Val Kilmer wasn’t always the easiest actor to work with. His painstaking attention to detail and immersion into his characters — everyone had to call him “Jim” on the set of The Doors — famously got on the nerves of his films’ cast and crew. But just because he was serious about his work doesn’t mean he took himself seriously. When he hosted Saturday Night Live in 2000, Kilmer proved to have a great sense of humor about his most famous roles.

Take Iceman, the cocky aviator who Kilmer played in both Top Gun and its 2022 sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. He took a third crack at the character on SNL, reimagining his iconic role as a gone-to-seed commercial airline pilot still trying to relive his glory days.

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Iceman: The Later Years chronicles the character’s softball-dad years, copiloting a 727 full of tourists but wishing he was still breaking speed records.