Chance the Rapper mocks \u201cnerdy\u201d esports in League of Legends SNL sketch Popular Hip-hop artist \u201cChance the Rapper\u201d featured in a Saturday Night Live\u2019s skit on October 26 which saw him acting as a League of Legends esports reporter. Since the release of the popular battle royale Fortnite, esports and gaming has been seen breaking into the mainstream culture more and more often with stars such as Bugha getting the chance to appear on shows such as Jimmy Fallon. With Worlds 2019 currently underway, the hit comedy TV show, Saturday Night Live, decided to highlight aspects of the final event of the year in a skit which included Chance the Rapper as the tournament\u2019s esports reporter. Chance\u2019s character was clueless about League of Legends esports. The skit marks Chance the Rapper\u2019s second appearance on SNL, returning once again to play as the clueless basketball reporter, Lazlo Holmes, filling in for other sports on the network. Saturday Night Live\u2019s comedic parody saw the popular rapper attempting to break down some of the gameplay during the esports tournament\u2019s post-game analysis segment in hilarious fashion. The other cast members who appeared as analysts in the skit began referencing some of the details of the match that could be difficult to understand for non-gamers, while Chance simply stood there confused, sarcastically pretending to go along with it. Chance\u2019s character, Lazlo, took many jabs at the esports tournament initially, mocking many of those involved in the event, however, as with many he seemed to be blown away after realizing just how popular some of the professional players were amongst fans. The segment saw many references to Riot\u2019s popular MOBA and included a shoutout to a fictional player named \u201cDoublePump\u201d which was likely done as a nod to the Team Liquid star Yiliang \u2018Doublelift\u2019 Peng. \u201cLaz you\u2019re going to like this,\u201d said one of the desk analysts, before reading the fictional pro\u2019s post, \u201cEcho\u2019s Captain DoublePump just tweeted \u2013 Congrats Shadow Gaming, can I borrow some XP?\u201d Esports has been featured in a number of TV shows in the past, such as the iconic animated sitcom, The Simpsons, even devoting an episode to the competitive gaming community. There will be more TV shows for League of Legends fans to look forward to after it was revealed that CBS greenlighted a new esports comedy series which is set to be produced by Rick Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chance the Rapper mocks \u201cnerdy\u201d esports in League of Legends SNL sketch Popular Hip-hop artist \u201cChance the Rapper\u201d featured in a Saturday Night Live\u2019s skit on October 26 which saw him acting as a League of Legends esports reporter. Since the release of the popular battle royale Fortnite, esports and gaming has been seen breaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}