Katy Perry was on Saturday Night Live over the weekend to mock the fact that her cleavage-filled clip with Elmo was banned from Sesame Street. Katy, the musical guest for this week’s season premiere, appeared in a skit as a teen library aide who was unaware that her newly-formed rack was causing a distraction.
Katy wore a low-cut Elmo t-shirt and played a guest on a faux Brooklyn talk show hosted by Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph. She did a good job at spoofing herself as well as playing along. Rudolph and Poehler summed up the controversy over Katy’s bouncy Sesame Street video by talking about how nudity isn’t as stigmatized overseas and how breasts are natural.
Poehler: “In France, everybody walks around with no shirt on whatsoever. Boobies, as far as the eye can see… They know how to do things over there.”
Rudolph: “Who cares if kids are looking at boobs. Boobs feed babies, alright? I turned on CSI the other night and there’s a dead guy with a worm in his eye, but we can’t look at the tops of boobs? So dumb America.”
Poehler: “You do your thing at the library, the kids come for the boobs they stay for the books, everybody wins.”
In related news, Perry will guest star on The Simpsons this season. EW reports that she won’t be a cartoon, but will appear “as herself in a live-action segment that features Simpsons characters as puppets.” An executive producer for the Simpsons announced that they made the decision in light of the fact that Perry got turned down for Sesame Street. It looks like that little controversy has only benefited her career.
Photos via Huffington Post and EW
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