A member of The Lonely Island initially believed that Kanye West was mimicking his own “Saturday Night Live” sketch when he famously interrupted Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Akiva Schaffer, who was a writer on SNL for six years, thought West was echoing their 2007 sketch where West humorously crashes various award ceremonies.
Schaffer didn’t grasp the seriousness of the situation until it was “halfway through” West’s actions: “I was like, ‘Oh my God, wait, this is actually happening.’”
Schaffer felt a sense of déjà vu when West made his notorious stage appearance to disrupt Swift’s acceptance speech.
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