"Saturday Night Live" kicked off the holidays Dec. 10 with a Christmas-themed episode, hosted by actors Steve Martin and Martin Short with musical guest Brandi Carlile.

The episode opened with a musical performance by cast members Bowen Yang, Cecily Strong and Kenan Thompson encouraging viewers to get into the Christmas spirit by ignoring mental health, drinking too much and blocking out the bad stuff, like Elon Musk owning Twitter.

"Elon, why does he own all the stuff? Why does he have to run Tesla and Twitter? Was outer space not enough?" Strong sang.

Martin and Short's opening monologue began by poking fun at each other, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and the World Cup.

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"No one is rooting for us, but you'll tune in to watch anyway," Short said about their joint gig, relating it to the Thursday premiere of the "Harry & Meghan" docuseries on Netflix.

A seasoned SNL host, Martin counted his 15 prior appearances on the show while joking about Short's three, comparing working with Short to the World Cup: something he just can't get into.

The monologue continued on with a bit about each host writing the other's eulogy and what would be said. With Sarah McLachlan's "In The Arms of an Angel" playing in the background, the men insulted one another with quippy one-liners before heading into the skits.

Martin said Short's last words would be "Tesla autopilot engage" while Short joked that Martin would look "motionless, colorless, stiff, yet so life-like."

Their monologue finished with a brief appearance from actress and singer Selena Gomez, who stepped in when the guest hosts asked who better to be on stage than them.

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Each segment on the Dec. 10 show related to the holidays from a PBS Kids skit about how snow forms to a gory "preview" for the classic "A Christmas Carol" to "This Way to Meet Santa," where Martin was Santa and Short played Sprinkles the Elf.

At one point a child (Ego Nwodim) asked Santa for Taylor Swift tickets to which Sprinkles (Short) enthusiastically told her to not ask for those again and to "get a job," seemingly poking fun at the overwhelming response to tickets for Swift's upcoming "The Eras Tour."

In the "Weekend Update," hosted by Colin Jost and Michael Che, the duo joked about a handful of political hot topics, including Brittney Griner's release from Russian imprisonment, Kyrsten Sinema's exit from the Democratic Party and Raphael Warnock's victory over Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate runoff.

"I don't think this is the last you'll hear from Walker unless he's your biographical father," Che said about Walker's loss.

Che then said the Democratic win in Georgia now means Vice President Kamala Harris can wait for a bigger priority like a "worse bike accident," referencing President Biden's fall earlier in the year.

Later on, Che suggested President Trump's recent request to terminate the Constitution could be completed by asking "Walker to drive it to the clinic."

A few sports jokes were thrown into the satirical news segment. Jost mentioned Morocco's stunning win over Portugal in the World Cup, saying it was the "best performance by a team of Africans since the unpaid workers built the stadium."

Che added that Nike cutting ties with Kyrie Irving over antisemitic posts left the NBA star "so depressed he might jump off the edge of the world," making fun of Irving's belief that the world is flat.

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"Weekend Update" ended with a few holiday shopping tips from Mary Anne Louise Fisher (Ego Nwodim) who compared shopping in department store Nordstrom during the holidays to a tour in Iraq. 

She also gave tips for holiday shopping, which included being Black.

"If you're White acting like this, someone will take a video, and you will lose your job," she said about aggressive shoppers during the holiday season.

"SNL" returns Dec. 17 for the final episode of 2022 with guest host Austin Butler and musical guest Lizzo. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs were originally scheduled, but had to step away after guitarist Nick Zinner contracted pneumonia.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk and independent journalist Michael Shellenberger released the fourth installment of the "Twitter Files" showing how executives at the company acted against their own policy to ban former President Donald Trump.

After showing several screenshots of messages between former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and senior executives, including Former Twitter Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth, Shellenberger noted there was a notable exception to employees wanting Trump banned.

"The *only* serious concern we found expressed within Twitter over the implications for free speech and democracy of banning Trump came from a junior person in the organization. It was tucked away in a lower-level Slack channel known as ‘site-integrity-auto,’" Shellenberger said.

"This might be an unpopular opinion but one-off ad hoc decisions like this that don’t appear rooted in policy are imho [in my honest opinion] a slippery slope and reflect an alternatively equally dictatorial problem," the internal message read. "This now appears to be a fiat by an online platform CEO with a global presence that can gatekeep speech for the entire world - which seems unsustainable."

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The same employee wrote earlier that their "concern is specifically surrounding the unarticulated logic of the decision by [Facebook]."

Tech executives banning Trump without him explicitly violating their policies could give people the "idea (conspiracy theory?) that all... internet moguls... sit around like kings casually deciding what people can and cannot see."

The employee pointed to a Medium blog post from Will Oremus titled, "Facebook Chucked Its Own Rulebook to Ban Trump."

"The underlying problem," wrote Oremus, "is that the dominant platforms have always been loath to own up to their subjectivity, because it highlights the extraordinary, unfettered power they wield over the global public square and places the responsibility for that power on their own shoulders."

"So they hide behind an ever-changing rulebook, alternately pointing to it when it’s convenient and shoving it under the nearest rug when it isn’t," he added.

Several people who responded to Shellenberger commended the "junior employee" for taking a stand and said they deserved a promotion.

Another "senior executive in advertising sales" similarly expressed confusion to Roth over Twitter’s policy to ban Trump.

"In the past, we ‘exempted policy violation’ from a world leader due to the public interest value… are we dropping the public interest now …?" the executive asked Roth.

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"In this specific case, we're changing our public interest approach for his account to say any violation would result in suspension," Roth responded, referencing Trump’s account.

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"We aren’t completely getting rid of the public interest approach - though we do have work planned on revisions in H1 2021," Roth added, again showing Twitter was treating Trump differently.

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The latest batch highlights chaos within Twitter between Jan. 6-8th, including the drama surrounding the Capitol Hill riot on Jan. 6.

"As the pressure builds, Twitter executives build the case for a permanent ban," Shellenberger summarized the thread.

"On Jan 7, senior Twitter execs: - create justifications to ban Trump - seek a change of policy for Trump alone, distinct from other political leaders - express no concern for the free speech or democracy implications of a ban This #TwitterFiles is reported with @lwoodhouse," the first post read.

The installment of messages, called "The Removal of Donald Trump: January 7," is the fourth to be publicly released after previous installments revealed what led to Trump's removal from Twitter, "secret blacklists" used by the company and how Twitter intentionally buried the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 presidential election.