{"id":648739,"date":"2026-05-04T09:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648739\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:37:09","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-mocks-jake-paul-in-snl-hosting-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/648739\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo mocks Jake Paul in SNL hosting debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Rodrigo has mocked her former Disney Channel co-star, Jake Paul, during her hosting gig on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The pop star pulled double duty as musical guest and host on the variety show over the weekend where she couldn\u2019t help but poke fun of Paul, who was her castmate on the comedy series Bizaardvark.<\/p>\n<p>The show made them both famous and Rodrigo reflected on how far they\u2019ve come in her opening monologue \u2013 she just dropped her third studio album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love and he has carved out a YouTube and boxing career for himself. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/c8f1f5bf97a6bb78555f3270b953935e\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Olivia Rodrigo mocks Jake Paul on SNL\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was 13, I was on a Disney show called Bizaardvark, and we had an incredible cast, which included acting legend Jake Paul,\u201d 23-year-old Rodrigo began. \u201cAnd we\u2019d always talk about our futures, me and Jake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d say, \u2018I really wanna create music that explores the complexities of girls my age,\u2019 and he\u2019d say, \u2018Well, one day I really wanna beat up old guys on Netflix,\u2019\u201d she joked. <\/p>\n<p>Stream Saturday Night Live on <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/binge.com.au\/?extcamp=ncaeditoriallink-ptr-nca-lnk-awr-acq-var-bge&amp;channel=nca&amp;campaign=editorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BINGE<\/a>, available on <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hubbl.com.au\/?utm_source=news.com.au&amp;utm_medium=Hubbl-text-links&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_content=Story-page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hubbl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, 29, famously fought retired boxing champ Mike Tyson in 2024, when the legend was 58 years old, and the fight was streamed globally on Netflix to an audience of 108 million. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we both did it, hooray!\u201d Rodrigo concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The internet erupted with laughter over the singer\u2019s humorous remark, but the joke appeared lost on Paul, who happily took a walk down memory lane with his former Disney cohort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had the vision [crying laughing emoji] i told you that you would sell stadiums out and then we both did proud of you fr [for real],\u201d he tweeted on X. <\/p>\n<p>When one fan commented that Rodrigo was being shady in her remarks, writing, \u201cI think he didn\u2019t get that she laughed at him and not with him,\u201d he again took to X to insist he knew she was poking fun at him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got that she was making a joke at my expense. So what,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cShe\u2019s on SNL and that\u2019s what they are supposed to do. Doesn\u2019t change my admiration of her and her success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also posted a throwback picture of the two of them on the set of Bizaardvark, along with caption, \u201cAh the good ole days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bizaardvark ran for three season on the Disney Channel from 2016 to 2019 and followed two best friends Paige (Rodrigo) and Frankie (Madison Hu) who write and perform quirky songs and videos for their growing online channel. <\/p>\n<p>Paul played Dirk Mann for one season, a main character who performed crazy dares and hosted the segment, \u201cDare Me Bro\u201d on Paige and Frankie\u2019s channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMan, it was just a fun time to be honest,\u201d he recalled to <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jake-paul-on-how-he-really-feels-about-disney-channel-days-exclusive-11705050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">People<\/a> magazine last year of his time on the show. \u201cI think it was a good kickstart to my career, because I was the first-ever influencer on TV.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that really set a lot of things into motion for me, and I learned a lot about acting and media and all that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/binge\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Binge\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Binge<\/a><a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/foxtel\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Foxtel\" data-tgev-order=\"2\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foxtel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo has mocked her former Disney Channel co-star, Jake Paul, during her hosting gig on \u201cSaturday Night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,63427,447,247538,291402,29494,134,2105,313909,313907,9225,8199,313905,313902,128914,254793,275875,52160,138893,313908,169683,313911,313903,17225,313904,313906,60940,313910],"class_list":["post-648739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-career","tag-celebrities","tag-christine-salazar","tag-comedy-series","tag-disney-channel","tag-entertainment","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-growing-online-channel","tag-image-group","tag-jake-paul","tag-mike-tyson","tag-mocks-controversial-boxer","tag-mocks-jake-paul","tag-musical-guest","tag-ncaeditorialbinge","tag-ncaeditorialbingeprogram","tag-olivia-rodrigo","tag-people-magazine","tag-poke-fun","tag-pop-star","tag-pop-star-mocks","tag-retired-boxing-champ","tag-studio-album","tag-throwback-picture","tag-transphobic-texts","tag-variety-show","tag-x-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}