After half a century of comedy and music (and sometimes feel like equal piles and hype), how did you finally kick off the prime time 50th anniversary special for “Saturday Night Live”? Quiet and quiet, it turns out.
The long-awaited “SNL50: Anniversary Special” was shared on Sunday with musicians Paul Simon (decades of “SNL” stalwart) and Sabrina Carpenter (May 2024 musical guest) at the show's familiar home The stage base is located in Studio 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
They swap a simple joke and set up a theme that will relapse for the rest of the night: time has passed, whether you like it or not. Simon said they were about to play the song he performed on a 1976 show with George Harrison. “I’m not born yet,” Carpenter said, “not my parents.”
Who else can perform an opening monologue on this occasion, but Steve Martin, 16-year-old host, gave some necessity to his 1970s up-and-coming show when it just started credibility and momentum.
Martin introduced himself as the show’s “Latest Diversity Lease” on Sunday night, reminding viewers that “SNL” is only 50 when she is 79 years old. OK ”
Martin said, however, he didn't mind getting older, asking, “Do you think these hearing aids will make my butt look smaller?” He also pointed out what he called “fun facts”: “Today is on Saturday Night Live “People born in the first season are prone to die for natural reasons.”
John Mulaney, a regular host for a former “SNL” writer, came to the stage and expressed his thoughts on the longevity of the show. “In 50 years, 894 people hosted the Saturday Night Live,” Mulanney said. “What surprised me was that only two people committed the murder.”
Of course, you can't have Steve Martin's monologue (or “the only Canadian who isn't in 'Schitt's Creek' without the appearance of his friend and co-star Martin Short,” ” Martin calls him him). Short said he thought the two were going to hold together, and Martin asked him if he had a passport. When Short answered no, Martin shouted two immigration and customs law enforcement officers to pull him off the stage.
“My name is!” Short begged as he was dragged away, shouting the names of other Canadian performers.
To end his monologue, Martin looked at the camera and told the audience if they didn't like it: “Maybe you should get up and look at yourself nicely in the mirror and say to yourself, 'What am I becoming? This is not Steve The fault. Ask yourself, “When will I give up on joy? ””
Celebrity All-Stars at Night
In his early sketches, he served as a contestant in a long-time game show imitation of “Black Danger.” But he is more than just any contestant: Murphy is playing Tracy Morgan and real-life Morgan, who plays another contestant named Darius. Murphy – As he tends to do so, he is happy with his alternative role, boasting that Morgan might prove his wealth: “I ate four cheese lasagna,” he declared. “If there were only three cheeses, I wouldn't have eaten it.” (Even Tom Hanks did not reprimand the “Black Danger” role of conservative voters named Doug, and could not sketch it. Stealed from him.)
To stick to the night, your reward is Murphy's second pair of shorts to help prisoners).
And if you're waiting to see how Meryl Streep finally made her “SNL” sketch debut, it's time tonight – not in music numbers or a tribute to Hollywood history , instead of alien kidnapping sitting next to Kate McKinnon, Pedro Pascal and Woody Harrelson's show's “Intimate Encounter” series . Like McKinnon did in these sketches, Streep was undoubtedly in the narrative story-in this case, Jon Hamm and Aidy Bryant) – Her character lost her pants. As she said, “In terms of underwear, this devil wears Nada.”
The problem with the audience at night
It's a proud tradition when the authors don't know what to do with their celebrity hosts: have them ask questions from their audience (they are played by the ringtones by actors and writers). Tonight, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have skillfully updated the tradition, asking questions from celebrity guests present.
Many highlights of the section include Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”) asking Tim Meadows what he whispered to Sade at the end of 1993 (he replied that he invited her to drink Zima, play Mortal Kombat, and look at “new”, very Cool Menendez Trial”); Jon Lovitz asked why he had to watch the anniversary in the American Girls Store across the street (“I’m not angry, I just want to know why,” he said). Julia Louis-Dreyfus uses her service dog to try to flirt with the Adam driver; Fred Armisen advocates for a sketch he wrote called “The Vampire Office”, he The sketch was cut in 2005 after a successful dress rehearsal.
Fey and Poehler encouraged him to resubmit. “That's great,” Armisen said. “Next time Spacey host.”
Weekend update jokes
On the weekend's update desk, anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che continued to riff on the show's 50th anniversary.
Joester started:
Having the 50th weekend update is a kind of honor and excitement, if done by our President, the last season of “SNL”, which is still going on after all the time. I'm just talking about tonight's show. There are so many famous hosts and musical guests here tonight that there are actually some big names that have to be viewed from Studio 8G next door and from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. [His screen showed a picture of Sean Combs.]
Keep going:
“Saturday Night Live” won 95 Emmys, one Grammy, three peabodys, and more than 100 tonnage on the crew. [His screen showed a picture of several middle-age white guys who looked like crew members.] I'm kidding, but actually let's take a moment to thank those hard-working crew members. I would like to thank those crew members and congratulate them on their January 6 pardon. Glad to have you back, guys!
In the look of other tables, we learn that the girl you wish you hadn't talked to at the party was with a drunk uncle (Bobby Moynihan) and Whispery, destroying Kim Jong-un's friends -un and Vlaki Mir Putin (Armisen and Vanessa Bayer) also had dirt on their friend Lorne Michaels.
But perhaps the most surprising cameo comes from Bill Murray, a previous weekend update himself who offers a ranking of the best anchors ever to host the section:
10. ColinQuinn, 9. Kevin Nealon, 8. Dennis Miller, 7. SethMeyers, 6. Fey and Jimmy Fallon, 5. Feyand Poehler, 4. ChevyChase, 3. JaneCurtin and Dan Aykroyd, 2. NormMacdonald, Norm Macdonald. ,1. His brother, Brian Doyle-Murray.
Discuss between yourself.
Sandman at night
Who would have thought Adam Sandler was one of the so-called “bad boys” of the 1990s era – who would grow up to be a big old bastard?
Recently, Sandler and his comedy songs (Chris Farley Song) and his comedy songs (Chris Farley Song) evoke spring ballads. Sandman made another humorous but tender tribute on Sunday, paying tribute to the 50-year history of “SNL”, which brings internal jokes and pays tribute to the crew on screen, such as the prompt card Processors Wally Feresten and nurses Theresa Hayde, Theresa Hayde, except for yelling at actors like Jan Hooks, Victoria Jackson, Melanie Hutsell, Tim Kazurinsky and Ellen Cleghorne.
If that's not poignant enough, Sandler's song was introduced by his “Anger Management” co-star Jack Nicholson, who performed well during his anniversary.
John Mulaney at night
If you have Mulaney on “SNL”, you can only get a list of musical sketches about highly unpleasant foods you can buy and a series of musical sketches that get abominable places in New York. Reasonable.
But, wow: Who prepares for the tour he and his collaborators delivered on Sunday, which puts audiences on a journey through urban music history from the 1970s to today? It is the film and musicals “Famous”, “The Lion King”, “The Little Horror Shop”, “Love Suffering” and “Hamilton” (McKinnon, as former mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani announced , she will actually throw away her shot).
As a perennial center for disasters and opportunities, it's a clear and loving tribute – it will be very difficult next time Mulaney takes the show.
Among other legends of the ongoing “SNL” franchise, there is also a new work in the story of Marcello Hernández – the unexpected virus series began with the sketch of “Brathermaids Speech” in October – added Pascal and Bad Bunny, As pascal and Bad Bunny his equally lewd brother. Although the series puts social media decades earlier, Jack Handey’s “deep thoughts” are back, just in time for the bite-sized Tiktok consumption era.
In other parts of the night:
Tom Schiller's 1978 short film “Don't Go Back to Angry”, in which John Belushi visits the cemetery of his late “SNL” co-star with his old makeup, The roles played now vary greatly: belushi became the first “SNL” performer to die just four years later, at the age of 33. However, what still appears in the movie is that “SNL” refuses to be too emotional about his past.
This atmosphere is in new segments like “StageHand” (original actor Laraine Newman revisits “SNL” and meets the worker played by Pete Davidson who doesn't know who she or the show is) and Andy Thumberg The number is short “anxious”, and he assures us that everyone who has worked in “SNL” has anxiety. (Probably IBS)
The All-Star Anniversary Format is a welcome opportunity to see characters from different generations of “SNL” actors hanging out and hanging out with each other, whether it's an awkward duet between Robert Goulet (Ferrell) and Dooneese (Kristen Wiig), or by Guest appearances of Linda Richman, Mike Myers, hosted by Betty (Poehler) and Maya Rudolph. We're just thinking about it!
It's great to see Rachel Dratch return to the role of Sourpuss Debbie Downer, just like Robert De Niro finally tells her after he finally scolds the microplastics. “I want to laugh, feel happy, and for three [expletive] My life's hours. “De Niro protested. “That's what I want. I'm here tonight to spend a little bit of it from our world. It's like living in a full diapers. ”
Over the next 50 years, it may be that “snl” will bring these words to its heart.
