When Michael Che introduced Caitlin Clark on his and Colin Jost’s “Saturday Night Live” segment “Weekend Update,” viewers expected a fellow comedian in a long, dark wig to slide into frame.
Instead, the actual owner of the NCAA all-time scoring record of men’s and women’s basketball appeared.
Clark joined Che on the desk — the segment’s set — to talk about the WNBA Draft, which the presumptive No. 1 pick was in New York City for with the draft being Monday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Clark received a good 20-second ovation from the live crowd that would have continued had she not cut the audience off to get the segment started.
“Hey Michael, thanks for having me,” Clark said.
“I am a fan Caitlin, by the way,” Che said.
“Really Michael, because I heard that little apron joke you did …” Clark said lightheartedly of a joke Che made minutes before, in which Che said before introducing Clark that Iowa will have her No. 22 jersey retired “and replaced with an apron.”
The crowd was quick to “ooh” at Che’s joke, but cheer for Clark, who bantered on and called out Che for having made numerous jokes at the expense of women’s sports in the past. Unlike those jokes, Clark said she wrote some “good” rib-ticklers about women’s…
