John Mulaney stunned the audience during his Saturday Night Live opening monologue when he said that two out of the 894 people who have hosted the sketch show in the past five decades have committed murder.
Reynolds and Lively’s appearance at the special was their first public showing amid the ongoing It Ends With Us scandal, which has seen both Lively and the film’s director and co-star Baldoni file respective lawsuits against each other.
Elsewhere at the 50th anniversary celebrations for the sketch show, Ryan Reynolds shocked fans with a joke about the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni drama.
SNL encouraged Reynolds, who previously hinted at a difficult time in his first social media post since Lively’s lawsuit, to reference the scandal in a small moment involving Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
Mulaney did not elaborate on the two hosts he was referring to, but it is believed he was referring to OJ Simpson and Robert Blake, who hosted in 1978 and 1982, respectively.
