Katy Perry was on Saturday Night Live over the weekend to mock the fact that her cleavage-filled clip with Elmo was banned from Sesame Street. Katy, the musical guest for this week’s season premiere, appeared in a skit as a teen library aide who was unaware that her newly-formed rack was causing a distraction.
Katy wore a low-cut Elmo t-shirt and played a guest on a faux Brooklyn talk show hosted by Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph. She did a good job at spoofing herself as well as playing along. Rudolph and Poehler summed up the controversy over Katy’s bouncy Sesame Street video by talking about how nudity isn’t as stigmatized overseas and how breasts are natural.
Poehler: “In France, everybody walks around with no shirt on whatsoever. Boobies, as far as the eye can see… They know how to do things over there.”
Rudolph: “Who cares if kids are looking at boobs. Boobs feed babies, alright? I turned on CSI the other night and there’s a dead guy with a worm in his eye, but we can’t look at the tops of boobs? So dumb America.”
Poehler: “You do your thing at the library, the kids come for the boobs they stay for the books, everybody wins.”
In related news, Perry will guest star on The Simpsons this season. EW reports that she won’t be a cartoon, but will appear “as herself in a live-action segment that features Simpsons characters as puppets.” An executive producer for the Simpsons announced that they made the decision in light of the fact that Perry got turned down for Sesame Street. It looks like that little controversy has only benefited her career.
Photos via Huffington Post and EW
ugh, when isn’t it about her boobs.
Just wondering, but did she dress herself for that bit (the one on Sesame Street)? Didn’t a stylist or someone like that do it?
Yeah, I’m tired of her boobs being news.
One-Trick-Pony
I dont like her. Really not.
I dont like the fact that she keeps pretending to be this dumb, naive teenager
(reality check: She´s -what- 25?).
All she does is let her boobs hang out and always has this dumb stare where she widens her eyes like saying: “Oops,wasnt me!”
Plus, ever since she has been with that comedian, she thinks she´s funny as well.
I dont think so.
And as CB already pointed out: She has absolutely no crossover-talent.
In her defense: I dont think that Sesame Street outfit was THAT inappropriate. I mean, children dont think sexually, their parents do.
I cannot believe she went all tata’s on display for Sesame Street. Seriously didn’t this chick ever watch it growing up?
I am generally okay with this twits antics, however, you don’t mess with Sesame Street!
Im starting to think the sesame street thing was just a set up for the saturday night live sketch. All a big publicity stunt for her boobs which are far more talented than the rest of her.
Agree, anyone can buy boobs these days. What else has she got?
Nice to see some real boobs these days, I gotta admit. You don’t get cleavage like that with the fake ones. So at least she’s got that one (make it two) things going for her. Cuz that’s about it.
Very nice real ones!
Anyone else think she’s wearing a really good push-up bra in the SNL clip for comic effect? Her tatas looked a lot smaller on Sesame Street.
She’s come across as a marketing brand — pin-up with a bit of singing act. The marketing execs. took a bit of Betty Page image and added some singing. I would not be surprised if everything was spelled out for her and all she has to do is play the part. Creative artist my foot.
Using Sesame Street as a platform to market her is a “no-no” in my books.
As far as talent, I could not listen to her voice. Her songs sound cookie-cutter and do not grab my soul like other amazing artists.
My intuition tells me she will be history before she’s 30.
If the Sesame Street producers had thought her outfit was inappropriate they wouldn’t have shot her in it. They were fully prepared to air her segment until the preview clip got shredded by parents with hang ups. Seriously what’s SS’s age range 3-6? What’s the worse thought they could have, mommy why don’t you have boobies like that?
All she ever does is show her boobs or wear something that shows as much skin as possible.
I’d like to see her in something different for a change.
I was too distracted by her bouncing boobies to realize she was mocking Elmo.
Ha, love your comment Trillion. I have never seen someone like Blake Lively with any sort of “real” cleavage. And we know she’s constant showing us what her
mommaplastic surgeon gave her.Yay for Katy and her real boobs.
This clip was hilarious. I absolutely adore Maya Rudolph – comic genius.
theres a different between csi and sesame street … had no feelings either way for her before this but now I really dont like her
*sigh*…everything is about this chicks boobs. Her whole career is based on them.
Oh and btw…CSI is on TV late at night when kids are asleep. Not a very good comparison.
The twins are all she has to offer.
Her music is horrible.
She can’t act.
Go away bad dream.
We watched SNL this week & my husband derisive snort at KP’s “music” was EPIC! God she was awful
Umm I dunno what universe CSI is only on at late night because in syndication this effing show is on ALL the time. I think it’s SPIKE or something that has this show on continuous play it seems…
So yes kids can see CSI during the day while flipping for cartoons…(happened in my house)
And regardless of when adult programming kicks in, I am sick of the gratuitous gore and guts in forensic shows and other cop dramas, and I am even more sick of seeing skanky cartoon characters (Tinkerbelle) being dressed in much less with tits hanging out, but real people have to COVER themselves entirely to be considered kid friendly t.v. ?
If we are going to set this standard of what is acceptable for our children to see, then let’s keep it across the spectrum because even Barbie is dressing pretty skimpy if you want to get really nit picky.
For me personally I would like the option of determining what my children can see rather than having a select few sexually repressed parents deciding for the rest of us by excessively squawking about what is acceptable for children on a whole. The hang ups of some people are not my own and I think it’s unfair to hold people to a rather uneven and iffy standard.
I create my childrens boundaries in my household not Mrs. Prim and Repressed down the street…
P.S. Boobs are awesome and if I had a pair like Katy Perry, I would be showing them off too. You’re only young once, enjoy it!
She did a good job on the skit and good for her to capitalize on the controversy. She was booked as musical guest long before parents became up in arms over the Sesame Street bit. SNL would have been raked over the coals for not making reference to it. I liked the last quote: Kids come for the boobies and stay for the books.
I’m not a big Katy Perry supporter or anything but what else was she going to do about the controversy. She seems utterly harmless (albeit misguided as she constantly sends mixed messages). Whomever predicted her being out of the spotlight by age 30 is correct – unless she is being referenced as Russell Brand’s wife should their marriage last that long.
Meh…good luck to her.
I really dont think it matters how tinkerbell dresses because she lives in a fantasy world, and the key to children is differentiating between reality and fantasy. A real girl wearing a skanky tinkerbell costume = reality, while cartoon tinkerbell = fantasy world outside the realm of sexuality.
They discover this the second they ask to be a disney princess for halloween, only to discover they must wear a turtleneck underneath. You cant contradict this by showing them real people wearing the outfits on their own programming like nothing is wrong.
I think this clears the argument up quite nicely.
3 things that should’ve faded from public attention long ago: Katie Perry, SNL, and her boobs. I guess that’s 4 things.
When you’re young you don’t know what you’re worth, so you go with what you got physically, that’s what you’re worth (seemingly.) I don’t think really little kids would care, it’s the older kids that I was thinking about. Boobs are natural, but Katy Perry isn’t being really….natural about it. She’s trying to be sexy all the time, even on Sesame Street.
She better keep flashing them while she has them. That’s all she has.
I’m all for boobs. We’re an open and natural family and I don’t mind if my child sees breasts or nakedness..Whatever. But I’m mean, come on, why not just wear a t-shirt when you are on Seasame Street? If boobs are no big deal, why dress them up all fancy for an occaision that doesn’t require fancy? If you don’t want people to sexualize and make a big deal out of boobs, why bother sexualizing and making a big deal out of them?
This chick bugs.
Bodhi,
My husband had the same reaction to her music. He said something along the lines of ‘I don’t care how ‘hot’ she is, it doesn’t excuse that s*it’ about 10 seconds into her first song.
^^^Agree judy judy. I am far from a prude, but I was like wth? when I saw the Sesame clip. It was a bit much to have her breasts like falling out. I actually cracked up with Elmo running around her legs like some little pervert. ! It was hilarious to me to watch because it seemed so inappropriate for Sesame Street.
such a non-issue.
First, SNL has been slumming for a while; were there no real singers available that our ears had to be assaulted with this manufactured vacant pop tart’s faux singing? She’s 26 and in the interviews I’ve seen she has the sensibiltiy of a 12 yr old. Yes, I agree she can’t sing, act, has no substance, and her handlers are milking her for the last few dollars before the public finally turns on her lame schtick. BTW, jc126, I’m a longtime fan of SNL, and Lorne has run the show into the ground these last few years; they won’t cancel it; what will go in it’s place – reruns of the old A-Team? BTw, pyschic eyes, you’re right – remember, she started out as a Christian singer – can you say rebranded and remarketed.
I find that Elmo T-shirt pretty blasphemous.
ITA @ Bodhi and TaylorB-the bigger crime here is her crappy music. Shame on her.
so tacky! 1 trick pony
Katy Perry’s real breast size
http://media.kval.com/images/100923_Katy_Perry_Sesame_Street.jpg
I guess when you don’t really have any musical talent like Katy, she relies on using the old “T & A” formula. That’s all she is. I’m sick of seeing her, sick of hearing about her already. Oh yeah, and this skit, wasn’t funny.
She should quit trying to branch out into acting, because it was not good. Pretty pathetic that’s all she has going for her – someone should show her a time line of Pam Anderson’s career.
Oh for the love of a decent blouse! It’s SESAME STREET, Katy, not the VMAs! *grits teeth*