“Saturday Night Live” took viewers through five decades of the Big Apple’s rough and tumble times – including parodies of four New York City mayors – during its jam-packed 50th anniversary special Sunday.
“Saturday Night Live” took viewers through five decades of the Big Apple’s rough and tumble times – including parodies of four New York City mayors – during its jam-packed 50th anniversary special Sunday.
“SNL” alums John Mulaney and Pete Davidson teamed up to hit numerous musical numbers during the 10-minute skit that opened back in the 1970s when the city was dealing with high crime and on the brink of bankruptcy.
Davidson and David Spade’s characters had just moved to New York with “dreams of making it big,” but Mulaney, acting as a hotdog vendor proclaimed “New York is dying.”
The pair are undeterred leading into the first musical note by Adam Driver dressed as a hot dog and Maya Rudolph as a heroin needle who lists all the crimes New Yorkers could face.
The 1980s quickly approaches when New York is in better condition and a “new diet is sweeping the city,” said Mulaney, who was a writer for the NBC show.
