Amelia Dimoldenberg Roasts Celebs in SNL UK Monologue — SkimNews
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- Amelia Dimoldenberg hosted "SNL U.K." on Saturday night, using her opening monologue to publicly explain — via jokes — why her long-running celebrity interview series "Chicken Shop Date" is coming to an end.
- Dimoldenberg quipped that celebrities "weren't coming onto date me" but to "promote their work," using Andrew Garfield's repeated mentions of "the big release" during her show as her punchline example.
- Dimoldenberg took aim at Ed Sheeran, who recently drew backlash for dropping Macklemore from his tour after Macklemore delivered a "free Palestine" speech on stage.
- Dimoldenberg name-checked past interview subjects including Idris Elba and Cher, alongside a joke about "a world famous red-headed puppet with a hand up his arse telling him what to say," which landed on an image of Sheeran.
- Dimoldenberg traced her persona back to a London youth center she attended as a teen, framing the awkwardness as a moneymaker: "there is no shame in that. Just huge profit."
- Dimoldenberg closed by urging viewers to "be yourself" across contexts including "The Devil Wears Prada 2" and an "upcoming rom-com," signing off with the line that like the chickens she eats, she doesn't need to "have range."
- Chicken Shop Date, which earlier this month Dimoldenberg announced was ending, built its audience on surreal, deadpan celebrity interviews filmed largely at London chicken shops.
Why it matters: Dimoldenberg used her SNL U.K. hosting debut to publicly frame Chicken Shop Date's end through self-deprecating jokes about her celebrity guests, while landing a political jab at Ed Sheeran over his dropping Macklemore from a tour following his "free Palestine" speech. She reinforced the awkward-persona brand she says she learned to monetize at a London youth center.
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