Ayo Edebiri took the reins as Saturday Evening Reside host over the weekend, marking her internet hosting debut, alongside musical visitor Jennifer Lopez. Whereas Edebiri introduced her A-game to each sketch, there was one which appeared to face out, as a consequence of her poking enjoyable at her personal latest mini-controversy.
Throughout the sketch “Why’d You Say It?,” Edebiri performed Annie, a contestant on a sport present through which persons are requested to clarify or try and justify feedback they left on different individuals’s Instagram posts.
Basically, the sketch referred to as out people who find themselves trolls on-line — and in a single brilliantly acted self-reflective breakdown, Edebiri’s Annie delivered a monologue that seemingly addressed just lately resurfaced remarks the actress made in actual life mocking Lopez’s singing profession.
“OK, OK! We get it. It’s wrong to leave mean comments or post comments just for clout — or run your mouth on a podcast and you don’t consider the impact because you’re 24 and stupid,” Annie exclaimed. “But I think I speak for everyone when I say, from now on, we’re going to be a lot more thoughtful about what we post online.”
The joke elicited a specific burst of laughter from the viewers, because it was obvious that Edebiri was taking a dig at her personal remarks made in 2020 (when she was 24) on the Rip-off Goddess podcast, the place she informed host Laci Mosley that she felt the “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” singer’s profession in music was “one long scam.”
“Today I was actually thinking about one of my favorite scams of all time because J.Lo is performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show,” she mentioned. “Her whole career is one long scam.”
When Mosley asserted Lopez does not know that she will’t sing, Edebiri jumped in and added gas to the hearth.
“Well, that’s the thing. She thinks she’s on multiple tracks, but it’s not her,” Edebiri shared at the time. “I believe she thinks that she’s nonetheless good regardless that, like, she’s not singing for most of those songs.”
For her part, Lopez came out with two strong sets as the night’s musical guest, first delivering an energetic performance of “Can’t Get Sufficient,” where she was joined by Latto and Redman.
She then ditched the black-and-white ensemble for a stunning gown made entirely of decorative pink flowers for a memorable performance of “This Is Me… Now.”
Neither Edebiri nor Lopez have publicly addressed the feedback instantly, though they did seem collectively in a promo for his or her episode launched on Thursday.
Saturday Evening Reside airs dwell, coast-to-coast at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC, and streams dwell on Peacock.
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