{"id":201068,"date":"2026-03-02T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201068\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:01:07","slug":"alysa-liu-celebrates-saturday-night-live-shoutout-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201068\/","title":{"rendered":"Alysa Liu celebrates Saturday Night Live shoutout \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland native and Olympic gold medal figure skater Alysa Liu continues to receive recognition for her accomplishments at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the shoutouts came from a hilarious &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; skit.<\/p>\n<p>The Bay Area&#8217;s own Liu was watching SNL this weekend when she mentioned by &#8220;Heated Rivalry&#8221; actor Connor Storrie, playing a jock in the sketch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As that figure skating girl with the striped hair taught us, you can still be a baddie, even if you&#8217;re a little quirked up,&#8221; Storrie&#8217;s character said when he eventually invited the school nerd to have lunch with him.<\/p>\n<p>Alysa reposted a screenshot of the sketch on her Instagram story and simply responded with &#8220;Period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Liu is in New York City on Monday, where she spoke with the &#8220;TODAY&#8221; team. You can watch her interview <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/alysa-liu-advice-parents-pushing-kids-stay-sports\/4045452\/\">here<\/a> on NBC Bay Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland native and Olympic gold medal figure skater Alysa Liu continues to receive recognition for her accomplishments at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[14389,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-201068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}