As American comedy series Saturday Night Live airs a sketch lampooning the November showdown between Grand Theft Auto 6 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, a pair of former Nintendo employees have recalled a more infamous SNL sketch from years earlier that did not go down well at all.
The older SNL sketch had controversial billionaire businessman Elon Musk dress as Nintendo character Wario, on trial for being evil, ironically enough. During the trial there were mentions of Mario taking drugs, blurred out Luigi dick pics, all while Wario-Musk tried to convince the courtroom he was misunderstood.
"That did not go over well," Krysta Yang said on the Kit and Krysta podcast (via Techradar). Yang was a former host of Nintendo Minute with Kit Ellis - the eponymous Kit in the podcast's title - and both worked within Nintendo for more than 10 years.
"We were still there for that," Ellis added. "That was one that was not beloved by the people ... That was not received well at Nintendo," Yang echoed..
Ellis said the Wario sketch came out of "leftfield" because it wasn't obviously tethered to anything, as there wasn't a Mario or Wario game releasing at that time. "Why is Elon Musk Wario?" Ellis recalled people wondering. "Some of the stuff was getting into subject matter that was uncomfortable for Nintendo."
Nintendo had nothing to do with the sketch, the pair insisted, "But there is a lot of contact between Nintendo and the producers of SNL, [and] these other late night shows.
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