Fran Lebowitz is finally on record saying she does not care for Bowen Yang’s impression of her on Saturday Night Live — and the actor could not be more proud to hear the news. On Thursday, Ya…
of the parody, “I would not have watched it even if I knew. I said, ‘If you’ve never had a caricature drawn of you, you might think this is a great thing [to be parodied] — but no one likes them.'”
Yang felt that was the best response he could get from her. “That’s confirmation that she’s seen it and doesn’t care for it. And I think that’s the highest compliment you could possibly get from someone like Fran,” Yang told Meyers, who added if she said she enjoyed it, the magic would be lost. “Absolutely. So I wear it like a badge of honor that she did not like my portrayal of her,” Yang replied.
He continued, “I probably wouldn’t [like] it either, if someone who was so demographically opposite of me, portrayed me. I’d be like, ‘Come on!'”Watch the interview below.
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