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NextImg:Bowen Yang Responds To 'White Lotus' Star's 'Saturday Night Live' Complaints
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Bowen Yang understands Aimee Lou Wood’s disappointed reaction to a “Saturday Night Live” parody of “The White Lotus” star.

The sketch show recently did a skit in which it mocked Wood’s prominent front teeth, prompting the actor to call the bit “mean and unfunny.”

Yang, who was not in the sketch, spoke to “Extra” last week about Wood’s now-viral reaction and called it “completely valid.”

“With parody, you kind of forget the sort of human, emotional cost that it sort of extols on someone,” the “Las Culturistas” podcaster shared.

“Everyone at SNL’ is just a fan of the show ― obviously a fan of her,” Yang said, before adding that Wood’s reaction was “this thing that we tend to forget sometimes and this is a reminder.”

“It seems like she has spoken to people at the show about it, and hopefully there’s room to sort of move on from it,” he added.

“But yeah ― you need those reminders every now and then that parody can go too far sometimes,” Yang said. “And that we as comedians can take account for that instead of banging our foot and saying that, like, we should be allowed to say whatever we want because that’s just the culture. It’s not PC or woke culture, it’s just culture.”

Wood publicly responded to the sketch, called “The White Potus,” on April 13.

“Such a shame cuz I had such a great time watching it a couple weeks ago,” Wood said via her Instagram stories at the time. “Yes, take the piss for sure — that’s what the show is about — but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?”

In the sketch, comedian Sarah Sherman wore prosthetic teeth in an attempt to mimic Wood’s own smile.

Sherman later sent Wood flowers, which “The White Lotus” shared on her Instagram page.