SNL's 60th Anniversary Episode
Live from New York, it's the year 2035!
NEW YORK CITY. Studio 8H welcomes an array of dazzling stars to celebrate Saturday Night Live’s unprecedented 60-year run as a television institution. The writers, cast, and some returning favorites work hard to update the show’s classic comedy sketches for 2035.
COLD OPEN. A moving tribute to Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd, in which the Wild and Crazy Guys, Yortuk and Georg Festrunk, get deported.
MONOLOGUE. Honorary host MrBeast welcomes us to this special episode, which is sponsored by Amazon’s new service that streams videos under your eyelids while you sleep. Then Tina Fey and Kenan Thompson bring out a big Get Well Soon card signed by the whole cast for Lorne Michaels, who is in Switzerland recovering from total body replacement surgery.
THE CALIFORNIANS. Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen return in this hilarious soap opera parody of a state that used to exist before the wildfires.
DAVID S. PUMPKINS. Tom Hanks brings his wacky Halloween character out of retirement to meet the real-life David S. Pumpkins, a former carny turned Speaker of the House (R-FL).
MR. ROBINSON’S NEIGHBORHOOD. Eddie Murphy’s inner-city Mister Rogers parody gets a heartwarming update when the whole neighborhood is replaced by a big, beautiful resort.
MUSICAL GUEST. A stirring duet between a hologram of Paul Simon and Timothée Chalamet dressed as Art Garfunkel.
WEEKEND UPDATE. Newest Update host Tony Hinchcliffe thanks the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund for its recent purchase of NBC and makes a “joke” about Indian food. Stefon tells us about his positive experience at a gay conversion camp. Drunk Uncle is allowed to say the n-word now.
COMMERCIAL PARODY. Peyton Manning stars in this playful parody of a bygone time when Americans used to have expendable income to purchase goods and services.
HANS AND FRANZ. In a highly topical sketch, everyone’s favorite Austrian bodybuilders are conscripted into military service because their homeland was recently annexed by Russia.
THE LADIES’ MAN. Recovering sex addict Leon Phelps updates us on his new life as an influential self-help podcaster and political commentator.
MUSICAL GUEST. Paul McCartney plays half of “Hey Jude” then keels over dead.
Thank you and good night, folks!
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PS. McCartney can't die in 2035: Paul is dead (wake up sheeple! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead)