Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter have Simon’s duetted Bound home to open the show, five decades Live on Saturday evening Luminary Steve Martin delivered the monologue, and Paul McCartney Schloss did an epic end of an 50th anniversary that celebrated the sketch institution, which was overcrowded with famous former actors, superstar guesters and legendary guests.
The 83-year-old Simon was important for SNL Since his earliest episodes in 1975 and the 25-year-old pop sensation of the moment, which he first performed “Bound home“On SNL 1976.
“I was not born at the time,” said Carpenter and laughed. “And my parents not,” she added, laughing bigger.
McCartney closed with the rarely listed song cycle from the Abbey Road of the Beatles, Golden slumber/wear this weight/endWith his wistful end “the love you take, corresponds to the love you make.”
Lil Wayne and Miley Cyrus were among the other musical guests of the night, although the musical legacy of the show on Friday also had its own evening with a Radio City Music Hall concert.
SNL50: The anniversary celebration Of course, broadcast live from New York on NBC and Peacock. Pop culture -Juggernaut has created the career of generations of comedians like Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wiig and wants to create Ferrell, all of which appeared in early sketches.
And the evening included Epic Kame, which included Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson and Keith Richards.
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Martin, one of the shows that have had most productive hosts and guests since the first season since the first season, tried to keep up to date on the monologue that looks backwards.
Martin said when the creator of the show, Lorne Michaels, only told him that he would do the monologue: “I actually went on vacation on the golf of Steve Martin on the boat.”
He was accompanied by earlier SNL Lights and frequent moderators Martin Short and John Mulaney, who looked at the stars of former hosts in the same Studio 8h on the 30th Rockefeller Plaza, which was the long -standing home of the show.
“I see some of the most difficult people I’ve ever met in my life,” said Mulaney. “894 people have organized over the course of 50 years Live on Saturday eveningAnd it surprises me that only two of them committed murder. “
Later, in the “weekend update” of the night, said Anchor Colin Jost that there were so many former hosts and musical guests who wanted to see the show that many had to sit in a neighboring studio and had to see some of the metropolitan detention center ” In Brooklyn “as a photo of Sean” Diddy “, combs appeared.
Martin made a bump in his monologue on the always difficult-to-to-to-toth-Bill Murray.
“We wanted to make sure Bill would be here tonight,” said Martin, “so we didn’t invite him.”
Murray appeared on “Weekend Update” to evaluate the show’s anchors because they started with Chevy Chase. He craved this from the group by first graduating from their black anchors, a list of only one, current co-mitmen Michael Che.
The extravagance came after months of celebrations Live on Saturday eveningwhich was premiered on October 11, 1975 with an original line -up, which included John Belushi, Chase and Gilda Radner.
It will become an appointment television over the years, since the show has spoiled presidents, politics and pop culture.
“It is an honor and a thrill to organize a weekend update for the 50th and when it turns on our last season from President SNL“, Said Jost.
The show had its typical end, and everyone involved looked enthusiastic and exhausted on the Studio stage. That night it was so overcrowded by lights that it looked as if it could break. Under the direction of a short time, they all applauded for homage to Michaels, who created the show and led for 45 years.
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Alec Baldwin, the most common host of the show with 17 stints, seemed to be presented with commercial parodies.
Aubrey Plaza has been one of her first public appearances since her husband’s death in January. She presented the performance of Cyrus and Howard.
The 87-year-old Nicholson was once a constant in the front ranks of the Oscars and Los Angeles Laker Games, but is rarely seen more. He introduced his Rage management Co-star Adam Sandler, who sang in his characteristic style about the history of the show.
Sandler gave a roll call from actors and drew special attention to the died, including his friends Chris Farley and Macdonald, together with Radner, Jan Hooks and Phil Hartman.
It ended at “six years of our young Farley, five of our buddy standard”.
The show had no formal “Im Memoriam” part, although it stated when the moderator Tom Hanks came to grief 10 times. “SNL Characters and sketches that have aged terribly. “
An assembly began with the “Samurai” character of the late Belushi. The word “Yikes” appeared on the screen in a sketch that contained Mike Myers and a young Macaulay Culkin in a bathtub. A “Body Shaming” label appeared over the beloved sketch of Farley and the late Patrick Swayze as a Chippendales dancer, and about one of the earliest of the show, Dan Aykroyd, said “Jane, she ignorant sut” to Jane Curtin, Jane Curtin, Jane, Jane Curtin, Jane Curtin, “Jane Curtin Curtin”, “Jane Curtin Curtin” to Jane Curtin, “Jane,” to Jane Curtin.
Today’s Aykroyd was a remarkable absence.
The oldest former actor, the 88-year-old Garrett Morris, seemed to present a film that showed the entire original line-up.
“I had no idea that I would have to do so many reunification shows,” he said.
Sketches and pieces with a former line -up and hosts
The “Black Jeopardy” sketch, which is hosted by the longest -running (and still current) actor of the show, Kenan Thompson,, which the game show described as the only one in which every single viewed Kendrick’s half -time performance fully understood.
It showed many of the best -known black actors of the show over the years, including Tracy Morgan and Murphy, who have left an impression of Morgan.
“Big dog will earn some big money!” Called Murphy-as-Morgan.
Streep continued as the mother of McKinn’s constant extraterrestrial Miss Rafferty.
Stepeps colleagues of all Time Council, Robert de Niro, combined with Rachel Dratch in a “Debbie Downer” sketch with his traditional trombone accompaniment.
The former actor Amy Poehler and former main author Tina Fey, who worked as a “Weekend Update” anchors, led a Q-and-A with questions from the audience.
Poehler also combined with Rudolph for a revival of her bogus discussion show. “Bronx Beat,“Mike Myers showed this as inspired with mother-in-law, strosand-loving character” Linda Richman “.
“Look at yourself, you both, you look like Buttah,” said Myers.
