A view of NPR’s Tiny Desk.

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A view of NPR’s Tiny Desk.

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If imitation is the sincerest type of flattery, rely us flattered. Saturday Night Live poked enjoyable at NPR’s Tiny Desk this weekend in a skit about an workplace live performance gone awry after it will get interrupted by a work-obsessed NPR intern.

The skit opens up on the Tiny Desk with this weekend’s host, Ramy Youssef, taking part in the a part of the lead singer of a band that is performing to a crowd of NPR workers.

“Thank you so much NPR. We are the Jonah Hughes Band. I’m Jonah Hughes,” Youssef says. “That last one usually has a lot more synth, but since this is a Tiny Desk concert, we got to be quirking it up.”

His bandmate interjects, “Yup, that’s why I play a milk carton shaker.”

“She is usually on the cello,” Youssef says.

As the band begins up its subsequent track about an ex-girlfriend — titled “Crazy Girl (Amanda)” — a 35-year-old NPR intern performed by Bowen Yang walks in asks the band to “keep the ruckus down.”

Another worker explains that Yang is engaged on a podcast about “AI and rural queers,” to which Yang waltzes again in to announce that he landed on a title for the podcast.

“It’s known as Beep Boop I’m Gay Now. It’s a play on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, but it surely’s not humorous in any respect,” Yang says.

Youssef makes an attempt to maintain performing, however Yang interrupts once more to say, “I’m just on an important zoom with Ira and Terry — Glass and Gross.”

Facing backlash from the offended crowd, Yang’s character tries to drop a tough reality: “I’m brave enough to say it, that desk is not tiny. Never was. Just feels small because there’s so much crap on it,” he says.

As the argument grows, Yang picks up a microphone and breaks into an impromptu taping for his podcast. Youssef agrees to take part — and even comes up with a theme track for the present.

“If you’re gay or a robot in a small rural town, beep beep beep boop,” the band sings.