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Ego Nwodim admits SNL audience 'really threw me for a loop' during Miss Eggy sketch: 'They shocked me'

Ego Nwodim handled it like a pro when the live 'SNL' audience got censored by yelling out during her Miss Eggy stand-up sketch, but the comedian admits she was actually thrown by the hilarious moment: 'They shocked me.'

During the April 5 episode's bit, which Nwodim wrote with Josh Patten, Asha Ward, Carl Tart, and Will Stephen, a Def Comedy Jam-style stand-up comic named Miss Eggy pitches herself to host the White House Correspondents' Dinner, demonstrating the kind of jokes she would tell. During the panel, Nwodim reasoned that her choice to perform in front of the "Weekend Update" desk — which Armisen praised as "a pretty ballsy thing" — had emboldened the show's live spectators. Nwodim, who revived her Miss Eggy character for an encore performance during the SNL season 50 finale hosted by Scarlett Johansson last month, agreed that the temperature of the audience can make a world of difference at the legendary sketch show.

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