‘SNL’ stars respond after no ‘hot women’ on cast TikTok goes viral: ‘Grieving privately and uglily’
nypost.com“Saturday Night Live” has “never” hired a “hot” woman in its nearly 50-year run — and some of the show’s female cast members had hilarious reactions. “Am I the only person who’s ever noticed that ‘SNL’ has never hired a, like, hot woman?” the TikTok user, who goes by Jahelis on the platform, asked in a video uploaded March 21 and currently has more than 482,700 views.“I’m not saying that every single woman who has been a cast member on ‘SNL’ is ugly,” she continued. “It’s just that none of them have ever been, like, hot.”In the nearly four-minute video, Jahelis used cast member Heidi Gardner in an attempt to prove her point, claiming Gardner is often used as the “super hot and super dumb” girl in sketches even though “she’s not that pretty,” but “I guess technically the most conventional hot female on this cast.”Jahelis went on to call “SNL” alumni Maya Rudolph “really beautiful” and Kristen Wiig “very conventionally attractive,” but said neither of them are necessarily hot.She then switched to some of the men on the show, pulling up a photo of a young Jimmy Fallon, claiming he’s a “conventionally super hot guy,” along with Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis and current cast member Bowen Yang.Jahelis wondered if this was purposeful due to the misogynistic take that “once we see women as super funny, we have a hard time seeing them as also both sexy and attractive.”Nevertheless, the hot commentary made its way to current cast member Sarah Sherman’s feed, who approached the video with her sarcastic humor.
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