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See ‘SNL’ Spoof Mike Myers’ Infamous Kanye West Moment in Elevator Sketch

Twenty years after an infamous TV moment involving Kanye West and Mike Myers, 'Saturday Night Live' spoofed the incident on their Season 50 finale.

In 2005, during a televised fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina, West went off-script on live TV by declaring that then-president George W. Bush “doesn’t care about Black people,” all while he stood next to a mortified Myers. After initially going up with a couple of adoring fans (including host Scarlett Johansson), Thompson’s now-Ye comes strolling onto the lift, resulting in an awkward reunion between the Austin Powers star and the rapper. After Myers greets West, the rapper tells him that they haven’t seen each other since “that Hurricane Katrina Benefit where I said George Bush doesn’t care about Black people and you just had to stand there looking stupid.”

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