SNL Pays Tribute to the Late Rob Reiner in Final Episode of the Yr

Throughout its ultimate episode of the 12 months, “Saturday Night time Reside” paused to pay tribute to late producer Rob Reiner … flashing a title card with an outdated photograph of Rob earlier than the present’s “goodnight” section.

The in memoriam gesture comes lower than per week after Reiner and his spouse — Michele Singer Reiner — have been discovered lifeless of their Los Angeles residence. Their son — Nick Reiner — is now dealing with first-degree homicide prices after being arrested in reference to their deaths.

Reiner hosted SNL’s third episode again in 1975 in the course of the present’s early days … and in contrast to hosts George Carlin and Paul Simon on the time, he totally joined within the sketches … serving to set the fashion that might without end outline the sequence.

As we reported, the couple’s daughter, Romy, is the one who found Rob and Michele’s our bodies and referred to as 911. She instructed police her brother Nick was “harmful” and must be thought-about a suspect.

Nick was arrested about 6 hours after police responded to the decision. He is at present held on suicide watch at Males’s Central Jail in L.A. with out bond and awaits his January seventh listening to.

We broke the information Friday — he was recognized with schizophrenia, and adjustments to his meds made him “erratic and harmful” earlier than he allegedly killed his mother and father.