The newest installment of Saturday Evening Live’s Weekend Replace remembered late comic Gilbert Gottfried, who died on Tuesday after a prolonged sickness. He was 67.
Weekend Replace hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost themselves didn’t contact on Gottfried’s passing, however the section concluded with a photograph tribute to Gottfried earlier than chopping to a industrial break.
Gottfried, recognized for his trademark shrill voice as featured in Aladdin, died of recurrent ventricular tachycardia — an irregular coronary heart rhythm — because of myotonic dystrophy sort II, as revealed by NBC Information.
Whereas Gottfried began his comedy profession at 15 years previous, he turned recognized to a nationwide viewers when he joined the 1980 season of Saturday Evening Stay. He appeared in a complete of 12 episodes for the sketch comedy collection. He later reunited with SNL colleague Eddie Murphy on Beverly Hills Cop II.
Earlier than paying tribute to the late Gottfried, Weekend Replace addressed various information tales together with the New York subway assault and Elon Musk’s bid to takeover Twitter. Jost and Che appeared as confused as Twitter customers themselves, questioning what precisely the Tesla CEO would need from the social media platform.
“It’s complicated and miserable, it’s the Giuliani of apps,” Jost mentioned. “It’s like if the Prince of England gave all of it as much as marry an actress from Fits.”
In fact, the SNL character was speaking about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Melissa Villaseñor rounded out the comedy of the section portraying Jost’s driver, who tried out his stand-up materials.
Lizzo pulled double responsibility on Saturday, serving as each host and musical visitor. Whereas her first time main the sketch collection, the singer made her SNL debut in December 2019.
