Pedro Pascal and Sarah Paulson Unite for TikTok-Inspired ‘Saturday Night Live’ Skit About Fan Ships

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The Internet’s Mommy and Daddy! Pedro Pascal, ever the “cool teacher,” discussed the importance of social media safety — and becoming an online crush — during his Saturday Night Live debut.In a Saturday, February 4, skit, the 47-year-old Last of Us star portrayed high school teacher Mr.

Ben, who was tasked with delivering a high school presentation on student technology use.“OK. Let’s start. First rule: Do not access inappropriate content online and do not bully on social media,” Pascal’s character sternly addressed the students, who were played by the SNL ensemble cast.Throughout his presentation, the students couldn’t help but interrupt Pascal and praise his ideas. “Come on girl, eat it up!” Ego Nwodim exclaimed.While the Mandalorian actor was wary about the so-called compliment, he went on to tell the kids to no longer make “fancams” of the staff, such as the thirst-trap TikTok videos they made of him in the classroom.“Nooo, skinny legend!

Why are you doing this?” Bowen Yang cried out, leading the Chile native to point out that there are “thousands of fancams” of him — and he “isn’t sure what they mean.”Sarah Sherman, for her part, explained that the high schoolers frequently create the “sparkly” montage videos because he’s “their beloved” and has them “in a chokehold.”Pascal — who was in his “assembly era” in the sketch — wasn’t the only schoolteacher that served as the inspiration for a fan edit video.“Mommy works remotely all day and doesn’t have time to eat it up, no crumbs left, so we made you Daddy and Miss Jenny [is] Mommy,” the Wicked actor, 32, quipped in the skit of the students’ reasoning for living online in a post-COVID era.Sarah Paulson then walked on stage, surprising the SNL viewers, to play Miss