Former Saturday Night time Stay author Harper Steele has recalled how Jay-Z as soon as swapped a prop joint for an actual one throughout a sketch with Will Ferrell.
Within the sketch, in December 2000, the rapper, Memphis Bleek, and Beanie Siegel accompany Ferrell as his lounge singer character Robert Goulet for the rollout of his “rap-and-roll” album ‘Homicide Within the Make-Consider Ballroom’.
Within the costume rehearsal, which befell hours earlier than it went stay, Steele revealed the rapper’s request.
“I get there between costume and air, and Jay-Z goes, ‘Can we get an actual joint?’ And I used to be like, ‘Yeah, you’re Jay-Z. After all you’ll be able to’. I obtained that joint. Jay-Z used it on air,” Steele advised Late Night time With Seth Meyers. “The entire studio smelled like pot for the remainder of the evening.”
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Steele recenty featured within the Netflix documentary Will & Harper which focuses on the friendship between Ferrell and Steele. The 2 met on Saturday Night time Stay through the ‘90s and Steele got here out as transgender 30 years into their friendship.
Ferrell additionally not too long ago returned to the programme for its fiftieth anniversary live performance, performing a comedy model of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’.
SNL50: The Homecoming Live performance preceded yesterday’s (February 16) three-hour fiftieth Anniversary particular, and in addition to Ferrell featured Put up Malone performing with the remaining members of Nirvana, David Byrne becoming a member of Robyn for a rendition of ‘Dancing On My Personal’, Jack White performing ‘Seven Nation Military’ and Woman Gaga teaming up with Andy Samberg for a shock medley of Lonely Island hits.
In the course of the anniversary episode itself, superstars of the previous and current together with Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter sang ‘Homeward Sure’ collectively and Paul McCartney made his fifth look on the present to carry out a medley of songs from The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Highway’.
In the meantime, a lady who alleged she was sexually assaulted when she was 13-years-old by Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2000 not too long ago voluntarily withdrew her lawsuit.