Our beloved banana hero has gone from making local headlines to becoming the punchline of a Saturday Night Live joke. Who would’ve thought that being in the right place at the wrong time, dressed as a giant banana at 4 in the morning, would turn into a national phenomenon?
It appears the story was simply too a-peel-ing for the folks over at SNL to ignore. (We know, we know. The banana jokes are getting old. But if Michael Che can get away with one on national television, surely we can squeeze in a few more jokes.)
As first spotted by Bungalower, during the show’s Halloween edition of “Weekend Update” on Saturday, Che took a moment to acknowledge Orlando’s latest contribution to the national news cycle: a woman dressed as a banana who called police after witnessing a car crash…