Bowen Yang is crew Aimee Lou Wooden.
The “Saturday Night Live” star, 34, confirmed assist for the actress, 31, after she blasted the sketch comedy present for mocking her of their “The White Lotus” parody final weekend.
“However she reacted to that sketch is completely valid,” Yang stated in a latest interview with “Extra.” He added, “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,” Yang 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.”
Within the “White Potus” sketch, Sarah Sherman wore prosthetic tooth to painting Wooden’s “White Lotus” character, Chelsea.
Wooden referred to as the parody “mean and unfunny” and argued it might’ve been achieved in “a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way.”
Yang, who didn’t seem within the April 12 skit, went on to say, “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.”
“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 instructed “Extra.” “That’s just culture, it’s not PC or woke culture, it’s just culture.”
After calling out “SNL” on social media, Wooden claimed that she’s “had apologies” from the NBC present.
The British actress later defended Sherman, 32, from the backlash and likewise posted an image of a floral bouquet that the comic despatched her. “Thank you for the beautiful flowers,” Wooden captioned her put up whereas tagging Sherman.
Nonetheless, TMZ reported final week that the present nonetheless hasn’t formally apologized to Wooden.
Sources claimed “SNL” doesn’t “feel compelled to apologize” to Wooden for the reason that sketch comedy sequence “makes fun of everyone’s appearance.” The insiders added that everybody on the present’s set loves Wooden and the parody of her got here “from a good place.”
On Monday, photographs emerged exhibiting Wooden sobbing in South London. She was comforted by “House of the Dragon” actor Ralph Davis.
However the “Sex Education” actress addressed the images on Instagram and defined her tears weren’t in regards to the “SNL” drama whereas replying to a fan who slammed the present for seemingly inflicting her to interrupt down.
“Just to say, I actually wasn’t crying about anything that the papers made out I was crying about 😂Something completely unrelated,” Wooden wrote.
