Easily offended slam ‘Try Guys’ SNL sketch over Ned Fulmer cheating scandal, say show missed the point

Saturday Night Live is getting slammed by people over a parody of a “Try Guys” video that addressed former member Ned Fulmer’s cheating scandal, with critics claiming the show “missed” the point of the clip entirely.

(Video Credit: Saturday Night Live)

Many people have never even heard of the “Try Guys” which the SNL skit humorously highlighted. The perpetually aggrieved crowd missed the comedy of it all evidently.

The viral video put out by YouTube stars Eugene Lee Yang, Zach Kornfeld, and Keith Habersberger details why they decided to terminate their bro after finding out he was having a fling with video producer Alexandria Herring, a junior employee. Ned Fulmer is a married man and that seems to be the crux for firing him, according to PageSix.

Viewers of the sketch complain that SNL made fun of the trio for holding their formerly fourth member accountable, instead of taking aim at Fulmer for cheating on his wife of ten years, Ariel Fulmer.

“I should not care this much but snl doing a try guys bit where they make fun of NOT Ned but the other three for holding him accountable for all his s–t and being hurt by it is so nasty,” one person vented on Twitter. “Like pls tell me more abt how funny you think a man cheating on his wife with his employee is.”

Another person who decided that they were somehow personally slighted during the bit, stated, “Did SNL just gaslight the Try Guys?”

Others attacked SNL for not going after the “power balance” for “Try Guys.” That seems to refer to Fulmer cheating with someone who had less power than he does in the workplace or something. All the grievances here appear to be a stretch at best including that one.

“is it just me or is it kinda screwed up that they are making fun of a POWER DYNAMIC of a sexual relationship between a company’s founder and one of its employees??” a person angrily asked.

Another chimed in chastising the comedy show and falsely claiming that everyone was on the side of “Try Guys,” “Oof, rude awakening to SNL that the entire internet is on the Try Guy’s side. There were so many other ways they could have parodied this, but they went for making the victims the punchline while downplaying workplace harassment.”

SNL’s only mistake here seems to be making a skit about something that almost no one cares about unless they are intentionally looking for something to offend them.

Saturday Night Live’s version of the video featured Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, and Andrew Dismukes who portrayed the remaining “Try Guys” members Lee Yang, Kornfeld, and Habersberger, respectively.

“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,” Brendan Gleeson, who hosted the Oct. 8 episode, snarked at the beginning of the clip.

“Due to the trauma we are facing, our editors are working around the clock to remove any trace of Ned from past Try Guys content,” Dismukes announced. “This is the battle of our lives.”

“It will still be amazeballs, but it will also be sadballs,” Day quips. “We’re all processing this horrific, violent, and probably racist tragedy.”

Day, who played Kornfeld, then observed, “Worse, he committed the heinous act of having a consensual kiss and not telling us, his friends.”

The comedy sketch comes two weeks after Fulmer got the boot from the group. It looks like he was caught kissing Herring in a New York City bar.

(Video Credit: The Try Guys)

“Family should have always been my priority, but I lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship,” Fulmer apologized in a statement.

“I’m sorry for any pain that my actions may have caused to the guys and the fans but most of all to Ariel,” he added. “The only thing that matters right now is my marriage and my children, and that’s where I am going to focus my attention.”

USA Today describes the YouTube show thusly: “The Try Guys, which boasts more than 8 million YouTube subscribers, began as a BuzzFeed web series in 2014 that chronicled Kornfeld, Habersberger, Lee Yang and Fulmer’s zany exploits in trying new things – experiencing labor pain simulation, baking without a recipe, taste-testing everything on a fast food chain’s menu and driving while intoxicated (under professional supervision), to name a few. In 2018, the four left BuzzFeed and founded their own production company to continue the Try Guys brand.”

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