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Joel Haver claims a sketch seen onSaturday Night Live’sseason 48 premierebore a striking resemblance to one of his own comedy videos.
On Monday, the 26-year-old YouTuber posted avideocalling out the “pretty alarming” commonalities between theSNLbit and his own work.
“Usually when these things come up, I’m able to see that it’s the same concept but they took it somewhere different or it’s similar but you can give them some leeway,” he said. “But this one was a little weird. I was like, ‘Wow, that’s very similar.'”
Both theSNLsketch — starred hostMiles Telleralongside cast membersKenan Thompson,Heidi GardnerandBowen Yang— and Haver’s animated video feature the son of two Charmin Bears who wants to leave the family business in order to pursue a career in dance.
Haver did acknowledge the similarities between the two could simply be a “wild coincidence.”
“When it comes to these stealing accusations, I always err on the side of coincidence,” he said. “I think parallel thinking does happen more often than not.”
A source close toSNLconfirmed to PEOPLE that that it was a case of parallel thinking.
In his video, Haver continued, “When it comes to the Charmin bears thing, there’s a lot of coincidences that would have to line up to make it truly a coincidence, but I don’t think it was malicious. It was either a subconscious borrowing from somebody on their writers’ staff who saw my video, or it was a wild coincidence.”
“If I still was a smaller creator, which I was for a long time, I could see it rubbing me the wrong way,” he said.
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SNLwill return on Oct. 8 withBrendan Gleesonas host andWillowas the musical guest.
source: people.com
