Bowen Yang reveals Sydney Sweeney’s desire for ‘SNL’ to feature boob jokes | Entertainment

Bowen Yang has nothing however reward for Sydney Sweeney, who hosted Saturday Night Live again in March.

On a Sept. 25 episode of David Spade and Dana Carvey's Fly on the Wall podcast, Yang described Sweeney because the form of “host who came in and understood how she was being consumed and perceived already,” which made the writers' jobs so much simpler. “She came and she was like, ‘Please, everyone make jokes about my boobs.' Like, she was she was practically begging everybody,” Yang recalled.

Carvey shared that he did not suppose it was a “surprise” that Sweeney “was good, but it's just good when everything kind of falls in there in the right way on a show, because it can go the other way easily.”

Sweeney was sport to star in a number of sketches that despatched up her standing as a Gen Z magnificence queen, together with “Bowen's Straight,” through which Sweeney permits herself to be seduced by Yang, who's secretly straight. SNL solid member Heidi Gardner encourages Sweeney to pursue her crush, as a result of Yang “only plays gay on the show because that's a shortcut to laughs.”

Before taping “Bowen's Straight,” Yang recalled visiting Sweeney's dressing room to “let her know, ‘We're getting an intimacy coordinator, and if you're at any point uncomfortable, you can tap out. If we make out and you hate it, no problem. We can cut it.'” Sweeney merely replied, “‘Bowen, I'm on Euphoria.'”

Yang remembers Sweeney telling him, “You're living every gay man's dream by having sex with me.” The Fire Island star thought, “‘how do you know that?' Like, she knows that she has such raw sexual power that anyone would be thrilled to simulate sex with her. It's so crazy.” It was an echo of feedback he made to Stephen Colbert in August, that Sweeney “knows that she has all men on lock.”

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Shortly after Sweeney's SNL episode, Yang appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the place he instructed the previous head author of the sketch comedy program that he nonetheless felt “a little straight” after enjoying romantic reverse to each Sweeney and Gina Gershon. “I think I understand why Austin Butler talked like Elvis for a while after the movie,” Yang joked.

Some criticized the present for together with a number of sketches revolving round Sweeney's bodily look, particularly after she made feedback in Variety the month her episode aired concerning the “weird relationship that people have with me that I have no control or say over,” which she feels renders her “not on a human level anymore.”

One explicit sketch which stoked ire concerned Sweeney incomes hundred-fold extra ideas working at Hooters than her coworkers, performed by Chloe Fineman and Sarah Sherman. But if anybody's to blame for sexualizing Sweeney, Fineman defined on a May Fly on the Wall look, it was her.

“I pitched her the Hooters idea,” Fineman stated, “and then she DM'd me, to write it, and then we got in so much trouble for, like, sexualizing Sydney Sweeney.” “But,” Fineman joked in a leering accent, “it was your pervert over here!”

Saturday Night Live will premiere its fiftieth season on Sept. 28. The present just lately introduced the hosts and musical friends for the primary 5 episodes, which embrace Michael Keaton, Chappell Roan, and Stevie Nicks.