Bowen Yang and Chappell Roan are good to go.
The “Red Wine Supernova” singer quelled any lingering speculation that she’d been offended by the comedian’s September 2024 Saturday Night Live sketch during which he quoted Chappell while parodying baby pygmy hippopotamus Moo Deng.
The Grammy winner declared that she “wasn’t even mad” about the viral moment during an April 16 appearance on Bowen’s podcast Las Culturistas after cohost Matt Rogers brought up how fans were “dragging” the sketch.
After Matt posited that he thought she would’ve considered the parody funny, Chappell confirmed that suspicion, saying, “I did! I didn’t feel anything.”
The singer then reiterated that she isn’t mad about it before Bowen recounted speaking to their mutual friend Sasha Colby about the backlash.
“I was like, ‘Is she okay?'” he recalled. “And Sasha was like, ‘Yeah, girl, she’s laughing. She’s loving it.’ I was like, ‘Okay, well, then that’s fine.'”
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