The ‘SNL Was Mean to Aimee Lou Wood’ Coverage Has Been Meaner Than the ‘SNL’ Sketch
Saturday Night Live continues to make headlines — not because people found any of last weekend’s sketches particularly funny, but because one segment was unnecessarily mean to White Lotus actress Aimee Lou Wood. But, to be honest, the ensuing media coverage is arguably becoming way crueler than the sketch itself.
As we’ve already mentioned, Wood called out Sarah Sherman’s “unfunny” and “mean” impression of her in the “White POTUS” sketch, which found the comedian donning Austin Powers-esque buck teeth and delivering an accent that will no doubt do nothing to win back annoyed British viewers.
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The characterization of Wood was especially conspicuous because the rest of the sketch purely involved lampooning political targets, such as Trump and RFK Jr. (although Chloe Fineman’s Melania Trump did inexplicably sound like Parker Posey’s character). So mocking the appearance of one of the lesser-known, yet widely beloved stars of the HBO show wasn’t even in keeping with the tone of the rest of the sketch.
Wood later claimed that someone from Saturday Night Live reached out to apologize, and later posted a thank you to Sherman, who apparently sent her a bouquet of flowers. A happy ending right? Well not exactly.
This story just simply won’t go away. TMZ felt the need to inform everyone that SNL in no way offered an official apology to the actress, and The Daily Mail published an article about how an SNL “insider” claimed that the show “outright refused” to apologize because they think that the controversy is “ridiculous.” According to the anonymous source, “Far worse has been said about other celebrities and everyone knows that this is what SNL does. It’s comedy. It is meant to entertain.”
Even worse, on Monday, a photographer snapped photos of Wood in London, seemingly crying, which TMZ quickly suggested was likely caused by SNL “making fun of her teeth.”
Wood then had to come forward on Instagram and clarify that she wasn’t publicly crying because of SNL, but rather, “something completely unrelated.” And somehow she resisted the urge to add, “Stop taking photos of me crying and rampantly speculating about my emotional well-being you fucking ghouls.”
The original story itself was pretty cut-and-dried; SNL needlessly mocked a celebrity people seem to like, she responded on social media in an entirely fair manner and the cast member behind the impression sent her some lovely flowers to smooth things over.
Perpetuating this “controversy” to the point of publishing snapshots of a person in distress and publicly debating the validity of her feelings is far worse than a set of fake teeth and an English accent that would make even Dick Van Dyke cringe.
