Austin Powers star and Kenan Thompson’s rapper have awkward elevator reunion 20 years after Hurricane Katrina fundraiser
Twenty years after an infamous television moment involving Kanye West and Mike Myers, Saturday Night Live spoofed the incident on their Season 50 finale, with Myers portraying himself alongside Kenan Thompson’s Ye.
In 2005, during a televised fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina, West went off-script on live TV by declaring that then-president George W. Bush “doesn’t care about Black people,” all while he stood next to a mortified Myers.
A lot has changed with the rapper in the past two decades, as it is quickly made clear in SNL’s “Mike Myers Elevator Ride” sketch. After initially going up with a couple of adoring fans (including host Scarlett Johansson), Thompson’s now-Ye comes strolling onto the lift, resulting in an awkward reunion between the Austin Powers star and the rapper.
After Myers greets West, the rapper tells him that they haven’t seen each other since “that Hurricane Katrina Benefit where I said George Bush doesn’t care about Black people and you just had to stand there looking stupid.”
Myers then small-talks with West, asking what he’s been up to. “I’m in the KKK now,” the rapper responds, later asking if Myers is a Jewish last name. “Protestant,” Myers answered.
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The sketch also poked fun at West’s alleged nitrous abuse as well as the rapper’s incestuous new single “Cousins,” with the rapper proclaiming that his next song is called “Squeezin’ on My Grandpa’s Booty.”
After Myers abruptly exits the elevator on the wrong floor, West calls out to him, “Take care of yourself, Shrek!”
