News of the Week

"News of the Week" was a recurring segment on the series "Friday Night Weekly". It features the hosts of the show delivering news stories in the form of jokes with punchlines. Stylistically the camera remains fixed on the 2–3 hosts during the segment and square images are placed directly over the face or faces of the non-speaker hosts. It debuted as a part of the canceled pilot episode of the "Friday Night Weekly" talk show and officially premiered in the first episode of the full series, "Meet the Plant". It was featured in all but the final episode, "Epilogue".
== Hosts ==
"News of the Week" was performed by 5 different hosts throughout its 39 episode run with 4 different lineups.
* Jozef K. Richards and Matt Henry: Season 1, Episodes 1–8; 18 + Season 2, Episodes 2–5; 8–11; 14
* Jozef K. Richards, Makenzie Boettcher, and Matt Henry: Season 1, Episodes 9–17; 19–25
* Jozef K. Richards and Alex Trapp: Season 2, Episodes 1; 6–7
* Jozef K. Richards and Max Machotka: Season 2, Episodes 12–13
=== Story writing ===
Typically each host is delivering stories they have written themselves with few exceptions where Makenzie Boettcher read a story written by Jozef K. Richards or Matt Henry.
Host/writer 	Character 	No. of episodes	No. of stories read	No. of stories written	Average no. of stories read per episode
Jozef K. Richards 	"Jozef K. Richards" 	39 	69 	74 	1.77
Matt Henry 	"Matt Henry" 	34 	51 	52 	1.5
Makenzie Boettcher	"Makenzie Boettcher"	16 	11 	5 	0.69
Alex Trapp 	"Alex Trapp" 	3 	3 	3 	1
Max Machotka 	Max Splorer 	2 	4 	4 	2
=== Style ===
* Jozef – Focus on United States and international politics, religious criticism, government overreach, city statistics, human interest, and sports-related news. Occasionally these include light impressions of figures such as Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, and Al Pacino.
* Matt – Focus on entertainment, media, music, video games, celebrities, dumb criminals, and misinterpretations of news stories. "Boston bullies" are a frequent target of his, brought up often as if part of a childhood trauma.
* Makenzie – Focus on women's issues and strange/offbeat news.
* Alex – Focus on Colombian and Latin American news.
* Max – Focus on extreme tragedy, violence, and cruelty. Each story ends with him making-believe the blackbird on his shoulder named Giuseppe is saying, "that's unfortunate," in a high-pitched voice.
== News coverage ==
"News of the Week" stories/jokes were written based on items in the news during the week of the episode's production.
Most newsworthy people according to "Friday Night Weekly" (2013-2015)
Person in news 	Title 	First mentioned on	No. of mentions	Appearing in stories written by
"Boston bully/bullies" 	Bullies 	September 13, 2013	9 	Matt Henry
Barack Obama 	President of the United States 	September 13, 2013	6 	Jozef K. Richards, Makenzie Boettcher
Vladimir Putin 	President of Russia 	September 13, 2013	3 	Jozef K. Richards
George Zimmerman 	Acquitted murderer 	September 13, 2013	2 	Matt Henry
Chuck Schumer 	United States senator 	October 4, 2013 	2 	Matt Henry, 
Jozef K. Richards
Chris Christie 	Governor of New Jersey 	November 8, 2013 	2 	Jozef K. Richards
Pope Francis 	Bishop of Rome 	September 13, 2013	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Dennis Rodman 	Former professional basketball player 	September 13, 2013	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Kim Jung Un 	Supreme leader of North Korea 	September 13, 2013	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Tom Hanks 	Actor 	September 13, 2013	1 	Matt Henry
Simon Cowell 	Television producer 	September 13, 2013	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Anthony Weiner 	New York mayoral candidate 	September 13, 2013	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Bill de Blasio 	Mayor of New York 	September 13, 2013	1 	Jozef K. Richards
George H. W. Bush 	Former President of the United States 	September 27, 2013	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Edward F. Davis 	Boston Police Department commissioner 	September 27, 2013	1 	Matt Henry
Michelle Obama 	First lady of the United States 	October 4, 2013 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Janet Yellen 	Incoming chair of the Federal Reserve 	October 11, 2013 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Ben Bernanke 	Chair of the Federal Reserve 	October 11, 2013 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Britney Spears 	Singer 	November 1, 2013 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Angus McDonagh 	Stamp maker 	November 1, 2013 	1 	Matt Henry
Collin Russell 	Protestor 	November 22, 2013 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Sylvia Brown 	Psychic 	November 22, 2013 	1 	Matt Henry
Al Gore 	Former vice president of the United States 	November 29, 2013 	1 	Matt Henry
Alec Baldwin 	Actor 	November 29, 2013 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Todd Mills 	Creator of Doritos Locos taco 	December 6, 2013 	1 	Matt Henry
Nelson Mandela 	Former president of South Africa 	December 13, 2013 	1 	Makenzie Boettcher
Fargum the space monkey	Astronaut 	December 20, 2013 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
J. R. Smith 	Professional basketball player 	January 10, 2014 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Lindsay Lohan 	Actor 	January 10, 2014 	1 	Matt Henry
Michael Crabtree 	Professional football player 	January 24, 2014 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Daft Punk 	Musician 	January 31, 2014 	1 	Matt Henry
DMX 	Rapper 	February 7, 2014 	1 	Matt Henry
Shirley Temple Black 	Actor/Singer 	February 14, 2014 	1 	Matt Henry
Ben Affleck 	Actor 	February 21, 2014 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Andre Johnson 	Rapper 	April 18, 2014 	1 	Matt Henry
Jameis Winston 	Professional football player 	May 2, 2014 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Chespirito 	Comedian 	December 12, 2014 	1 	Alex Trapp
Chuck Hagel 	Secretary of Defense of the United States 	December 19, 2014 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Jay Leno 	Comedian 	January 16, 2015 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Hillary Clinton 	Former secretary of state of the United States 	January 16, 2015 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Bill Maher 	Comedian 	January 16, 2015 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 	Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	January 23, 2015 	1 	Jozef K. Richards
== Screen caps ==
Category:Segments
Category:Friday Night Weekly