Quick popular culture pop quiz: How a few years has it been since Bill Murray final hosted Saturday Night Live?
If you guessed any quantity decrease than “25 entire goddamn years,” then you’ve gotten failed this specific crucible of late night time TV data; Murray has truly been a comparatively uncommon return visitor to the sequence that helped make him well-known, not internet hosting since he obtained his Five Timers Club jacket again in February of 1999. (He has made a couple of visitor appearances since, however by no means as host.) Now, although, Murray is publicly floating the concept of creating one final journey again to Studio 8H, saying on a current podcast look that “I advised ‘em I’d prefer to host one this yr. So perhaps if I get organized. I believe I did it two different instances after I was there. I’d prefer to attempt it yet another time. It could be the final time to attempt it.”
Murray, 74, has, in fact, now reached that age the place individuals begin printing your age after your identify once they discuss you in print. (Also, his previous couple of years have been sort of a bummer.) But that didn’t cease him from happening Travis and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast this week, the place, along with making an attempt to drum up a little bit work, he additionally defended the present Saturday Night Live solid from the identical accusations of lousiness which have dogged mainly each Saturday Night Live solid because the first one. “People at all times give me a tough time about, ‘Oh, the unique present was so nice and it’s awful now,’” Murray stated. “And I say, ‘No, it’s not.’ The present that’s on now, they do stuff that’s simply pretty much as good as anyone ever did, on a regular basis.” Which could be very good, except you select to interpret it the imply manner, which you completely might.
[via The Daily Beast]
