“Saturday Night Live’s” “Weekend Update” tacked the P’Nut the squirrel saga this hour– at it introduced his “widow” on to talk about the talk condition the euthanizing of the loved puppy and web sensation.
P’Nut’s bereaved spouse, Mrs. Hazel Nut, portrayed through Sarah Sherman, appeared on the newsdesk in widow’s garb to talk about with host Colin Jost the rigors and tribulations she and the well-known squirrel suffered.
“The cops raided our house, and then P’Nut bit one, like a damn hero,” an outraged Mrs. Nut defined. “Then they abducted P’Nut and chopped his head off in a rabies test.”
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“Oh, it’s just so hard to be thrust in the media spotlight, Colin,” Hazel viewable. “I’m used to doing regular squirrel stuff, like, you know, chasing my own tail or running into the middle of a street, seeing a car and then [shakes uncontrollably].”
Hazel viewable that P’Nut is simply the squirrel’s “human name” and that his actual call consists of indecipherable squirrel squeakings.
Sherman’s Hazel Nut recounted to Jost how the couple first got here in combination — assembly at a tree — and made bulky virtue of squirrelly innuendos moment flirting with Jost.
P’Nut was once first seized through the Section of Environmental Conservation on October thirtieth — the Unutilized York Surrounding section mentioning nameless proceedings {that a} recognized rabies vector, within the mode of Fred the raccoon, lived on the space.
P’Nut had lived with mother or father Mark Longo for seven years previous to his seize and killing. Longo had rescued the puppy upcoming witnessing its mom killed through a automobile.
The squirrel was a social media celebrity till his premature and unjust death.
It was once viewable previous this hour that the DEC decapitated P’Nut as a part of a rabies check.
That check viewable that neither Fred nor P’Nut had rabies.
The pet-cause was once additionally name-checked through UFC fighter Jim Miller — who known as for justice for the bushy critter at Madison Sq. Ground society following a primary spherical victory at UFC 309.
