Saturday Evening Stay celebrated 50 years on Saturday, February 15, with a three-and-a-half-hour prime-time particular that featured SNL stars of previous and current, A-list company, musical tributes, and iconic performances.
Legendary SNL alum Steve Martin kicked off the night time with the opening monologue, jokingly describing himself because the present’s “latest variety rent.”
“After I heard that SNL wished to do an anniversary particular, I actually wished to leap into the air, and the one cause I didn’t is as a result of, on the time, I used to be carrying a brief skirt with no underwear,” he continued. “Now I can’t consider I even made it right here in time. It was only some days in the past that Lorne [Michaels] advised me I used to be doing the monologue, and I used to be truly vacationing on a pal’s boat down within the ‘Gulf of Steve Martin.’”
Martin’s monologue was simply the beginning of an evening of celebration, reunions, and heartfelt moments. Take a look at extra beneath.
Iconic Characters Return
It wouldn’t have been proper to mark 50 years of SNL with out a number of the present’s most memorable characters. Fortunately, many had been available to have a good time, together with Kristen Wiig’s Dooneese, Will Ferrell’s Robert Goulet, Molly Shannon’s Sally O’Malley, Pete Davidson’s Chad, Rachel Dratch’s Debbie Downer, Cecily Robust’s the Woman You Want You Hadn’t Began a Dialog With at a Get together, and Bobby Moynihan’s Drunk Uncle.
Different legendary SNL alum additionally appeared, together with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Invoice Murray, and extra. They joined present stars Kenan Thompson, Michael Che, Colin Jost, and Bowen Yang.
Meryl Streep Makes SNL Debut
The night time was packed stuffed with A-list stars, together with Pedro Pascal, Woody Harrelson, Blake Vigorous, Aubrey Plaza, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Scarlett Johansson, and Jon Hamm. Nevertheless, maybe the largest star of all was multi-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep, making her first-ever look on the long-running sketch present.
Streep joined Kate McKinnon’s fan-favorite character, the chain-smoking Colleen Rafferty, the place she was revealed as Colleen’s raunchy mother.
Adam Sandler Performs Emotional Musical Tribute
There have been musical performances all through the night time, together with basic period stars Paul Simon and Paul McCartney, in addition to trendy favorites Dangerous Bunny and Sabrina Carpenter. However it was SNL alum Adam Sandler who had, surprisingly, probably the most touching musical second of the night.
Armed together with his guitar, Sandler carried out a music honoring the present’s longtime crew members, sharing recollections and jokes alongside the way in which.
Tom Hanks Remembers SNL‘s Dangerous Moments
Tom Hanks was available to introduce a video bundle highlighting a few of SNL‘s less-remembered sketches, a lot of which had aged poorly.
Hanks acknowledged lots of the sketches proven within the spotlight reel “had been unquestionably in poor style,” noting, nevertheless, “You all laughed at them. So if anybody must be canceled, shouldn’t it’s you, the viewers?”
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