Saturday Night time Stay has spent the weekend celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. On Friday, February 14, NBC aired SNL50: The Homecoming Concert—a dwell present broadcast from New York Metropolis’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor on NBC—with performances from David Byrne and Robyn (singing “Dancing on my Personal”), Lady Gaga and Andy Samberg (delivering a rendition of The Lonely Island’s “Dick in a Field”), and extra.
Tonight, Lorne Michaels & co. adopted up the live performance with SNL50: The Anniversary Particular, a three-hour dwell manufacturing with musical performances, monologues, and new takes on traditional sketches, all that includes particular company from all through the legendary comedy present’s historical past. Scroll down to observe chosen clips of the night time.
SNL 50 kicked off with Sabrina Carpenter and Paul Simon on the Studio 8H stage, the place they carried out a duet of the Simon & Garfunkel track “Homeward Certain.” “I sang this track with George Harrison on Saturday Night time Stay in 1976,” Simon stated. “I used to be not born then,” Carpenter added, “and neither have been my dad and mom.” Then, the 2 delivered the present’s signature introduction: “Stay from New York, it’s Saturday night time!”
A monologue from Steve Martin adopted, in addition to a number of sketches, together with a parody of The Lawrence Whelk Present with Fred Armisen, Will Ferrell, and Kristen Wiig making her return as Dooneese, the oddball fourth sibling of the musically-inclined Maharelle Sisters. Keenan Thompson, Leslise Jones, Tracy Morgan, Eddie Murphy (as Tracy Morgan), Chris Rock, and Tom Hanks all appeared in “Black Jeopardy.”
Sabrina Carpenter returned for a 3rd entry in SNL’s “Domingo” sequence (Ariana Grande and Charli XCX, respectively, appeared within the earlier two iterations). This time, Kelsey (Chloe Fineman), her bridesmaids, and her childhood bestie (Carpenter) had taken a visit to Manhattan to see Depraved earlier than her vow renewal to Andrew Dismukes’ Matthew. What started as a parody of “Defying Gravity” shifted into into Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me,” and predictably, it seems Kelsey’s nonetheless holding a candle for Domingo (Marcello Hernandez). However Matthew’s groomsmen—Samberg, Bowen Yang, Kyle Mooney, and Beck Bennett—had a comeback, performing their very own model of “Espresso” and revealing Dismukes’ personal tryst with Domingo’s older brother Ronaldo (Pedro Pascal). Lastly, Bad Bunny joined the celebration because the third “sizzling brother,” Santiago.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler then took the stage for a Q&A portion with a few of the particular’s celeb viewers members. SNL “superfan” Quinta Brunson requested: “Within the March 13, 1993 episode, Tim Meadows whispered one thing to musical visitor Sade—what was it?” Meadows, additionally within the viewers, stated he’s most likely requested her if she needed to drink some Zima in his dressing room, play Mortal Kombat I, and watch the “new, cool” Menendez trial. Cher didn’t have a query, however she did “have a lotta solutions,” and Keith Richards needed to know if anybody had seen the headband he left within the studio in 1988.
