Cynthia Erivo’s ‘Nigerian Wicked’ ‘Saturday Night Live UK’ sketch goes viral

Cynthia Erivo hosted Saturday Night Live UK over the weekend and performed in a Wicked parody as part of the show. READ MORE: ‘Wicked: For Good’ review: an emotional but awkward return to Oz Taking influence from the Nigerian film industry of the early 2000s, Nollywood Presents: Nigerian Wicked saw Erivo playing Glinda opposite Ayoade Bamgboye’s Elphaba. The pair meet at Shiz university before travelling to LagOz to meet The Wizard (Hammed Animashaun). Arriving in the “Emerald, White and Emerald City” (the colours of the Nigerian flag), Glinda reveals she’s asking The Wizard for a Birkin while Elphaba wants a “skinny BBL that defies gravity. The pair almost kiss on a couple of occasions, and Bamgboye’s tries to pull off Erivo’s ‘Defying Gravity’ note. The sketch, which has already racked up more than 1.6million views on YouTube, was written by Bamgboye and directed by Will Farrell. “Finally achieved my dream of directing a Nigerian version of Wicked,” he wrote on Instagram. “I will write a book on the love I have for Ayoade Bamgboye and it will take my whole life to express the depths, and even then it won’t be finished. I will have to speak to my granddaughter from the other side ...