--- description: The Saturday Night Live actress just wants handcuffs and a good car title: Vanessa Bayer Gets Fifty Shades of Awkward for Audi Commercial image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ba18a57bbb281fa/69877df106f2c16378333d81/vanessa-bayer.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Vanessa Bayer Gets Fifty Shades of Awkward for Audi Video by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 6, 2015 1:49 PM CUT  LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS -- Episode 141 -- Pictured: Actress Vanessa Bayer during an interview on December 16, 2014 -- (Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS -- Episode 141 -- Pictured: Actress Vanessa Bayer during an interview on December 16, 2014 -- (Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 6, 2015 1:49 PM CUT Audis: are they sexy, or are they suburban mom cars? In a [new video](http://mashable.com/2015/02/05/audi-50-shades-of-grey-ad/ "undefined") featuring _Saturday Night Live_ actress Vanessa Bayer, they can be both. Bayer spoofs the movie’s sleek elevator scene by propositioning strangers (“I’m working out right now — Kegels”) and mistaking one man’s Audi key as a gift for her (“Anastasia got one”). _Fifty Shades of Grey_ hits theaters Feb. 14, but some of us would probably rather see two hours of Bayer’s dorky-sexy routine. \[[_Mashable_](http://mashable.com/2015/02/05/audi-50-shades-of-grey-ad/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3698642/vanessa-bayer-fifty-shades-audi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3698642/vanessa-bayer-fifty-shades-audi/"},"headline":"Vanessa Bayer Gets Fifty Shades of Awkward for Audi Video","datePublished":"2015-02-06T13:49:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:12:32.343Z","description":"The Saturday Night Live actress just wants handcuffs and a good car","url":"https://time.com/3698642/vanessa-bayer-fifty-shades-audi/","keywords":["movies","SNL","Saturday Night Live","Audi","Fifty Shades of Grey"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ba18a57bbb281fa/69877df106f2c16378333d81/vanessa-bayer.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ba18a57bbb281fa/69877df106f2c16378333d81/vanessa-bayer.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Late Night with Seth Meyers - Season 2","caption":"Late Night with Seth Meyers - Season 2","creditText":"NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3698642/vanessa-bayer-fifty-shades-audi/","name":"Vanessa Bayer Gets Fifty Shades of Awkward for Audi Video"}}]}] ```