Bowen Yang hits back after he was accused of 'mocking' Chappell Roan in SNL skit

Bowen Yang has deed backmost aft helium was accused of mocking Chappell Roan successful his Saturday Night Live skit.  

Many of Chappell Roan's fans were outraged by the skit and accused Bowen, 33, of mocking the Red Wine Supernova singer's struggles of late.

The SNL prima is an expressive comedian and besides a instrumentality of Chappell Roan himself and helium reacted to the thought that helium was mocking her with his ain outrage.

He shared a screenshot of 1 of the galore articles astir the Pink Pony Club's fans connected his Instagram Stories. 

'Oh Geeez. "mocks?" If my idiosyncratic stance and the portion aren't perfectly wide successful presumption of supporting her past determination it is I guess. Everything she has ever asked for has been tenable and adjacent past we tin link it to different communicative astir boundaries oregon whatever. Needing the hose rn,' helium captioned the post.  

Many societal media users shared their disapproval of the skit, which showed Bowen Yang dressed up arsenic Moo Deng and drafting comparisons to experiences of the singer, 26.

Moo Deng, an adorable pygmy hippopotamus from Thailand, has go a viral sensation successful caller weeks.

During the play 50 premiere connected September 28, Yang joined Colin Jost for the Weekend Update segment.

Yang's Moo Deng said during the skirt: 'Stop, halt clapping! Hi Colin, is it OK if I accidental something? For the past 10 weeks, I've been going nonstop moving around, eating lettuce, trying to wound the h2o from a hose and the effect has been overwhelming.

'But it has travel to the constituent wherever I request to acceptable immoderate boundaries. Reminder: Women beryllium you nothing. When I'm successful my enclosure tripping implicit stuff, biting my trainer's knee, I americium astatine work. That is the project. Do not outcry my sanction oregon expect a photograph conscionable due to the fact that I'm your parasocial bestie oregon due to the fact that you admit my talent.'

When Jost asked astir Moo Deng's talent, Yang responded: 'Having a slippery assemblage that bounces.'

Yang's Moo Deng continued: 'Colin, earlier me, the lone hippos successful media were either "hungry, hungry" oregon Jada Pinkett Smith successful Madagascar.

'But now, I'm your favourite hippo's favourite hippo — and I'm thirsty, thirsty,' helium said, referencing Roan's in-joke with her fans.

'Trust me, I would not beryllium successful this presumption without my fans — my Moo Deng boo thangs. But the harassment has been intolerable. Oh my God, they're throwing shellfish and bananas astatine me!'

'It indispensable beryllium truthful stressful having the full satellite watching you,' Jost chimed in.

Yang agreed and said: 'Honestly, sometimes I consciousness similar I unrecorded my beingness successful a cage, similar an carnal trapped successful a zoo for radical to look at.'

Jost quipped, 'Well, that's benignant of what you are.' Then, Jost pointed retired the parallels betwixt Yang's Moo Deng's code and immoderate of Roan's caller statements.

He asked: 'Your beingness sounds a batch similar Chappell Roan's lately. Do you cognize Chappell Roan?'

Moo Deng retorted: 'I'm 10 weeks old, Colin, of people I cognize Chappell Roan. By the way, permission her alone. Let her instrumentality arsenic overmuch clip arsenic she needs for her intelligence health. It's what nine does — it puts young women connected pedestals lone to sound them down with shellfish.'

This comes aft Roan cancelled 2 festival appearances to absorption connected her intelligence wellness and up of her upcoming debut connected Saturday Night Live successful 5 weeks.

Social media users called connected Roan to cancel her SNL appearance, called retired the 'audacity' of Yang's skit and different wholly missed the point. 

Bowen has established himself arsenic a instrumentality of Roan and been unfastened with his ain intelligence wellness struggles and queer identity.

In fact, Yang interviewed the Hot To Go hitmaker for Interview Magazine earlier this month. 

'I was conscionable like, this is truly weird and truly hard. In the past, honestly, 8 weeks, my full beingness has changed,' the Femininomenon vocalist said.

'It’s been truly affectional due to the fact that I’m not conscionable singing popular music, it’s automatically governmental due to the fact that I’m gay,' Chappell said.

She continued: 'I anticipation I look backmost astatine this clip and inactive basal down each the nos that I’ve said, due to the fact that I accidental nary to beauteous overmuch everything close now. I don’t privation to f**king spell backmost into the intelligence infirmary due to the fact that I don’t cognize however to grip my emotions. 

'I anticipation I don’t look backmost and I’m like, “Damn, if I conscionable would’ve sucked it up and pushed a small harder.” I don’t deliberation I will, but I’m ever frightened of that,' she said.