”Saturday Night Live” took on Kendall Jenner’s yanked Pepsi commercial with a reimagined behind-the-scenes look at some golden-boy director who’s convinced he’s got a killer diversity ad.
The director, played by Beck Bennet, gets a call from his sister, and he waxes rhapsodic about the ad as a “kind of a homage to the resistance.” Jenner hands a Pepsi to a cop at a Black Lives Matter protest when things start to go bad, he explains, and “that Pepsi brings everybody together. Isn’t that like ... the best ad ever?”
Bennet’s face falls as sis obviously bursts his bubble.
He finally begins to get a clue: “Sort of tone deaf? We’re just using them ... to sell soda?” As he he’s surrounded by a joyless cast of characters on the set: an Asian cello player, black dancers and women in headscarves.
Out pops Jenner (Cecily Strong) from her trailer talking to someone on her cell: “Um, I stop the police from shooting people by handing them a Pepsi. I know. It’s cute, right?”
Nope.
The skit ends with “live and learn” superimposed on the screen.
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