{"id":258498,"date":"2025-11-02T23:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258498\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T23:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:05:09","slug":"bowen-yangs-george-santos-returns-to-weekend-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258498\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowen Yang\u2019s George Santos Returns to \u2018Weekend Update\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmhi0vdpb00103b784e182bvc@published\" data-word-count=\"76\">George Santos has been busy after <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/george-santos-trump-prison-future.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">getting out of prison<\/a>. He won the New York Marathon, stole the Louvre jewels, and stopped by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/saturday-night-live-recap-snl-season-51-episode-4-miles-teller.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>. Oh, and he won the World Series. Busy week! Bowen Yang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2023\/12\/snl-bowen-yang-george-santos-song.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reprised his role<\/a> as America\u2019s favorite liar. During the piece, he took calls from all his prison besties: Ghislaine Maxwell, Luigi Mangione, and Diddy. Santos would have let <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/luigi-mangione-taylor-swift-charli-xcx-prison.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luigi listen to Taylor Swift<\/a>, we can tell you that much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmhi10vlw001m3b78hanl8jf4@published\" data-word-count=\"76\">If you don\u2019t recall, George Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in August 2024. He was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison. President Trump commuted his sentence on October 17, after 80 days of prison. Or as he put it on \u201cUpdate,\u201d a whole year. After getting out, the diva got right back on Cameo. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/george-santos-is-suing-his-cameo-customer-jimmy-kimmel.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, you have the chance to do something deeply stupid and protected by case law.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Santos has been busy after getting out of prison. He won the New York Marathon, stole the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,33887,9771,134,152236,152235,33892,46340,427,33893],"class_list":{"0":"post-258498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bowen-yang","11":"tag-comedy","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-george-santos","14":"tag-last-night-on-late-night","15":"tag-saturday-night-live","16":"tag-snl","17":"tag-tv","18":"tag-weekend-update"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}