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South China Morning Post
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet SNL cast member Ego Nwodim, who accidentally got the audience to curse: the comedian just made a stylish appearance at Marc Jacobs' autumn 2025 show, and footballer Eberechi Eze is her cousin
Ego Nwodim, the 37-year-old Saturday Night Live star known for her sharp wit and vibrant comedic presence, recently made a stylish appearance at the Marc Jacobs autumn 2025 fashion show in New York City. She wore a puffy double-breasted jacket and a sculptural checkered skirt, paired with a purple handbag and black pumps with a comically elongated rectangular-toe, embodying the designer's playful and exaggerated aesthetic. Actress-comedian Ego Nwodim arrives at the Marc Jacobs fashion show at New York Public Library on June 30, in New York City. Photo: GC Images Advertisement The Nigerian-American comedian made headlines earlier this year for accidentally causing audience members to swear during a call-and-response session while playing her comedy character Miss Eggy on the Weekend Update segment of SNL in April. The incident sparked rumours of a potential review by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), but ultimately, no penalties were imposed. 'I don't believe we got fined,' she told Gold Derby in May. 'I asked Lorne [Michaels , the creator and showrunner] a couple of weeks ago and I was like, 'Did anything happen? Did we get fined?' And he was like, 'I don't think so.' And so, because he was semi-confident, I, too, am semi-confident that we didn't get fined.' She added jokingly: 'The money didn't come out of my bank account, so that's why I haven't confirmed.' Ego Nwodim during her Miss Eggy sketch, which landed her in hot water. Photo: @eggyboom/Instagram Nwodim's career took off in 2018 when she made her debut on the 44th season of SNL. To date, she has appeared on seven seasons of SNL and was promoted from featured player to repertory status by 2020. Here is everything you need to know about the actress-comedian. Ego Nwodim plays several beloved characters on SNL Nwodim is known for her comedic range. 'Lisa from Temecula' is one of her most popular characters. Lisa is a blunt, assertive, and somewhat 'off-the-wall' lawyer whose signature trait is ordering her steak 'extra well done' and vigorously shaking the table to cut it.
Vogue
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Marc Jacobs Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
In his show notes Marc Jacobs riffed about beauty, calling it, 'a quality or combination of qualities that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is often associated with properties such as harmony of form or color, proportion, and authenticity.' That's almost a dictionary definition, but trust Jacobs not to give us anything quite that obvious or basic or first degree. Since returning to the runway after the pandemic, exaggeration has become one of Jacobs's most persistent and powerful leitmotifs. Ego Nwodim turned up tonight in a little leather pea coat and tweed mini skirt from last season that looked inflated with air, a pair of witchy pumps with surreally extended toe boxes on her feet. Other guests were in equally hyperbolic outfits, their just-this-side-of-cartoonish proportions producing a sort of uncanny valley effect. Do they have it right in their retro-future cocktail dresses and platforms, or do we in our t-shirts, jeans, and Birkenstocks? We know which side of the valley Jacobs leans towards—he's the guy posting ASMR videos of his bejeweled nails with the caption 'twenty-seven seconds of blissful artifice.' But blissful artifice doesn't quite sum up this 19-look show. It opened with a pair of cargos, their pockets (four, not two) amplified completely out of the ordinary, followed by a pair of white denim jeans came next, with darts at the pockets that gave them a squared-off, boxy volume. Familiar pieces made exceptional by overstatement—and by the special pieces they were paired with, a lavender lace blouse with ultra-pouffed sleeves in the first case, and a going-out top made from collaged bra parts dripping in glass beads and pearls in the second. More often than not though Jacobs was working in a higher register, amplifying a model's assets by adding padding to the backside of a hobble skirt, twisting puffed sleeves into the shapes of hearts, bedecking an evening gown in hundreds of bows—there were a lot of bows, typically shown in trompe l'oeil two-dimensions, rather than three, another way he played with perception. The last look could've been Victorian widow's weeds—flashes of Lily Rose-Depp in Nosferatu—but Jacobs twisted it all up, inflating a bustle here and deflating it there, and adding a split to the long skirts. Even the highest of high fashion designers are making a virtue of simplicity and straight-up sellable pieces in the midst of this luxury slowdown. Not Marc Jacobs, not ever, it's fairly safe to say. He'll always keep seeking and finding beauty. This season's exemplar was a long black lace dress that skimmed the body like a glove, save for those exaggerated hip darts and a 2D bow at the back of the knees—very pleasing.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Scarlett Johansson Got Her ‘Weekend Update' Revenge and a Standing Ovation at Cannes, All in the Same Week
We've reached the end of another week. But before we clock out for the weekend, we're giving credit where it's due. Scarlett Johansson is the latest champion in our Winner of the Week series. Is it ScarJo 2.0? 3.0? 100.0? Scarlett Johansson has been through so many career transformations, from teen queen to indie darling to blockbuster powerhouse to sex symbol and everything in between, it's hard to keep track of which version we're on. Heck, I still remember picking up her Tom Waits cover album at a coffee shop. But this week definitely marked a turning point for the actor, who has officially leveled up. She's behind the camera and in control of the narrative, going from the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update desk to the Cannes red carpet in what felt like the blink of a smoky eye. Jurassic World Rebirth may not come out until July, but her rebirth is happening right here, right now, which is why she's our winner of the week. Ego Nwodim Is Just Getting Started As she wraps another electric season of *Saturday Night Live,* Ego Nwodim opens up about her iconic characters, hosting the Met Gala, and her big plans for what's next. As of Saturday, Johansson has now hosted Saturday Night Live more times than any other female celebrity, a task no doubt made more convenient by the fact that she's married to Weekend Update coanchor and SNL head writer Colin Jost. Around Christmastime, Jost and his coanchor, Michael Che, did their traditional joke swap, which naturally involved a rather graphic remark about Johansson's vagina. Hosting the season 50 finale, Johansson got Che back, appearing at the Update desk to supervise him performing jokes about his own sexual perversions. Then there was the Cannes of it all. In a recent Vanity Fair profile, Johansson revealed that she's had directorial aspirations since she was 12 year old. Her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, just premiered to a five-minute standing ovation and is set to hit theaters in the fall. And of course, she had a style moment on the red carpet, doing a modern take on the princess look in a gauzy periwinkle gown, red lips, and sparkly earrings. She's actually got two flicks at the festival this year, with a small role in Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme. It wasn't long ago that Johansson was going the legal route to (rightfully) take back her power, suing Disney over the way they released Black Widow and taking on OpenAI for (allegedly) using her voice without her consent. The fact that she's now popping up on SNL and directing movies seems like a leap forward. No longer reactive, she's creatively empowered and telling her own stories on her own terms. Originally Appeared on Glamour
Daily Mail
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
FA Cup hero Eberechi Eze has famous American relative as unknown family link shocks fans after Wembley triumph
It's been revealed that Crystal Palace star Eberechi Eze has a surprise family link - just days after he helped ensure their FA Cup triumph on Saturday. Eze was Palace's hero in their 1-0 win against Manchester City in the final on Saturday, his goal bringing the Eagles their first major trophy in their 120-year history. The former QPR midfielder lead the celebrations at Wembley alongside his Palace team-mates but it's clear that the festivities didn't stop there for their fans. Palace fans were seen partying in the streets of London throughout the night and, in the days that followed, a home shirt was even seen on popular American show; Saturday Night Live. The shirt was worn by SNL crew member Ego Nwodim - who was later revealed to be a cousin of the Palace and England star. Nwodim, 37, has been a member of the cast since 2018 and is also an American actress and comedian. She also wore a Palace shirt with Eze's name on it during an episode of Saturday Night Live in 2023. While the majority of Palace's team and staff enjoyed the celebrations late into the night on Saturday evening, Marc Guehi and Adam Wharton both missed the party after being taken to hospital. England star Guehi took a blow to the eye just before the hour mark and had to be substituted for Jefferson Lerma. The 24-year-old still joined his team in their celebrations on the pitch after the game, and was able to walk up the fabled Wembley steps to collect his winners' medal from Prince William. But after the fact, Guehi was rushed to hospital in an ambulance, and was not discharged until midnight, meaning he missed his team's late night party at Wembley Boxpark. Doctors were concerned that the centre back had suffered a fractured eye socket after he complained of a slight loss of sight. However, the understood prognosis is that he avoided a fracture but sustained severe bruising to his eye. Whether Guehi will be available for Palace's final two Premier League games - against Wolves and Liverpool - is currently unknown. But it is believed he will be in contention for England's World Cup Qualifiers against Andorra and Senegal on June 7 and June 10 respectively. Wharton, on the other hand, was in hospital for precautionary concussion checks after a powerful strike from City's Kevin De Bruyne hit the back of his head. He posted a photo of himself in a hospital robe late on Saturday night with the rib-tickling caption: 'Apparently we won the FA Cup EAGLESSSSSSSSSS', jokingly implying that he forgot the game because of his head injury.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Subtlety of the Macho-Men SNL Sketch
There's a low-stakes thrill in eavesdropping on strangers from afar, especially if the exchange descends into chaos. Yet a sketch in last night's season finale of Saturday Night Live—which revolved around two couples at a bar boisterously fighting for a preferred table as two men watched nearby, whiskies in hand—raised the stakes of voyeurism in fascinating ways. The sketch began with Ego Nwodim and Marcello Hernández's characters having glasses of wine at a bar; she was ready to move in after three weeks of dating, and he was sweatily trying to steer the conversation elsewhere. He got a break when another woman, played by this week's host, Scarlett Johanssen, insisted that their table belonged to her and her man—played by the musical guest, Bad Bunny. After Nwodim urged Hernández to defend her honor, he got in Bad Bunny's face—shouting 'Ay!'—and they erupted in loud Spanish. But here's what he really said: 'I'm sorry, but my woman is a pain in my ass!' Picking up on the stray mention of 'culo,' Nwodim jumped in: 'That's right, he's about to beat your ass!' The table argument was a flimsy premise, but it established Johanssen's character as territorial and, crucially, inspiring terror in her paramour. Instead of demanding the table, Bad Bunny commiserated with Hernández: 'Well mine too—and I'm afraid of her!' He looked back at Johanssen nervously, then confessed: 'I know we're not supposed to say that women are crazy. But this one? She's crazy!' Hearing him say 'loca,' Johanssen chirped up: 'Do you hear that? He's gonna go loca on you!' Meanwhile, the eavesdropping barflies (played by Andrew Dismukes and James Austin Johnson) looked on with glee at what looked like a raging bar fight: 'I feel like I'm watching a telenovela,' Johnson said, scratching his chin and practically licking his chops. Dismukes hoped it would end in a 'slap and kiss': 'See, in their culture, the line between passion and violence is paper-thin.' Johanssen's botched attempts at Spanish ('I'm about to asparagus nothing more and your ankle!') made for good comedy, but the sketch's best work wasn't done by the peeved girlfriends or the barflies' misbegotten commentary. Instead, it lay in the gap between what these non-Spanish speakers were confidently reading into the situation, casting these men as macho Latino guys in some exotic melodrama, and what the men were actually saying. They were not only misunderstanding the words; they were missing the subtext. And so might have some viewers. [Read: How Colin Jost became a joke] For those onlookers, the boyfriends were assuming archetypal roles that were completely at odds with how they actually felt, and their conversation deepened into a heart-to-heart between two strangers who didn't know how to quit a relationship they knew was bad for them. As the argument grew more heated between Nwodim and Johanssen, Bad Bunny reassured her: 'Baby, baby, baby, you're talking about asparagus. Let me handle this.' He let out a little 'heh'—in a moment that displayed his natural comedic timing. Instead of puffing his chest out, he went even deeper with Hernández: 'Why do you think we have such bad luck in love?' he cried out. Hernández took the opportunity to confess a hard truth about himself, bellowing: 'Honestly, I think I seek it out!' In fact, the sketch was even more nuanced than non-Spanish-speaking SNL viewers could know, in part because of the live show's limitations. The terse subtitles elided the subtleties of Hernández and Bad Bunny's banter in Caribbean-inflected Spanish. (Hernández is Cuban and Dominican, and Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican.) When Hernández admitted that 'in his heart, I think I want a woman who's off her rocker'—his literal phrase was 'crazier than a coffee maker.' The subtitles neutered the sarcasm entirely, reading: 'Because deep down I want a woman who is not mentally stable.' At other points, the subtitles arrived too late, for instance making Bad Bunny's expertly delivered lament—'Instead of thinking with our head, we think with the other one!'—land with a slightly awkward thud. Some parts of their dialogue weren't even translated, such as when Bad Bunny said: 'I feel you, brother.' [Read: Bad Bunny has it all—and that's the problem] The gag at the end was that no one got the table at all. Hernández and Bad Bunny agreed that there were some perks to their current circumstances, particularly in the bedroom. They cackled and bro-hugged, confusing Johanssen. 'Why are you two laughing? What did you just say?' She didn't know what was going on after all, because just like the barflies, she thought she was watching a telenovela: A machista argument about honor resulting in blows and a triumphant return to their favorite two-top. On the surface, this was just another SNL sketch about messed-up relationships and whether straight men are okay. But in its deliberate and inadvertent mistranslations, it also posed an intriguing question to its audience: How much truth can we really discern from a stranger we watch from across the distance of a bar table or a language barrier? Not much, it turns out. Article originally published at The Atlantic
