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TheSaturday Night Livecast is showing their love forAidy Bryant!
Bryant is celebrating her 35th birthday on Saturday — and her costars are making sure she feels special after ten years on the NBC sketch comedy series.
Bowen Yang, 31, posted an Instagram Story of the two of them, writing, “Happy bday to the one true @aidybryant.” The pair plays the recurring characters of “Trend Forecasters” on Weekend Update and are close friends off the stage as well.
On the show’s official Instagram page,SNLshared a gallery of photos and videos of Bryant. From her portrayal as Senator Ted Cruz to a recent skit of her and actor Oscar Isaac, the post showed off the comedian’s humor and versatility.
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Kenan Thompson, who has been on the show since 2003, commented, “Happy Birthday to this angel!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️.”
Featured playerPunkie Johnsonalso commented, “Happy birthday Aidy… Taurus gang gang 🔥.”
“I never felt like I saw a fat person’s romantic life treated with any dignity on the screen,” she said. “That was one of the main reasons that one of the first scenes of the first episode is her having sex, and it’s normal, fine, like real sex. It’s not like mind blowing porn sex, It’s just pretty human, normal sex. That is a big part of a person’s relationship to their body and their identity, and so what we wanted to do, was show it with some respect.”
Prior to its cancelation in 2021, Bryant shared that she’s received an amazing response from fans.
“I definitely assumed that young fat women would identify with it, but it’s really been a whole range of men, women, thin, fat,” she said. “People can relate to being really hard on themselves, being their own worst critic and being trapped in that mindset and wanting to get out of it. That is really universal.”
source: people.com
