Cameo Alert: Remembering Garrett Morris in Ant-Man!
We all know that Stan Lee was the King of Marvel Cinematic Universe cameos, but did you know that he’s not the only individual to be featured in blink-and-you’ll-miss-it roles in the MCU? In a Tweet sent on Friday, October 1st, 2021, the @FilmEasterEggs Twitter account sent a post that highlighted Garrett Morris’s cameo in 2015’s Ant-Man.
In 'Ant-Man' (2015) Garrett Morris makes a brief appearance in a scene. Morris was the first person to ever portray Ant-Man in a 1979 'Saturday Night Live' skit called Superhero Party pic.twitter.com/WtXOp8UJXP
— Film Easter Eggs & Details (@FilmEasterEggs) October 1, 2021
Always Ant-Man
While 2015’s Ant-Man may have been the first time the character got to headline a movie, it was not the first time the character had appeared on-screen, and Morris’s cameo highlighted this fact.
The actor was a member of the Saturday Night Live cast in 1979. That year, the sketch show featured a skit called “Superhero Party,” and in that performance, Morris played Ant-Man.
In the sketch, a couple (consisting of a superhero and a non-super person) are hosting a party. However, their group of friends don’t quite mix, with the superheroes standing on one side of the room and the non-superheroes standing on the other!
In addition to Ant-Man, there are also appearances by Superman (Bill Murray), the Flash (Dan Aykroyd), and the Hulk (John Belushi), plus appearance by non-superhero characters like Lana Lang (Jane Curtin) and Clark Kent (also Murray, of course).
Superhero Party. Photo: SNL
Over the course of the skit, some of the other heroes have the audacity to make fun of Ant-Man for his skill set! What, something funny to you about a guy who hangs out with ants and shrinks but maintains the strength of a full-sized human?
Another Marvelous Cameo
What’s your favorite cameo in the MCU so far, Marvel Blog True Believers? Who do you think we might see cameo in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania? We want to hear from you! Give us a shout-out in the comment section and let us know what you’re thinking.
