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Saturday Night Live celebrates 50 years with comedy, music and many, many famous friends

February 17, 2025
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Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter duetted on Simon’s Homeward Bound to open the show, five-decade Saturday Night Live luminary Steve Martin delivered the monologue, and Paul McCartney gave an epic closing to a 50th anniversary special celebrating the sketch institution that was overflowing with famous former cast members, superstar hosts and legendary guests.

The 83-year-old Simon has been essential to SNL since its earliest episodes in 1975, and told the 25-year-old pop sensation of the moment Carpenter that he first performed “Homeward Bound” on SNL in 1976.

“I was not born then,” Carpenter said, getting a laugh. “And neither were my parents,” she added, getting a bigger laugh.

 McCartney closed with the rarely performed song cycle from the Beatles’ Abbey Road, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End, with its wistful ending, “the love you take, is equal to the love you make.”

Lil Wayne and Miley Cyrus were among the night’s other musical guests, though the show’s musical legacy also had its own night with a Radio City Music Hall concert on Friday.

Tina Fey attends the anniversary special at Rockefeller Plaza on Sunday in New York. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters)

SNL50: The Anniversary Celebration aired live from New York, of course, on NBC and Peacock. The pop culture juggernaut has launched the careers of generations of comedians including Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell, who all appeared in early sketches.

And the evening included epic cameos that included Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson and Keith Richards.

Slew of celebrities

Martin, one of the shows most prolific hosts and guests since the first season in 1975, tried to keep it current in the monologue even on a backward-looking night.

Martin said when the show’s creator Lorne Michaels only told him he’d be doing the monologue, “I was actually vacationing on a friend’s boat down on the Gulf of Steve Martin.”

He was joined by former SNL luminaries and frequent hosts Martin Short and John Mulaney, who looked at the star-studded crowd full of former hosts in the same Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza that has been the show’s longtime home.

“I see some of the most difficult people I have ever met in my entire life,” Mulaney said. “Over the course of 50 years, 894 people have hosted Saturday Night Live, and it amazes me that only two of them have committed murder.”

Later, on the night’s “Weekend Update,” anchor Colin Jost said there are so many former hosts and musical guests that wanted to see the show that many had to be seated in a neighbouring studio and some had to watch “from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn” as a photo of Sean “Diddy” Combs appeared.

Martin took a jab at the always-difficult-to-wrangle Bill Murray in his monologue.

Bo Welch and Catherine O’Hara arrive for the Saturday Night Live 50: The Anniversary Special. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters)

“We wanted to make sure that Bill would be here tonight,” Martin said, “so we didn’t invite him.” 

Murray appeared on “Weekend Update” to rank the show’s anchors since they began with Chevy Chase. He poked at the whiteness of the group by first ranking its Black anchors, a list of just one, current co-anchor Michael Che.

The extravaganza came after months of celebrations of Saturday Night Live, which premiered Oct. 11, 1975, with an original cast that included John Belushi, Chase and Gilda Radner.

From left: SNL cast members Jane Curtain, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner and Laraine Newman are seen on set in February 1978. (Marty Lederhandler/The Associated Press)

It’s become appointment television over the years as the show has skewered presidents, politics and pop culture.
“It is a honour and a thrill to be hosting weekend update for the 50th and if it was up to our president final season of SNL,” Jost said.

The show had its typical ending, with all involved looking exhilarated and exhausted on the studio stage. This night it was so crowded with luminaries it looked like it might break. Led by Short, they all applauded in tribute to Michaels, who created the show and has run it for 45 of its 50 years.

Cameos and memorials

Alec Baldwin, the show’s most frequent host with 17 stints, appeared to introduce an evening of commercial parodies, seven months after his trial was halted and an involuntary manslaughter charge was dropped in the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. 

Aubrey Plaza made one of her first public appearances since the death of her husband in January. She introduced Cyrus and Howard’s performance.

The 87-year-old Nicholson was once a constant in the front rows of the Oscars and Los Angeles Laker games, but is rarely seen out anymore. He introduced his Anger Management co-star Adam Sandler, who sang in his signature style about the show’s history.

Sandler gave a roll-call of cast members, giving special attention to several who have died, including his friends Chris Farley and MacDonald along with Radner, Jan Hooks and Phil Hartman.

Jane Curtin was one of the original cast members. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

It ended with, “six years of our boy Farley, five of our buddy Norm.” 

The show didn’t have a formal “in memoriam” section, though it pretended to when 10-time host Tom Hanks came out to mourn “SNL characters and sketches that have aged horribly.”

A montage began with the late Belushi’s “Samurai” character. The word “Yikes” appeared on screen in a sketch that included 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 Chippendale’s dancers, and “slut shaming” appeared over one of the show’s earliest, catchphrases, Dan Aykroyd saying “Jane, you ignorant slut” to Jane Curtin.

From left: SNL cast members Amy Poehler, Bill Hader and Andy Samberg are seen on set from a past edition of the show’s Weekend Update segment. (Dana Edelson/NBC Universal/The Associated Press)

The current-day Aykroyd was a notable absence.

The oldest former cast member, 88-year-old Garrett Morris, appeared to introduce a film that showed the whole original cast.

“I had no idea y’all that I would be required to do so many reunion shows,” he said.

Sketches and bits with former cast and hosts

The sketch, “Black Jeopardy,” hosted by the show’s longest running (and still current) cast member, Kenan Thompson, who called the game show the only one “where every single viewer fully understood Kendrick’s halftime performance.”

U.S. comedian, actor and former cast member Will Ferrell attends the Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special in New York City on Sunday. (Evan Agostini/Invision/The Associated Press)

It showcased many of the show’s most prominent Black cast members through the years including Tracy Morgan and Murphy, doing a Morgan impression.

“Big Dog gonna make some big money!” Murphy-as-Morgan shouted.

Streep walked on as the mother of McKinnon’s constant alien abductee Miss Rafferty, with the same spread legs and vulgar manner.

Streep’s fellow all-time-great actor Robert De Niro paired with Rachel Dratch in a “Debbie Downer” sketch with its traditional trombone accompaniment. 

Former cast member Amy Poehler and former lead writer Tina Fey, who partnered as “Weekend Update” anchors, led a Q-and-A with audience questions.

Poehler also paired with Rudolph for a revival of their mock talk show “Bronx Beat,” that featured Mike Myers as his mother-in-law-inspired, Streisand-loving character “Linda Richman.” 

“Look at you, both of you, you look like buttah,” Myers said. 

SNL producer Lorne Michaels speaks in his New York office in November 1977. (Marty Reichenthal/The Associated Press)



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