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‘SNL’: Watch Paul McCartney Perform ‘Days We Left Behind,’ ‘Band on the Run’

Paul McCartney, 15 months after closing out Saturday Night Live‘s 50th anniversary special with a memorable Abbey Road medley, returned to the late night show with a performance of the lead single from his upcoming album, as well as a Wings classic. When the show seemed all but wrapped up, McCartney then had a surprise encore.

McCartney opened with the mellow “Days We Left Behind” from The Boys of Dungeon Lane, which draws on his childhood memories in and around Liverpool.

“I was thinking just that, about the days I left behind and I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past, but then I think how can you write about anything else?” McCartney, 83, said in a statement earlier this year. “It’s just a lot of memories of Liverpool. It involves a bit in the middle about John [Lennon] and Forthlin Road, which is the street I used to live in. Dungeon Lane is near there. I used to live in a place called Speke, which is quite working class. We didn’t have much at all, but it didn’t matter because all the people were great and you didn’t notice you didn’t have much.”

Will Ferrell Facilitates Reunion Between Trump and the Ghost of Epstein on ‘SNL’ Season 51 Finale

Saturday Night Live closed out its 51st season on Saturday night, where Will Ferrell returned to host the long-running sketch comedy series.

Before his opening monologue, the You’re Cordially Invited actor appeared in the cold open alongside James Austin Johnson’s Trump, where he portrayed a ghostly Jeffrey Epstein.

Upon returning from his trip to China, the faux president opted to get some rest and took a nap “on this gold bar that Switzerland gave me as a straight-up bribe.” As he drifted off to sleep, a cloudy vision of none other than Epstein popped up, in ghost form.

Will Ferrell reasserts his all-timer Saturday Night Live status in the Season 51 finale

When Amy Poehler hosted Saturday Night Live early this season, I mentioned that she’s probably one of the best to ever do it—the show in general, I mean, not just host. I think a case could be made that Will Ferrell deserves the top spot on whatever alumni list includes Poehler in the top five. To some extent, this might reflect the old saw about the SNL cast from when you were in high school looming largest in your memory; Ferrell started on the show on my fifteenth birthday, a few weeks into my sophomore year, and left about a week before I graduated from college. Then again, those years also included several cast members that wouldn’t make my top 50 (and plenty of weeks where I lost track of the show and had to catch up on certain episodes years later). Ferrell wasn’t the only one holding the show together in that era—one of his strengths was the sheer variety of great scene partners he worked with—but he’s the perfect combination of showcase recurring character machine, utility player, and true weirdo with a highly specific sensibility. Has anyone hit those three roles so hard since? Or, for that matter, before? (Aykroyd and Radner arguably did it in those legendary first five years, but they logged significantly less time at it than Ferrell did.)

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