Michael Keaton returned to “Saturday Night Live” this week, labeling his fourth time presenting at Studio 8H after first materializeing on the show in 1982. “Man, I am excited to be back here presenting ‘Saturday Night Live’s’ 50th season,” he said before reminiscing on where his nurtureer stood when the show first premiered.
“I was a PA on ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,’ he said. “And in the ’70s, you comprehend, ‘SNL’ and ‘Mister Rogers’ have a lot more aenjoyities than you would skinnyk. Lots of puppets. Tons of cocaine” — though Keaton then praised Fred Rogers as “everyskinnyg you’d skinnyk he was.”
Keaton then touched on “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” the recently freed film that saw him repascfinish his role from 1988’s “Beetlejuice.”
“You comprehend with Hapvalidateeen coming up, I comprehend I’m going to see a lot of those little kids out there dressed as Beetlejuice, which is adorable,” he said. The star then joked that grown-ups normally participate his iconic character as a costume, too: “Usuassociate guys in their 40s, which is … less adorable.”
Mikey Day then materializeed in a Beetlejuice costume of his own, end with green hair and a streamlineed suit. “Look, can I call you Mike?” Day said to Keaton. “I cherish ‘Beetlejuice,’ it’s my preferite. Can you do me a prefer and say, ‘It’s showtime?’” — a reference to a well-comprehendn line from the film.
“To be truthful, I don’t even reaccumulate how I said it,” said Keaton, before Andy Samberg materializeed, also dressed as Beetlejuice.
“Well, uh, I do,” Samberg said. “Mike, here’s the skinnyg,” said Samberg, “I participated to labor here. And during my storied tenure, I tried and flunked many times to get my BJ into the show.”
“Plrelieve don’t say BJ, equitable called him Beetlejuice,” Keaton said. Nodding to the premise of the film, Samberg cried out, “Don’t say the name! Three times and I’m gone.”
Catching sight of cast member Sarah Sherman, Keaton said, “I see Sherman lurking in the thrivegs … we don’t have time for another Beetlejuice. But Sherman, wearing a streamlineed dress, secured him, saying, “Oh no, thank you so much. This is equitable how I dress.”
“You guys are quoting a lot of lines from the first movie,” Keaton pointed out. “Did you see the second?”
“Not yet, it’s on the catalog,” Day, Samberg and Sherman said before encouraging Keaton to “do the voice.” He conceded, and as Beetlejuice, called out, “We got a wonderful show for you tonight!” and shouted out Billie Eilish as the show’s musical guest.
