{"id":2317993,"date":"2026-03-08T06:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2317993"},"modified":"2026-03-08T06:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:51:20","slug":"snl-cold-open-colin-jost-and-ashley-padilla-skewer-pete-hegseth-over-iran-and-kristi-noems-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/snl-cold-open-colin-jost-and-ashley-padilla-skewer-pete-hegseth-over-iran-and-kristi-noems-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SNL\u2019 Cold Open: Colin Jost and Ashley Padilla Skewer Pete Hegseth Over Iran and Kristi Noem\u2019s Firing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cSaturday Night Live<\/a>\u2019s\u201d cold open took aim at Secretary of Defense<\/a> Pete Hegseth<\/a>\u2019s bravado as the U.S. goes to war with Iran as well as Kristi Noem<\/a>\u2019s firing from the Department of Homeland Security<\/a> after a string of debacles.<\/p>\n

Colin Jost<\/a> played a revved-up Hegseth holding a press conference to discuss the U.S.\u2019s growing military action in Iran. Jost<\/a>\u2019s Hegseth was typically pugnacious with the press corps that was almost entirely young white men in skinny ties.<\/p>\n

Jost entered with WWE<\/a> bravado with his signature blue suit and American-flag pocket square. He touted the success of the U.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSaturday Night Live\u2019s\u201d cold open took aim at Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth\u2019s bravado as the U.S. goes to war with Iran as well as Kristi Noem\u2019s firing from the Department of Homeland Security after a string of debacles. Colin Jost played a revved-up Hegseth holding a press conference to discuss the U.S.\u2019s growing military […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2317994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2317993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018SNL-Cold-Open-Colin-Jost-and-Ashley-Padilla-Skewer-Pete.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317995,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317993\/revisions\/2317995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}