'SNL''s Devon Walker says Try Guys sketch writer was doxxed by fans: 'They had to get security for him'
Devon Walker, who joined the sketch show its 48th season, said that an SNL staffer was doxxed and received death threats after writing a sketch that mocked the YouTube creators The Try Guys. "They had to get security for him because people were sending him death threats, 'cause he wrote a sketch on Saturday Night Live," Walker said on the podcast Lemme Say This.
Representatives for Saturday Night Live did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment.
On the podcast, Walker said that a writer who he "will not name because this got him in so much s---" infuriated the Try Guys fandom after penning the 2022 sketch that mocked the group's response to an infamous workplace scandal.
"He went to college with one of the Try Guys guys," Walker said of the writer. "[He] wasn't friends with him or anything, just went to school with him. [He] wrote a sketch about it, kind of just being like, 'Isn't this a silly thing that we're all getting upset about?' He literally got doxxed. He got doxxed by the Try Guys fans."
The sketch in question saw a CNN reporter (Brendan Gleeson) interrupt his broadcast at the White House to discuss the breaking news that the Try Guys (played by Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, and Andrew Dismukes) had dismissed former member Ned Fulmer from their ranks after cheating on his wife with an employee at their company.
Walker said that the Try Guys fandom's backlash to the sketch illustrates why he never wants to engage in online scandals or feuds. "I just wanna live a peaceful life," he said. "I just wanna walk around my neighborhood, eat scones. I don't want the smoke, really. I don't wanna be in no beef. They had to get security for him."
Fulmer actually was the center of a scandal that led to his exit from the group after having an affair with an employee. Some critics of the sketch argued that SNL's parody of the incident inappropriately made light of the problematic power dynamic between Fulmer and his employee, while others noted that Fulmer went to Yale at the same time as SNL writer Will Stephen. (Representatives for Stephen did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.)Listen to the full interview with Walker above.
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