Bowen Yang on Aimee Lou Wooden’s response to White Lotus ‘SNL’ parody
Bowen Yang is standing firmly behind Aimee Lou Wooden after she voiced her disappointment over a current Saturday Night time Reside parody.
The White Lotus actress had referred to as out the April 12 sketch titled The White POTUS, the place SNL forged member Sarah Sherman portrayed a parody of her character Chelsea—full with an exaggerated dental prosthetic.
For Wooden, who has beforehand opened up about being bullied over her enamel, the bit crossed a line. She later shared on Instagram Tales that she discovered the depiction “mean and unfunny.”
Now Bowen is backing her up, telling Further in a chat launched April 17, “However she reacted to that sketch is completely valid. With parody, you kind of forget the sort of human, emotional cost.”
His phrases have been refreshingly actual, as he continued, “I feel like it’s this thing that we tend to forget sometimes, and this is a reminder, and it seems like she has spoken to people at the show about it and hopefully, there’s room to sort of move on from it.”
Bowen didn’t cease there, acknowledging that even comedians want a actuality verify generally.
“You need those reminders every now and then, that parody can go far sometimes,” he stated.
“We as comedians can take account for that instead of banging our foot and saying that we should be allowed to say whatever we want. Because that’s just culture. It’s not PC or woke culture, it’s just culture.”
Regardless of the awkward second, Bowen made it clear that everybody at SNL has nothing however admiration for Aimee and The White Lotus magic.
“We just think that she should be so proud of the work that she put into this season. It was just water cooler television again, that we desperately have a craving for,” he added.
As for Aimee, she’s already shared that she’s acquired apologies from SNL, together with a candy floral gesture from Sarah Sherman herself.
Posting a photograph of a bouquet stuffed with orange roses and pink carnations on her Instagram Tales April 15, she tagged Sarah and wrote, “Thank you for the beautiful flowers.”
It’s good to see just a little coronary heart and humour making its means by way of a tricky second — and even higher when it’s wrapped in roses.
