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

A photograph of the Batman Ceaselessly star, who died of pneumonia at age 65 on Tuesday, flashed onscreen simply earlier than the goodnights on the finish of Saturday's present, hosted by Jack Black.

Kilmer hosted SNL on Dec. 9, 2000, with musical visitor U2. In the course of the episode, the actor gamely parodied two of his most iconic roles: High Gun's Ice Man in a sketch concerning the ageing ex-Navy fighter pilot pondering he was going again to the hazard zone as a industrial airline pilot, and The Doors' Jim Morrison in a tackle VH1's Behind the Music wherein the late rocker begins a supergroup in heaven referred to as the Nice Frog Society, with Jimi Hendrix (Jerry Minor), Janis Joplin (Molly Shannon), Keith Moon (Horatio Sanz), Buddy Holly (Jimmy Fallon), and Louis Armstrong (Tracy Morgan).

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In the course of the 2000 episode, Kilmer additionally performed Jeb Bush in a political cleaning soap opera sketch referred to as "Palm Seashore," a giggly actor who performs a gynecologist in "Veronica & Co," a chat present hosted by Shannon as a European supermodel, and did an impression of Burt Bacharach in one other.

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Kilmer returned years later for a memorable cameo within the Lonely Island's infectious 2011 digital brief, "Finest Mates," starring Andy Samberg and Katy Perry. The Tombstone star popped up as a superb lunatic who forces his means right into a friendship with the pair and a good-looking drug addict, performed by Matt Damon.

On Thursday, Kilmer's High Gun and High Gun: Maverick costar Tom Cruise paid tribute to his onscreen rival. "I'd prefer to honor an expensive good friend of mine, Val Kilmer," Cruise stated, whereas onstage at CinemaCon in Las Vegas to advertise Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. "I actually can't let you know how a lot I admired his work, how a lot I considered him as a human, and the way grateful and honored I used to be when he joined [the] first High Gun and got here again for High Gun: Maverick. He gave rather a lot to all of us together with his performances."

After asking the viewers to watch a second of silence to honor the late star's life and physique of labor, he completed by saying, "Thanks, Val. I want you effectively in your subsequent journey."

Saturday Night time Dwell airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and Peacock.

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