Rapper Kanye West offered fairly the entry into popular culture historical past when he stepped onto the stage of the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards to interrupt pop star Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Greatest Feminine Video. Within the notorious second, West spoke into the microphone with Swift nonetheless on stage subsequent to him, “Yo, Taylor, I am actually blissful for you, I’mma allow you to end, however Beyoncé had the most effective movies of all time! Among the finest movies of all time!” It sparked outrage and memes, and it would not even be essentially the most ludicrous or impolite factor West would do in his profession. Nonetheless, maybe we should not have been stunned — as a result of “Saturday Night time Dwell” noticed this coming practically two years earlier than the incident.
In an episode of “The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast,” Andy Samberg, Akiva Shaffer, Jorma Taccone, and Seth Meyers appeared again on West’s look within the thirty third season premiere of “SNL” in September 2007. Whereas the podcast primarily focuses on the assorted SNL Digital Shorts created by The Lonely Island throughout their tenure on the sketch present, it often veers into extra normal “SNL” territory, which is how its hosts discovered themselves discussing this matter. Whereas West wasn’t the host of the present, as that honor fell to NBA famous person LeBron James, the rapper did star in his personal sketch, along with showing because the musical act. And it is superb how prescient the sketch turned out to be.
Shaffer takes the time to acknowledge that they will speak about West within the context of the time of his look with out acknowledging the way more controversial habits he is displayed lately. However even in 2007, West was not with out considerably of a popularity, particularly when it got here to his habits at awards reveals. Certainly, West had been captured on digicam being upset that he misplaced awards, and he even took the stage to precise sure statements. That is what prompted Shaffer to write down a sketch during which Kanye West interrupts quite a lot of award reveals, from the Nickelodeon Youngsters’ Selection Awards to an area pumpkin contest. Once more, this was practically two years earlier than the VMAs that will occur in June of 2009!
Kanye West interrupts all people on Saturday Night time Dwell
Within the sketch above, Kanye West seems on the BET music video countdown sequence “106 & Park” to particularly tackle his questionable habits at numerous awards ceremonies, which then results in the hosts (performed by Kenan Thompson and Maya Rudolph) to indicate a sequence of clips the place West interrupts more and more foolish awards reveals that he should not even be showing at within the first place. How did this concept come about? Shaffer defined on the podcast:
“The timeline of that is loopy, although, as a result of it is actually laborious to recollect why we had this concept, however it needed to do with possibly Britney Spears? I am unable to keep in mind, however he was a bit of bit well-known for unhealthy awards present habits, for being both a poor loser or talking out on behalf of others. However the Taylor Swift well-known second you might be considering I am speaking about has not occurred but. That occurs a yr from now, however it was already recognized sufficient that he had unhealthy habits at awards reveals, that we talked to him.
I feel it was partially his concept. He mentioned, ‘I ought to make enjoyable of awards present stuff,’ and IÂ was like, ‘Oh, that makes good sense.’ As a result of we knew that [awards show] world, Lorne [Michaels] requested me to get on the cellphone with him, and Seth as head author was like, ‘I will get on with you.’ So me and [Seth] known as Kanye, and he kinda pitched it, after which me and [Seth] wrote out an enormous awards present factor.”
Akiva Shaffer although Kanye West was doing a bit at first
The prescient “SNL” sketch was so remarkably just like what West would go on to do throughout Swift’s VMAs acceptance speech in 2009 that Shaffer really thought it was a comedic bit when the mishap unfolded. Shaffer recalled, “I keep in mind considering on the VMAs dwell, ‘Oh, that is so humorous, however he is kinda ripping off our bit. I want he had known as us to assist him work on this.'” After going by way of the entire strategy of reasoning why it was okay for West to do that bit himself, Shaffer then realized it was not a joke, and the remainder is popular culture historical past.
By the way in which, as one other little Kanye West/”SNL” enjoyable truth: Meyers defined what he believed was the rationale that West would go on to incorporate lyrics in his tune “Energy” that mentioned, “F**okay ‘SNL’ and the entire forged. Inform them Yeezy mentioned they’ll kiss my entire ass. Extra particularly, they’ll kiss my a**gap.” Meyers is below the impression that it is as a result of they allowed Taylor Lautner to karate kick a cardboard cutout of Kanye West on stage when he hosted “SNL,” shortly following the Swift VMAs incident. Meyers could not give you another causes that West would abruptly activate them, and actually, it is simply petty sufficient to suit the invoice. The extra !
