Mike Myers made a mock reunion with Kanye West in final evening’s Saturday Evening Dwell sketch – watch footage under.
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The sketch featured on Saturday’s (Could 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 cellphone, complaining that his track has been faraway from Spotify. “Come on, give me one good purpose,” he argues. “In addition to that. In addition to 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 together with his male cousin as a toddler, he added: “How is that not relatable? All people acquired a cousin.”
He goes on to ask how Myers had been for the reason that final time they noticed one another, which was at “that Hurricane Katrina Profit the place I mentioned George Bush doesn’t care about Black folks and also you simply needed to stand there wanting 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 respect the best way 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’ youngsters. “My youngsters?” Myers responded nervously. “My youngsters are secure.”
Again in March, West courted much more controversy by sporting a KKK outfit and a swastika necklace whereas claiming that he didn’t need to have youngsters 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 underneath 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 as a result of 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 really like Hitler”, in addition to reward billionaire – and X proprietor – Musk as “essentially the most lit person who [has] ever been on Twitter”, following the latter’s accusations of Nazism at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.
Thompson’s West then modified subjects, mentioning the continued Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex-trafficking trial. West had beforehand prompt Cassie Ventura “extorted” Diddy with the sexual assault case she filed towards 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 track he’s been working, ‘Squeezin’ On My Grandpa’s Booty’ and wishing Myers effectively, saying: “Deal with your self, Shrek.”
