‘SNL’ Spoofs Attempt Guys Scandal, Faces Backlash: Video

After Attempt Guys alum Ned Fulmer’s dishonest scandal made headlines, Saturday Night time Stay 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. Whereas the 67-year-old Eire native portrays a White Home correspondent aspiring to cowl each day political information, issues took a flip after a growth got here to mild.

“I’m getting breaking information that the Attempt Guys have now responded to the entire Ned Fulmer scenario,” Gleeson quipped within the Saturday sketch. “It’s clearly an evolving story, however CNN can affirm that the Attempt Guys have launched an official YouTube video clapping again at ex-Attempt Man Ned Fulmer, the ‘Spouse Man’ Attempt Man. He disrespected the model by making out with one of many ‘Meals Infants’ on the Harry Types live performance. It’s a tragic day certainly.”

After Nwodim’s character requested who the web personalities had been, Gleeson provided an evidence.

“How do you not know The Attempt Guys?” the Paddington 2 actor requested. “These are the Buzzfeed pranksters who strive stuff, like attempting fingernail polish or bizarre haircuts. They even tried consuming bugs!”

The NBC skit then lower to a faux interview with the remaining Attempt Guys — Eugene Lee Yang (Bowen Yang), Keith Habersberger (Mikey Day) and Zach Kornfeld (Andrew Dismukes) — to handle their facet of the story.

“Thanks, it’s surreal. There’s quite a lot of anger on this sofa,” the Fireplace Island star, 31, quipped as Eugene. “We had no alternative and we hope he’s someplace on his again with a bullet in his mind and stomach.”

Dismukes’ Kornfeld, for his half, referred to the media firm deciding to fireplace 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” in the long run.

SNL’s Saturday skit comes weeks after information broke that the Yale College grad, 35, had cheated on his spouse, Ariel Fulmer, with a coworker.

“Household ought to have all the time been my precedence, however I misplaced focus and had a consensual office 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 ache that my actions might have induced to the fellows and the followers, however most of all to Ariel. The one factor that issues proper now could be my marriage and my youngsters, and that’s the place I’m going to focus my consideration.”

On account of Ned’s actions, the remaining Attempt Guys introduced a number of hours later that they’d fired him after conducting an HR investigation.

Shortly after SNL’s Saturday broadcast of their Attempt Guys parody, the skit sparked backlash amongst late-night viewers.

“Oof, impolite awakening to SNL that your entire web is on the Attempt Man’s [sic] facet,” a social media consumer tweeted on Saturday. “There have been so many different methods they might have parodied this, however they went for making the victims the punchline whereas downplaying office harassment. That’s fairly 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 scenario through which there was a giant energy imbalance in an unethical relationship within the office,” one other social media consumer wrote through Twitter. “To not point out the households, staff and buddies harm by this now need to see their ache being trivialized for a skit? Feels bizarre.”

Saturday Night time Stay airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.

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