Saturday Night Live celebrated five decades on the air style with a bevy of guest stars for its fiftieth anniversary special, including Kim Kardashian.
The 44-year-old reality star made a surprise appearance on the SNL50 special as a member of the Maharelle Sisters from the Finger Lakes, regular guests on the sketch-comedy show’s version of The Lawrence Welk Show.
Kim elicited gasps and cheers from the audience as returning star Kristen Wiig drummed on her pert derriere, but the show had plenty of other buzzy moments, including an awkward one featuring Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively amid her dueling lawsuits with Justin Baldoni.
Fred Armisen was back as Welk, and he was hosting hosting the three Maharelle sisters from the Finger Lakes, who were played this time by Kim, Scarlett Johansson and Ana Gasteyer.
Will Ferrell upstaged them as Robert Goulet by riding in on a motorcycle with a sidecar.
He was entranced by the trio, until Kristen Wiig made her customary appearance as the forgotten fourth sister, Dooneese.
SNL celebrated five decades with a bevy of guest stars for its SNL50 special, including Kim Kardashian. The 44-year-old reality star made a surprise appearance as a member of the Maharelle Sisters from the Finger Lakes
Kim elicited gasps and cheers from the audience as returning star Kristen Wiig drummed on her pert derriere
She had the character’s long doll hands, extended forehead and snaggletooth.
‘Forehead!’ he exclaimed as Kristen began to rub her tiny hands over her other sisters as they sang.
Kim was a good sport as she turned around to show off her pert derriere while Kristen started spanking it with her doll arms.
The backing band’s drummer got in on the action and doubled Kristen’s rhythm on the drum set.
Despite initially being turned off by Kristen’s character, Will found himself oddly turned on by her after a third doll hand appeared out of nowhere as she tried to pry open his mouth.
‘I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I think I love you,’ he said, surprising himself.
Saturday Night Live kicked off its grand 50th anniversary celebration in a surprise manner by eschewing its usual cold open.
Instead, Paul Simon paid tribute to the late George Harrison by performing his Simon & Garfunkel classic Homeward Bound, this time with Sabrina Carpenter filling in for Garfunkel.
The 83-year-old singer noted he performed the song with the former Beatle back in 1976 on SNL, while Sabrina, 25, joked that she wasn’t alive back then — and neither were her parents.
‘It’s Saturday night!’ they cried out after wrapping up the touching performance in a nod to the standard cold-open tag.
The 50th anniversary schedule featured opening credits that drew from various SNL eras, before the show’s longtime regular guest Steve Martin stepped out in a tux.
He took some shots at the second Trump administration, joking that he was the show’s newest ‘diversity hire,’ and he said it took him a while to get to the studio because he was vacationing in the ‘Gulf of Steve Martin.’
He took a shot at former cast member Bill Murray by joking that they made sure he wouldn’t miss the show by not inviting him.
John Mulaney also made a quick appearance to poke fun at Steve for his lack of style.
Then his Only Murders In The Building costar Martin Short dropped by.
Steve joked that he was the ‘only Canadian who wasn’t in Schitt’s Creek,’ and he cut him off by inquiring if he had his passport with him, before calling in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to take him away.
Later, Kenan Thompson took over as the host of the regular Black Jeopardy sketch.
Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan and Eddie Murphy were the contestants, but, confusingly, Eddie was playing Tracy and trying to mimic his famous halting delivery.
Tom Hanks appeared toward the end of the sketch to reprise his Trump-loving white contestant who had a surprising number of — superficial — similarities to the other contestants.
