The Try Guys have tried hard enough that they were the subject of their own “Saturday Night Live” sketch this weekend.
NBC’s comedy institution sent up the scandal surrounding the YouTube stars who parted ways with group member Ned Fulmer after an “internal review” of his “consensual workplace relationship,” according to a statement posted last week to the official Try Guys Instagram account. Fulmer’s exit made national news, and “SNL” did not miss the buzz about the former BuzzFeed stars.
In a sketch that initially seemed like it would be political, “SNL” host Brendan Gleeson and cast member Ego Nwodim played a CNN correspondent and anchor respectively, but Gleeson interrupted a broadcast from the White House to report the latest Try Guys news.
“SNL” cast members Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes and Bowen Yang portrayed the three remaining Try Guys Zach Kornfeld, Keith Habersberger, Eugene Lee Yang, who kept crashing the CNN report: “We’re no longer working with white guy, wife guy, Try Guy Ned.”
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Nwodim’s CNN host, probably like many people who encountered the Try Guy news this week, didn’t really understand the controversy, or even who the Try Guys are.
“You have to remember the power dynamics,” Gleeson’s character said nonsensically to her. “He was a try guy and she was a Food Baby.”
“The whole story is that your friend had a side chick and didn’t tell you?” Nwodim’s character eventually realized.
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Yang and Day were on the verge of breaking character and laughing during the sketch, which parodied recent videos from the Try Guys about the scandal. In a later sketch about medieval Europe, Day appeared on the verge of laughter once again.
The Try Guys, which boasts more than 8 million YouTube subscribers, began as a BuzzFeed web series in 2014 that chronicled Kornfeld, Habersberger, Lee Yang and Fulmer’s zany exploits in trying new things – experiencing labor pain simulation, baking without a recipe, taste-testing everything on a fast food chain’s menu and driving while intoxicated (under professional supervision), to name a few. In 2018, the four left BuzzFeed and founded their own production company to continue the Try Guys brand.
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Contributing: Hannah Yasharoff
