Remember Hilary Duff‘s 2007 performance for the Today show’s summer concert series? SNL‘s Barry the Midwife (Bowen Yang) and Dr. Richards (Mikey Madison) do.
In “Barry the Midwife” on the latest episode (March 29) of Saturday Night Live, the midwife-and-doctor duo at first have an awkward run-in when their patient is giving birth and the OB-GYN doesn’t remember that she’s met Barry before. They later reconnect over their apparent love of Duff’s early 2000s pop discography — namely the music she sang and danced to from her third studio album, Dignity, on the early morning show’s stage many years ago. As it turns out, they met at the the barricade of Duff’s Today show concert.
The comedic sketch has Yang and Madison, the Oscar-winning Anora actress who hosted the episode, recreating Duff’s choreography.
Duff’s understated dance moves to her song “With Love” — choreo that was considered by many to be somewhat low effort, in retrospect — at some point went viral. Videos of her 2007 televised performance remain on YouTube, where to this day pop fans are still commenting (with love). Top-rated comments over the years include remarks like, “She gave unbothered, day drinking energy … I LOVE HER,” “Slay me lazy queen,” and “It’s not just a video. It’s a piece of history. I do, indeed, stan.” “
On Sunday, following the “Barry the Midwife” skit, the comments section on the old Duff clip was revived, with one person praising SNL for rebooting “this get-up-and-no-go classic.”
Saturday night’s episode of SNL aired another music-inspired sketch, “Big Dumb Line,” which featured a surprise cameo from Joe Jonas, plus two live performances from musical guest Morgan Wallen. Wallen played “I’m the Problem” and “Just in Case”; curiously, the country star also walked off the stage quite abruptly at the show’s end, when the cast and special guests say goodnight to viewers and mingle with one another.
Watch the SNL tribute to Duff’s pop star days in “Barry the Midwife” below.
