‘SNL’ Spoofs Skechers Turning Down Kanye West In Hilarious Sketch With Cecily Strong: ‘Of Course He Came To Us’

Cecily Strong took connected the relation of Skechers CEO successful a hilarious Saturday Night Life spoof connected Kanye “Ye” West making an quality astatine their real-life California headquarters. The drop-in sojourn took spot conscionable days aft Ye was dropped by German-based Adidas, who produces his fashionable Yeezy line, pursuing his highly violative anti-semitic comments that got him suspended from Twitter and restricted connected Instagram. In the SNL take of events, Cecily doubled down connected Skechers’ positioning astir showing Kanye the door.

“At Skechers we pridefulness ourselves marque shoes astatine an affordable terms — and lasting up to anti-semitism. That’s wherefore earlier this week erstwhile Kanye West showed up astatine our firm asking to enactment with america — we said no,” she firmly said to the camera successful the sketch, which mocked a firm presumption video. Other employees — including 1 played by Bowen Yang — erstwhile chimed successful with “no way,” “no” and “no convey you,” astir the imaginable of moving with the Chicago-born rapper. “We instantly escorted him retired of the building,” Bowen explained, citing existent events that did hap aft Ye dropped by.

Cecily Strong made her instrumentality to ‘SNL’ aft a hiatus connected Oct. 29. (NBC)

“Like the remainder of the country, we were appalled by Kanye’s horrific comments and we vow to ne'er enactment with him successful immoderate capacity,” Cecily, wearing a reddish blazer portion lasting successful a Skechers store, past said. “But, tin we besides constituent retired that of each the companies helium could person approached and been rejected by, helium chose Skechers,” she added arsenic the soft music. Chloe Fineman past retorted, “Kanye came to Skechers and Skechers said no. Do you recognize however satisfying that is?”

“Two years agone could you ideate that header — Skechers is excessively bully for Kanye,” Bowen past laughed. “Of course, he’s ever been a disrupter successful the manner industry. Again, we would ne'er spouse with him. What would you adjacent telephone a Kanye Skechers footwear anyway? The Skeezy?” helium pondered, pointing retired different amusement institution that has yet to remark connected the controversy. “I haven’t heard thing from Crocs. No saying they’re anti-semitic but we haven’t heard from them.”

Cecily past doubled down connected the prime to amusement Kanye disconnected the spot of the Jewish-owned company. “He walked successful and we were similar bye — buh-bye — door. It’s not each astir america but it’s not similar Allbirds is not warring the fight,” she declared.

In existent life, Kanye seemed unbothered by the full thing. “Had to chopped ties, bro,” Kanye bizarrely wrote, seemingly responding to quality that his ain marque Yeezy chopped ties with the erstwhile billionaire. Kanye was besides dropped by Vogue, Balenciaga and galore different brands helium often worked with oregon collaborated with.