‘Try Guys’ Fans Doxxed ‘SNL’ Writer After Getting Called Out in Sketch

While Saturday Night Live offers a scroll of its writers during the show’s closing credits, you rarely get to hear about which funny people authored a particular sketch. After hearing Devon Walker explain what happened to one SNL writer on the Lemme Say This podcast, maybe that’s a good idea. 

During Walker’s first year on Saturday Night Live in Season 48, YouTube sensations the Try Guys found themselves embroiled in a scandal. A quick refresher: In 2022, one of the Try Guys had an extramarital affair with an employee, leading him to exit the group. 

SNL often spoofs a particular week’s pop-culture buzz, so a Try Guys sketch featuring Bowen Yang, Mikey Day and Andrew Dismukes wasn’t a surprise. In Entertainment Weekly’s review of the show, it called the sketch “an amusing riff on mainstream news media’s tendency to get sidetracked, and buried in silly minutia.” 

The sketch hasn’t aged particularly well, as few are discussing any of the Try Guys’ misdeeds in 2025. The funniest part is probably Yang and Day trying not to break into giggle fits. 

The sketch’s writer, whom Walker refused to name because “this got him in like so much shit,” had gone to school with one of the Try Guys. Though the two weren’t friends, the connection was enough to inspire the writer to create a spoof of the situation. “Kind of just being like, ‘Isn’t this a silly thing that we’re all getting upset about?’”

The aftermath wasn’t silly at all. “He literally got doxed,” said Walker. “By the Try Guys fans.” 

The blowback was more than nasty comments on a social media feed. NBC “had to get security for him because people were sending him death threats because he wrote us a sketch on Saturday Night Live.”

What exactly was everyone so mad about? 

Some Redditors took SNL to task for downplaying a serious HR issue about power and gender dynamics, but that aggravation doesn’t usually end in death threats. There are a few deleted comments in those threads — perhaps unhinged content was removed by a thoughtful mod.

Comments on the SNL YouTube video demonstrate that the sketch irritated many viewers, garnering over 22,000 replies. (For comparison’s sake, Brendan Gleeson’s monologue from the same show has 600 comments.) Some YouTubers alleged that the SNL writer conspired with the fired Try Guy to deflect attention from his workplace affair. Last I checked, Lorne Michaels doesn’t greenlight many sketches designed to whitewash the reputations of disgraced social media influencers, but anything is possible.

The blowback is a part of working in late-night comedy that people often don’t discuss. “I just want to live a peaceful life,” Walker said. “I just want to walk around my neighborhood, eat scones. I don’t want the smoke. I don’t want to be in no beef.”