Leave it to Becky to be the MVP petty queen she is. Love her! (She called herself petty in a recent sit with us pod, she owns that shit and good for her!)
@@essies4294 it is neither needless nor is it mongering. It is a fact and if your husband was being tarnished on the internet for protecting his company from Financial fallout, you wouldn't want to hide the facts either.
Fr even if there was no workplace power imbalance this guy just deeply wounded his wife and tore apart his family, it's not really something I'm laughing about...
Not the first extramarital affair that blew up a work place and an household. They’ll have to get over it like previous children. Why hold SNL to a higher standard than their father or even Try Guys? They didn’t have to film the video, they could’ve put out a short article that did not divulge the cheating. Just state that Ned violated company policy and has been removed.
@@briantbmoth6472 You do realise that people already knew Ned was cheating before the Try Guys put out that video, right? They were working on the legal stuff in the background and couldn't put out a final statement yet, but there were pictures of Ned and Alex on the internet already.
@@totalchaos9981 SNL has multiple counts of workplace misconduct and sexual harassment cases throughout the years. Most of them were swept under the rug of course.
Right?!? And a lot of the cast left because Lorne Michaels is discussing his departure and people think that he might appoint Colin Jost to take his place ,Also Colin cheats on his wife so him and Ned would probably hit it off tbh (I have friends in the entertainment lawyer profession.)
Exactly what I was thinking! This must make Ariel feel even worse that it's being talked about on an even grander scale and belittling an affair against her.
I really sincerely want to believe that Ned is not that garbage of a human being to ask his snl friend to do this., not only for the sake of his love for the try guys but literally for his wife and children whose trust and love he so callously threw away… At the least, I want to hope that Ned’s snl friend is also trash and chose to defend him, but that Ned didn’t ask him to. But at this point, idk anything anymore 😭
If he really did ask for the sketch then he just really doesn't care about the guys And also the audacity?! This also brings even more attention to the try guys which will probably devastate them since they already feel sullied by this whole ordeal...
A relatively older boss who is also in charge of HR engaging in a public relationship with an employee is indeed a fireable offense because it puts the company under legal liability (the employee had no recourse since the HR was Ned himself and thus the employee can claim they were under duress). The SNL writing staff clearly has one or more very toxic men working there. Wasn't watching SNL much these days, won't do it at all anymore. edit: If you disagree please comment without lying or insulting me (can't believe I have to say that). I never said that the employee had zero choice or was innocent of any wrongdoings so don't twist my words to make a false argument. Concerning Ned, I said "much" older because I had found no official sources on the employee's age (all estimations varied between 22 - 30) and also because any age gap is worsened by the power dynamic. Since then I was provided with a video by user "manager Seijin Stan" confirming the employee's age as 30 so I modified my original comment accordingly.
I find it even weird that SNL would even choose to cover this because it is so niche, not many people know who the try guys are, and not many people understand the whole situation. It just seems like "someone" definitely wanted this narrative to be put out there.
I agree. I would otherwise wanna say that Ned talking to his friend at SNL sounds unlikely (but maybe his friendship made them take the skit in a specific direction like, it makes sense that a person would wanna take their friends side, I guess)... but I also find it wild that they even thought this was worth doing a skit about. Maybe they were just low on ideas right now? Idk, seems like there has even been more well-known and widely discussed youtuber drama that you never see SNL make skits about.
yep, especially when the main SNL audience would be TV audiences, not the internet audience?? like, sure, the scandal DID get super duper viral to the point Seth Rogen asked what a try guy was, and Lynda Carter made a try guy pun. but it's still internet viral, it barely spilled over onto non-online consciousness (not in the way as tiktok trends do, for example, bc ppl still have to perform those trends irl which catches the attentions of ppl irl). so either it was a slow day in the SNL writer's room or they thought they were really doin' smth there. and yeah, Ned conveniently having an SNL writer for a friend probably influenced things a tad, regardless of whether he actually sought the guy out or not. nonetheless, the result ended up being tasteless at worst, and awkward at best.
people were relating Ned to John Mulaney, an snl alum. My theory is when neds friend proposed the skit they saw it as a way to benefit the snl brand as well and thats why they green lit the skit
Another thing that pissed me off is they made it seem like the affair was just “a kiss” when it was confirmed to be ongoing and repeated. And it is confirmed that he co-wrote the script.
Considering they have done nothing about past indiscretions even worse than this; involving children, within their own company, I am not surprised that SNL does not take sexual misconduct in the work place seriously.
Dude yes! Or multiple outlets saying Try Guys are "youtube pranksters" as if all of youtube is prank videos. It is so easy to find out the channel doesn't do pranks so they obviously know and it's complete disrespect
Between the possibility of his SNL/Yale buddy doing this for him, anyone else remember that he said he liked his college buddies more than the TryGuys?
Both people that he follows on Twitter that work at snl and went to yale were also credited as writer according to reddit and Twitter. I haven't checked myself though
I think they are also minimizing that they were friends. Ariel was also their friend. Ariel also worked with them in the try guys. His "side chick" as snl called her also worked with them and their friend. It would be normal to feel angry and hurt just as a friend, not to mention it could jeopardize their business.
@@Plumwyle maybe be disrespectful to the actual dude that had an affair with an employee then? There are a million ways this sketch could’ve worked & they chose the dumbest one
well if you're a women...don't work at snl just for safety and hopefully🤞their male employees aren't being taken advantage of because now that I think of it they probably wouldn't care about the power dynamics and misconduct in general
@@yorocco1 people express their ideologies through art all the time. It’s Been like that for centuries-but for some weird reason people want to act like that’s not the case in the 21’st century.
@@yorocco1 sublimation? Also they mocked the guys by saying the Ned just had a consensual kiss even though he's the HR andhad a full blown affair with her for almost a year I don't understand what you are not getting?
@@yorocco1 I didn't decide women are mistreated 🤦♀️but I am now assuming that if an employee not just women go to them with a complaint about a boss trying to get with them they will swoop it under the rug and that's not a safe work enivornement
@@stannature1984 I’m actually confused wym weird?? I’m being fr I didn’t see anything that made it seem like it wasn’t a consensual relationship, to me Alex is really just as bad bc she had a fiancé that she’d been w for over 10 years and she still cheated too. Am I missing something here or was it just the way I worded it??
@@noonebutme actually the only person who said it was a consensual relationship was ned which raises red flags as to the chance that it could be to cover up any loose ends Alex hasn’t come out and spoken publicly about it so we won’t know anytime soon, but given Ariel was his wife also been there since the beginning of the try guys I doubt this was a consensual relationship Ariel was okay with. Otherwise she wouldn’t have removed the title ‘Neds Wife’ I believe from her Instagram bio.
Yeah like it wasn’t just that he kissed someone and didn’t tell his friends about it it was because he had a year long affair with a subordinate putting them at risk for legal action and potentially ruining the reputation of their company. Not to mention his wife who he cheated on is also an employee of the company.
I doubt Ned asked to be protected in the SNL skit...but friends protect friends without needing to be asked. so...the whole skit is off a kiss vs a year long affair with massive legal issues due to the power dynamic. who green lit this?
If you can’t trust someone to not cheat on their wife, how could you trust them as a co-owner or friend. I really think that it’s a practical move as well as a moral one. And honestly, I really admire them for making it. Why shouldn’t we hold people to higher standards? If we refused to cover up people’s ‘indiscretions’, maybe there would be more trust in general.
public controversy aside its weird to me that people are so taken aback by a guy being fired for having a secret affair with a subordinate. like there are tons of jobs where you can be fired or at least penalized for having a romantic relationship with one of your employees without informing HR, even non-public facing ones.
Ned brought this upon himself when he cheated on his wife with a staff. Eugene, Zach and Keith were professional enough to not bad mouth him when they released their explanation video and on The Try Pod. If it's true that Ned did ask one of his friend's who write for SNL, it shows how petty he is and he doesn't care about Ariel and the children altogether. He ruined his own career that he built with 3 people.
Not only that, but the "side chick" being a direct subordinate at their place of work with Ned being the go to individual for HR issues... Yeah. It's a fucky situation.
I don't know about you but I learned in school that where there is a power dynamic there is no consent. So no, in a way it was not a consensual relationship. Just as students and teachers in post-secondary education, just as bosses and employees, just as landlords and renters, etc. In short, if the disadvantaged person feels that they could not say no then it's non-consensual, which, as it is very hard to prove, is taken as a given. I am no trying to absolve Alex who was known to try to get people to cheat and pressured people into eating and drinking more than they were comfortable with. Aka, known for pushing people's boundaries but the position she found herself in was not one that gave her room for consent and that should not be mocked.
She’s an adult bro if she wanted to she could have came forward if she wasn’t into it and in this day and age we believe women way more then men in this situation so even if Ned would say he would fire her or for not being with him she could just tell everyone and they would believe Alex over Ned 100% so long story short hold Alex just as accountable as Ned she was part of it she’s been getting way less hate then Ned and I don’t think that’s right
@@brennenmalinsky7562 not that simple. It's still your career potentially at stake. People in this situation may find it hard to speak up, for different reasons, the power imbalance, manipulation, fear and so on. That doesn't go away just because you're an adult. That said in this specific situation, she does have responsibility to bare, she's scummy and shouldn't be absolved, I agree that she should also be held accountable so i do get your perspective on that point. The reason Ned gets more hate isn't because Alex is a victim or anything, it's because he's worse in many peoples opinion. He had a wife and two kids, the whole I love my wife bit, and the power dynamic. It's easier to convince, coerce or manipulate if you're more powerful (that's why there are so many RUclipsrs that get into scandals about abuse I guess). Alex was a fan and an employee. And Ned, as a boss had a responsibility to not fuck his employee
@@brennenmalinsky7562 I personally know so many women who don’t report because they aren’t believed. “These days” women are still blamed and villainized when they are the ones being coerced. Foh
Besides it being disgusting that this was a "parody" sketch about the Try Guys being in the absolute right for their reaction, this is just disgusting standing alone mocking "consensual" workplace power imbalance relationships. Also the line about Beyonce was gross.
Yes I agree, and how they decided to casually throw in lines about the tragedy being "violent" and "probably racist". 😑 That skit made my skin crawl. It's beyond cringy.
i hope ariel doesn’t feel like she has to stay with ned. after everything, but especially this, ned doesn’t deserve one more good thing in his life. and ariel, is the best.
"They were making fun of the consensual work place relationship being a big deal like that is a big deal because he is her boss and she is under him" YESSS say it louder for the people in the back. Even though anyone with common sense knows that some people clearly don't have common sense.
That has to be so traumatizing for his wife because it’s not just about a consensual workplace relationship between a boss and an employee but the man was married while this is all going on.
The way the reat of the try guys handeld it was beautiful. They realise they can no longer just do one of those "hey guys lets talk" moments and they handeld it professionally while still letting us see that it effected them. More creators need to do this when appoligising because trying to sit down and talk is no longer gonna work past a certan point and they are no longer relatable. More creators need to be like them when appoligising.
I did think it was weird they were like why is this such a big news stories so they kissed on a bar and then referenced Beyoncé and like oh if she’s fine they can get over it to like what
Bro ngl I was feeling a little bad for all the flak he was getting, which is inherently understandable, but now nope. He hasn't learned. I don't put it past him to go out of his way to suggest that skit to his friend. If his blind friend can't see what's wrong with that, he's no friend to Ariel and it's trying to justify Ned's actions which adds additional disrespect to her and she's better off leaving Ned because there is zero respect in that relationship. 🚪🚶♀️
Also apparently SNL lost a majority of their cast and crew in 2022 which could explain the shift in humor that SNL is currently projecting. They’re taking REAL scandals and trying to make it seem not as urgent by adding humor to the terrible situation. SNL really flopped for this one.
What stuck out to be a lot is that the skit blatantly said Ned was with his “side piece”, aka acknowledging he was cheating on his wife, And they just say that as if it doesn’t matter or play any role in why Ned is the villain here. It doesn’t surprise me with what has happened with SNL, but it did catch me off guard that they basically admitted that any disrespect or harm to women is nothing but a joke to them. (Maybe just in general. I don’t know if any men were also taken advantage of here. Male victims matter too)
Ned himself said in one of their videos that having a relationship (sexual or romantic) with an employee is illegal. Guess his friends did not consume his content
Do they have any regard for how hard this is hitting the other Try Guys and Ariel? The lack of respect for online creators on television is getting out of hand! Also the nerve of them to joke about and down play how serious it is to date a subordinate in the work place, especially in an era where the film/television industry is under fire and heavy scrutiny for toxic work place environments!
I don’t like how they painted the try guys that way. Fucking sucks because my Halloween costume this year was gonna be an SNL character and now I don’t even want to support SNL
AND he was the "HR person" like even if Try Guy LLC allowed concentual relationships (which it doenst have to) you have to have outside checks and delegate someone to handle her particular HR needs and check in with her to make sure there isn't an abuse of power.
Right I think it was just a bonus that it also wasn’t even funny. Like I kept a straight face the entire time watching the skit it wasn’t even intentional it just sucked so bad
Like miles said on the sketch, “do you think people were just upset that bill Clinton cheated?” But if you look at how snl took jabs at that scandal in the 90s they did the same thing too. I understand the point of the sketch was why are new outlets caring about some RUclips drama but the point is that it’s apart of the bigger narrative about power dynamics and relationships in the workplace but clearly it’s not important to the writers of snl, one of which who happens to know the individual involved in this drama.
I doubt Ned asked his friend to do this. His friend just wanted to suck up to Ned. But skits go through so many levels of approval, I’m surprised it made it on air. Why would Lorne approve such a personal skit? Did the other writers and actors hear of the Try Guys once and thought it would get Gen Z views?
I don't watch SNL anymore, but when I heard about biscuit I knew it might be the marking of end of an era. Because why would you joke about workplace affairs unless you've had your own?
Miles was on Kelsey's podcast and put it best: there was only one bad take and that's the one SNL went with. Honestly, I think the guess would be thrilled to be made fun of on SNL, if it wasn't for such a sensitive and personal topic.
there's no way ned's friends at snl did this on purpose, because if they did, they totally fucked him over. just the thought of that makes him look even more sleazy and problematic than before. it does the opposite of putting him in a better light lmao
Doesn't Alex also know someone at SNL? I remember not long before this she talked about how she was at the SNL after-party with Post Malone and a bunch of other people. I brought it up to a friend how she tried to do shots with him and then was informed he has major problems with addiction.......gross.
See I believe Ned has actually 2 friends, one who had a newborn who he mentioned and another people have also seen his name around and who is also a Yale alumni who follows bed and Ned follows him (and it says he is and no writer in his bio) doesn’t have a new born
the Try Guys thing is SO niche -- it's 100% Ned's friend who spearheaded the sketch I wouldn't be surprised if the crew just trusted the writer and didn't bother to look up what they were making fun of - especially since sketches get written within days of filming
The consensual workplace relationship? You mean the fact he cheated on his wife and family with his coworker in public, his coworker who he was the boss of and his coworker who had a fiance?
Love that Becky didn't let that slide
Leave it to Becky to be the MVP petty queen she is. Love her! (She called herself petty in a recent sit with us pod, she owns that shit and good for her!)
Needless drama mongering is cool. 😗😊
@@essies4294 it is neither needless nor is it mongering. It is a fact and if your husband was being tarnished on the internet for protecting his company from Financial fallout, you wouldn't want to hide the facts either.
So for them, Ariel’s feeling and the impact to their children are seems irrelevant. Great job, SNL
Fr even if there was no workplace power imbalance this guy just deeply wounded his wife and tore apart his family, it's not really something I'm laughing about...
@@tristanneal9552 I actually read a comment on the snl video and the situation is actually so much more serious then it seem
I heard they could get sued and the workers can lost their jobs and all that Idk but it was a lot
Not the first extramarital affair that blew up a work place and an household. They’ll have to get over it like previous children. Why hold SNL to a higher standard than their father or even Try Guys? They didn’t have to film the video, they could’ve put out a short article that did not divulge the cheating. Just state that Ned violated company policy and has been removed.
@@briantbmoth6472 You do realise that people already knew Ned was cheating before the Try Guys put out that video, right?
They were working on the legal stuff in the background and couldn't put out a final statement yet, but there were pictures of Ned and Alex on the internet already.
its so funny watching snl make fun of a company take this seriously while their own employees are in court for sexual harassment
Woah- what?
I know nothing of SNL so that's news.
@@totalchaos9981 SNL has multiple counts of workplace misconduct and sexual harassment cases throughout the years. Most of them were swept under the rug of course.
Right?!? And a lot of the cast left because Lorne Michaels is discussing his departure and people think that he might appoint Colin Jost to take his place ,Also Colin cheats on his wife so him and Ned would probably hit it off tbh (I have friends in the entertainment lawyer profession.)
@@MelancholyMars_ Colin too?? Anything about Seth Myers I feel like he could be a nice guy wife guy also😐
SNL hasn’t even been that funny for a while
If Ned has any part in this, I think it just shows how little he cares for Ariel.
Exactly what I was thinking! This must make Ariel feel even worse that it's being talked about on an even grander scale and belittling an affair against her.
That's exactly what I thought too
I really sincerely want to believe that Ned is not that garbage of a human being to ask his snl friend to do this., not only for the sake of his love for the try guys but literally for his wife and children whose trust and love he so callously threw away… At the least, I want to hope that Ned’s snl friend is also trash and chose to defend him, but that Ned didn’t ask him to. But at this point, idk anything anymore 😭
i'm afraid ned is a worse person than we all think, and we've watched that person be nice on youtube for so many years. crazy
@@witcherye I know! It's incredibly sad.
Wow if Ned actually asked their friend to do this for him then he’s hella petty 😒
… but it wouldn’t surprise me
Not just petty - extremely calculated and selfish; which after the last trypod wouldn’t surprise me
If he really did ask for the sketch then he just really doesn't care about the guys
And also the audacity?!
This also brings even more attention to the try guys which will probably devastate them since they already feel sullied by this whole ordeal...
Exactly my thoughts too, he's a pos. There's no way his buddy didn't at least tell him about it
He used the exact same font for his twitter statement that they used for theirs. Making it look like it was a collaboration. He's petty, apparently.
A relatively older boss who is also in charge of HR engaging in a public relationship with an employee is indeed a fireable offense because it puts the company under legal liability (the employee had no recourse since the HR was Ned himself and thus the employee can claim they were under duress).
The SNL writing staff clearly has one or more very toxic men working there. Wasn't watching SNL much these days, won't do it at all anymore.
edit: If you disagree please comment without lying or insulting me (can't believe I have to say that). I never said that the employee had zero choice or was innocent of any wrongdoings so don't twist my words to make a false argument. Concerning Ned, I said "much" older because I had found no official sources on the employee's age (all estimations varied between 22 - 30) and also because any age gap is worsened by the power dynamic. Since then I was provided with a video by user "manager Seijin Stan" confirming the employee's age as 30 so I modified my original comment accordingly.
Lol she's only like 5 years younger why are u emphasizing the age gap
@@yayag.8990 Considering the power dynamic that's a big gap. Also she could be as young as 28 since her age is not publically known.
Ned has a writer friend on snl so I’m not surprised anymore
It's bc of his moral clause. U can still date an employee u just have to disclose it 🙄
@@kerlyenai 28 still makes her a legal and fully developed adult lol what's your point
Yeah they definitely missed the point that they kicked him out cause she was an employee, under him, that's forbidden in a work place...
Makes you question how safe the snl work space is, if they are cool with that behavior….
Not only was it a co worker but both parties were in committed relationships with other people
@@sagevia-hall8757 my thoughts exactly
unfortunately most folks are forgetting that important detail & focusing on the infidelity of it all
Well.. she literally WAS under him...
This makes snl look so old and out of touch. This had boomer comedian energy
Right, like back when "i hate my wife" jokes were acceptable
I find it even weird that SNL would even choose to cover this because it is so niche, not many people know who the try guys are, and not many people understand the whole situation. It just seems like "someone" definitely wanted this narrative to be put out there.
Unfortunately, the story has been put in front of a lot of people who don't know them and don't care, so it wasn't unrecognisable.
I agree. I would otherwise wanna say that Ned talking to his friend at SNL sounds unlikely (but maybe his friendship made them take the skit in a specific direction like, it makes sense that a person would wanna take their friends side, I guess)... but I also find it wild that they even thought this was worth doing a skit about. Maybe they were just low on ideas right now? Idk, seems like there has even been more well-known and widely discussed youtuber drama that you never see SNL make skits about.
yep, especially when the main SNL audience would be TV audiences, not the internet audience?? like, sure, the scandal DID get super duper viral to the point Seth Rogen asked what a try guy was, and Lynda Carter made a try guy pun. but it's still internet viral, it barely spilled over onto non-online consciousness (not in the way as tiktok trends do, for example, bc ppl still have to perform those trends irl which catches the attentions of ppl irl). so either it was a slow day in the SNL writer's room or they thought they were really doin' smth there. and yeah, Ned conveniently having an SNL writer for a friend probably influenced things a tad, regardless of whether he actually sought the guy out or not. nonetheless, the result ended up being tasteless at worst, and awkward at best.
people were relating Ned to John Mulaney, an snl alum. My theory is when neds friend proposed the skit they saw it as a way to benefit the snl brand as well and thats why they green lit the skit
Another thing that pissed me off is they made it seem like the affair was just “a kiss” when it was confirmed to be ongoing and repeated. And it is confirmed that he co-wrote the script.
This is another case of traditional TV being absolutely scared shitless of internet entertainment. Way to do the opposite of read the room.
Considering they have done nothing about past indiscretions even worse than this; involving children, within their own company, I am not surprised that SNL does not take sexual misconduct in the work place seriously.
Dude yes! Or multiple outlets saying Try Guys are "youtube pranksters" as if all of youtube is prank videos. It is so easy to find out the channel doesn't do pranks so they obviously know and it's complete disrespect
It’s sad how like they jump to “at least it’s consensual.” Like that’s a big accolade. 💀
Between the possibility of his SNL/Yale buddy doing this for him, anyone else remember that he said he liked his college buddies more than the TryGuys?
I WAS THINKING THAT
He's been a shitty friend to the try guys tbh it seems like he's always been and it's just revealed now
probably bcuz they're also like him..yikes
Yeah! The lie detector episode, I think!
Yeeees, on one of the lie detector test videos!
If that was his friend, then dang, Ned has awful friends because this became even more viral
Neds friend, Will Stephen, was in the credits as a writer on this sketch
Both people that he follows on Twitter that work at snl and went to yale were also credited as writer according to reddit and Twitter. I haven't checked myself though
It was, his name is credited for it
I think they are also minimizing that they were friends. Ariel was also their friend. Ariel also worked with them in the try guys. His "side chick" as snl called her also worked with them and their friend. It would be normal to feel angry and hurt just as a friend, not to mention it could jeopardize their business.
THIS IS WHY I LOVE BECKY!!!!!!!
He was the head of HR so she couldn't complain to anyone if it wasn't consensual.
It was consensual and mutual. People like you just don't want to hold women accountable.
@@umbra014Ned's the one that needs to be held accountable.
@@Lechgang
And her.
@@umbra014 Yeah, but mostly Ned. He's the main offender.
Neds friend, Will Stephen, was in the credits as a writer on this sketch.
😂 I love that Queen Becky called him out! She's the best!!
Did NO ONE do due diligence and researched the whole thing
Honestly this is disrespectful and really really gross. SNL do better 😖
Comedy is disrespectful to everyone
@@Plumwyle maybe be disrespectful to the actual dude that had an affair with an employee then? There are a million ways this sketch could’ve worked & they chose the dumbest one
@@gothicxromantic EXACTLY!!
well if you're a women...don't work at snl just for safety
and hopefully🤞their male employees aren't being taken advantage of because now that I think of it they probably wouldn't care about the power dynamics and misconduct in general
It’s a comedy show, not a church. Why you would decide that women are mistreated at SNL because of a comedy sketch is bizarre.
@@yorocco1 people express their ideologies through art all the time. It’s Been like that for centuries-but for some weird reason people want to act like that’s not the case in the 21’st century.
@@disappointment3090 lol 21st century*😂
@@yorocco1 sublimation? Also they mocked the guys by saying the Ned just had a consensual kiss even though he's the HR andhad a full blown affair with her for almost a year
I don't understand what you are not getting?
@@yorocco1 I didn't decide women are mistreated 🤦♀️but I am now assuming that if an employee not just women go to them with a complaint about a boss trying to get with them they will swoop it under the rug and that's not a safe work enivornement
Also why do we keep calling it consensual when last time I checked, Ariel didn't consent and she works for the company too
@@noonebutme weird reply
@@noonebutme Just to make sure are you talking about the employee or Ariel? If you're talking about the employee then ignore my first response
@@isabellaearnhardt6380 yea I meant Alex, the employee but ion see another reply
@@stannature1984 I’m actually confused wym weird?? I’m being fr I didn’t see anything that made it seem like it wasn’t a consensual relationship, to me Alex is really just as bad bc she had a fiancé that she’d been w for over 10 years and she still cheated too. Am I missing something here or was it just the way I worded it??
@@noonebutme actually the only person who said it was a consensual relationship was ned which raises red flags as to the chance that it could be to cover up any loose ends Alex hasn’t come out and spoken publicly about it so we won’t know anytime soon, but given Ariel was his wife also been there since the beginning of the try guys I doubt this was a consensual relationship Ariel was okay with. Otherwise she wouldn’t have removed the title ‘Neds Wife’ I believe from her Instagram bio.
They picked the worst possible take lie the only wrong one
Yeah like it wasn’t just that he kissed someone and didn’t tell his friends about it it was because he had a year long affair with a subordinate putting them at risk for legal action and potentially ruining the reputation of their company. Not to mention his wife who he cheated on is also an employee of the company.
SNL also recently stole the Charmin Bears skit from a creator here on RUclips, which is crazy how blatant it is
I doubt Ned asked to be protected in the SNL skit...but friends protect friends without needing to be asked. so...the whole skit is off a kiss vs a year long affair with massive legal issues due to the power dynamic. who green lit this?
If you can’t trust someone to not cheat on their wife, how could you trust them as a co-owner or friend. I really think that it’s a practical move as well as a moral one. And honestly, I really admire them for making it. Why shouldn’t we hold people to higher standards? If we refused to cover up people’s ‘indiscretions’, maybe there would be more trust in general.
It’s funny because you just know snl has probably the worse HR department now
public controversy aside its weird to me that people are so taken aback by a guy being fired for having a secret affair with a subordinate. like there are tons of jobs where you can be fired or at least penalized for having a romantic relationship with one of your employees without informing HR, even non-public facing ones.
Ned brought this upon himself when he cheated on his wife with a staff. Eugene, Zach and Keith were professional enough to not bad mouth him when they released their explanation video and on The Try Pod. If it's true that Ned did ask one of his friend's who write for SNL, it shows how petty he is and he doesn't care about Ariel and the children altogether. He ruined his own career that he built with 3 people.
When the anchor says "so dude had a side chick and you fired him" that's when I realized they missed the point completely and didn't care they did. Yes, he had a side chick, WHILE BEING THE WIFE GUY© OF THE BRAND. That's awful that they would not ever mention that aspect. They're so OK with infidelity, lying, hiding things from their partner, and friends, it's quite telling.
Not only that, but the "side chick" being a direct subordinate at their place of work with Ned being the go to individual for HR issues... Yeah. It's a fucky situation.
I don't know about you but I learned in school that where there is a power dynamic there is no consent. So no, in a way it was not a consensual relationship. Just as students and teachers in post-secondary education, just as bosses and employees, just as landlords and renters, etc. In short, if the disadvantaged person feels that they could not say no then it's non-consensual, which, as it is very hard to prove, is taken as a given.
I am no trying to absolve Alex who was known to try to get people to cheat and pressured people into eating and drinking more than they were comfortable with. Aka, known for pushing people's boundaries but the position she found herself in was not one that gave her room for consent and that should not be mocked.
She’s an adult bro if she wanted to she could have came forward if she wasn’t into it and in this day and age we believe women way more then men in this situation so even if Ned would say he would fire her or for not being with him she could just tell everyone and they would believe Alex over Ned 100% so long story short hold Alex just as accountable as Ned she was part of it she’s been getting way less hate then Ned and I don’t think that’s right
@@brennenmalinsky7562 not that simple. It's still your career potentially at stake. People in this situation may find it hard to speak up, for different reasons, the power imbalance, manipulation, fear and so on. That doesn't go away just because you're an adult. That said in this specific situation, she does have responsibility to bare, she's scummy and shouldn't be absolved, I agree that she should also be held accountable so i do get your perspective on that point. The reason Ned gets more hate isn't because Alex is a victim or anything, it's because he's worse in many peoples opinion. He had a wife and two kids, the whole I love my wife bit, and the power dynamic. It's easier to convince, coerce or manipulate if you're more powerful (that's why there are so many RUclipsrs that get into scandals about abuse I guess). Alex was a fan and an employee. And Ned, as a boss had a responsibility to not fuck his employee
@@brennenmalinsky7562 I personally know so many women who don’t report because they aren’t believed. “These days” women are still blamed and villainized when they are the ones being coerced. Foh
@@brennenmalinsky7562 for the love of God Brennan did you miss the recap?
Besides it being disgusting that this was a "parody" sketch about the Try Guys being in the absolute right for their reaction, this is just disgusting standing alone mocking "consensual" workplace power imbalance relationships. Also the line about Beyonce was gross.
Yes I agree, and how they decided to casually throw in lines about the tragedy being "violent" and "probably racist". 😑 That skit made my skin crawl. It's beyond cringy.
It’s takes two to tango. That women knew what she was doing with a married man.
Will Stephen, that's his friends name. Narcissists take care of narcissists.
He has TWO friends who work as writers for SNL
He has many concerns a half the staff at encinal went to Yale and he graduated with honors and spoke at graduation
They also called the year long affair just a kiss. Like that’s not the same thing
i hope ariel doesn’t feel like she has to stay with ned. after everything, but especially this, ned doesn’t deserve one more good thing in his life. and ariel, is the best.
"They were making fun of the consensual work place relationship being a big deal like that is a big deal because he is her boss and she is under him" YESSS say it louder for the people in the back. Even though anyone with common sense knows that some people clearly don't have common sense.
That has to be so traumatizing for his wife because it’s not just about a consensual workplace relationship between a boss and an employee but the man was married while this is all going on.
The way the reat of the try guys handeld it was beautiful. They realise they can no longer just do one of those "hey guys lets talk" moments and they handeld it professionally while still letting us see that it effected them. More creators need to do this when appoligising because trying to sit down and talk is no longer gonna work past a certan point and they are no longer relatable. More creators need to be like them when appoligising.
respect for Becky, she took matters into her own hands by letting people know
Isnt it a little too soon? 😳
That’s been snls thing forever. They write shit every week and get it out asap. Good or bad. Mostly bad.
No such thing, everything is fair in comedy and I mean literally anything
@@crazymonkey0518 too bad it wasn’t funny
It really didn't surprise me if Ned was the one who have SNL the idea for the skits, he just seems very petty like that.
And it's so unfunny it's on brand with him
this just makes ned look worse. what a friend💀💀
Also they made the guy playing Eugene act super flamboyant bc Eugene is gay and Eugene is... Not f*king flamboyant it was so rude
I did think it was weird they were like why is this such a big news stories so they kissed on a bar and then referenced Beyoncé and like oh if she’s fine they can get over it to like what
Not just boss but freaking company owner!
Bro ngl I was feeling a little bad for all the flak he was getting, which is inherently understandable, but now nope. He hasn't learned. I don't put it past him to go out of his way to suggest that skit to his friend. If his blind friend can't see what's wrong with that, he's no friend to Ariel and it's trying to justify Ned's actions which adds additional disrespect to her and she's better off leaving Ned because there is zero respect in that relationship. 🚪🚶♀️
Also apparently SNL lost a majority of their cast and crew in 2022 which could explain the shift in humor that SNL is currently projecting. They’re taking REAL scandals and trying to make it seem not as urgent by adding humor to the terrible situation. SNL really flopped for this one.
What stuck out to be a lot is that the skit blatantly said Ned was with his “side piece”, aka acknowledging he was cheating on his wife,
And they just say that as if it doesn’t matter or play any role in why Ned is the villain here.
It doesn’t surprise me with what has happened with SNL, but it did catch me off guard that they basically admitted that any disrespect or harm to women is nothing but a joke to them.
(Maybe just in general. I don’t know if any men were also taken advantage of here. Male victims matter too)
I hadn't heard that he was her boss. That's coercive and consensual!
Ned himself said in one of their videos that having a relationship (sexual or romantic) with an employee is illegal. Guess his friends did not consume his content
Do they have any regard for how hard this is hitting the other Try Guys and Ariel? The lack of respect for online creators on television is getting out of hand! Also the nerve of them to joke about and down play how serious it is to date a subordinate in the work place, especially in an era where the film/television industry is under fire and heavy scrutiny for toxic work place environments!
Gen Z?? The Try Guys are in their 30's
If you search who the writers were, his friend was one of the writers
I don’t like how they painted the try guys that way. Fucking sucks because my Halloween costume this year was gonna be an SNL character and now I don’t even want to support SNL
gotta love becky, queen shit of her to not let it slide
Becky 😂❤ She’s the OG
SNL really revealed their own shady HR policies and lack of protections for lower rank employees in this
i guess the workplace environment in SNL tolerates scandals and inappropriate behaviors case in point the Horatio Sanz scandal
The funny thing is.... It wasn't funny. Lmao
“He was her boss and she was under him.” I see what you did there. 😂
Literally it’s a legal issue??
AND he was the "HR person" like even if Try Guy LLC allowed concentual relationships (which it doenst have to) you have to have outside checks and delegate someone to handle her particular HR needs and check in with her to make sure there isn't an abuse of power.
They should file for defamation
tell me you dont have class without telling me you dont have class
Right I think it was just a bonus that it also wasn’t even funny. Like I kept a straight face the entire time watching the skit it wasn’t even intentional it just sucked so bad
"white guy wife guy try guy Ned" got a chuckle out of me, but that's the only line that was remotely funny
“ she’s under him” 🤣
No pun intended
Like miles said on the sketch, “do you think people were just upset that bill Clinton cheated?” But if you look at how snl took jabs at that scandal in the 90s they did the same thing too. I understand the point of the sketch was why are new outlets caring about some RUclips drama but the point is that it’s apart of the bigger narrative about power dynamics and relationships in the workplace but clearly it’s not important to the writers of snl, one of which who happens to know the individual involved in this drama.
I doubt Ned asked his friend to do this. His friend just wanted to suck up to Ned. But skits go through so many levels of approval, I’m surprised it made it on air. Why would Lorne approve such a personal skit? Did the other writers and actors hear of the Try Guys once and thought it would get Gen Z views?
I like what you did there “she was definitely under him”
oh no! a comedy show made a comedic segment. The outrage!
I don't watch SNL anymore, but when I heard about biscuit I knew it might be the marking of end of an era. Because why would you joke about workplace affairs unless you've had your own?
Miles was on Kelsey's podcast and put it best: there was only one bad take and that's the one SNL went with. Honestly, I think the guess would be thrilled to be made fun of on SNL, if it wasn't for such a sensitive and personal topic.
It was fucking hilarious lol
They also had the only woman in the skit also being the only one saying it isn't a big deal. Which just felt.... weird and gross.
there's no way ned's friends at snl did this on purpose, because if they did, they totally fucked him over. just the thought of that makes him look even more sleazy and problematic than before. it does the opposite of putting him in a better light lmao
i don’t think it’s this serious snl does skits based on what’s popular and this was discussed everywhere
Literally under him amIwright :333
The weird part is snl thinking anybody under 45 watches snl lol
If you use a stat checker, then you’ll see that the video has 144,806 dislikes and only 30,990 likes. I love this fan base :)
never watching SNL again
The friend also was in the writing credits for the skit
would love to see the like/dislike ratio for the video! I instantly thought snl did a bad take on the situation.
30k to 140k
Now they're the tri guys
One of the writers is literally Neds Friends.
Now it's all making sense
Doesn't Alex also know someone at SNL? I remember not long before this she talked about how she was at the SNL after-party with Post Malone and a bunch of other people. I brought it up to a friend how she tried to do shots with him and then was informed he has major problems with addiction.......gross.
Lol the Keith guy
SNL IS OUT OF TOUCH! they needed to be cancelled years ago and fade with honor, now they're just dragging their legacy through the mud.
I’m almost certain that this was Ned’s friend who’s a writer for SNL especially since they took Neds side.
See I believe Ned has actually 2 friends, one who had a newborn who he mentioned and another people have also seen his name around and who is also a Yale alumni who follows bed and Ned follows him (and it says he is and no writer in his bio) doesn’t have a new born
This was trifling.
Do better SNL. Gross. If Ned asked his friend to do this, then even grosser. Gaslighting at peak level.
the Try Guys thing is SO niche -- it's 100% Ned's friend who spearheaded the sketch
I wouldn't be surprised if the crew just trusted the writer and didn't bother to look up what they were making fun of - especially since sketches get written within days of filming
I'm curious to know what other million ways this would have gone if being fired isn't the best and only way to fix this.
Love that this is about try guys but the back ground looks like big brother. Just keep waiting to hear Julie Chen 😂
The consensual workplace relationship? You mean the fact he cheated on his wife and family with his coworker in public, his coworker who he was the boss of and his coworker who had a fiance?
She is under him. Literally