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

After Strive Guys alum Ned Fulmer’s dishonest scandal made headlines, Saturday Evening Dwell determined to spoof how the remaining YouTube personalities are coping.

In a Saturday, October 8, skit, solid member Ego Nwodim and episode host Brendan Gleeson play CNN reporters. Whereas the 67-year-old Eire native portrays a White Home correspondent desiring to cowl each day political information, issues took a flip after a improvement got here to mild.

“I’m getting breaking information that the Strive Guys have now responded to the entire Ned Fulmer state of affairs,” Gleeson quipped within the Saturday sketch. “It’s clearly an evolving story, however CNN can verify that the Strive Guys have launched an official YouTube video clapping again at ex-Strive Man Ned Fulmer, the ‘Spouse Man’ Strive 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 have been, Gleeson provided an evidence.

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

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

“Thanks, it’s surreal. There’s loads of anger on this sofa,” the Hearth 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 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, every thing would prove “OK” ultimately.

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 by way of Instagram. “I’m sorry for any ache that my actions could 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 Strive 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 Strive Guys parody, the skit sparked backlash amongst late-night viewers.

“Oof, impolite awakening to SNL that the complete web is on the Strive Man’s [sic] facet,” a social media person 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 state of affairs through which there was a giant energy imbalance in an unethical relationship within the office,” one other social media person wrote by way of Twitter. “To not point out the households, staff and mates damage by this now need to see their ache being trivialized for a skit? Feels bizarre.”

Saturday Evening Dwell airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.

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