Amid rising pleasure across the launch of Depraved, forged member Bowen Yang has discovered himself on the heart of public dialog repeatedly.
The comic — who performs Pfannee within the newly-released musical film — additionally stars on Saturday Night time Dwell, which means that he was flying backwards and forwards between London and NYC to movie each tasks concurrently, week after week.
And Bowen’s work definitely wasn’t for nothing, as he’s been concerned in a number of the most talked about SNL sketches this yr.
Earlier this week on The Tonight Present, when chatting to Jimmy Fallon, the 2 spoke about Bowen attending to impersonate Charli XCX (subsequent to the singer herself) in a skit about celebrities auditioning for Depraved. Within the skit, Bowen performed Charli, and Charli performed singer Troye Sivan.
Charli impersonating Troye wasn’t the primary time that the Australian singer has been talked about — or featured — on SNL recently.
Again in September, Bowen impersonated Charli throughout a sketch that featured comic Sarah Sherman taking part in Troye. And final yr, Troye was referenced in one more Bowen skit, when Timothée Chalamet performed the singer as a straight lady’s sleep paralysis demon — who then multiplied, prompting three different Troyes, performed by Boygenius, to look.
Funnily sufficient, Bowen continually that includes Troye in his SNL skits hasn’t gone unnoticed by web customers; a tweet that just lately garnered consideration learn, “Troye Sivan has the SNL writers in a chokehold,” to which somebody hilariously replied, “It’s simply Bowen Yang.”
Effectively, when speaking to Jimmy on Wednesday evening, Bowen took a second to defend himself. “Everyone seems to be like, ‘Bowen Yang retains attempting to get Troye Sivan on SNL,’ I’m like, as a result of he’s an enormous deal!” he protested.
Reacting to Bowen’s iconic skits on-line, one person mentioned, “I like how one can all the time inform it’s Bowen who got here up with the skit as a result of its all the time so area of interest and hyperspecific lmfaooo.”
Evidently, Bowen’s writing has undoubtedly meant SNL has had a resurgence with a youthful, extra on-line technology.
Now that he’s been in so many skits, can we get Troye to host SNL? Which celebrities would you like to see featured on the present? LMK down under! In the meantime, you possibly can watch Bowen in Depraved, which is out now in theatres throughout the US and UK.