Comedian Joel Haver is chalking up similarities between “Saturday Night Live’s” recent Charmin Bears sketch and his own parody about the toilet-paper spokesanimals as “wild coincidence” and “parallel thinking,” not stealing.
After the Emmy-winning sketch comedy show aired the bit — starring host Miles Teller, stars Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang — last weekend, eagle-eyed fans compared it to the YouTuber’s animated July cartoon “Toilet Paper Bears” that shared a similar premise: A young bear wants to break with his family’s toilet paper-oriented business to pursue a career in the arts.
Haver’s young bear wants to go into theater, while Teller’s version wants to be a dancer — both to the chagrin of their disapproving, glasses-wearing fathers.
