost 称为共同主播，并称他把前一句当作总统本人对选民说的话：“Just close your eyes and pretend I’m on the ballot”。报道把这两句收尾话当作同一段素材来处理，而不是拆成两个彼此独立的段子。
Rolling Stone reports that Jost then supplied a voter’s reply — “You had me at” — as a photograph of Melania Trump appeared on screen behind him. Variety calls the same broadcast the Halloween edition of the show and records that it included a cameo by Ben Marshall’s Pennywise along with the jokes about the president’s interest in candidates’ posteriors. Variety’s account of that material is a single sentence; Rolling Stone gives it the middle of the segment, after the two closing messages. Rolling Stone’s subheading says the president’s closing message is leaving one administration official jealous.Rolling Stone 报道，Jost 接着替一位选民给出回应——“You had me at”——此时他身后的屏幕上出现了 Melania Trump 的照片。Variety把同一期节目称为该节目的万圣节版，并记录其中出现了 Ben Marshall 扮演的 Pennywise，与关于总统关注助选对象臀部的玩笑并列。Variety 对这段素材只写了一句话；Rolling Stone 则把它放在节目中段，也就是开场那两句收尾话之后。Rolling Stone 的副题说，总统的收尾话让一位政府官员心生嫉妒。
The second target was a senator’s posterior第二个靶子是一位参议员的臀部
The second thread was narrower. Rolling Stone reports that Jost mocked what Trump was “laser-focused” on ahead of Tuesday’s vote: the butt of Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. The show played several clips of Trump at rallies describing how he had “examined” it, and Jost then said he knew who was feeling left out. Husted is the only candidate either report names in connection with the joke.第二条线索比开场那条更窄，也更具体。Rolling Stone 报道，Jost 拿总统在周二投票前被形容为“laser-focused”的对象开玩笑：俄亥俄州参议员 Jon Husted 的臀部。节目播放了几段 Trump 在集会上描述自己如何“examined”它的视频，Jost 随后说，他知道谁觉得自己被落下了。在两篇报道中，Husted 是唯一被点名与这个玩笑相关的候选人。
That person, according to Jost, was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. “He’s out here doing televised workouts to get Trump’s attention—zero compliments on his body!” Jost said, Rolling Stone reports. Variety folds the same passage into its one sentence about posteriors; it does not name Husted, Hegseth or the workout line. The two accounts agree on the target of the running joke and diverge on how much of it they print.按 Jost 的说法，这个人是国防部长 Pete Hegseth。“He’s out here doing televised workouts to get Trump’s attention—zero compliments on his body!”据 Rolling Stone 报道，Jost 这样说。Variety 把同一段内容并入了那句关于臀部的描述里；它既没有提到 Husted，也没有提到 Hegseth，更没有引用这段关于健身的话。两篇报道对玩笑对象的指向是一致的，差别只在于各自印出了多少内容、保留了多少细节。
Vance, envy and an instruction to stopVance、嫉妒与一句劝阻
Both outlets carry the next beat, and their transcripts differ in punctuation and in the verb they choose. Rolling Stone has Jost saying that Vice President JD Vance had come out and said he was jealous the president had never complimented his butt, before Jost asked, “What the hell is going on?!” and told the party it was about to lose the midterms. Variety prints the same lines as a single exclamation, with a comma where Rolling Stone has a full stop, and attributes it to Jost with the verb exclaimed.两家媒体都记录了接下来的段落，但标点与所用的动词不一样。Rolling Stone 写 Jost 说，副总统 JD Vance 曾公开表示，他嫉妒总统从未夸过自己的臀部；随后 Jost 问道：“What the hell is going on?!”并说该党即将输掉中期选举。Variety 把同样这几句话排成一个感叹句，在 Rolling Stone 用句号的地方用了逗号，并用“exclaimed”这个动词把话归给 Jost。
The instruction that closes the bit is identical in both versions: stop playing “smash or pass” with each other. Neither report says what, beyond the rally clips, set the line up, and neither carries a response from the White House, from Husted’s office, from Hegseth or from Vance. Rolling Stone builds its account almost entirely from Jost’s lines, while Variety quotes only the Vance passage before moving on to the next item.两个版本里收尾的那句要求完全一样：别再互相玩“smash or pass”。两篇报道都没有说明，除了节目中播放的集会视频之外，还有什么别的因素为这句话做了铺垫；也都没有收录白宫、Husted 办公室、Hegseth 或 Vance 的任何回应。Rolling Stone 的稿子几乎完全由 Jost 的台词搭成，Variety 则只引用了 Vance 这一段，就转到下一条内容去了。
A vocal-cord aside and one more line一句关于声带的插话
Rolling Stone records one further exchange. Jost noted that the president had told reporters his frequent rallies were tough on his vocal cords, and then quoted him: “God didn’t make vocal cords to do a rally every day.” The report keeps the line inside the same run of Husted material rather than treating it as a separate item.Rolling Stone 还记录了另一处对话。Jost 提到，总统曾对记者说，频繁集会让他嗓子吃不消，随后引用他的话：“God didn’t make vocal cords to do a rally every day.”报道把这句话放在同一段 Husted 素材里，而没有把它当成一个独立环节来处理。
Jost turned it into a second line at the senator’s expense: “the only thing God made to never quit was Jon Husted’s ass.” Variety’s piece does not mention the vocal-cord remark or this line, so the exchange rests on Rolling Stone’s account alone. Neither report indicates whether the lines were scripted or ad-libbed, and neither describes how the studio audience took them.Jost 顺势又拿这位参议员开了一句：“the only thing God made to never quit was Jon Husted’s ass.”Variety 的稿子既没有提到嗓子那句话，也没有这句收尾，因此这段对话只存在于 Rolling Stone 的报道中。两篇报道都没有说明这些台词是事先写好的还是即兴的，也没有描述现场观众当时的反应。
Che’s Israel joke and a visible grimaceChe 的以色列笑话
Later in the segment, Variety reports, Michael Che told a joke about Israel’s election that made Jost grimace. Variety quotes him: “This week, a record number of people voted in Israel’s election — which is great to see, regardless of if you’re on the right side, or the left side, or the genocide,” and describes the grimace as joking rather than hostile. The outlet also embeds the show’s own post about the episode, dated 1 November, and time-stamps the piece at 10:03 p.m. Pacific on 31 October.据 Variety 报道，节目后段 Michael Che 讲了一个关于以色列选举的笑话，让 Jost 皱起了脸。Variety 引用他的原话：“This week, a record number of people voted in Israel’s election — which is great to see, regardless of if you’re on the right side, or the left side, or the genocide,”并把 Jost 的表情形容为开玩笑式的，而不是带着敌意。该媒体还嵌入了节目官方关于这期节目的帖子，日期为11月1日，并把这篇文章的时间标为10月31日太平洋时间晚上10点03分。
Variety prints no reply from Jost, and Rolling Stone’s account of the episode does not mention the Israel material at all. Variety treats the joke as the show’s first real engagement with the subject, writing that the American Weekend Update had largely avoided it. It adds that the British version of the segment has mocked Ed Sheeran and Macklemore over what it calls their outsized roles in the conversation surrounding Israel’s war on Gaza.Variety 没有刊登 Jost 的任何回应，而 Rolling Stone 的报道则完全没有提到以色列这段内容。Variety 把这个笑话视为该节目首次真正触及这一话题，并写道美国的《Weekend Update》此前基本回避了它。该媒体还提到，英国版同名环节曾拿 Ed Sheeran 和 Macklemore 在以色列与加沙战争讨论中所扮演的角色开玩笑，并把这些角色形容为大得不成比例。
What the two reports add up to两篇报道各自补上了什么
Variety’s judgment on the moment is blunt. It writes that one reason the U.K.’s “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update has lapped the U.S. version is that Jost and Che “have largely avoided controversial topics like Israel”, and it ends the piece with: “And this, it seems, is the best Jost and Che could finally come up with.” Neither outlet reports a statement from NBC or from either anchor about the reaction to the episode. Both pieces stay close to what was said on air.Variety 对这一刻的评价很直接。它写道，英国版“Saturday Night Live”的《Weekend Update》之所以把美国版甩在后面，原因之一是 Jost 与 Che“have largely avoided controversial topics like Israel”；文章最后一句是：“And this, it seems, is the best Jost and Che could finally come up with.”两篇报道都没有刊登 NBC 或两位主播就这期节目反响发表的任何声明。两篇稿子都紧贴节目上确实说过的话，而不是替读者补上节目之外的政治背景。
The record the two reports leave is a Halloween episode that put its political material into a closing pitch, a senator’s posterior and one joke about a foreign election, with a Pennywise cameo in between. Both reports tie the material to the midterms, and neither carries a response from anyone named in the jokes. Related coverage on this site includes Nicki Minaj and the Trump press secretary’s comments, Macklemore’s Free Palestine tour finale in London and Michael Douglas’s update on Jack Nicholson.两篇报道留下的记录是：一期万圣节节目把政治素材放在一句收尾诉求、一位参议员的臀部和一则关于外国选举的笑话上，中间还夹着 Pennywise 的客串。两篇报道都把这段素材与中期选举联系起来，也都没有收录被开玩笑者本人的任何回应。本站相关阅读包括Nicki Minaj 与特朗普新闻秘书的表态、Macklemore“Free Palestine”巡演伦敦收官和Michael Douglas 谈 Jack Nicholson 近况。
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