For Buffs fans still recovering from Friday’s loss to Stanford, the season debut of “Saturday Night Live” the following day provided some much-needed laughs.
During the show’s “Weekend Update” segment, longtime cast member Kenan Thompson dressed in full Colorado gear and delivered an excellent impersonation of head coach Deion Sanders while answering questions from anchor Colin Jost.
Perhaps the best joke came when the SNL version of Coach Prime called Colorado an “HWCU.”
“Not many people know this, but Colorado is an HWCU, or historically white college,” the fictional Coach Prime said.
Here’s how social media reacted to SNL’s spoof of Coach Prime: