‘SNL’s’ Sarah Sherman confronts Aimee Lou Wood -Imitation Backlash
Sarah Sherman gives her side of the Aimee Lou Wood “Saturday Night Live” beef.
In April, “SNL” broadcast a parody of “The White Lotus” with Sherman as an extremely unflatter caricature of the character of Wood, Chelsea. In a recent sit-down with Vanity exhibitionSherman says that the sketch was not made with some bad intention.
“I was excited to play her because she is so iconic, her character is so iconic,” said Sherman. “I clearly never intend to hurt someone’s feelings. Never in a million years I came into comedy to make anyone upset. I feel terrible that someone would feel bad.”
The sketch in question, entitled ‘The White Potus’, was a pre-teded segment that was mainly aimed at Donald Trump and his inner circle of voters. It played James Austin Johnson as president, Chloe Fineman as Melania Trump, Mikey Day as Donald Trump Jr. And Jon Hamm when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Chelsea was the only ‘white lotus’ character in the sketch.
In one comic turn, Hamm’s RFK calls out to look like Rick van Walton Goggins, The camera then cuts to reveal Shelman’s Chelsea, with an exaggerated accent and enlarged false teeth. She answers, “Fluoride? What is that?”
After the episode was broadcast, Wood went to Instagram to express her grievances with her display and called it ‘mean and unhile’.
“Such a shame because I had such a great time to watch it a few weeks ago,” she wrote. “Yes, definitely take the piss- the show is going there, but there must be a smarter, more nuanced, less cheap way?”
