Emma Stone Debunks Druski's Love-Interest Claim on SNL — SkimNews
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- SNL booked Druski as a future host, making the 32-year-old creator the show's first exclusively digital creator and its first major foray into the creator space, without crossover success on the scale of Issa Rae or Quinta Brinson.
- Druski opened his monologue saying hosting SNL was "a dream" and joked that people say he looks like a lesbian, is on Ozempic and only knows him as a white woman.
- Druski said he would not be "watered down" by SNL and floated the possibility of doing whiteface, after calling himself "living proof that you can bet on yourself."
- Emma Stone joined Druski onstage as his co-star in the upcoming Universal Pictures comedy "The Catch," directed by her husband Dave McCary, a former SNL segment director and writer.
- Druski boasted he played Stone's love interest in "The Catch," and Stone said he had misread the scenes — they "weren't love interested in the film," though she now understood why he was looking at her that way.
- Emma Stone reacted with surprise when Druski said he loved her in "Bugonia," before he clarified: "No, I just wanted to be the first Black guy to say it."
Why it matters: SNL's first exclusively digital creator, Druski, set the terms himself: he would not be "watered down," and the 32-year-old's monologue ran on internet-native self-mockery rather than a traditional sketch-comedy introduction. The booking marks SNL's first major foray into the creator space, where he arrives without the crossover success of Issa Rae or Quinta Brinson.
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