Ryan Reynolds Jokes About It Ends with Us Suit Involving Wife Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni During SNL50 Special

Saturday Night Live has always poked fun at pop culture and current events, and the show did exactly that during its 50th anniversary special.

On Sunday, Feb. 16, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds attended SNL50: The Anniversary Special in New York City amid the ongoing legal battle regarding her latest film It Ends With Us. Reynolds, 48, popped up during a bit that former cast members Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did in the first hour of the show that saw them taking audience questions from famous faces in the crowd at Studio 8H.

When Reynolds stood up to ask a question while sitting in the audience next to Lively, Fey, 54, simply asked him, “How’s it going?”

The actor pretended to appear jittery and jokingly responded, “Great, why? What have you heard?”

The comment came after Lively’s It Ends With Us costar Justin Baldoni (who also directed the film) filed a $400 million lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR firm Vision PR, Inc. on claims of civil extortion, defamation and more. Baldoni, 41, also sued The New York Times for $250 million over a December article claiming he and his team conducted a smear campaign against her.

Jed Wallace, one of the publicists named in a complaint Lively filed with the California Civil Rights Department, sued Lively as well, for $7 million, alleging defamation after the actress’s lawyers claimed Baldoni’s public relations team hired Wallace to assist in the smear campaign reported on by The New York Times.

After alluding to the legal drama on SNL50 on Feb. 16, Reynolds proceeded to ask Fey and Poehler, 53, “You know the material that they made the Coneheads with? Are those edible?”

Fey proceeded to advise against eating the material that helped shape the heads of Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman into the Conehead alien family. The recurring ‘70s sketch went on to inspire a 1993 film starring the Aykroyd, 72, and Curtin, 77.

“No, and based on them being made in 1975, I’d assume that they’re highly toxic,” Fey said.

But it might’ve been too late for Reynolds. “If somebody hypothetically took a couple of nibbles backstage and, you know, got excited, should they go to the hospital?” he wondered.

Poehler advised that anyone who found themselves in that situation seek medical help. “Yes, they should go to the hospital right away,” the Parks and Recreation star said. “Good luck!”

Nate Bargatze, Quinta Brunson and Tim Meadows also appeared in the sketch.

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SNL50: The Anniversary Special airs Sunday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

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