Andrew Schulz Comes Back from Saudi Arabia with Strong Opinions on Bad Bunny
Andrew Schulz has made a habit of needing to publicly correct his own terrible opinions in recent months. First, he said that maybe voting for Donald Trump was a bad idea — that the current reality in the U.S. doesn’t align with what he thought he was voting for. Now, he’s walking back his comments on the global superstar, Saturday Night Live Season 51’s first host and Super Bowl performer Bad Bunny.
“A few months ago, I had this take where I was like there’s no way that like Bad Bunny’s the biggest music star in the fucking world,” Schulz said on the Flagrant podcast. “There’s no way that he can do the Super Bowl.”
As his co-host Akash Singh pointed out, Schulz is often wrong. But Schulz got defensive with the panel of fellow hosts, clarifying, “I never said he wasn’t big enough.” He just thought that Bad Bunny, an American citizen, wasn’t American enough to perform at the most American sport: football.
Don't Miss
From there, Schulz continued to speak, not adding much credibility to his opinion. “Listen, I don’t know a single song of Bad Bunny, but I like him as an actor. I like him in WWE,” Schulz said. “But the guy doesn’t have a song in English, so I thought it’d be difficult to do.”
The conversation devolved into incest fantasies, as seems to happen often on Flagrant. But Schulz said that he came around on the idea that maybe Bad Bunny is in fact famous enough to helm the massive Super Bowl show. He still doesn’t feel confident about the lyrics not being in English, but at this point, Schulz should be an old pro at picking up other languages.
After all, the world traveler just completed a spate of international shows, including in Saudi Arabia at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Maybe that globe-trotting helped open up the comedian’s eyes, because a few minutes later, Schulz made another declaration about Bad Bunny: “I’ve adjusted my take on Bad Bunny, by the way,” Schulz explained. “Since like maybe 25 minutes ago. I thought it didn’t make sense, right? Because the guy doesn’t have a song in English, and football’s only played in America.”
His panel jumped in to point out that NFL games are played in other countries now, and again, that Bad Bunny is one of the biggest artists in the world. “I’ve already acknowledged he’s one of the biggest artists in the world in history,” Schulz continued. “I’ve never said anything about that. Never been critical about the music. What I’m saying, I didn’t think it made sense branding wise. So, I’m like, why don’t you put a country artist?”
“But then we were talking. I was like, ‘Oh, the NFL is just trying to be an international brand. They're doing the games in London,’” Schulz added with the excitement of a toddler figuring out how a fridge door works. “They’re doing the games in Mexico City. They’re trying to expand. Bad Bunny might represent all the people who don’t watch the Super Bowl.”
Congrats, dude. It must be exciting to wake up every day and slowly figure out how little pieces of the world work on your own time.
