‘SNL 50’ travels through 5 decades of NYC’s trials and tribulations in musical skit featuring parodies of 4 mayors

“Saturday Night Live” took viewers through five decades of the Big Apple’s rough and tumble times – including parodies of four New York City mayors – during its jam-packed 50th anniversary special Sunday.

“SNL” alums John Mulaney and Pete Davidson teamed up to hit numerous musical numbers during the 10-minute skit that opened back in the 1970s when the city was dealing with high crime and on the brink of bankruptcy.

Davidson and David Spade’s characters had just moved to New York with “dreams of making it big,” but Mulaney, acting as a hotdog vendor proclaimed “New York is dying.”

The pair are undeterred leading into the first musical note by Adam Driver dressed as a hot dog and Maya Rudolph as a heroin needle who lists all the crimes New Yorkers could face.

The 1980s quickly approaches when New York is in better condition and a “new diet is sweeping the city,” said Mulaney, who was a writer for the NBC show.  

Nathan Lane then cuts in to sing about “cocaine and some vodka” as he puts his own spin on Hakuna Matata, which he sang as Timon in “The Lion King.”

Mulaney then directs Davidson and Spade to the 1990s where he touches on Times Square.

“Times Square will be transformed from pimps and pornographers into something even filthier: Cartoon mascots, but the old guard will not go quietly,” he remarked, leading up to another quick song.

A series of mayors then burst onto the scene after Mulaney talks about the city post-9/11.

First, Rudy Giuliani, played by Kate McKinnon, comes on stage where she starts belting a riff of “Hamilton” song “My Shot” along with the play’s creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.

“And yo, I’m just like my city — I’m drunk, corrupt and crazy,” McKinnon-as-Giuliani sang as the skit poked fun at the former Trump lawyer’s attempt to meddle in the 2020 presidential election results.

The skit then needled Michael Bloomberg for making New York City more unaffordable, Bill de Blasio for bringing in universal pre-K – and universal marijuana – and current Mayor Eric Adams for a rise in shocking subway violence.

“Homeless dudes who want to push people onto the subway tracks? They got that swagger back, baby,” current “SNL” cast member Devin Walker said, impersonating Adams.

Scarlett Johansson then appeared with her arm in a cast as she sang about the scourge of electric bikes hitting pedestrians across the five boroughs.

But the sketch ended on a high note as Mulaney urged Davidson to “still believe in the power of New York” before Keenan Thompson, dressed as frequent “SNL” character diner lobster, cuts in to sing “One Day More” from Les Misérables.

A number of actors and musicians then converged on the screen to join the chorus with the headline, “New York to Ford: Who’s Dead Now,” in reference to the infamous headline from the 1970s involving the former president.