{"id":640543,"date":"2026-10-25T03:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640543\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T03:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:24:13","slug":"snl-uk-cynthia-erivo-in-nigerian-wicked-sapphic-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640543\/","title":{"rendered":"‘SNL UK’: Cynthia Erivo In ‘Nigerian Wicked’ Sapphic Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlthough the Wicked<\/a> movies may not have given LGBTQ fans the sapphic moment they wanted for Elphaba and Glinda, Saturday Night Live<\/a> UK heard their demands.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn this weekend\u2019s episode of the sketch comedy show, host Cynthia Erivo<\/a> returned to the magical franchise for the parody Nigerian Wicked, in which she mixed it up by playing Glinda, opposite Ayoade Bamgboye as Glinda.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe low-def take on the movie features the Shiz roommates in some familiar scenes, including Glinda giving Elphaba a makeover, as well as some not so familiar scenes, like Glinda slapping Elphaba because she\u2019s \u201cclassless\u201d and judging her for eating a hardboiled egg.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Emma<\/p>\n

\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Ania<\/p>\n

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\n\tBefore making their way to \u201cLagOz\u201d to meet the Wizard (Hammed Animashaun), the pair shares a steamy moment, pulling away before they kiss.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs they arrive in the \u201cEmerald, White and Emerald City,\u201d Glinda asks for a Birkin, and Elphaba requests a \u201cskinny BBL that defies gravity.\u201d But it turns out, the Wizard is broke.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore another attempted kiss, the sketch ends with Bamgboye attempting to hit Erivo\u2019s iconic high note from \u201cDefying Gravity\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Erivo as guest host, this week\u2019s episode of Saturday Night Live UK<\/a> featured musical guest Blossoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the Wicked movies may not have given LGBTQ fans the sapphic moment they wanted for Elphaba and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,54884,156,111,139,69,8804,178571,74302],"class_list":["post-640543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-cynthia-erivo","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-saturday-night-live-uk","tag-wicked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}