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Justin Timberlake Recalls Convincing Beyoncé To Do ‘Single Ladies’ Sketch On ‘SNL’: “Not Having It”


More than 15 years, one of Beyoncé's catchiest songs — and the 'Saturday Night Live' sketch it inspired — still have a hold on the hive.

Justin Timberlake recently revealed how he convinced the 32x Grammy winner to parody her 2008 music video for ‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)’ on the NBC sketch comedy show with himself, Andy Samberg and Bobby Moynihan as unitard-clad dancers. “[Samberg] said Bobby Moynihan has this great idea for a sketch about you, me and him being Beyoncé’s background dancers that never made the cut,” recalled Timberlake in the documentary Ladies & Gentleman… 50 Years of SNL Music, now streaming on Peacock. Despite their similar ’90s pop music backgrounds, Timberlake had his work cut out for him in convincing the Destiny’s Child alum.

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