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'SNL' sends up the NPR Tiny Desk with an intern who pleads, 'keep the ruckus down'

Saturday Night Live poked fun at NPR's Tiny Desk this weekend, with Bowen Yang playing the part of an aggravated intern who just wants the band to keep it down so he can get back to work.
A view of NPR's Tiny Desk.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, count us flattered. poked fun at this weekend in a skit about an office concert gone awry after it gets interrupted by a work-obsessed NPR intern.

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