‘SNL 50’ The Homecoming Concert Packed With Star Alums and Epic Musical Acts

‘SNL 50’ placed on a live performance for the ages Friday night time in NYC … as a number of famous person musicians and former forged joined forces to have a good time ‘Saturday Night time Stay’s half-century milestone!

Miley Cyrus, Girl Gaga, Will Ferrell, Jimmy Fallon and Invoice Murray have been a number of the highlights within the packed” SNL 50: The Homecoming Live performance” present … which additionally featured performances by Bonnie Raitt and Chris Martin, Arcade Fireplace, David Byrne, St. Vincent and the Preservation Corridor Jazz Band and Publish Malone.

Miley labored the stage — and the viewers — because the three-time Grammy winner acting at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor early into the multi-hour celebratory occasion. MC belted Queen’s “Loopy Little Factor Referred to as Love” with Brittany Howard, in addition to her Grammy-winning hit, “Flowers.”

Miley did her factor … very a lot entertaining the gang with quippy remarks all through her efficiency, together with calling out to actor Paul Rudd within the viewers mid-chorus of “Flowers.”

“I really like you Paul Rudd,” Cyrus declared, with the digital camera slicing to a touched Rudd.

At one level, Cyrus additionally instructed the celebrity-filled viewers at Radio Metropolis: “Are y’all doing that Grammys factor the place you guys are well-known and s**t and also you don’t sing alongside, excuse my language?”

Girl Gaga lent her award-winning vocals to an iconic (and a bit naughty) “Saturday Night time Stay” tune at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York Metropolis on Friday, — alongside Andy Samberg — the place the pair kicked off a star-studded tribute to Samberg’s beloved comedy troupe, The Lonely Island.

After a pitchy rendition of Gaga’s “A Star Is Born” hit “Shallow,” the pop star pivoted Samberg to one thing extra in his wheelhouse: 2009 SNL tremendous common parody track, “D— in a Field,” which Samberg initially carried out with Justin Timberlake.

Gaga took on Timberlake’s vocals whereas enjoying the piano, giving the comedic hit a soulful twist. In addition they segued into “Motherlover,” one other Timberlake and Samberg pairing from SNL in 2009.

The fan-favorite ‘The Culps’ returned to catch us up on the previous 20 years in music (and newer music feuds) in the course of the homecoming live performance.

Alums Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer reprised the hilarious music-teaching couple they portrayed from 1996 to 2002 … full with a canopy of Kendrick Lamar‘s ‘Not Like Us’!

Along with Britney Spears’ ‘Work Bitch’, Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ ‘Unholy’, Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Physique’ and Chappell Roan’s ‘Good Luck Babe’, the duo gave their rendition of Lamar’s diss monitor in opposition to Drake.

“Are Kenny Lamar and Drake Graham in the home, by the best way? Possibly you two can hug it out tonight within the identify of affection and fellowship,” Ferrell’s Marty Culp joked. “No? Not in hell?”

In fact … the night wouldn’t have been full and not using a go to from ‘The Californians’ … “Stuart? What are you doing right here?”

The acquainted phrase was heard once more amid the ‘SNL 50’ celebration as Kristen Wiig, Invoice Hader and Fred Armisen reunited to reprise their roles from the traditional Californians sketch sequence.

The trio was a part of a industrial for Volkswagen, which sponsored the specials celebrating ‘Saturday Night time Stay’s fiftieth anniversary.

For the uninitiated … ‘The Californians’ was a recurring sketch on NBC’s late-night comedy present that mocked the California accent in a cleaning soap opera setting.

Wiig, Hader, and Armisen fashioned a love triangle within the sequence of sketches that featured the characters naming all of the streets and freeways across the Los Angeles space … ‘trigger it’s a must to know get round!

How do you probably comply with Miley Cyrus and Dangerous Bunny in the course of the ‘SNL 50: The Homecoming Live performance’? With a traditional sketch character.

SNL alum Bill Murray graced the stage at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor … reprising his smooth-talking character Nick the Lounge Singer (aka Nick Valentine), accompanied by Paul Shaffer on piano.

Following a humorous monologue about “an rising acceptance of various kinds of households, various kinds of relationships,” earlier than introducing “three of probably the most stunning girls a person might ever hope to satisfy.”

Murray, who created the character throughout his 1977-1980 run as an SNL castmember, was then joined by fellow alums Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph and Cecily Robust in ’60s stylish backup singer apparel, accompanying him with a efficiency of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “You’re All I Must Get By.”

Jimmy Fallon had the glory to kick issues off on the ‘SNL 50: The Homecoming Live performance,’ alongside The Roots to pay tribute to The Blues Brothers.

Following the efficiency, Fallon revealed he was “out of breath” and thanked the “assortment of expertise” who attended the homage.

The ‘Tonight Present’ host then took a jab at himself, answering why he was internet hosting the particular, saying, “Effectively, it’s award season, which implies I obtained nothing occurring proper now.”

JF famous that he has two issues in widespread with SNL … they each flip 50 this yr, including, “And if we’re being sincere, we each peaked round 25.”

Jimmy clarified that the three-hour present would solely current musical friends and never hand out awards … which resulted within the hilarious second of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson getting up and waking out.