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Feuding Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher appeared on Saturday Night Live last night.
Or at least James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman played the siblings, to talk about their band's forthcoming US reunion tour.
In one exchange they recall hanging out with the Spice Girls in their heyday. 'Wembley Stadium, 1993, yeah, we was with Posh Spice, Scary Spice, Stinky Spice,' Sherman’s Gallagher said. 'You told everyone I had a crooked nob, yeah, you said my nob’s bended like Beckham.'
Hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost also joked about Donald Trump‘s rallies, falling inflation and Nobel prizes.
Singer Ariana Grande hosted the episode
Here's the Oasis bit...
And here's another segment in which Ego Nwodim plays Monica, a happy Amazon employee discussing the company hitting a record number of orders on Prime Day.
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