Harry Styles‘ spoof of The Pitt on Saturday Night Live March 14 has been diagnosed as hilarious by Supriya Ganesh, who plays Dr. Mohan on HBO’s acclaimed medical drama.
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While speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Oscar viewing party on Sunday (March 15), the actress had rave reviews for the way the pop star and SNL cast poked fun at the Donald Trump administration’s MAHA campaign in the NBC show’s version of The Pitt. “Of course I did!” she said when asked whether she’d seen it. “It was so spot-on.”
Ganesh added that the Grammy winner looked right at home in the hospital setting. “Someone had photoshopped Harry Styles into a photograph of me, Patrick [Ball] and Taylor [Dearden], and he fit right in.”
That said, Ganesh thinks Styles would need to “probably be less famous” in order to actually appear on the award-winning drama. “You can’t have faces that are that recognizable, other than Noah [Wyle] on the show — it kind of breaks the reality of what we’re going for,” she added to ET. “I think all of the women — and some men — on that set probably would be dreaming of that.”
Styles pulled double duty on SNL, hosting the series as well as performing two tracks — “Coming Up Roses” and “Dance No More” — from his Billboard 200-topping new album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. In The Pitt parody, which was pre-filmed ahead of the live episode, the One Direction alum channels Wyle’s character, Dr. Robby, while making absurd suggestions for treating patients based on the recommendations of United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, as part of his Make America Healthy Again agenda.
At one point, for instance, Styles prescribes steak and raw eggs to an 80-year-old woman who collapsed — “She needs protein, people!” he barks at his staff of doctors — and calls a trauma patient injured in a car accident a “loser” for being up to date on his vaccines. “From producer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the team who want to make America healthy again, it’s MAHAspital,” a voice-over declares.
Watch the sketch above.
