 Two weeks after its premiere , the video was parodied by actress Sarah Michelle Gellar on Saturday Night Live , who said ( playing Aguilera ) : " When people see this video , they gonna stop thinking of me as some blonde @-@ haired , bubblegum , music @-@ industry ho – and start thinking of me as an actual ho . " Aguilera later commented that she found the parody disappointing and that she " could have made a funnier script out of it . " The song was covered by British Ed Sheeran for a Live Lounge session of BBC Radio 1 in February 2015 . Sheeran 's performance was instrumented by guitar and incorporated soul elements . " Dirrty " was also parodied by Stephen Merchant on the show Lip Sync Battle in May 2015 . 
