After Try Guys alum Ned Fulmer’s dishonest scandal made headlines, Saturday Night Live determined to spoof how the remaining YouTube personalities are coping.
In a Saturday, October 8, skit, forged member Ego Nwodim and episode host Brendan Gleeson play CNN reporters. While the 67-year-old Ireland native portrays a White House correspondent meaning to cowl every day political information, issues took a flip after a growth got here to gentle.
Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, and Andrew Dismukes on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ NBC
“I’m getting breaking news that the Try Guys have now responded to the whole Ned Fulmer situation,” Gleeson quipped within the Saturday sketch. “It’s obviously an evolving story, but CNN can confirm that the Try Guys have released an official YouTube video clapping back at ex-Try Guy Ned Fulmer, the ‘Wife Guy’ Try Guy. He disrespected the brand by making out with one of the ‘Food Babies’ at the Harry Styles concert. It’s a sad day indeed.”
After Nwodim’s character requested who the web personalities had been, Gleeson provided a proof.
“How do you not know The Try Guys?” the Paddington 2 actor requested. “These are the Buzzfeed pranksters who try stuff, like trying fingernail polish or weird haircuts. They even tried eating bugs!”
The NBC skit then minimize to a pretend interview with the remaining Try Guys — Eugene Lee Yang (Bowen Yang), Keith Habersberger (Mikey Day) and Zach Kornfeld (Andrew Dismukes) — to handle their aspect of the story.
“Thank you, it’s surreal. There’s a lot of anger on this couch,” the Fire Island star, 31, quipped as Eugene. “We had no choice and we hope he is somewhere on his back with a bullet in his brain and belly.”
Dismukes’ Kornfeld, for his half, referred to the media firm deciding to fireside Fulmer and edit him out of future movies because the “battle of our lives.” Nwodim proclaimed that since Jay-Z allegedly cheated on spouse Beyoncé in 2014, all the things would prove “OK” ultimately.
Ned Fulmer, Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeld, and Eugene Lee Yang of The Try Guys. Global Citizen/Shutterstock
SNL’s Saturday skit comes weeks after information broke that the Yale University grad, 35, had cheated on his spouse, Ariel Fulmer, with a coworker.
“Family should have always been my priority, but I lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship,” Ned — who shares two sons with the 36-year-old inside designer — wrote in a September assertion shared through Instagram. “I’m sorry for any pain that my actions may have caused to the guys and the fans, but most of all to Ariel. The only thing that matters right now is my marriage and my children, and that’s where I am going to focus my attention.”
As a results of Ned’s actions, the remaining Try Guys introduced a number of hours later that that they had fired him after conducting an HR investigation.
Shortly after SNL’s Saturday broadcast of their Try Guys parody, the skit sparked backlash amongst late-night viewers.
“Oof, rude awakening to SNL that the entire internet is on the Try Guy’s [sic] side,” a social media consumer tweeted on Saturday. “There were so many other ways they could have parodied this, but they went for making the victims the punchline while downplaying workplace harassment. That’s pretty tasteless comedy.”
Many different viewers equally slammed the variability sequence — which has not publicly addressed the criticism — for downplaying sexual misconduct within the office.
“This feels reductive of a situation in which there was a big power imbalance in an unethical relationship in the workplace,” one other social media consumer wrote through Twitter. “Not to mention the families, employees and friends hurt by this now have to see their pain being trivialized for a skit? Feels weird.”
Saturday Night Live airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.
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