It’s enjoyable, however not all that shocking when Jim Carrey, Matt Damon or Brad Pitt present up on Saturday Night time Reside to cameo as a well-known political determine. The actual bewilderment comes when actually out-of-left-field celebrities present up with out warning. And over the course of almost 50 seasons, SNL has performed that “what the what?” card loads of occasions. Listed here are seven of essentially the most “Are you freaking kidding me?!?!” cameos within the present’s historical past…
Carol Burnett
As lately as final 12 months, Burnett turned frosty when requested if she’d ever host Saturday Night time Reside: “I might not have an interest. That’s all I can say.” That’s as a result of Lorne Michaels repeatedly used her present for instance of hack-y sketch comedy that his SNL would keep away from. However Burnett has appeared on the present. Again in Season 10 (a 12 months, maybe crucially, that Michaels didn’t produce), she was within the viewers when comedian/magician Harry Anderson was host. At present’s finish, Anderson introduced that “one of many the explanation why we’re on this enterprise is true right here.” He went into the viewers, took Burnett by the hand and introduced her onstage for applause.
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William S. Burroughs
Again in Season Seven, Beat Technology icon Burroughs confirmed as much as sit behind a metallic desk and skim passages from Bare Lunch. It was about as humorous because it sounds.
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Joey Buttafuoco
Heard the identify however can’t place his infamy? In 1992, Buttafuoco had an affair with a 15-year-old minor, Amy Fisher. Fisher shot Buttafuoco’s spouse Mary Jo within the face, incomes her the tabloid nickname Lengthy Island Lolita. How any of those sordid particulars earned statutory rapist Buttafuoco a walk-on on SNL is a thriller but it surely occurred. The bit: Quiz Present star John Turturro is internet hosting the present — if he can’t reply game-show questions appropriately, Buttafuoco stood by within the wings to interchange him.
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Richard Jewell
In 1996, Jewell was first lauded as a hero for locating a pipe bomb on the Summer time Olympic Video games in Atlanta, then vilified when some suspected he planted the bomb himself. Jewell was ultimately confirmed harmless after the actual bomber was caught, by some means incomes the previous safety guard a spot on Weekend Replace with a suspicious Norm Macdonald. You possibly can see Jewell’s awkward look on the 2:05 mark.
Monica Lewinsky
Lewinsky was an SNL punching bag for months, portrayed by Molly Shannon as an “oversexual airhead” who flirted (and presumably extra) with essentially the most highly effective males on the earth. Both Lewinsky was an unbelievable sport or a girl seeking to retake management of her narrative when she guested in 1999. However couldn’t SNL have discovered a extra dignified sketch than making her a “very attractive and really particular” visitor alongside Tim Meadows’ drooling Women Man?
Janet Reno
Like Lewinsky, the U.S. lawyer basic was the topic of a not-exactly-flattering portrayal by Will Ferrell. In a Playboy interview, Ferrell defined, “Someone’s at all times going to do the president and doubtless the vice chairman, however there’s no cause to do Reno. It’s creating one thing out of nowhere.” In January 2001, the actual Reno actually crashed Ferrell’s recurring sketch, “Janet Reno’s Dance Social gathering” by breaking by way of a wall, Kool-Help Man fashion. Peacock reduce the sketch from its model of the episode, however there’s Reno chilling with Lenny Kravitz for the good-nights.
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Mark Zuckerberg
Hey, should you can harness the comedian genius of a Zuckerberg, why wouldn’t you? Jessie Eisenberg was the host of a 2011 episode when he was confronted by Andy Samberg’s model of the Fb chief. Backstage, the actual Zuck begs Lorne Michaels to go onstage. “These guys are such nerds!” he protests whereas nervously glancing straight into the digital camera. “Come on, I invented poking.” When Zuckerberg lastly makes it to the stage, Samberg nails the state of affairs with a singsong “Awkward!”
