Saturday Night Live cut Pete Davidson’s funny rap tribute to Lorne Michaels, but you can watch it now

For his last Eminem parody on “Saturday Night Live,” Pete Davidson returned to “Forgot About Dre,” the 1999 number, in which Slim Shady pays tribute to the legacy of Dr. Dre. Appropriately, Davidson’s rap is called “Forgot About Lorne”, and it honors the comic legacy of Lorne Michaels and the pop cultural presence of “SNL”. Not only is it a great rap, but it also features some fun Deepfakes of Michaels doing things he would never even do, even though he has appeared in lots of sketches throughout the show’s long history on television.

But of course, the cherry on top is a cameo from Eminem himself, who outright asks Davidson to turn it off with the parodies of his songs. It ends with Davidson honoring his comedy hero Adam Sandler with a loud, “You blew it!”

So why did this not come to the show? There are a number of reasons why sketches are cut from an episode of “SNL”, and it’s not always for the quality. In fact, it’s more often because of the timing of the show itself. Pre-recorded sketches are especially cut in favor of live. And that seems to be the case here. It’s a shame, because there were a few live sketches that were nowhere near as good as this one. But perhaps this would have given Davidson a bigger goodbye than either Kate McKinnon or Aidy Bryant received. It may also have resulted in Kyle Mooney having less screen time in his last episode, even though he got a much better tribute in this sketch than anywhere else on the show. We’re just glad we’re enjoying the sketches that were cut for the time being.

“Saturday Night Live” has just finished its 47th season, but it returns for season 48 this fall.