Saturday Night Live solid member Ego Nwodim has shortly returned to probably the greatest new characters for the comedy sequence this season, Lisa From Temecula. Nwodim first appeared because the disruptive and messy Lisa in the course of the episode hosted by Pedro Pascal, and he or she introduced her table-shaking antics again throughout tonight’s Ana de Armas episode. The same set-up occurred in tonight’s episode, a gaggle of associates are at a desk collectively (this time a marriage) just for Lisa to misread virtually all of her interactions and make a big mess of every part. We cannot promote it in addition to Ego does, simply watch it your self under.
“There were high expectations for the sketch,” Nwodim beforehand advised Vanity Fair. “All week people were like, ‘Your sketch is going to be incredible.’ That, for me, is jinxing the sketch. Every time that happens, the sketch goes horribly wrong and the audience doesn’t respond to it. I was like, ‘Please, no. I don’t want that energy on it.’… One of the producers had said to me, ‘We haven’t had a recurring character in so long, and we think this will be a recurring character.’ On Friday, Lorne told us to give the character a more prominent name. He wanted something that people could call back to. We were like, ‘She’s Lisa.’ Then Alex and Gary made her more memorable with Lisa From Temecula.”
Since the primary look of Lisa From Temecula, Nwodim revealed that the response has been one thing by no means anticipated. In the identical interview, an oral historical past of the character (revealing that she practically did not make the reduce for the episode), the comic added: “I have been on cloud nine. It’s been so incredible to see people’s response to Lisa, to have people say they have a Lisa in their family. My whole mission is to bring joy, so it felt like mission accomplished that week….I had just gotten offstage after the show and I’m changing into my Ego clothes, and Martin Short was there, and he said, ‘I would watch that sketch every single week.’ Are you kidding?”
This week’s new Lisa From Temecula actually featured just a few moments of the solid breaking character and laughing on the mess created by Nwodim, however to not the identical extent that The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal and Bowen Yang had within the unique sketch. In any occasion, they’re each humorous, and Lisa From Temecula is right here to remain on Saturday Night Live.
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