“I was like, ‘Don’t make any faces.
Y’all told me to come up here, I’m up here.'”
“I remember looking around the stage,” she said.
Ego Nwodim and Kenan Thompson on ‘SNL’ in 2023; Ye (as Kanye West) in 2018.Credit:Caro Scarimbolo/NBC via Getty; SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty
And I look, and no, I was the only one!
And I thought, ‘They had a meeting!’
And so then I’m like, ‘These motherf—ers!'"
Ye (as Kanye West) on ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 2018.Will Heath/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
Thompson exited the stage as Ye began to address theSNLaudience.
I was like, ‘I’m out!'"
“Oh yeah, that is a MAGA hat, huh?”
Kanye West, Adam Driver, and Kenan Thompson promoting ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 2018.Rosalind O’Connor/NBC
Thompson says in the footage, surprised.
Ye responds, “You didn’t notice that ‘til now?”
Thompson then remarks, “I’m just now noticing.
I’m putting it all together.
He’s serious!”
I guess my musical instinct said, ‘Keep playing.
Just keep playing.'"
SNLproducer Steve Higgins reflected on the show’s lack of censorship.
“This is a non-censoring show.
It’s one of the last places you do what you wanna do,” he said.
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