Not only was Harry Styles’s dual SNL hosting-performing gig a sequin-encrusted fashion tour de force, but it also took noted Bavarian cheesecake purveyor Sara Lee by surprise with that skit. You know, the one in which Styles plays Dylan, a thirsty social-media manager reprimanded for mixing up the official company account and his personal Instagram, letting slip saucy comments like “wreck me daddy” and “destroy me king” on a pic of Nick Jonas and alluding to threesomes in his captions.
Nobody didn’t like this skit; as Dylan says, “people love bread content.” But Sara Lee is now clarifying via a statement that it definitely did not preapprove it. “We didn’t participate in creating the skit, and its content doesn’t align with Sara Lee Bread’s brand,” a spokeswoman told TheWrap on Monday. “But, we all know SNL pushes the envelope for laughs and we are taking it in stride.”
After the show, when Sara Lee’s real-life Instagram was promptly flooded with a flurry of wreck me daddys, destroy me kings, and quite a few eggplant emojis, the company said it temporarily hid the comments: “As you can imagine, waking up to all those comments threw us for a bit of a loop,” the spokeswoman said. Far be it for any of us to imagine that an actual emergency social-media meeting transpired at your grandma’s go-to dessert- and bread-maker, with executives who are presumably not as hilarious as Cecily Strong, Bowen Yang, and Julio Torres—a.k.a. the SNL staffers responsible for the skit. Yang later (jokingly?) apologized on Twitter.
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The Sara Lee imbroglio, however, should not detract from Styles’s unanimously stellar performance on the rest of the show. Styles kicked off his SNL hosting debut with an A-plus monologue that acknowledged his “fantastic hair” (only right) and compelled him to speak while playing the piano. “I don’t know if you’ve heard, but I’m not in a boy band anymore,” he said. “I’m in a man band now.”
In the perversely wonderful “Joan,” Styles played the man version of Aidy Bryant’s chihuahua boyfriend, Doug. Naturally, Styles turns their love song into a Brit-pop bop.
Equally unmissable was another musical comedy mash-up, “Funeral DJs,” in which Styles and SNL’s Chris Redd bring big C+C Music Factory energy to a memorial service. As an added bonus, Styles takes his pants off.
Tragically cut for time but absolutely worth a view: the after-school-special-inspired “Jason.” Styles in a varsity jacket is a dream I never knew I had. Wreck me, daddy.
