‘SNL’ pays tribute to the former host Val Kilmer after death at 65 years old

Saturday Night Live I took a moment from the comedy to pay tribute to the former host Val Kilmer.

A photo of Batman forever Star, who died of pneumonia at the age of 65 on Tuesday, flashed on the screen just before the Goodnights at the end of the Saturday show, hosted by Jack Black.

Hosted kilmer Snl On December 9, 2000, with the musical guest U2. During the episode, the actor parodied two of his most emblematic roles: Top gun‘S Ice Man in a sketch on the ex-navy navy fighter thinking that he was going back to the danger zone as a commercial airline pilot, and The doors‘Jim Morrison in a VH1 version Behind music In which the deceased register begins a supergroup in the sky called La Grande Frog Society, with Jimi Hendrix (Jerry Minor), Janis Joplin (Molly Shannon), Keith Moon (Horatio Sanz), Buddy Holly (Jimmy Fallon) and Louis Armstrong (Tracy Morgan).

During the 2000 episode, Kilmer also played Jeb Bush in a political soap opera entitled “Palm Beach”, a Giggly actor who plays a gynecologist in “Veronica & Co”, a talk-show animated by Shannon as a European model, and made an impression of Burt Bacharach in another.

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Kilmer returned from years later for a memorable cameo in the digital short film by Lonely Island 2011, “Best Friends”, with Andy Samberg and Katy Perry. THE Tombstone Star appeared as a brilliant madman who made his way in a friendship with the pair and a beautiful drug addict, played by Matt Damon.

Thursday, kilmer Top gun And Top Gun: Maverick Costar Tom Cruise paid tribute to his rival on the screen. “I would like to honor one of my dear friends, Val Kilmer,” said Cruise, when she was on stage in Cinemacon in Las Vegas to promote Mission: Impossible – The last calculation. “I really can’t tell you how much I admired his work, how much I considered him a human, and how grateful and honored when he joined (the) first Top gun and returned for Top Gun: Maverick. He gave a lot of all of us with his performance. “”

After asking the public to observe a moment of silence to honor the life and work of the end of the star, he finished saying: “Thank you, Val. I wish you good luck during your next trip.”

Saturday Night Live is broadcast on Saturday at 11:30 p.m. he / 8:30 a.m. on NBC and Peacock.