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Kanye West’s infamous stage interruption of Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards was really something that Saturday Night Live anticipated two years before. Recently, The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast reviewed West’s participation in the September 2007 season premiere of Saturday Night Live with hosts Andy Samberg, Akiva Shaffer, Jorma Taccone, and Seth Meyers.
When West stopped Swift at the event, the Lonely Island member—who was a writer for Saturday Night Live for six years—thought the rapper was following his 2007 SNL skit, but he soon realized that West was being serious. In the skit, West shows up unannounced at many award ceremonies—including a state fair’s Best Pumpkin contest, the Nobel Prize in Physics, and the Kids’ Choice Award for Best TV Show—to claim he rightfully deserves to win.
As reported by Entertainment Weekly, Schaffer said during the podcast, “[West] was a little bit famous for bad award show behavior — for being either a poor loser or speaking out on behalf of others — but the Taylor Swift famous moment you’re thinking I’m talking about has not happened yet.
