Dionne Warwick Crashed ‘SNL’ to Sing ‘What the World Needs Now Is Love’

Ego Nwodim has been impersonating Dionne Warwick on Saturday Evening Dwell’s its recurring Dionne Warwick Speak Present, however this week’s viewers lastly bought to see the true legend within the flesh. The legendary singer and TV host, whose Twitter account is likely one of the web site’s pure delights, has been lobbying to make her means onto the present for a short while now—and it’s solely becoming that she marked her debut with a serenade.

“I’m sick and bored with interviewing people who find themselves not icons!” Nwodim’s character mentioned partway by way of this week’s phase. “Please welcome… me!”

“Let me ask you one thing,” the impersonator requested her real-life inspiration. “Dionne—why are you excellent?”

The “Heartbreaker” singer’s reply was deeply on model: “My darling, I’m not excellent,” she mentioned with a cheeky grin. “I’m simply very, superb.”

Warwick gently teased the present in September when she “revealed” to her followers that she had, regrettably, not been requested to affix the solid this season. It seems SNL producers discovered a technique to convey her into the fold in spite of everything.

As Warwick closed her drop-in, Nwodim made her a proposal she couldn’t refuse: “Would you wish to sing a track for the individuals?”

“Do they deserve it?”

“I believe they do.”