'SNL' gets laughs with 'The Day Beyonce Turned Black'
By THR Staff
Updated 1600 GMT (0000 HKT) February 15, 2016
'SNL' takes on controversy around new Beyonce song 01:35
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(The Hollywood Reporter)In a digital short Saturday following Melissa McCarthy's monologue, "Saturday Night Live" poked fun at "The Day Beyonce Turned Black," showing white people who just didn't understandBeyonce's new song "Formation."
The sketch starts out with a voiceover intro referencing the day that Beyonce surprise-dropped her latest single and performed it at the Super Bowl with Coldplay and Bruno Mars the next day: "For white people, it was just another great week. They never saw it coming. They had no warning. Then, the day before the Super Bowl, it happened."
The video, in the form of a horror movie trailer, shows white people freaking out to Beyonce's lyrics about black culture as they realize the pop superstar is black.
People begin to act as if it's the end of the world as they know it and are forced to leave the country in masses after they discover other popular black actors — even Kerry Washington.
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One person starts to panic about Washington's starring role on "Scandal," saying, "But ... she's on ABC."
But in the end, the video showed that white people still had one star to hold on to. "Mom, is Taylor Swift still white?"
#SNL "The Day Beyoncé Turned Black" is the best thing they've done in years! WOW!! #BlackTwitter
— Benjamin O'Keefe (@benjaminokeefe) February 14, 2016
The Day Beyonce Turned Black is the best thing SNL has ever done
— gabifresh (@gabifresh) February 14, 2016
©2015 The Hollywood Reporter. All rights reserved.
By THR Staff
Updated 1600 GMT (0000 HKT) February 15, 2016
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'SNL' takes on controversy around new Beyonce song 01:35
Story highlights[/paste:font]
- "Saturday Night Live" pokes fun at reaction to Beyonce's "Formation" video
- Video shows whites freaking out to Beyonce's lyrics about black culture
(The Hollywood Reporter)In a digital short Saturday following Melissa McCarthy's monologue, "Saturday Night Live" poked fun at "The Day Beyonce Turned Black," showing white people who just didn't understandBeyonce's new song "Formation."
The sketch starts out with a voiceover intro referencing the day that Beyonce surprise-dropped her latest single and performed it at the Super Bowl with Coldplay and Bruno Mars the next day: "For white people, it was just another great week. They never saw it coming. They had no warning. Then, the day before the Super Bowl, it happened."
The video, in the form of a horror movie trailer, shows white people freaking out to Beyonce's lyrics about black culture as they realize the pop superstar is black.
People begin to act as if it's the end of the world as they know it and are forced to leave the country in masses after they discover other popular black actors — even Kerry Washington.
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One person starts to panic about Washington's starring role on "Scandal," saying, "But ... she's on ABC."
But in the end, the video showed that white people still had one star to hold on to. "Mom, is Taylor Swift still white?"
#SNL "The Day Beyoncé Turned Black" is the best thing they've done in years! WOW!! #BlackTwitter
— Benjamin O'Keefe (@benjaminokeefe) February 14, 2016
The Day Beyonce Turned Black is the best thing SNL has ever done
— gabifresh (@gabifresh) February 14, 2016
©2015 The Hollywood Reporter. All rights reserved.
