Mark-Paul Gosselaar paid a little visit to the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show last night in his Saved By The Bell character Zack Morris. Gosselaar was really on the show to promote the new season of his TNT drama Raising the Bar but spent most of his appearance playing up the notion of a Saved By The Bell reunion. It’s pretty funny to see MPG in character as Zack Morris again … he doesn’t really look like he’s aged much at all:
As he’s established himself as a grown-up actor with roles on “NYPD Blue,” “Commander in Chief” and now “Raising the Bar,” Mark-Paul Gosselaar has (understandably) distanced himself from his first big role on “Saved by the Bell.” Consider the distance achieved. Gosselaar was a guest on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” Monday — and did the whole appearance in character as Zack Morris, his “Saved by the Bell” alter ego. Or is it that he’s been “Zack Morris” all along, and just had to change his name to “Mark-Paul Gosselaar” when he got his SAG card because there was already someone with his name in the union? Fallon has made it his mission to host a “Saved by the Bell” reunion on “Late Night,” and it looks like things are lining up. I only hope that Zack and Kelly can put aside any lingering hard feelings over their breakup.
Hahahahaha … so awesome! I’m pretty sure it won’t be too difficult to get the other Saved By The Bellers on board for a proper reunion … if anything, Mark-Paul er, I mean Zack Morris‘s appearance shows that there is still a huge amount of love for Saved By The Bell. After the jump, check out Zack Morris‘s full appearance on Late Night last night …
All I have to say is that if they don’t bring back Miss Bliss … it ain’t a real Saved By The Bell reunion. What did y’all think … funny, yes?
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first, and that skit was hilarious. he really hasn’t aged at all. here’s to hoping for all of them to come back, except dustin diamond. he’s too far gone to play skreech again. I wouldn’t even pay to see him on fallon on basic cable.
i loved this! it kills me how little he’s aged, the man looks good. i was laughing so hard when he’s like “Time Out”. how i miss saved by the bell.
Fantastic – what a great blast from the past!
hahahaha. that was great. he looks EXACTLY the same!
Yeah, he looks a bit skinnier in the face but still the same! I remember watching Saved By the Bell with my sister every time I got home from school. I was like four or something.
He looks THE SAME. hahaha
OH MY GOD! This totally just brought back all of my 10 year old Zack Morris fantasies! haha That phone was so hot!
Hilarious! You will definately have to keep us posted if there really is a reunion!
Love him! Oh and I think you meant TNT not TBS, Trent!
first: the writter clearly isnt a sbtb fan otherwise hed know zach and kelly got married in las vegas.
and second: can you post clips that can be viewed in countries other than the us?
I was JUST watching this on Jimmy Fallon..during the day haha. SO SO funny…I loved how he didnt break character at all. I love him and Saved by the Bell even more now!
That was hilarioussssssssssssss. I loved it! He looks exactly the same, and sexy as hell!
Wow! Soooooooo funny!!! That he managed to plug his show more than once killed me!! I loved it. Is Elizabeth Berkley really going to do it? I know why Dustin Diamond wouldn’t…but why wouldn’t Tiffani Thiessen?
oh my gosh, i watched this at work and it totally made my day. I didn’t know jimmy fallon had his heart set on a saved by the bell reunion but that’s AWESOME! I love jimmy fallon already, this just makes me love him more! Can’t wait for saved by the bell reunion! they should make a movie…. in the form of a reality tv mini series? like jon and kate but in character.
Yeah, my guess is Dustin Diamond won’t show up. He seems to hold a lot of bitter resentment over Saved by the Bell. And yes Kelly and Zach got married.
There is a petition on Jimmy Fallons website.
I watched this earlier today, hilarious. Loved the part where he was like “I grew up in Indiana and moved with my two friends and principal.” I really hope there is a Saved By The Bell Reunion, I loved the show and still watch it in reruns.
DAYUM! That man does not age! Zack Morris forever!
Friends Forever was seriously the highlight of the day for me!! That, and that cell..As soon as he walked out as Zach, I was hoping he’d pull out that awesome cell phone!!
AND MISS BLISS FOREVER!
Dustin Diamond will show if it means publicity other than doing stupid cable network commentary bites on crime shows and infomercials. I mean he hasn’t been on NBC since SBTB, so why wouldn’t he do it?
YAY!!!!!!!! I love ZACK!
It seemed like no one caught the “Kelly moved to a new zip code” crack.
He looks sooooo cute with blonde hair! I am so glad he doesn’t have it long like he did on his new show for a while. Long and scraggily was not working for him. Short is great, short and blonde is hot!
that was AWESOME and hilarious!!! MPG looks exactly the same!
Omg Im so down with this. That was so great. Weird but great. Im so excited, and I just cant hide it! Im so excited! lol PS: Dont mess up the reunion by bringing back that jerkoff Dustin Diamond.
Yum! He looks great!
wow they caked on the makeup haha…is it me or didn’t he seem to pull off the talking to the camera thing better when he was 15? lol…still awesome though. I loved when Jimmy called him preppy.
Does anyone know if this clip can be seen somewhere else? ie. where it’s available to people outside of the US :(
OMG! He looks like he hasn’t aged a day! Crazy! I’m feeling so old right now! :)
Ok Trent, you just made my LIFE! :) That was awesome!
OMG!!!!! That was sooo great!!! I can’t wait!!!
Trent, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
That was freaking AWESOME!! Mark-Paul has not aged at all!! Seriously, he was still so completely Zack Morris it was amazing! Only Jimmy Fallon would set out to have a Saved By The Bell Reunion!!
When I saw the main pic, I thought it was Fallon Zack Morris superimposed with him! He looks exactly the same!!!
omg! my husband and i were just saying the other night how much we would love a saved by the bell reunion. i hope jimmy can set it up!
KK, the writer knew what they were doing. The “Zack & Kelly getting along after their break-up” was what he meant. In the clip Zack states that he and Kelly divorced over Jeff, and now he is always hanging out with Johnny Dakota. He even called her his “ex-wife”.
So according to the write here, Zack & Kelly are no longer married.
Awesome! I loved it!
I’m so with you on the Miss Bliss thing. Her just showing up randomly would be great.
Honestly that was the best thing I’ve seen all day. Definitely loved every second of it.
Zack Morris FTW.
He looks exactly the same! So adorable! He is such a great sport. I love the fact that he still appreciates where he came from :-)
LOVE IT !!! I am watching Saved by the bell right now as it is on the Super Station WTBS every morning from 7 to 9 am EST M-F. I also have watched Raised by the bar from it’s start last year & is now my favorite drama. Jane K. is also great, used to be the mom in Malcom in the middle. I would love a “SBTB” reunion, and yes Ms. Bliss must be there as that was going to be the shows name until a last minute change. I also hope that his two best friends from year one, “Mikey” & the girl, (sorry can’t think of her name) need to be there, and no matter what has happened…Dustin Diamond HAS TO BE THERE !!! Forget everything & just remember him as Screech, Zack’s best bud !!! Saved by the bell !!!!!! FOREVER !!!
It’s more than obvious Pink’s writer had to Google saved by the bell, because Miss Bliss was for the first couple of seasons when the show was on Disney and bit ass. It wasn’t really saved by the Bell until it had the cast we all know and love: Kelly Kowposki, AC Slater, Screech Powers, Lisa Turtle, and Jesse Spanno (and Belding)…plus that chick that showed up with the leather jacket and was a secret lesbian and the one from the beach who ended up on King of Queens and in Scientology. Here’s hoping to a reunion of one of the coolest kid shows there was.
LOVED THIS!! And love MPG! But I agree with everyone….I hope Dustin Diamond doesn’t sign on….he needs serious therapy!
absolutely awesome! i <3 him! & saved by the bell! =]
LOVED the ‘time out’s =]
That made my day
OMG I LOVE IT!!! I SO HOPE TIFFANY AND DUSTIN GET ON BOARD!!!
LOVE IT!! Zach Morris is still as sexy as ever – high tops and all. I hope Kelly Kapowski gets on board – I can definitely do without Dustin Diamon…
I love when Jimmy said “You and Jessie back together again, just like the time you were in that one play and she played sleeping beauty…”
haha I loved that episode :)
well technically Miss Bliss wasn’t Saved By The Bell…it was “Good Morning Miss Bliss” They just changed it during reruns to Saved By The Bell. I could so do without her. Just bring back Belding and the core 6 and of course all the nerds! hehe
omg that is too effing cool!!!!!!!!!
Ha ha – absolutely brilliant!!!!!!! So gonna have to dig out my old videos of the show now!! Anastasia – go onto Youtube to view this….I live in England and was able to watch it there ;-)
I’d love to see an SBTB reunion, but I think if they were being even slightly realistic Zack would’ve upgraded his phone by now.