Jack Nicholson made a rare appearance at the SNL50 celebration Sunday, appearing in the audience to introduce Adam Sandler, on stage to play and sing a ballad marking the show’s half century mark.
“Let’s hear it for Jack, baby! Jack baby out tonight!” Sandler said when introduced.
On guitar, Sandler sang a five-minute salute to “50 Years.”
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Fifty years of your sketch killing it at read-through, and finding out they didn’t pick it because the host didn’t want to take off his shirt.
Some of the lines riffed on those in the audience — such as Steven Spielberg.
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Fifty years of writers seeing Spielberg at Lorne’s monitors. Not laughing at one of their sketches that he obviously hated. Fifty years of those same writers then getting wasted at the after party, and loudly telling everybody that Jaws was overrated.
Sandler also paid homage to cast members of the past, including those who have passed away.
Fifty years of cast members saying, ‘I think our cast is the greatest of all time, but we all know that the first cast was the best. And because of them, we got four years of Eddie Murphy. Eight years of Will Forte. Five years of Jan Hooks and Gilda. Six of Victoria, 11 of Che. … Six years of our boy Farley, five of our buddy Norm.
Nicholson, 87, made his last film appearance in 2010, but he did appear on SNL‘s 40th anniversary special a decade ago.
Watch Nicholson’s intro and Sandler’s song below.