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PALM BEACH, Florida – Legendary comedian Steve Martin is clowning about recent political controversies, as he delivered the opening monologue Sunday during a 50th anniversary special for "Saturday Night Live."
"I'm Steve Martin, Saturday Night Live's newest diversity hire," the comic began.
"Now I can't believe I even made it here in time. It was only a few days ago that [SNL boss] Lorne [Michaels] told me I was doing the monologue," Martin continued. "I was actually vacationing on a friend's boat down in the Gulf of Steve Martin."
The comic also mocked SNL's age while also calling the monologue "traditionally the weakest part of the show."
"A fun fact," Martin said. "A person born during the first season of Saturday Night Live could today be easily dead of natural causes."
Regarding the show's signature host monologue, Martin clowned it's "like a rent-controlled tenant: It's not going anywhere, even though it stinks."
Martin was joined by fellow comedian Martin Short, who was introduced as "the only Canadian who wasn't in Schitt's Creek."
Short's time on stage was literally cut short as the Canadian actor was asked if he had his passport handy before ICE was called. He was then rushed off stage by two people sporting ICE uniforms.
Martin said about his colleague, "Marty and I have worked together for so long that we can actually finish each others … careers."
Meanwhile, John Mulaney, a popular host and a former longtime writer on the show also joined Martin on stage.
"I believe that the heart and soul of this show is the celebrity hosts, many of whom are in this room tonight," he said.
"As I look around, I see some of the most difficult people I have ever met in my entire life. Over the course of 50 years, 894 people have hosted Saturday Night Live, and it amazes me that only two of them have committed murder."
Mulaney never specified to whom he was referring, but he likely was "alluding to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, who hosted the show in 1978, and actor Robert Blake, who hosted the show in 1982 and was found liable for murdering his second wife in civil court in 2005," according to NBC5 in Chicago.
