Jack Nicholson made the rarest of TV appearances, celebrating Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary.
Stealing the A-listers from last night’s Baftas, Saturday Night Live pulled in all-time living legends for its 50th birthday, from Steve Martin to Sir Paul McCartney and the One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest hero.
The 87-year-old has been rarely seen in public in the 15 years since his last film, How Do You Know, released in 2010.
But after almost 70 years in showbiz, he’s still the coolest celebrity in Hollywood.
Hiding behind purple-tinted sunglasses, Nicholson somehow made a New York Yankees beret look effortlessly suave in a black tux.
He was accompanied by his 34-year-old daughter Lorraine to introduce Adam Sandler, who sang an original song in tribute to the weekly sketch show that launched some of the greatest comedians of the last five decades.
As the star-studded crowd began to clap, Jack said: ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, Adam Sandler,’ and then gave a whistle to cheer on the Big Daddy actor, 18 years after they starred in the hit comedy Anger Management together.
‘Yeah, baby! Let’s hear it for Jack, baby,’ Sandler howled before breaking into song.
‘Jack made it out tonight. Love you, brother.’
Fans were stunned to see Jack back on screens, with Ollie Hodgkinson posting on X: ‘Did not expect Jack Nicholson to look this good!’
X user Manon agreed, writing: ‘Adam Sandler got Jack Nicholson out of his cave and I’m thankful for that.’
@Marcus56667 added: ‘Love seeing Jack, haven’t seen him in a while, they outdid themselves with this show.’
But fans didn’t have much time to recover from the rug pull of Jack’s appearance before they were crying buckets over Sandler’s performance.
Sandler, a former SNL performer, sang a retrospective about what it’s really like working on the prolific sketch show which brings in a different celebrity to host each week.
He became visibly emotional when he sang: ’50 years of the best night of our lives.’
Commenting on a video of the performance, @Laalaa99stil called it ‘the most heartfelt part of the whole evening’.
@kmsleyang added ‘Him choking up at the end choked me up!!’
The extravaganza also saw Sabrina Carpenter perform with Paul Simon and Robyn team up with Talking Heads frontman David Byrne for a duet of Dancing on My Own.
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