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SNL's Cold Open Parodied R. Kelly's Gayle King Interview And The Internet Was Rolling
SNL's Cold Open Parodied R. Kelly's Gayle King Interview And The Internet Was Rolling
Leslie Jones and Kenan Thompson stole the show Saturday night.
Saturday Night Live got more messy than normal last night. They decided to try their hand at the R. Kelly interview with Gayle King and hit it out of the park.
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During the cold open, Kenan Thompson played the role of the disgraced singer and was interviewed by Leslie Jones who played Gayle King. Perhaps the best line came well into the over seven minute sketch. "I gave you all 'Trapped in the Closet,' 'Feelin' on Yo Booty,' and 'Age Ain't Nothing But a Number' and so many other clues and this is how you treat me?"
Mostly, Thompson kept contradicting himself in answers that were somewhat similar to ones R. Kelly gave to King. This exchange was one of them:
“That I have a harem of young girls and I started a — what’s the word? It starts with a ‘Q,’” he says.
“You mean cult?” Jones playing King asks.
“Yeah, that’s it,” he agrees.
“Right, and why do you think people are saying that about you?” she replies.
“Probably because it looks like I have a harem of young girls and because I started a cult.”
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The whole thing had the Internet in an uproar
Yooooooo I can't get enough of Kenan Thompson as R Kelly and Gayle King on @nbcsnl
— OfficialWilly2.0 (@therealwill17) March 10, 2019
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂#SNL #RKelly #GayleKing #rkellymemes pic.twitter.com/cEwX8yGEHA -
Y’all Leslie and Kenan killed that R.Kelly Interview skit 😂😂 #SNL pic.twitter.com/IPWvf8Ed01
— Oskaer (@Osman__13) March 10, 2019 -
#SNL is taking it there with R.Kelly.. pic.twitter.com/QwggP4R5Ck
— MeLiSsA dACrUz ⚽️🍑 (@MelissaDacruzz) March 10, 2019 -
Keenan and Leslie Jones killed that Gayle King/R. Kelly intro on SNL. 😭
— Matthew A. Cherry (@MatthewACherry) March 10, 2019 -
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SNL did the R.Kelly skit and they gave that man some McDonald’s sprite out of a bottle. He is Lucifer pic.twitter.com/SO625YiYqy
— lil von von (@JVodc) March 10, 2019 -
Still laughing- but-it’s-not-funny at Kenan Thompson as R. Kelly insisting on being called “Victim” on SNL’s cold open last night. @nbcsnl #RKelly #GayleKingIsQueen @GayleKing
— Victoria In Like A Lion Out Like A Lamb Weinstein (@peacebang) March 11, 2019R. Kelly gave his infamous Gayle King interview last week and since, a meme explosion has occurred on social media. R. Kelly was just released from jail after someone paid for the back child support he owed.
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