{"id":137682,"date":"2022-10-30T18:27:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T18:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/snl-mocks-kanye-wests-unannounced-visit-to-skechers-hq\/"},"modified":"2022-10-30T18:27:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T18:27:56","slug":"snl-mocks-kanye-wests-unannounced-visit-to-skechers-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/snl-mocks-kanye-wests-unannounced-visit-to-skechers-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SNL\u2019 Mocks Kanye West\u2019s Unannounced Visit to Skechers HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/saturday-night-live\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a>\u00a0took aim at the artist formerly known as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/kanye%20west\" rel=\"noopener\">Kanye West<\/a> in this weekend\u2019s episode, with a fake <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/skechers\" rel=\"noopener\">Skechers<\/a> advertisement that mocked Ye\u2019s recent visit to the shoe company\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Kanye\u00a0was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/style\/kanye-west-escorted-out-of-skechers\" rel=\"noopener\">escorted<\/a> out of Skechers corporate offices after pulling up unannounced. Skechers representatives say\u00a0West, who was not invited to the office, was \u201cengaged in unauthorized filming,\u201d and was briefly addressed by two executives before he was removed from the building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSkechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West,\u201d the company\u00a0said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cWe condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hate speech. The Company would like to again stress that West showed up unannounced and uninvited to Skechers corporate offices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On last night\u2019s episode of <em>SNL<\/em>, the sketch-comedy show spoofed the incident with a mock PSA for Skechers.<\/p>\n<p>Cecily Strong, portraying Skechers marketing director Diane Cunningham, said: \u201cHere at Skechers, we pride ourselves on two things: making stylish, comfortable shoes at an affordable price, and having zero tolerance for antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike the rest of the country, we were appalled by Kanye\u2019s horrific comments and we vowed to never work with him in any capacity. But, can we also point out that of all the companies he could have approached and been rejected by, he chose Skechers.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\" \/>\n<p>Added Bowen Yang, who played another Skechers staffer, \u201cThat\u2019s why earlier this week Kanye West showed up at our corporate office, asking to work with us. We said \u2018no\u2019 and immediately escorted him out of the building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch <em>SNL<\/em>\u2019s Skechers PSA up top.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/pop-culture\/saturday-night-live-skechers-commercial-kanye-west\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Night Live\u00a0took aim at the artist formerly known as Kanye West in this weekend\u2019s episode, with a fake Skechers advertisement that mocked Ye\u2019s recent visit to the shoe company\u2019s headquarters. Earlier this week, Kanye\u00a0was escorted out of Skechers corporate offices after pulling up unannounced. Skechers representatives say\u00a0West, who was not invited to the office, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,243,5,110,108,495,7,1655,8,1337,1268,3810,3297,3296,563,1338,93,116,6128,410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dfp-entertainment","category-dfp-entertainment-tv","category-featured","category-kanye","category-kanye-west","category-late-night","category-music","category-nbc","category-news","category-saturday-night-live","category-shoes","category-skechers","category-sketch-comedy","category-sketches","category-sneakers","category-snl","category-tier-one","category-videos","category-ye","category-yeezy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137684,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137682\/revisions\/137684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}