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Saturday Night time Stay star Bowen Yang channelled pop singer Chappell Roan in a skit the place he performed the web’s favorite pygmy hippo, Moo Deng.
In current weeks, the animal, who resides at Thailand’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi, has develop into a viral sensation due to her grouchy nature and continuously unhinged behaviour.
In fashionable clips, the two-month-old, whose title means “bouncy pork”, could be seen hassling her keepers and her mom by butting them along with her head. She famously hates baths.
Nevertheless, the zoo has now been compelled to place up warning indicators in Thai, English and Chinese language requested guests to not splash water at her or throw objects so as to provoke the behaviour they’ve seen on-line.
Within the first episode of SNL’s landmark fiftieth season, forged member Yang dressed up in an elaborate Moo Deng costume as he appeared on co-star Colin Jost’s “Weekend Replace” section to talk his reality.
“For the previous 10 weeks, I’ve been going nonstop,” the exhausted pygmy hippo started. “Operating round, consuming lettuce, making an attempt to chunk the water from a hose.”
“The response has been overwhelming,” he continued. “Nevertheless it has come to the purpose the place I have to set some boundaries.”
Roan has made headlines prior to now month for her statements about apparently “entitled” and “creepy” followers whom she claimed have been stalking and harassing her.
The pop singer, who shot to fame this yr with hit songs together with “Good Luck, Babe!”, “Scorching to Go!” and “Pink Pony Membership”, shared quite a lot of TikToks by which she addressed her newfound success and instructed followers this didn’t justify intrusive behaviour in direction of her.
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“Reminder, WOMEN OWE YOU NOTHING,” Yang/Moo Deng mentioned on SNL. “When I’m in my enclosure, tripping over stuff, biting my coach’s knee, I’m at work. That’s the mission. Don’t yell my title, or count on a photograph, simply because I’m your parasocial bestie, or since you respect my expertise.”
“What’s your expertise?” Jost queried.
“Having a slippery physique that bounces,” Yang/Moo Deng replied.
He cited the well-known hippos that had come earlier than him, together with the Hungry Hungry Hippos and Jada Pinkett Smith’s character within the animated movie Madagascar.
“Now, I’m your favorite hippo’s favorite hippo,” he mentioned, parodying the Google Search consequence for Roan.
Jost famous that Moo Deng’s life sounded rather a lot like Roan’s: “Are you aware [her]?”
“I’m 10 weeks previous, Colin, in fact I do know Chappell Roan,” Moo Deng responded. “By the way in which, depart her alone. Let her take as a lot time as she wants for her psychological well being… it’s what society does. It places younger girls on pedestals solely to knock them down with shellfish.”
Moo Deng then introduced that she wouldn’t be making an endorsement within the presidential election, one other reference to Roan, who sparked a backlash along with her election remarks final week.
