Aimee Lou Wood has poked fun at the controversy surrounding the Saturday Night Live skit making fun of her teeth, in a new promo for the UK spin-off.
The White Lotus star will be hosting the forthcoming episode of SNL UK, broadcast May 2, and addressed the past feud she had with the American show. Last year, a spoof sketch aired that saw Sarah Sherman play a version of Wood’s White Lotus character Chelsea, with exaggerated false teeth.
At the time Wood took to her Instagram Stories to respond to the sketch, which she described as “mean and unfunny”. SNL later contacted the star and apologised for the sketch. In this new promo, titled “Aimee Lou Wood Wipes The Slate Clean”, she featured in a skit where she talked about wanting to start fresh with SNL, before noticing the show’s cast members covering their mouths.
Thinking they were all wearing false teeth, Wood tells them off, before the comedians reveal that they have all grown moustaches to emulate the popularity of cast member Paddy Young. She is then given her own moustache and the group hug.
Aimee Lou Wood will host the May 2 show, with MEEK appearing as the musical guest. Recently, the creator of the original SNL, Lorne Michaels, shared his vision for the British version of his show.
“My design for it was that it would be the cooler of the two shows, and it would be the thing they beat us up with. That it’s smarter, funnier, more original, and it had to be that,” he said (via Variety). “It had to be its own thing. It couldn’t be an imitation of what we do.”
Foo Fighters recently appeared as the show’s first international music guests. Click here to watch them perform the tracks ‘Child Actor’ and ‘Caught In The Act’.
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