Jake Paul has assured Olivia Rodrigo that there are no hard feelings after the pop star poked fun at the YouTuber turned boxer during her Saturday Night Live appearance over the weekend.
Rodrigo, 23, hosted the long-running NBC sketch show on Saturday, kicking off her monologue by recounting some of her early projects as a child actor.
“When I was 13, I was on a Disney show called Bizaardvark, and we had an incredible cast, which included acting legend Jake Paul,” Rodrigo joked.
The series, which ran for three seasons between 2013 and 2016, followed two best friends (Rodrigo’s Paige and Madison Hu’s Frankie) who write and perform quirky songs and videos for their growing online channel while navigating school and internet fame.
She continued her monologue: “And we’d always talk about our futures, me and Jake. I’d say, ‘I really wanna create music that explores the complexities of girls my age,’ and he’d say, ‘Well, one day I really wanna beat up old guys on Netflix.’”
Paul, 29, famously fought a 58-year-old Mike Tyson in 2024 in a bout that was widely derided as a spectacle and streamed globally on Netflix.
“And we both did it, hooray!” Rodrigo concluded.
On Sunday, Paul responded to the joke on X, writing: “We had the vision [crying laughing emoji] i told you that you would sell stadiums out and then we both did proud of you fr [for real].”
Elsewhere during Saturday’s show, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and FBI Director Kash Patel faced mockery in the cold open sketch, with Aziz Ansari stepping in to play the embattled bureau chief.
In the sketch, Hegseth, played by Colin Jost, riding high from his Congressional testimony this week, and Ansari’s Patel took questions from an exasperated press corps in the White House briefing room.
“Now, listen up, dingbats, OK? As you might have seen on our sick ass TikTok, we’ve been bombing stuff, doing sick air raids. This war has been a movie, specifically the NeverEnding Story,” Jost’s Hegseth bragged of the war in Iran.
He then introduced Ansari’s Patel, who entered the room to loud cheers from the audience.
“What up? It's K Dot, AKA Kash with the K, AKA the most effective FBI director this country has ever had, Kash Patel!” he declared.
“After the attempted assassination of President Trump — another one — we conducted an investigation that could not have been more thorough,” Ansari said, referencing last weekend’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
“We dotted every T and bulls-ed every I. And for those of you saying I'm doing a bad job running the FBI, well, what if I told you this agency is only six weeks away from pinpointing the exact location of Osama bin Laden?” he said, as the audience erupted in laughter.
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