{"id":154959,"date":"2024-04-21T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=154959"},"modified":"2024-04-21T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T16:44:09","slug":"saturday-night-live-cold-open-riffs-on-how-womens-march-madness-has-been-a-lot-more-exciting-than-the-mens-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=154959","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 Cold Open Riffs On How Women\u2019s March Madness Has Been A Lot More Exciting Than The Men\u2019s Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Night Live took a break from politics in its cold open to riff on March Madness \u2014 more specifically how the women\u2019s tournament has been a lot more exciting than the men\u2019s competition. The setup was TBS\u2019 post-game coverage, with co-host Kenny Smith (Devon Walker) noting that 14 million people watched the the Iowa-Connecticut [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/04\/saturday-night-live-cold-open-march-madness-kim-mulkey-1235877526\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Night Live took a break from politics in its cold open to riff on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154959-saturday-night-live-cold-open-riffs-on-how-womens-march-madness-has-been-a-lot-more-exciti6625426547def",1500,845,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154959-saturday-night-live-cold-open-riffs-on-how-womens-march-madness-has-been-a-lot-more-exciti6625426547def-150x150.",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154959-saturday-night-live-cold-open-riffs-on-how-womens-march-madness-has-been-a-lot-more-exciti6625426547def-300x169.",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154959-saturday-night-live-cold-open-riffs-on-how-womens-march-madness-has-been-a-lot-more-exciti6625426547def-768x433.",640,361,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154959-saturday-night-live-cold-open-riffs-on-how-womens-march-madness-has-been-a-lot-more-exciti6625426547def-1024x577.",640,361,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154959-saturday-night-live-cold-open-riffs-on-how-womens-march-madness-has-been-a-lot-more-exciti6625426547def",1500,845,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154959-saturday-night-live-cold-open-riffs-on-how-womens-march-madness-has-been-a-lot-more-exciti6625426547def",1500,845,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154959-saturday-night-live-cold-open-riffs-on-how-womens-march-madness-has-been-a-lot-more-exciti6625426547def-1024x577.",1024,577,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154959-saturday-night-live-cold-open-riffs-on-how-womens-march-madness-has-been-a-lot-more-exciti6625426547def-825x575.",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154959-saturday-night-live-cold-open-riffs-on-how-womens-march-madness-has-been-a-lot-more-exciti6625426547def-590x410.",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}