Eagle-eyed “Saturday Night Live” fans immediately spotted something was amiss before the show’s musical guest Stevie Nicks‘ second performance.
After a landslide of internet comments, it turns out there was indeed a technical issue that was resolved quickly.
The issue caused the show to put up a Nicks billboard for around 50 seconds while the emergency was attended to and then leapfrogged into an ad break.
And, of course, there was the iconic Stevie Nicks parody performed by Lucy Lawless in which the siren reveals her next big project, “Stevie Nicks’ Fajita Roundup.” The beloved sketch aired in 1998.
“I did not get the joke,” Lawless told The Ringer in their comprehensive oral history of the fajita sketch.
Before Stevie Nicks’ second performance on the show, as the musical guest, astute “Saturday Night Live” viewers saw that something was off. It appears from a deluge of online comments that there was, in fact, a technical problem that was promptly fixed.
A bump in the road occurred just before host Ariana Grande was about to reintroduce Nicks for her next song in the ostensibly flawless 50th anniversary season episode, which included Oasis impersonations and a brilliant monologue. Due to a technical glitch, the show displayed a Nicks billboard for approximately fifty seconds while the emergency was handled, and then abruptly cut to an advertisement break.
Grande reappeared and reintroduced the legend after everything had been mended. You can see Nick fumbling with her mic pack on her right side shortly after the famous guitar intro from “Edge of Seventeen” starts, but it didn’t really impact the singer’s performance.
The singer had previously performed on the “SNL” stage. After finishing her tour for her album “The Wild Heart,” Nicks sang “Nightbird” and “Stand Back” on stage 41 years ago in 1983. Comedian Flip Wilson served as the event host.
Naturally, there was also Lucy Lawless’s well-known parody of Stevie Nicks in which the siren teases her upcoming major undertaking, “Stevie Nicks’ Fajita Roundup.”. The cherished sketch debuted in 1998.
In their in-depth oral history of the fajita sketch, Lawless said to The Ringer, “I did not get the joke.”. “Not being American, and hardly having had authentic Mexican food, Tex-Mex, or anything else.”. Lawless even took her concerns to Lorne Michaels, the creator of the show.
“Oh, Lorne, like—mate, you know it’s not funny,” I remarked. Please just let go of it, please, please. “No harm, no foul,” Lawless declared. “Lorne was adamant that it be avoided. This one seems like a keeper. It seems to be a keeper. It will succeed well. “”.
The remainder was the history of Tex-Mex.
