R.I.P. Val Kilmer.
“Saturday Night Live” honored the “Batman Forever” actor who died of pneumonia at age 65 on April 1.
The comedy present flashed a photograph of Kilmer on the display screen earlier than host Jack Black led the goodnights on the finish of Saturday’s episode.
Kilmer beforehand hosted “SNL” on Dec. 9, 2000 alongside musical visitor U2.
Throughout the episode, Kilmer spoofed his motion pictures “Top Gun” and “The Doors” in separate sketches.
Within the first sketch, referred to as “Iceman: The Later Years,” Kilmer performs an getting older pilot who goals of the times he was flying at report speeds. After an uneventful touchdown in Arizona, he asks his co-pilots (performed by Chris Parnell and Will Ferrell), “Why don’t we go to the hotel room and shower and dry off and play some volleyball?”
“I don’t think that’s going to happen,” Ferrell replies, as he runs out of the cockpit with Parnell.
Kilmer additionally starred in a sketch referred to as “Behind the Music” the place he made enjoyable of his position as Jim Morrison in “The Doors.” Within the skit, Kilmer performs the useless musician once more and varieties a rock band in heaven referred to as the Nice Frog Society, with Jimi Hendrix (Jerry Minor), Janis Joplin (Molly Shannon), Keith Moon (Horatio Sanz), Buddy Holly (Jimmy Fallon), and Louis Armstrong (Tracy Morgan).
Over ten years later, Kilmer returned to “SNL” for a cameo in a skit starring Andy Samberg and Katy Perry.
Kilmer battled throat most cancers earlier than he succumbed to pneumonia. His daughter, Mercedes, 33, confirmed to the New York Occasions that he handed away in Los Angeles.
A number of stars have spoke out about Kilmer’s loss of life together with Tom Cruise, who honored his “Top Gun” co-star by main a second of silence at CinemaCon on Thursday.
“I’d like to honor a dear friend of mine, Val Kilmer, for a moment,” Cruise, 62, stated on the occasion. “I can’t tell you how much I admire his work, how grateful and honored I was when he joined ‘Top Gun’ and came back later for ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’”
“I think it would be really nice if we could just have a moment together, because he loved movies, and he gave a lot to all of us. Just kind of think about all the wonderful times that we had with him,” Cruise added.
Will Forte, who starred with Kilmer within the 2010 comedy “MacGruber,” wrote an essay for Vulture the place he appeared again on their friendship once they had been roomates and revealed the “biggest regret” of his skilled life.
“I used to watch ‘The Amazing Race, and he came back home at some point when I was watching it and was like, ‘What are you watching that garbage for? Come on, that stuff’s going to rot your mind.’ I said, ‘It’s pretty good. You should sit down and watch it. Give it a try before you s— on it.’ So he sat down and he started watching it, and he got really into it,’” Forte recalled.
“At a certain point, he said, ‘Will, you and I have to go do ‘The Amazing Race.’ We have to. Let’s do ‘The Amazing Race.” I’m like, ‘I am so fully in,’” the comedian remembered. “We got really excited about it, and then we called our respective agents and managers, and they were like, ‘There’s no method you guys are doing that.’”
“That is, maybe to this day, the biggest regret of my whole career — that I never did ‘The Amazing Race’ with Val,” Forte admitted. “I think we would’ve gotten out very quickly, but it just would’ve been the experience of a lifetime.”
