{"id":138436,"date":"2022-10-09T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T05:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/snls-weekend-update-takes-on-kanye-west-the-little-mermaid-controversies\/"},"modified":"2022-10-09T10:43:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T05:13:02","slug":"snls-weekend-update-takes-on-kanye-west-the-little-mermaidcontroversies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/snls-weekend-update-takes-on-kanye-west-the-little-mermaidcontroversies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SNL\u2019s Weekend Update Takes On Kanye West & \u2018The Little Mermaid\u2019Controversies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nColin Jost & Michael Che tackle the latest headlines Saturday Night Live<\/em>\u2018s Weekend Update tackling the controversies around Kanye West\u2019s \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201dshirt The Little Mermaid<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\nWhen he wore a shirt that had the “West” logo on it, West caused quite a stir. \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201dslogan is a play on the Black Lives Matter movement, which was created to raise awareness about police brutality. Che made light of the rapper\u2019s appearance on the Tucker Carlson show on Fox News \u201cto defend wearing a White Lives Matter shirt claiming he wore the shirt because he was using a gut instinct.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut what he\u2019s definitely not using are the meds prescribed to him,\u201dChe laughed with the joke that fell apart with the audience.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Colin Farrell Crashes \u2018SNL\u2019 & Saves Brendan Gleeson\u2019s Lackluster Monologue<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nThe next section will be about \u201cWeekend Update\u201d segment, Jost introduced \u201cBlack Ariel\u201d from Disney\u2019s new live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\nEgo Nwodim made an appearance at the \u201cUpdate\u201dJost asks Jost for Ariel to be her name and notes that she has a desk with the famous purple bra and green fishingtail. \u201cI don\u2019t call you white Colin to your face.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJost proceeded to ask Nwodim\u2019s Ariel how it felt like to be called a hero and a role model to young girls.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 Calls Out Herschel Walker, Elon Musk And \u201cInfluencers\u201dThe Cold Open is centered on Things That Make You Snap<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRole model to who? Black girls who want to be a fish?\u201d Ariel said. \u201cI gotta be honest Colin, it\u2019s a lot of pressure. People are all like, \u2018Oh Ariel, you\u2019re perfect. You\u2019re the hero we need.\u2019 B***h, I am normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAriel joked that she didn\u2019t ask for any of this adding, \u201cMy mom got drunk and had sex with a tuna and now I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nAriel was most proud of her negative attributes and went against every positive projection she received. She called herself dumb, and said that she was. \u201cpro-Sea World.\u201d The Little Mermaid<\/em>Star also claimed that she was responsible for the BP oil leak.<\/p>\n

\nYou can watch the video below.<\/p>\n

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Colin Jost & Michael Che tackle the latest headlines Saturday Night Live\u2018s Weekend Update tackling the controversies around Kanye West\u2019s \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201dshirt The Little Mermaid. When he wore a shirt that had the “West” logo on it, West caused quite a stir. \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201dslogan is a play on the Black Lives Matter movement, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":138437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/\u2018SNLs-Weekend-Update-Takes-On-Kanye-West-\u2018The-Little.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138438,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138436\/revisions\/138438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}