Caitlin Clark Calls Out Michael Che On SNL For Women’s Basketball Jokes

Forward of the WNBA draft in Brooklyn on Monday night time, Caitlin Clark made a shock look on Saturday Night time Stay over the weekend.

Nevertheless it wasn’t simply any look for the basketball participant, who earlier this month wrapped a storied faculty profession with the Iowa Hawkeyes.

She appeared on SNL (which was hosted this week by Ryan Gosling) to deal with Weekend Replace co-anchor Michael Che’s repeated jokes about girls’s basketball.

After Michael made a joke that the Hawkeyes would retire Caitlin’s jersey and change it with an apron, Caitlin was introduced out with Michael noting that he was a fan of hers.

“Actually, Michael? As a result of I heard that little apron joke you probably did,” she mentioned. “You make plenty of jokes about girls’s sports activities, do not you, Michael?”

Michael’s Weekend Replace co-anchor Colin Jost then launched a video clip of occasions when Michael made girls’s basketball jokes on the present. After Michael famous that Caitlin is a “nice” basketball participant and he cannot play like her, she mentioned, “Ya, we all know. And, clearly, I can not inform jokes such as you do.”

Caitlin then proceeded to have Michael learn jokes she’d written, like “The Indiana Fever have the primary choose on this Monday’s draft…a reminder that Indiana Fever is a WNBA group and never what Michael Che gave to dozens of ladies at Purdue College.”

And, “Netflix’s prime new present is Ripley, that includes an eerie, unsettling efficiency by actor Andrew Scott. Critics say it is the toughest factor to observe on Netflix since Michael Che’s particular, Disgrace the Satan.”

And, lastly, “This yr Caitlin Clark broke the report for three-pointers in a single season, and I’ve three pointers for Michael Che: 1) Be, 2) Funnier, 3) Dumbass.”

Caitlin then shouted out WNBA greats Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie, Cynthia Cooper, Daybreak Staley, and Maya Moore. “These are the ladies that kicked down the door, so I might stroll inside. So I need to thank them tonight for laying the inspiration,” she mentioned.

Caitlin then ended her look by presenting Michael with a signed apron.

Following her SNL look, Caitlin informed In the present day in an interview that aired Monday that making ready for SNL was extra daunting than making ready for the Nationwide Championship recreation.

“It is not even shut,” she mentioned. “My coronary heart was pounding out of my chest, however I did alright. It was tremendous cool. Clearly, to be a shock visitor, like, that is a bucket listing merchandise that not lots of people get to do.”

On Sunday on the Writers Guild Awards pink carpet, forged member Bowen Yang praised Caitlin’s SNL look. “She’s so charming and witty,” he informed Individuals.

Notably, Caitlin’s teammates Jada Gyamfi, Kate Martin, and Gabbie Marshall all got here to the present along with her and appeared within the present’s sign-off. “They had been simply probably the most beautiful, noble folks,” Bowen added.