{"id":819,"date":"2003-11-04T11:33:59","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T16:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/819.html"},"modified":"2003-11-04T11:33:59","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T16:33:59","slug":"sharpton-to-host-saturday-night-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/sharpton-to-host-saturday-night-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpton to host Saturday Night Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Sharpton may not be the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, but he has proven himself the funniest candidate of the bunch.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, I think it makes perfect sense that Saturday Night Live has tapped Sharpton to host the program on Dec. 6.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/04\/politics\/04SHAR.html\">New York Times reported<\/a> today, &#8220;The producers of NBC&#8217;s Saturday Night Live believe his many one-liners at the televised debates have already made him the undisputed king of campaign comedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No argument here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Sharpton may not be the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, but he has proven himself the funniest candidate of the bunch. With this in mind, I think it makes perfect sense that Saturday Night Live has tapped Sharpton to host the program on Dec. 6. As the New York Times reported today, &#8220;The producers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}