“Saturday Night time Reside” celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this weekend with a particular montage of previous clips of skits and performances. To some viewers’ shock, the footage included the appearances of the now-widely-controversial musicians, Sean “Diddy” Combs and R. Kelly.
Earlier than the montage of movies, Tom Hanks gave a somber but satirical introduction, citing the achievements of the present in addition to the widespread number of celebrities from musicians to actors who’ve been featured within the skits.
“As we have fun the achievements of the previous 50 years, we should additionally take a second to honor those that we’ve misplaced, numerous members of the SNL household, taken from us too quickly. I’m talking, after all, about SNL characters and sketches which have aged horribly. However, regardless that these characters, accents and, let’s simply name them… ethnic wigs, have been unquestionably in poor style, you all laughed at them,” Hanks mentioned within the section. “So if anybody needs to be canceled, shouldn’t or not it’s you, the viewers? One thing to consider. Anyway, we now current to you this in memoriam.”
Because the particular continued, headings got here throughout the display screen categorizing the celebrities featured. Below “Problematic Visitors” was a 2010 clip that includes Robert De Niro (who was cosplaying as a girl) and Combs. Within the skit, Combs flirts with De Niro’s character saying, “Should you wasn’t my mans’ mother, I’d tear that ass up.” De Niro’s character then grinds on Diddy earlier than the rapper utters the road: “Don’t choose a e book by its cowl. My man is like R. Kelly…”
On queue, the section then performs a lower of R. Kelly smiling on the principle SNL set standing subsequent to Girl Gaga. In that episode, the 2 carried out an excessively sexual rendition of “Do What U Need (With My Physique).”
The section was actually a jab on the musicians’ controversial intercourse crime circumstances. R. Kelly was sentenced in Chicago to twenty years in jail for baby intercourse abuse and 30 years for racketeering, sexual exploitation of kids and interstate prostitution in Brooklyn. Then again, Combs is presently in jail dealing with federal intercourse crime costs together with trafficking and racketeering on allegations that he sexually abused each women and men.
Among the many different segments have been acknowledgments of unhealthy jokes, racist moments, sexist jabs and problematic characters. SNL undoubtedly didn’t shrink back from protecting the highs and lows over the course of the present’s previous 50 years.