SNLs Bowen Yang sides with Aimee Lou Wood over controversial White Lotus parody: Too far

Bowen Yang is team Aimee Lou Wood.The “Saturday Night Live” star, 34, showed support for the actress, 31, after she blasted the sketch comedy show for mocking her in their “The White Lotus” parody last weekend.“However she reacted to that sketch is completely valid,” Yang said in a recent 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.”In the “White Potus” sketch, Sarah Sherman wore prosthetic teeth to portray Wood’s “White Lotus” character, Chelsea.

Wood called the parody “mean and unfunny” and argued it could’ve been done in “a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way.”Yang, who didn’t appear in 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 told “Extra.” “That’s just culture, it’s not PC or woke culture, it’s just culture.”After calling out “SNL” on social media, Wood claimed that she’s “had apologies” from the NBC show.The British actress later defended Sherman, 32, from the backlash and also posted a picture of a floral bouquet that the comedian sent her.

“Thank you for the beautiful flowers,” Wood captioned her post while tagging Sherman.However, TMZ reported last week that the show still hasn’t formally ...