Bowen Yang Addresses Controversial Aimee Lou Wood 'White Lotus' Parody on 'SNL'
Bowen Yang is discussing the Aimee Lou Wood controversy.
The 34-year-old Saturday Night Live star spoke out about the 31-year-old The White Lotus actress, who was parodied in an episode earlier this month.
In the “White Potus” sketch, Sarah Sherman wore prosthetic teeth to portray her character, Chelsea.
Following the sketch airing, Aimee spoke out, denouncing the way they mocked her teeth, calling it “mean and unfunny.”
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“However she reacted to that sketch is completely valid,” Bowen told Extra.
“With parody, you kind of forget the sort of human, emotional cost that it sort of extols on someone.”
“Everyone at SNL is just a fan of the show, obviously a fan of her,” he continued. “We just think that she should be so proud of the work that she put into the season, it was just water cooler television again that we desperately have a craving for.”
“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,” he added.
“But yeah, you need those reminders every now and then that parody can go too far sometimes and that we, as comedians, can take account for that instead of banging our foot and saying that we should be able to say whatever we want,” he went on to say. “That’s just culture, it’s not PC or woke culture, it’s just culture.”
Find out what Sarah sent Aimee after the sketch aired.
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