Jenna Bush Hager Jokingly Blames Lorne Michaels for Being Cut From ‘SNL’ Sketch

Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers dropped a surprising piece of information while chatting with Jenna Bush Hager on the Las Culturistas podcast.

“You’ve kept the Bibb bob since you [got it],” Rogers pointed out during the Wednesday, May 20, episode, referring to when Bush Hager cut her hair live on TV when Leslie Bibb guest-hosted the fourth hour of Today with her in July 2025.

“It’s easier to keep it shorter,” Bush Hager noted, while Rogers stated, “I think this is your look.”

The discussion about Bush Hager’s haircut brought back a memory for Yang. “We had in our original draft of this bob sketch on SNL, we had your name in it,” he revealed. “We did Leslie Bibb’s and Jenna Bush Hager in it, too.”

Yang appeared in a November 2025 Saturday Night Live sketch titled “Bob Army,” which featured a military division that sported short, bob haircuts. “You’ve been assigned to the Slay Division,” Glen Powell‘s character stated in the skit, while Sarah Sherman adds, “And in the Slay Division, everybody gets bobbed.”

The sketch poked fun at the recent popularity of bob haircuts, such as the one Bibb sported in Season 3 of The White Lotus. The look even inspired Bush Hager’s own hair transformation.

“You cut me out of the bob skit?” a surprised Bush Hager asked on the podcast? Rogers quipped, “Listen, you made it into The Devil Wears Prada 2. You won.” (Bush Hager has a small cameo in the sequel film.)

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Bush Hager noted that she discussed the “Bob Army” sketch on the fourth hour of Today shortly after it came out. “I know you did,” Yang said. “And I wanted to text you and be like, ‘Your name was [in it]. It was like, ‘We answer to Leslie Bibb and Jenna Bush Hager.'”

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When asked who cut her from the sketch, Yang explained that the decision wasn’t personal. “It was not a cut. It was between dress [rehearsal] and air,” he said. “It was like, ‘OK, we gotta lose a minute from this,’ or whatever we had [to do].”

Bush Hager was shocked that the line featuring her name even made it to the dress rehearsal. She went on to share her own theory about why she was cut from the sketch, joking, “Lorne [Michaels] said, ‘Who the f**k is Jenna Bush Hager? I don’t think many people know who Jenna Bush Hager is.'”

Rogers argued that the SNL creator does know who Bush Hager is. “Well, he knew about you back in the day when he used to make fun of your a**,” he said, referring to when Amy Poehler and Tina Fey played Bush Hager and her twin sister, Barbara Bush, in a 2005 sketch.

Bush Hager previously brought up the “Bob Army” sketch on a November 2025 episode of Today With Jenna & Friends (now Today With Jenna & Sheinelle). “The people working on our staff are saying it may have been inspired by — it’s definitely inspired by Leslie Bibb, but also possibly me on the show. I’m not so sure.”

Guest host Olivia Munn said the sketch was “100 percent” inspired by Bush Hager and Bibb, and even showed a photo of the duo sporting army jackets with their bob on Jenna & Friends.

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