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If you missed seeing Colin Jost on Family Weekend, you might not know that during a hilarious Q-and-A session with all 4,000-plus audience members, Colin got a bold request from one (assumedly) ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ student.

“Can you give a shoutout to ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ on SNL next week?”

Colin’s response was quick and witty, asking how he was supposed to slip ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ into a Weekend Update that was very likely to center around the growing conflict in the Middle East. The show wrapped up after that and everyone went home, unlikely to be expecting anything to come of it.

Cut to Saturday night one week later as Colin interviews “Deion Sanders,” aka Kenan Thompson, about his not-so-stellar record as the coach of the Colorado Buffaloes. Colin begins listing off college teams that are currently undefeated before switching to teams that have more wins than Sanders’ team. Right at the very end, he comes through for all of ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ University with “¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ of Ohio.”

¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ Performing Arts Series and ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ Activities and Programming, the collaborators behind the incredibly successful Family Weekend comedy show, were as surprised and thrilled as the rest of campus with the high profile mention. But they have always believed in the seen and unseen benefits to ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ and the whole Oxford Community of bringing in top talent to entertain parents and their students every year – a tradition that has been going since 1966 with the pandemic being the first significant disruption.

Well, the headliner for next year’s ¾Ã¾ÃË®ÃÛÌÒ Family Weekend will have to do something pretty amazing to top a "Saturday Night Live" shoutout.