After a new sketch parodying the pop star, Saturday Night Live may be in hot water with Britney Spears's fans.
Last night, Timothée Chalamet hosted SNL, which would've been a great opportunity to promote the second installment of Dune. Unfortunately, the SAG-AFTRA strike pushed the release date of the sci-fi epic to March 15, 2024. Luckily, Timothée still has Wonka, which hits theaters next month.
While Timothée did a fair job hosting the weekend sketch comedy show, people couldn't stop talking about one particular sketch, which took a few jabs at Timothée. However, according to fans, they took a major swing at Britney's new memoir, The Woman in Me.
The sketch featured Chloe Fineman, known for her impressions of Drew Barrymore, Nicole Kidman, and Britney. She's portrayed Britney before as seen in this April 2022 episode.
For the memoir's audiobook, Britney only read the forward while the rest of the book was read by actor Michelle Williams. In the sketch, Chloe's fake Britney teases that Michelle wasn't the only one who wanted to read the book, and SNL pulls out every celebrity impression you could think of.
Here's Heidi Gardner as Allison Janney:
Timothée as Martin Scorsese:
Sarah Sherman as Dame Maggie Smith:
Mikey Day as Steve-O:
Ego Nwodim as Jada Pinkett Smith:
Molly Kearney as Kevin James:
Chloe as Natasha Lyonne:
And Chloe again, as Julia Fox:
People quickly noticed that the lines read during Julia Fox's parody were not from the book. They were from a joke posted by a user on X (formally known as Twitter), which I might have attributed to backlash toward the sketch.
Fans began to question whether or not the jokes about Britney and her memoir were funny or just in poor taste. Here's what some of the mixed reactions are saying:
There are a lot of people who found the joke "distasteful" or "disrespectful."
In her book Britney Spears wrote about her traumas and how everyone used her even her family members mistreated her and SNL have the audacity to make her fun like this way? Shame on them!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who had a problem with it. like it doesn’t matter if it’s just celebrity impressions and they weren’t shading britney. it turns the serious conversations in her book into joking matters .and that is NOT funny.
Different take than some- i think it’s fun that SNL did the Britney book sketch. It just shows how culturally relevant she is and nothing was offensive
