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Caitlin Clark made an appearance on Weekend Update during this week’s Saturday Night Live — and it was a slam dunk.
The Iowa basketball star, who set an NCAA scoring record this year and is projected to be the No. 1 WNBA draft pick on Monday, joined Michael Che and Colin Jost to discuss sports and the upcoming draft. Che, however, had to answer for his history of lame jokes about women’s athletics.
Che starts off the sketch on the wrong foot, saying that Clark’s jersey will be retired at Iowa and replaced with an apron.
Clark is then introduced and says, “You know, I heard that apron joke you did… You make a lot of jokes about women’s sports, don’t you, Michael?” Che objects, but with an assist from Jost, Clark forces him to watch a supercut of his several prior sexist sports jokes. (Unlike Che, Jost supports women!)
As a sort of payback for having to endure so many bad jokes, Clark asks Che to read her own jokes that she says she’s written. Che begrudgingly obliges.
“The Indiana Fever have the first pick in this Monday’s draft,” Che reads. “A reminder that Indiana Fever is a WNBA team, and not what Michael Che gave to dozens of women at Purdue University.”
Clark goes on to roast Che’s Netflix special Shame the Devil, before ending her sketch with three pointers (Ha! Get it?) for Che: “Be Funnier Dumbass.” Oh, and then the NCAA Division I all-time leading scorer gifted the comedian a signed apron.
Watch the full sketch above, then grade this week’s SNL in our poll.
Oh boy, I shake my head when TVline considers Weekend Update investigative reporting, touting a segment that ‘exposes’ on-air sexism.
It’s a bit, peeps, it’s a bit.
This article was accurate to what aired. I just wish they would have added Caitlin’s shout-out to WBNA greats that paved the path for her. There are plenty of articles out there that do dig into Che’s sexism for real; this is just about what aired.
It’s a recap, peep, it’s a recap.
Too bad it won’t stop Che from continuing to be sexist but it was nice seeing him called out for it on air, and she did very well. Maybe someday she’ll get to host, joining the small list of ladies from sports who have (Chris Evert, Nancy Kerrigan and Ronda Rousey).
“called out”? I bet he wrote the jokes she read!
He might have, or Colin or other writers might have. Regardless, they actually recognized his pattern of it in the episode. Yet in the same episode he joked about birth control for mice meaning the lady mice could finally have careers and that abortion decisions should be left to husbands. Yes, it was jokes, and he’s obviously trying to offend, but anyone that doesn’t recognize a pattern and wants to instead get hung up on some random commenter’s word usage instead, is probably part of the problem.
There is a good chance that Colin wrote Che sexist jokes in the past. They love throwing each other under the bus.
This B10 family loved seeing Caitlin on SNL. I loved the skit. You can’t fake talent in sports so jealous “sports” ladies stop the pettiness. Good luck CC. This family(my former athlete now in sports media) will continue to follow your career. Plus my buckeye forgot the record in Iowa still stands……
I’m still surprised at how long they’ve kept Che. He’s clearly just there because jost likes him. Any time he makes a joke the audience kind of half chuckles half groans and jost laughs and is like “come on guys he’s my friend”
You are aware they’re the co-head writers right? He’s no hanger-on.
Didn’t care for the autotuned musical guest but the show was ok
If this was a joke, it wasn’t funny.
Chris Stapleton is one of the most authentic and talented Country musicians (if not the most) today, and possibly of all time. There’s nothing “autotuned” about him.
You all taking it too seriously. Che is no more sexist, than Jost is racist. They are just playing it that way. It their way of making each other look bad for laughs