A celebration of Saturday Evening Reside requires a minimum of one recreation present parody sketch, and earlier than the primary half hour of SNL50: The Anniversary Particular was up, we bought to “Black Jeopardy,” that includes Kenan Thompson, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, and Eddie Murphy… as Tracy Morgan.
Murphy proceeds to ship a pitch-perfect Morgan impression, ranting about his refusal to eat any lasagna with three or fewer cheeses and declaring that James Earl Jones was his organic father. Jones absolutely breaks over teh The sketch additionally spent an prolonged period of time masking how the present could be much less acquainted to Black audiences than white, as a query asking the contestants to call a late-night sketch comedy present that aires dwell on Saturdays led to solutions like Soul Practice and In Dwelling Coloration.
The sketch additionally options Chris Rock (the precise Rock as himself, one thing this text does even have to verify) tagging in for a query, in addition to the return of Tom Hanks as Doug, whose “Black Jeopardy” sketch is an all-timer.
Black Jeopardy! #SNL50 pic.twitter.com/QFKKTRWeer
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