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Steve Martin Asks the Audience to Embrace Joy in SNL50 Monologue
John Mulaney and Martin Short crashed the stage as well.
It didn’t take too long for Martin to get to SNL’s big milestone, though, joking that “a person born during the first season of Saturday Night Live could, today, be easily dead of natural causes.” Former writer John Mulaney then crashed the 8H stage to joke about the difficulties of working with SNL’s celebrity hosts: “As I look around, I see some of the most difficult people I’ve ever met in my entire life. Martin wrapped up the monologue with a jokingly sincere plea to the audience at home that served as a pre-emptive rejoinder of sorts to the people who will inevitably scrutinize tonight’s show and conclude that it wasn’t funny enough to justify all the hooplah: “If you aren’t enjoying it, maybe you should get up and take a good look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, ‘What have I become?’ … Ask yourself: ‘When did I abandon joy, and what can I bring to the monologue as an audience member next time?’”
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