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SNL50 Recap: This One’s For the Millennials
The 50th-anniversary special found clever, reverential ways to play in the deep sandbox of SNL’s past, but especially the late ’90s and aughts.
Freed from the demands of a typical episode, in which whatever Donald Trump happened to say that morning could upend entire sketches, the team found clever, reverential ways to play in the deep sandbox of SNL ’s past and present. There’s an embarrassment of riches here, including the return of bygone Update characters like Cecily Strong’s Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation With at a Party, Bobby Moynihan’s Drunk Uncle, and Vanessa Bayer and Fred Armisen’s Best Friends from Growing Up. Apparently, he politely declined the invitation due to a “long-standing scheduling conflict.” Anyone who has read the numerous interviews in which Hader speaks about the debilitating anxiety he endured on the show, as highlighted in Samberg and Yang’s song, can interpret the absence however they want.
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