It looks like The Try Guys’ controversy got the Saturday Night Live treatment – and some people are not too happy about it!
09.10.2022 - 18:15 / usmagazine.com
After Try Guys alum Ned Fulmer’s cheating scandal made headlines, Saturday Night Live decided to spoof how the remaining YouTube personalities are coping.
In a Saturday, October 8, skit, cast member Ego Nwodim and episode host Brendan Gleeson play CNN reporters. While the 67-year-old Ireland native portrays a White House correspondent intending to cover daily political news, things took a turn after a development came to light.
“I’m getting breaking news that the Try Guys have now responded to the whole Ned Fulmer situation,” Gleeson quipped in the Saturday sketch. “It’s obviously an evolving story, but CNN can confirm that the Try Guys have released an official YouTube video clapping back at ex-Try Guy Ned Fulmer, the ‘Wife Guy’ Try Guy. He disrespected the brand by making out with one of the ‘Food Babies’ at the Harry Styles concert. It’s a sad day indeed.”
After Nwodim’s character asked who the internet personalities were, Gleeson offered an explanation.
“How do you not know The Try Guys?” the Paddington 2 actor asked. “These are the Buzzfeed pranksters who try stuff, like trying fingernail polish or weird haircuts. They even tried eating bugs!”
The NBC skit then cut to a fake interview with the remaining Try Guys — Eugene Lee Yang (Bowen Yang), Keith Habersberger (Mikey Day) and Zach Kornfeld (Andrew Dismukes) — to address their side of the story.
“Thank you, it’s surreal. There’s a lot of anger on this couch,” the Fire Island star, 31, quipped as Eugene. “We had no choice and we hope he is somewhere on his back with a bullet in his brain and belly.”
Dismukes’ Kornfeld, for his part, referred to the media company deciding to fire Fulmer and edit him out of future videos as the “battle of our lives.” Nwodim proclaimed that
It looks like The Try Guys’ controversy got the Saturday Night Live treatment – and some people are not too happy about it!
Wilson Chapman editor “Saturday Night Live” parodied the intense social media reaction to the drama surrounding popular online comedy group the Try Guys with a sketch that featured parodies of the group’s remaining three members. Episode host Brendan Gleeson, who was on the show to promote his upcoming film “The Banshees of Inisherin,” starred in the sketch as a CNN White House correspondent reporting on important developments in America’s relations with Russia. But — much to the befuddlement of anchor Ego Nwodim — Gleeson interrupts the report to announce that the Try Guys have responded to the controversy surrounding Ned Fulmer, who was fired from the group after admitting to a “consensual workplace relationship” with a producer of the group’s online video series.
Brendan Gleeson is hosting Saturday Night Live for the first time!
For those of you holding out hope Ned Fulmer might one day return to The Try Guys, we’re sorry to burst your bubble. That ain’t EVER happening!
The Try Guys resumed their podcast following a one-week hiatus, and shared more info about the events that led to the firing of Ned Fulmer following his admission to a consensual affair in the workplace with one of their producers.Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeld and Eugene Lee Yang appeared in the latest episode dubbed «ok, let's talk about it» of their podcast and opened up about Fulmer's betrayal. The group also shed more light on when exactly Fulmer was fired from the group. His ouster was announced by the group on Sept.
The Try Guys are ready to talk.
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The Try Guys are speaking out following Ned Fulmer's exit from the group after he admitted to having a consensual affair in the workplace. In a new video shared to YouTube Monday, titled «what happened,» the popular content creators addressed Fulmer's affair and revealed that they were «shocked» to learn about what he was doing behind the scenes.The remaining members of the group, Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeld and Eugene Lee Yang, sat down together as they spoke directly to their fans and loyal viewers about how this incident has impacted them and how they plan to move forward as a group.«On Labor Day weekend, multiple fans alerted us that they had seen Ned and an employee engaging in public romantic behavior,» Kornfield explained. «We reached out to check on that employee.
“This is not who we are, and we took this very seriously,” said Try Guys member Eugene Lee Yang in a video the group posted today addressing the removal of longtime member Ned Fulmer. Yang, along with remaining members Keith Habersberger and Zach Kornfeld confirmed what fans had suspected: Fulmer, who is married, had an affair with an unnamed staffer.
J. Kim Murphy Comedy group the Try Guys shared a video statement Monday evening, addressing its recent decision to cut ties with ex-member Ned Fulmer, who admitted that he was engaged in a “consensual” workplace affair and was the subject of an internal investigation. Zach Cornfeld, Keith Habersberger and Eugene Lee Yang appear in the video, titled “what happened.,” explaining the timeline of Fulmer’s exit from the company and how the group will continue to alter its content to address the situation. The trio shared that it had been working to remove Fulmer from new videos as soon as an investigation into his behavior was launched. “We immediately removed Ned from work activities and engaged an HR professional to conduct a thorough review of the facts. We also opted to remove Ned from our releases, pending results of that review,” Kornfeld stated. “That’s included removing his section from videos, digitally removing him from others and choosing not to feature him in our merch throws. Honestly, I want to give major props to our editing staff for how deftly they’ve handled that.”
The Try Guys are speaking out about the ousting of founding member Ned Fulmer over an extramarital affair he carried on with an employee.
Ned Fulmer and his wife Ariel were all smiles as they stepped out together in Los Angeles. It comes only days after the former Try Guys star admitted that he had cheated on his wife with an engaged employee, and was subsequently dropped from the successful YouTube company. Ned and Ariel cut casual figures for their walk in the neighbourhood.
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The Try Guys have an update after a week full of controversy.
The Try Guys are hitting pause.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The three remaining members of the Try Guys need time to process the events that led the popular YouTube comedy troupe to kick out their friend and co-founder Ned Fulmer, after he confessed to having a workplace extramarital affair. The Try Guys trio — former BuzzFeed staffers Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeld and Eugene Lee Yang — said they will take a one-week break from their regular podcast release to “formulate our thoughts” given the announcement Tuesday that Fulmer is no longer part of the group. The next episode of the TryPod is slated for next Thursday, Oct. 6. “The TryPod will be taking a week off, and returning next week on Oct 6. We wanted to take some time to formulate our thoughts before recording the episode,” the group tweeted late Wednesday. “Thanks for being patient.”
The former fiancé of The Try Guys producer Alex Herring wasted no time celebrating becoming a bachelor.
is Ned Fulmer? What are Try Guys?" Either way, we're here to break it all down for you.This week, -level drama plagued the men behind the Try Guys, a popular YouTube channel, that resulted in the exit of one of its members, Fulmer. And it turns out it all had to do with his extramarital affair with an employee.