Yesterday, on Saturday Night Live’s 50th during Black Jeopardy, none of the contestants had ever heard of the variety show.
While that was SNL, would the contestants on Jeopardy do a better job answering the clues to questions about the comedy show? They did! However, there was one question that they all got wrong, and I think White Doug would’ve gotten correct!
Now that SNL is 50! Jeopardy could’ve had a whole board dedicated to the series. Lord knows, there are enough factoids for 30 clues. For example, This current SNL player hosts Pop Culture Celebrity.
Yesterday, Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th Anniversary, so NBC threw the Variety show a huge party. How big? They were able to coerce Jack Nicholson to come out of wherever he has been hiding to introduce his Anger Management co-star, Adam Sandler.
This is the first time we have seen Jack on camera (that wasn’t a basketball game) since SNL’s 40th celebration!
Therefore, NBC needs to keep SNL going for another ten years, so we can see the legendary actor at the 60th when he is 97 years young! Because I am sure he will still be sexy in his own special way.
Yesterday was Saturday Night Live’s first episode during his second term as president. So, of course, they started off the episode by tackling his frightening first week in office again.
They did that by taking it back to 1776, when the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. And if you do that, you need Alexander Hamilton. So, Lorne Michaels asked Lin-Manuel Miranda to reprise his most famous role 24 hours before the show went live. And the musical genius said yes.
And we are happy Lin-Manuel Miranda Cosgrove did because his appearance made a spot-on sketch even funnier! Especially when he broke. But he did try his best not to laugh. It was just too hard not to.
Colin Jost comes off as a nice guy from Staten Island, but he showed signs of being a true New Yorker during yesterday’s Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live.
Last week on Wheel of Fortune, a contestant accidentally knocked Ryan Seacrest during a winning hug.
Well, Jost, who hosts his own game show, Pop Culture Jeopardy, had a message for anyone who plans to do that to him. Don’t you dare do that to him because he has a gun behind his podium. So if you win, celebrate with the two people you are playing with, not Mr. Scarlett Johansson.
This is Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary year, so a lot of past primetime players have been coming back to say hi!
This week was no different. Adam Sandler made a surprise cameo (his first since he hosted in 2019) to support his friend and former SNL castmate, Chris Rock, who was hosting yesterday’s show.
Sandler played a man who was getting a botched operation, and someone gave him a hose that had an unlimited supply of blood in it. And he used it on everyone who was in the skit! So much so that the Terrifier franchise has nothing on that sketch!
While the skit might not have been the best, seeing them all have fun made it worth it.
