Right here’s Johnny!
Jack Nicholson, 87, made a uncommon public look on the “Saturday Night Live” fiftieth anniversary particular on Sunday evening.
The present celebrated 50 years on the air with a three-hour particular referred to as “SNL50: The Anniversary Special,” Feb. 16 (8 p.m. on NBC and Peacock).
Nicholson was one of many many celebs within the crowd. He was sitting within the viewers close to Will Ferrell, Robert De Niro, Blake Full of life, and Ryan Reynolds — in one of many 200 additional chairs the “SNL” manufacturing designer instructed The Submit he had so as to add.
“The Shining” star was briefly on digicam to introduce a musical act from Adam Sandler.
After the digicam minimize to Sandler, he mentioned, “Let’s hear it for Jack, baby! Jack baby out tonight!”
The “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” actor was additionally at “SNL’s” fortieth anniversary particular a decade in the past.
Earlier than “SNL50,” considered one of his latest public appearances was two years in the past, as he was photographed at a basketball recreation in Could 2023. He was along with his son, Ray Nicholson, 32, watching the Lakers play the Denver Nuggets at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Enviornment.
The Oscar winner has stored a low profile after his final look within the 2010 rom-com “How Did You Know” starring Paul Rudd, however his daughter did share a photograph of him final month.
James L. Brooks, who directed Nicholson in “Terms of Endearment,” “Broadcast News” “As Good as It” Will get and “How Do You Know,” instructed Folks in 2023 that he stays in contact with Nicholson, and isn’t sure Nicholson is retired.
“I keep on thinking he’s going to get itchy and scratch it,” he mentioned.
“My theory is it’s not his last movie,” he added about “How Did You Know.”
The identical 12 months, Brooks instructed The Wrap about Nicholson, “I don’t think he’s retired. I don’t buy that he’s retired.”
In January 2023, the actor’s mates shared considerations about his solitary way of life, saying they’re apprehensive concerning the finish recreation.
At the moment, the Oscar winner hadn’t been seen in public in three years, along with his buddies claiming he was “living like a recluse.”
On Sunday evening, Sandler, 58, proceeded to play a guitar and sing a music about how “SNL” is celebrating, “50 years of prank calling some New York Magazine critic.”
He joked in his music that the present can also be celebrating, “50 years of of your sketch killing at read through – then finding out they didn’t pick it because the host didn’t want to take off his shirt,” and “50 years of asking an intern to pick up your laundry at 2:30 am not realizing that the internet was Scorsese’s kid” or the kid of no matter movie star Lorne Michaels had dinner with that week.
Sandler’s music additionally included a video tribute to iconic solid members similar to Eddie Murphy and Will Forte – and a few late solid members similar to Chris Farley and Phil Hartman.
