Mike Myers made a mock reunion with Kanye West in final night time’s Saturday Night time Dwell sketch – watch footage beneath.
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The sketch featured on Saturday’s (Might 17) season finale and noticed Myers step into an elevator alongside host Scarlett Johansson, just for them to be joined by Kenan Thompson’s West. Avengers: Endgame actor Johansson then fearfully runs out of the elevator, leaving Myers caught with the ever-controversial rapper.
West begins the journey on the telephone, complaining that his music has been faraway from Spotify. “Come on, give me one good motive,” he argues. “Apart from that. Apart from that.” It follows ‘Donda 2’ being faraway from streaming simply hours after its launch in April.
Seemingly referencing final month’s claims that he had taken half in incestuous acts along with his male cousin as a baby, he added: “How is that not relatable? Everyone obtained a cousin.”
He goes on to ask how Myers has been because the final time they noticed one another, which was at “that Hurricane Katrina Profit the place I stated George Bush doesn’t care about Black folks and also you simply needed to stand there trying silly,” referencing West’s notorious 2005 rant throughout NBC’s Live performance for Hurricane Aid.
George W Bush later advised NBC Information he thought that the outburst marked a “disgusting second” in his presidency, including: “It’s one factor to say, ‘I don’t recognize the way in which he’s dealt with his enterprise.’ It’s one other factor to say, ‘This man’s a racist.’”
Myers asks West what he’s been as much as within the meantime, to which Kanye replies, “I’m within the KKK now,” earlier than asking after Myers’ kids. “My children?” Myers responded nervously. “My children are secure.”
Again in March, West courted much more controversy by carrying a KKK outfit and a swastika necklace whereas claiming that he didn’t wish to have kids with Kim Kardashian.
It adopted a string of extremely offensive posts Ye had made on X/Twitter, which have seen him take again his apology to the Jewish neighborhood for his previous anti-Semitic remarks and go on to declare himself “a Nazi”.
In February, he additionally got here below hearth for promoting a white T-shirt with a big swastika emblem on the chest, listed as “HH-01” on his web site – presumably a reference to the “Heil Hitler” chant.
The location was later taken down by Shopify, although the web retailer later said that the artist’s web site was taken down because of the potential for fraud – not as a result of it was promoting a swastika t-shirt. Shopify did condemn the merchandise, calling it “vile, disgusting and inexcusable”.
He had additionally taken to X to put up: “I like Hitler”, in addition to reward billionaire – and X proprietor – Musk as “probably the most lit individual that [has] ever been on Twitter”, following the latter’s accusations of Nazism at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.
Thompson’s West then modified matters, mentioning the continuing Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex-trafficking trial. West had beforehand advised Cassie Ventura “extorted” Diddy with the sexual assault case she filed in opposition to the mogul in November 2023.
The elevator later breaks down, sending him right into a “claustrophobic” panic, with West quipping, “I’m a couple of phobics myself.”
The sketch rounds off with Kanye teasing a brand new music he’s been working, ‘Squeezin’ On My Grandpa’s Booty’ and wishing Myers effectively, saying: “Maintain your self, Shrek.”
