‘SNL’ Is Scrubbing A Sketch From The Internet That Royally Pissed Off An Auto Glass Company

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You guys may have seen SNL’s Safelite Autoglass parody commercial that aired on the October 7th episode hosted by Gal Gadot. The sketch featured Beck Bennett as a creepy, over-eager Safelite technician who intentionally breaks a customer’s windshield so he can get close to her teenaged daughter. The sketch was as funny as it was random, as a specific auto glass company with 8,000 Twitter followers being targeted as the butt of the joke seemed somewhat personal. And Safelite took it as such.

Following the airing of the episode, Safelite tweeted at SNL it’s disappointment with the sketch comedy show making the company’s self-proclaimed ‘rockstar’ technicians out to be desperate Jared Fogle wannabes.

Well, according to Decider, SNL kowtowed to the windshield repair company by removing the sketch from its official YouTube or Hulu pages and NBC appears to be “moving aggressively to keep the unauthorized copies of the sketch offline.” Further, this sketch was replaced from this weekend’s Oct. 7th repeat episode and replaced with a Beck Bennett/Kyle Mooney parody rap video about a love interest (played by Gadot) stealing their last fresh fry.

When Decider reached out to Safelite for comment, a spokesperson had this to say:

“When the SNL sketch featuring Safelite first aired, we expressed our disappointment with how it negatively portrayed our people. It was SNL’s decision to remove the content, and they have not shared their reasons behind that decision.”

I have no experience with Safelite so I cannot confirm or deny SNL‘s depiction of its technicians is accurate. Do they come off as child diddlers? If so, let me know in the comments so I know to suck it up and ride home with a shattered windshield.

[h/t Decider]