List of Saturday Night Live episodes (season 31–present)

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Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a late-night sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. It premiered on the NBC Television Network on October 11, 1975, under the title NBC's Saturday Night. The show often satirizes contemporary American popular culture and politics. Saturday Night Live features a two-tiered cast: the repertory members, also known as the "Not Ready for Prime-Time Players," and newer cast members, known as "Featured Players." Each week, the show features a host, often a well-known celebrity, who delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast. A musical guest is also invited to perform several sets (usually two, occasionally more). Every so often a host or musical guest fills both roles. With the exception of season 7 and several other rare cases, the show begins with a cold open that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"

Saturday Night Live is one of the longest-running network programs in American television history, with more than 900 episodes broadcast over five decades. A number of the show's sketches have been developed into feature films, including The Blues Brothers, Wayne's World, A Night at the Roxbury, Superstar, Coneheads, The Ladies Man and MacGruber.

Seasons 1 through 5 are available on DVD in Region 1. Various Saturday Night Live sketches are available in several new media formats, including streaming on Hulu and Netflix. A number of sketches are available to view via the show's official YouTube channel, along with best-of compilations for sale through digital video retailers. As of October 1, 2020, the full catalogue of Saturday Night Live episodes is available on the streaming service Peacock, updated actively as new episodes release.

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Episodes

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Season 31 (2005–06)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest	Original air date
586	1	Steve Carell	Kanye West	October 1, 2005 (2005-10-01)
Kanye West performs a medley of "Gold Digger" and "Touch the Sky", and "Heard 'Em Say" with Adam Levine. Mike Myers appears before West's first performance, spoofing their joint appearance in A Concert for Hurricane Relief. Horatio Sanz's first of two episodes substituting for Tina Fey as Weekend Update co-anchor Bill Hader and Andy Samberg's first episode as cast members. This is the first SNL episode to broadcast in high-definition (HD).^[1]
587	2	Jon Heder	Ashlee Simpson	October 8, 2005 (2005-10-08)
Ashlee Simpson performs "Catch Me When I Fall" and "Boyfriend".
588	3	Catherine Zeta-Jones	Franz Ferdinand	October 22, 2005 (2005-10-22)
Franz Ferdinand performs "Do You Want To" and "Take Me Out". A still photo of former Jean Doumanian-era cast member and Weekend Update anchor Charles Rocket, who had committed suicide the week before this episode premiered, is shown in his memory after Weekend Update. Tina Fey's first episode back as Weekend Update co-anchor.
589	4	Lance Armstrong	Sheryl Crow	October 29, 2005 (2005-10-29)
Sheryl Crow, Armstrong's then-fiancé, performs "Good Is Good" and "Strong Enough". Additionally, Crow appears in the opening monologue, the "Harmonies" sketch, and the "Lance's Song" sketch. Chicago White Sox outfielder Scott Podsednik appears on Weekend Update.
590	5	Jason Lee	Foo Fighters	November 12, 2005 (2005-11-12)
Foo Fighters perform "DOA" and "Best of You". Kristen Wiig's first episode as a cast member. In reruns, the Butt Pregnancy sketch is replaced by a dress rehearsal sketch featuring the cast singing a song about the office cafeteria dessert counter.
591	6	Eva Longoria	Korn	November 19, 2005 (2005-11-19)
Korn performs "Twisted Transistor" and "Freak on a Leash".
592	7	Dane Cook	James Blunt	December 3, 2005 (2005-12-03)
James Blunt performs "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover".
593	8	Alec Baldwin	Shakira	December 10, 2005 (2005-12-10)
Shakira performs "Don't Bother" and "La Tortura" with Alejandro Sanz. Tim Meadows appears during the opening monologue. A clip of the "Word Association" sketch from the first season's Richard Pryor/Gil Scott-Heron episode is shown after Weekend Update, commemorating Pryor's death earlier that day.
594	9	Jack Black	Neil Young	December 17, 2005 (2005-12-17)
Neil Young performs "It's a Dream" and "He Was the King". Additionally, Young appears in the "Appalachian Emergency Room" sketch. Johnny Knoxville appears in the "Appalachian Emergency Room" sketch. Darlene Love provides vocals for TV Funhouse cartoon "Christmastime For The Jews" and performs "White Christmas" with the SNL Band. Tracy Morgan appears on Weekend Update. Black's Tenacious D partner Kyle Gass appears during the "Spelling Bee" sketch. The SNL Digital Short in this episode, "Lazy Sunday", soon became a cult phenomenon through its exposure on the Internet. Bill Hader suffered a migraine during the “Appalachian Emergency Room” sketch and was guided on and off stage by Jason Sudeikis, as Hader had become temporarily blinded. Sudekis also helped Hader to remember his lines before going out onstage, as he was unable to read the cue cards.
595	10	Scarlett Johansson	Death Cab for Cutie	January 14, 2006 (2006-01-14)
Death Cab for Cutie performs "Soul Meets Body" and "Crooked Teeth". An excerpt from the night's TV Funhouse cartoon "The 700 Gang" was used as the cold open, marking the only time a cartoon was used as an SNL cold open.
596	11	Peter Sarsgaard	The Strokes	January 21, 2006 (2006-01-21)
The Strokes perform "Juicebox" and "You Only Live Once". Drew Barrymore appears on Weekend Update. A number of technical issues plagued the "Fairmount Suites Inn" sketch, such as Sarsgaard accidentally disabling the television and visible stagehands. During the parody of the film Shattered Glass centered on a cat magazine journalist (Peter Sarsgaard) getting fired for publishing misinformation, Seth Meyers' character mentions a magazine called Parrot Companion Quarterly. In the NBC reruns of this sketch, a lower-third caption was added that says Parrot Companion Quarterly was a real publication and not something made up by the show writers.
597	12	Steve Martin	Prince	February 4, 2006 (2006-02-04)
Prince performs "Fury" and "Beautiful, Loved and Blessed" with Támar. Alec Baldwin and Kelly Ripa appear in the pre-filmed cold open. Baldwin also appears in the "Backstage" sketch. Jimmy Fallon appears in the "Backstage" sketch. Scarlett Johansson, Conan O'Brien, Brian Williams and Gideon Yago appear in the SNL Digital Short. Cast member Finesse Mitchell did not appear in this episode. This episode was the highest rated episode of the season, drawing 9.3 million viewers.
598	13	Natalie Portman	Fall Out Boy	March 4, 2006 (2006-03-04)
Fall Out Boy performs "Dance, Dance" and "Sugar, We're Goin Down". Dennis Haysbert appears in the "Belated Black History Moment" sketch.
599	14	Matt Dillon	Arctic Monkeys	March 11, 2006 (2006-03-11)
Arctic Monkeys perform "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "A Certain Romance". Lead singer Alex Turner became visibly frustrated with the audience reaction during the latter performance, at one point pointing into the crowd and singing "That man just yawned!" to the music.^[2]
600	15	Antonio Banderas	Mary J. Blige	April 8, 2006 (2006-04-08)
Mary J. Blige performs "Be Without You" and "Enough Cryin". Chris Kattan appears on Weekend Update.
601	16	Lindsay Lohan	Pearl Jam	April 15, 2006 (2006-04-15)
Pearl Jam performs "World Wide Suicide" and "Severed Hand". Lohan's brother Michael Lohan Jr. appears in the opening monologue.
602	17	Tom Hanks	Red Hot Chili Peppers	May 6, 2006 (2006-05-06)
Red Hot Chili Peppers perform "Dani California" and "Give It Away".
603	18	Julia Louis-Dreyfus	Paul Simon	May 13, 2006 (2006-05-13)
Paul Simon performs "How Can You Live in the Northeast?" and "Outrageous". Al Gore appears in the cold open and on Weekend Update, the latter written by his daughter and former SNL writer Kristin Gore. Louis Dreyfus' Seinfeld former co-stars Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld appear in the pre-filmed portion of the opening monologue. SNL writer and future cast member Colin Jost makes his first appearance on the show, appearing as an extra in The Morning Show sketch. A photo of former SNL director Al Camoin who had died two days earlier was shown before the goodnights.
604	19	Kevin Spacey	Nelly Furtado	May 20, 2006 (2006-05-20)
Nelly Furtado performs "Promiscuous" and "Maneater" with Timbaland. Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Finesse Mitchell, Chris Parnell and Horatio Sanz's final episode as cast members. Tina Fey's final episode as Weekend Update co-anchor. Beth McCarthy Miller's final episode as director.

Season 32 (2006–07)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest(s)	Original air date
605	1	Dane Cook	The Killers	September 30, 2006 (2006-09-30)
The Killers performs "When You Were Young" and "Bones", the latter with SNL Band members Lenny Pickett, Earl Gardner, and Steve Turre. Brian Williams appears on Weekend Update. Seth Meyers' first episode as Weekend Update co-anchor. Don Roy King's first episode as director.
606	2	Jaime Pressly	Corinne Bailey Rae	October 7, 2006 (2006-10-07)
Corinne Bailey Rae performs "Put Your Records On" and "Like a Star".
607	3	John C. Reilly	My Chemical Romance	October 21, 2006 (2006-10-21)
My Chemical Romance performs "Welcome to the Black Parade" and "Cancer". Will Ferrell, Reilly's Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby co-star, appears as James Lipton in the opening monologue.
608	4	Hugh Laurie	Beck	October 28, 2006 (2006-10-28)
Beck performs "Nausea" and "Clap Hands". Sacha Baron Cohen and Ken Davitian appear in the cold open, reprising their Borat roles as Borat Sagdiyev and Azamat Bagatov. Laurie performs "The Protest Song" from A Bit of Fry & Laurie.
609	5	Alec Baldwin	Christina Aguilera	November 11, 2006 (2006-11-11)
Christina Aguilera performs "Ain't No Other Man," "Hurt," and "Steppin' Out with My Baby" with Tony Bennett. Additionally, Bennett appears in The Tony Bennett Show sketch. Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan, Baldwin's 30 Rock co-stars, appear in the opening monologue. Takeru Kobayashi appears in the pre-filmed TV Funhouse cartoon "Kobayashi". Steve Martin, Paul McCartney, and Martin Short appear in the "Platinum Lounge" sketch.
610	6	Ludacris	Ludacris	November 18, 2006 (2006-11-18)
Ludacris performs "Money Maker" and "Runaway Love" with Mary J. Blige. Jason Sudeikis' first episode impersonating George W. Bush, taking over the role from Will Forte
611	7	Matthew Fox	Tenacious D	December 2, 2006 (2006-12-02)
Tenacious D performs "Kickapoo" and "The Metal", with JR Reed appearing during the latter performance.
612	8	Annette Bening	Gwen Stefani Akon	December 9, 2006 (2006-12-09)
Gwen Stefani performs "Wind It Up". Akon performs "I Wanna Love You". Alec Baldwin appears in the opening monologue and the pre-filmed "Valtrex" sketch, a repeat from the episode he hosted earlier in the season. Matthew Fox appears in the SNL Digital Short.
613	9	Justin Timberlake	Justin Timberlake	December 16, 2006 (2006-12-16)
Justin Timberlake performs "My Love" and "What Goes Around... Comes Around". Jimmy Fallon appears in The Barry Gibb Talk Show sketch and introduces Timberlake's second performance. Cameron Diaz, Timberlake's then-girlfriend, introduces his first performance. After the episode, NBC put an uncensored version of the Digital Short "Dick in a Box" on its website and YouTube. It quickly became an Internet phenomenon, much like "Lazy Sunday" did a year earlier, and won an Emmy in 2007.
614	10	Jake Gyllenhaal	The Shins	January 13, 2007 (2007-01-13)
The Shins perform "Phantom Limb" and "New Slang".
615	11	Jeremy Piven	AFI	January 20, 2007 (2007-01-20)
AFI performs "Love Like Winter" and "Miss Murder". Common appears in the "Blizzard Man" sketch. A picture of Michael DiBari, a cameraman who had died of cancer earlier in the week, was shown before the goodnights.
616	12	Drew Barrymore	Lily Allen	February 3, 2007 (2007-02-03)
Lily Allen performs "Smile" and "LDN". Horatio Sanz appears as Elton John in the "Versace Super Bowl Party". Barrymore reprises her role as Charlie McGee from the movie Firestarter in the "Firestarter Brand Smoked Sausages" sketch.
617	13	Forest Whitaker	Keith Urban	February 10, 2007 (2007-02-10)
Keith Urban performs "Stupid Boy" and "Once in a Lifetime".
618	14	Rainn Wilson	Arcade Fire	February 24, 2007 (2007-02-24)
Arcade Fire performs "Intervention" and "Keep the Car Running", and appear in the SNL Digital Short. Following the show, the band performs "Rebellion (Lies)" and "Wake Up" for the studio audience. Rashida Jones, Wilson's The Office co-star, appears during the opening monologue.
619	15	Julia Louis-Dreyfus	Snow Patrol	March 17, 2007 (2007-03-17)
Snow Patrol performs "You're All I Have" and "Chasing Cars". Chris Rock appears in the cold open.
620	16	Peyton Manning	Carrie Underwood	March 24, 2007 (2007-03-24)
Carrie Underwood performs "Before He Cheats" and "Wasted". Archie Manning, Eli Manning, and Olivia Manning, Manning's father, brother, and mother, respectively, appear in the opening monologue. Additionally, Eli and Cooper Manning, Manning's other brother, appear during the goodnights, wheeling out a cake to celebrate the fact that Peyton Manning was hosting the show on his thirty-first birthday. Dan Aykroyd appears on Weekend Update.
621	17	Shia LaBeouf	Avril Lavigne	April 14, 2007 (2007-04-14)
Avril Lavigne performs "Girlfriend" and "I Can Do Better," and appears as Elle Fanning in the Dakota Fanning Show sketch. Alec Baldwin appears in the pre-filmed "Hathaway Mustache Ride Company" sketch.
622	18	Scarlett Johansson	Björk	April 21, 2007 (2007-04-21)
Björk performs "Earth Intruders" and "Wanderlust". New York Senator Chuck Schumer appears in the pre-filmed portion of the cold open.
623	19	Molly Shannon	Linkin Park	May 12, 2007 (2007-05-12)
Linkin Park performs "What I've Done" and "Bleed It Out".
624	20	Zach Braff	Maroon 5	May 19, 2007 (2007-05-19)
Maroon 5 performs "Makes Me Wonder" and "Won't Go Home Without You". Braff's Scrubs co-stars Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke were in attendance for this episode.

Season 33 (2007–08)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest	Original air date
625	1	LeBron James	Kanye West	September 29, 2007 (2007-09-29)
Kanye West performs a medley of "Stronger" and "Good Life" and a medley of "Champion" and "Everything I Am". After rapping part of "Everything I Am" using the original lyrics, Kanye West freestyles, notably saying "I meant to mess up" and expressing surprise that NBC would have him back on the air after his comments directed towards George W. Bush during "A Concert for Hurricane Relief". Additionally, West appears in the 106 & Park sketch. Adam Levine and Jake Gyllenhaal appear in the SNL Digital Short. Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell again voice the title characters in The Ambiguously Gay Duo sketch. A microphone problem blocked the beginning of Don Pardo's introductions.
626	2	Seth Rogen	Spoon	October 6, 2007 (2007-10-06)
Spoon performs "The Underdog" and "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb". Chevy Chase appears during Weekend Update.
627	3	Jon Bon Jovi	Foo Fighters	October 13, 2007 (2007-10-13)
Foo Fighters perform "The Pretender". Additionally, Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins appear in the SNL Digital Short. Bon Jovi performs "Lost Highway" and "Who Says You Can't Go Home". Bon Jovi's former bandmate Richie Sambora appears in the monologue. Jack Nicholson introduces Bon Jovi's second performance during the goodnights.
628	4	Brian Williams	Feist	November 3, 2007 (2007-11-03)
Feist performs "1234" and "I Feel It All". Barack Obama and Horatio Sanz appear during the cold open. Additionally, Sanz appears during the "Democratic Debate" sketch, in both cases reprising his impersonation of Bill Richardson. Bono, Al Roker, and Matt Lauer appear in the SNL Digital Short. Maya Rudolph's final episode as a cast member.
629	5	Tina Fey	Carrie Underwood	February 23, 2008 (2008-02-23)
Carrie Underwood performs "All-American Girl" and "Flat on the Floor". Amber Lee Ettinger appears as Obama Girl during the cold open. Steve Martin appears during the opening monologue. Former Arkansas Governor (and candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential primary) Mike Huckabee appears during Weekend Update. Don Pardo makes a rare on-screen appearance during the good nights in celebration of his 90th birthday, which had been celebrated the previous day. Casey Wilson's first episode as a cast member.
630	6	Elliot Page (credited as Ellen Page)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Wilco	March 1, 2008 (2008-03-01)
Wilco performs "Hate It Here" and "Walken". Vincent D'Onofrio (as his character of Robert Goren from Law & Order: Criminal Intent) and New York Senator (and candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential primary) Hillary Clinton appear during the cold open. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani appears during "Weekend Update".
631	7	Amy Adams	Vampire Weekend	March 8, 2008 (2008-03-08)
Vampire Weekend performs "A-Punk" and "M79".
632	8	Jonah Hill	Mariah Carey	March 15, 2008 (2008-03-15)
Mariah Carey performs "Touch My Body" and "Migrate", the latter with T-Pain. Writer Jim Downey appears during the SNL Digital Short. Tracy Morgan appears during Weekend Update. Janet Jackson was originally confirmed to be the musical guest, but she had the flu and declined on the Tuesday before the live show.^[3]
633	9	Christopher Walken	Panic! at the Disco	April 5, 2008 (2008-04-05)
Panic! at the Disco performs "Nine in the Afternoon" and "I Write Sins Not Tragedies". Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd appears during the SNL Digital Short. Tina Fey appears during the "Annuale" sketch commercial, a repeat from the episode she hosted.
634	10	Ashton Kutcher	Gnarls Barkley	April 12, 2008 (2008-04-12)
Gnarls Barkley performs "Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)" and "Who's Gonna Save My Soul". Kutcher's then-wife, Demi Moore, appears in the opening monologue. Cameron Diaz appears during "The Cougar Den" sketch. The three-part pre-taped sketch "Death By Chocolate" is directed by Jason Reitman.
635	11	Shia LaBeouf	My Morning Jacket	May 10, 2008 (2008-05-10)
My Morning Jacket performs "I'm Amazed" and "Evil Urges".
636	12	Steve Carell	Usher	May 17, 2008 (2008-05-17)
Usher performs "This Ain't Sex" and "Love in This Club" (the latter with Young Jeezy) and appears during the "CPR Training" sketch. Carell's wife Nancy Walls (herself a former SNL cast member) appears during the opening monologue. Ricky Gervais appears during the SNL Digital Short. Writer and future cast member Colin Jost appears in the cold opening, as Harry Charles Wombus. Arizona Senator (and candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential primary) John McCain appears in the "McCain 2008" sketch and during "Weekend Update".

Season 34 (2008–09)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest(s)	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
637	1	Michael Phelps	Lil Wayne	September 13, 2008 (2008-09-13)	7.4/18^[6]
Lil Wayne performs "Got Money" and "Lollipop". Tina Fey appears as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler appears as Hillary Clinton in A Nonpartisan Message from Governor Sarah Palin & Senator Hillary Clinton in the cold open. William Shatner and Michael Phelps' mother Debbie make cameo appearances in the opening monologue. Guy Fieri was sitting next to Shatner in the audience, but wasn’t a part of the show. Jared Fogle cameos in "The Michael Phelps Diet" sketch. At the end of the episode, before the goodnights, a dedication screen was put up for producer/agent Bernie Brillstein, who had died a month before this episode aired. Brillstein helped in getting Saturday Night Live picked up as a TV series. Senator Barack Obama was scheduled to make a second cameo appearance in this episode.^[4] However, Obama canceled his appearance due to the results of Hurricane Ike.^[5] Bobby Moynihan's first episode as a cast member.
638	2	James Franco	Kings of Leon	September 20, 2008 (2008-09-20)	8.5/18
Kings of Leon perform "Sex on Fire" and "Use Somebody". Cameron Diaz makes a guest appearance, reprising her role as Kiki Deamore in the recurring sketch "The Cougar Den". Blake Lively makes a cameo appearance in the SNL Digital Short.^[7] Kumail Nanjiani appears briefly during the "New York Times" sketch.
639	3	Anna Faris	Duffy	September 27, 2008 (2008-09-27)	6.0/15^[8]
Duffy performs "Mercy" and "Stepping Stone". Tina Fey returned as Governor Sarah Palin in the cold open, being interviewed by Katie Couric, played by Amy Poehler. Chris Parnell makes a guest appearance in a debate sketch as Jim Lehrer.
640	4	Anne Hathaway	The Killers	October 4, 2008 (2008-10-04)	7.4/18^[10]
The Killers performed "Human" and "Spaceman". Queen Latifah appeared as Gwen Ifill and Tina Fey returned as Sarah Palin in a parody of the Vice Presidential Debate, with Jason Sudeikis as Joe Biden in the cold open. An edited version of the sketch parodying the economic bailout was posted on NBC.com, removing references to Herbert and Marion Sandler's (played by Darrell Hammond and Casey Wilson, respectively) corrupt activities and removing the graphic labeling the couple as "people who should be shot." Lorne Michaels admitted he did not know the Sandlers were a real couple; he believed they were simply characters written for the sketch.^[9] The Netflix version (and versions of this sketch shown on Hulu and Saturday Night Live's mobile app) of this episode includes the scene with the Sandlers, but edited it to remove the "People Who Should Be Shot" lower-third and cut the part where Herbert Sandler thanks Barney Frank for letting them get away with what they did to Wachovia Bank. Andy Samberg plays Mark Wahlberg in a sketch where Wahlberg talks to animals, which is referenced by Wahlberg in the following episode.
641	5	Josh Brolin	Adele	October 18, 2008 (2008-10-18)	10.7/24^[11]
Adele performs "Chasing Pavements" and "Cold Shoulder". Tina Fey returned again as Sarah Palin, and was joined by Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin and the real Sarah Palin making guest appearances in the cold opening. Wahlberg also appeared in a brief sketch making amends with Andy Samberg, referring to a sketch from the previous episode. Sarah Palin also appeared on "Weekend Update". Oliver Stone makes a cameo in the opening monologue, impersonating George W. Bush. The New York Underground short film was directed by Noah Baumbach.
642	6	Jon Hamm	Coldplay	October 25, 2008 (2008-10-25)	7.1/18^[12]
Coldplay performs "Viva La Vida", "Lost!", "Yellow", and "Lovers in Japan", which was cut off. Co-stars Elisabeth Moss and John Slattery appeared in the "Ad Agency" sketch as their Mad Men characters Peggy Olson and Roger Sterling, respectively. Amy Poehler did not appear, having given birth hours before this episode aired; Seth Meyers anchored Update by himself, announcing at the beginning of the segment "Amy Poehler is not here tonight, because she's having a baby" to tremendous applause, then continuing with "tonight's other top stories." Maya Rudolph appears as Michelle Obama in the Obama Variety Hour sketch, and performs a brief cover of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", replacing "I love you, baby" with "we love you, Amy", with Kenan Thompson at the end of Update, wishing Poehler the best during her maternity leave.
643	7	Ben Affleck	David Cook	November 1, 2008 (2008-11-01)	9.0/20^[13]
David Cook performs "Light On" and "Declaration". John and Cindy McCain appear as themselves and Tina Fey makes an appearance as Sarah Palin in the cold opening. The episode aired only three days before the 2008 presidential election. McCain also appeared in "Weekend Update". Seth Meyers anchors "Weekend Update" by himself. This episode marks the first appearance of Bill Hader's Stefon character, though he wouldn't be a Weekend Update character until next season's episode hosted by Gabourey Sidibe. Also, Kenan Thompson debuts his Grady Wilson character.
644	8	Paul Rudd	Beyoncé	November 15, 2008 (2008-11-15)	6.8/21
Beyoncé performs "If I Were a Boy" and "Single Ladies", and appears in a sketch about a music video of the latter. Justin Timberlake makes a cameo during Weekend Update and in the "Single Ladies" sketch as one of the three backup dancers. Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins' first episode as cast members.
645	9	Tim McGraw	Ludacris & T-Pain	November 22, 2008 (2008-11-22)	5.9/16
Ludacris and T-Pain perform "One More Drink" and "Chopped & Skrewed". Both Ludacris and T-Pain appear in the "Blizzard Man Replaces T-Pain" sketch. Justin Timberlake was originally scheduled to be the host and musical guest for this episode, but he had to cancel at the last minute, as he explained in the previous episode.
646	10	John Malkovich	T.I.	December 6, 2008 (2008-12-06)	7.3/20
T.I. performs "Whatever You Like" and "Swing Ya Rag" with Swizz Beatz. Amy Poehler returns as Hillary Clinton in the cold opening and co-anchored "Weekend Update" with Seth Meyers after four weeks of being absent due to the birth of her son, Archie. Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Molly Sims, and Justin Timberlake appear in the "Jizz in My Pants" digital short along with Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, and Andy Samberg. During the production of this episode, James Franco was around the SNL set throughout the entire week, shooting a documentary feature. Franco wanted initially some footage for a class project of his, but after realizing just how much access he was granted to the set, he decided to make a full documentary on the entire process the cast and crew go through in order to prepare for an SNL episode.
647	11	Hugh Laurie	Kanye West	December 13, 2008 (2008-12-13)	7.4/22
Kanye West performed "Love Lockdown" and a medley including "Heartless" and "Pinocchio Story". Maya Rudolph performs in a "Bronx Beat" sketch with Amy Poehler. Amy Poehler's final episode as a cast member; she announces her departure at the end of Weekend Update, being interrupted at one point by Fred Armisen as New York governor David Paterson walking in front of the camera, having left shortly before; as Meyers and Poehler sign off Update, they share a long hug as the segment ends. Shortly after this broadcast, Paterson himself openly complained about Armisen's portrayal of him, saying the impression was insensitive to the blind and visually impaired (Paterson would later appear with Armisen on the premiere episode of season 36)^[14]
648	12	Neil Patrick Harris	Taylor Swift	January 10, 2009 (2009-01-10)	9.5/24
Taylor Swift appears in the "Save Broadway" sketch as Annie, and performs "Love Story" and "Forever & Always". Liza Minnelli appears in the "Group Therapy" sketch. Neil Patrick Harris appears in the "Save Broadway" sketch as Mark Cohen from RENT. Harris played the same character in the Los Angeles production of RENT in 1997. In the same sketch Fred Armisen, a former drummer for the Blue Man Group, plays the center blue man.
649	13	Rosario Dawson	Fleet Foxes	January 17, 2009 (2009-01-17)	6.6/16
Fleet Foxes performs "Mykonos" and "Blue Ridge Mountains".
650	14	Steve Martin	Jason Mraz	January 31, 2009 (2009-01-31)	6.4/15
Jason Mraz performs "I'm Yours" and "Lucky" with Colbie Caillat. Steve Martin (15th time as host) performed "Late for School" on his banjo from his new album "The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo" with Michael Daves, Craig Eastman, Brittany Haas, and Skip Ward. This marked the first time since 1978 that Martin has performed music on the SNL stage. During the original broadcast Richard Dean Anderson, who played MacGyver on the TV series, reprised his role in three MacGruber Pepsi ads as a helper to MacGruber. As of 2020, this episode marks the last time Martin has hosted SNL, though he has continued to make cameos and served as de facto host for SNL's 40th Anniversary Special in 2015.
651	15	Bradley Cooper	TV on the Radio	February 7, 2009 (2009-02-07)	5.8/12
TV on the Radio performs "Golden Age" and "Dancing Choose". James Lipton makes a cameo during the monologue. The Lonely Island and T-Pain premiered "I'm on a Boat" from the Lonely Island's Incredibad album in the SNL Digital Short. Drew Barrymore appears during the closing credits.
652	16	Alec Baldwin	Jonas Brothers	February 14, 2009 (2009-02-14)	7.1/19
The Jonas Brothers perform "Tonight" and "Video Girl". They also appear in a sketch and an SNL Digital Short.^[15] Former castmember Dan Aykroyd appears as John Boehner in the cold opening.^[16] Baldwin’s 30 Rock co-star Jack McBrayer makes a guest appearance in the opening monologue. Cameron Diaz once again reprises her role as Kiki Deamore in the recurring sketch "The Cougar Den". Alec Baldwin's nieces make a cameo introducing the Jonas Brothers' second song.^[17]
653	17	Dwayne Johnson	Ray LaMontagne	March 7, 2009 (2009-03-07)	6.8/17
Ray LaMontagne performs "You Are the Best Thing" and "Trouble". Richard Dean Anderson returned as MacGyver for three more MacGruber shorts. Justin Timberlake and his wife Jessica Biel appeared as Irving Hillman and Jessica Rabbit, respectively, in "Weekend Update". Writer John Mulaney makes an appearance in the “Activia Commercial” sketch.
654	18	Tracy Morgan	Kelly Clarkson	March 14, 2009 (2009-03-14)	7.6/21
Kelly Clarkson performs "My Life Would Suck Without You" and "I Do Not Hook Up". Morgan’s 30 Rock co-star Tina Fey and John Cena make cameo appearances in the cold open. Tracy Morgan reprises his roles as Brian Fellow in Brian Fellow's Safari Planet and as Astronaut Jones. Writers John Mulaney and Colin Jost appear in the SNL Digital Short.
655	19	Seth Rogen	Phoenix	April 4, 2009 (2009-04-04)	5.5/12
Phoenix performs "Lisztomania," "1901" and "Too Young", which was cut off. Seth Rogen reprises his impression of Rowlf the Dog from his first appearance on SNL. Rogen appears in the SNL Digital Short for the music video of The Lonely Island's "Like a Boss". Rogen replaced Akiva Schaffer's vocals; however, Akiva Schaffer did make an appearance as the gun dealer. Fellow Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone also makes an appearance in the video delivering a harassment lawsuit to Andy Samberg.
656	20	Zac Efron	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	April 11, 2009 (2009-04-11)	5.1^[18]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs perform "Zero" and "Maps".
657	21	Justin Timberlake	Ciara	May 9, 2009 (2009-05-09)	6.0
Ciara performs "Love Sex Magic" with Justin Timberlake and "Never Ever". Timberlake’s wife Jessica Biel introduces "Love Sex Magic". Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson made guest appearances during the Digital Short. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy cameoed on Weekend Update in a commentary on the theatrical release of Star Trek. Jimmy Fallon reprised his role as Barry Gibb for another installment of "The Barry Gibb Talk Show". Justin Timberlake (third time as host) won an Emmy for hosting this episode.^[19]
658	22	Will Ferrell	Green Day	May 16, 2009 (2009-05-16)	5.7
Green Day performs "Know Your Enemy", "21 Guns" and, in a cut performance, "East Jesus Nowhere", during which Will Ferrell played cowbell. The band also appears in "Goodnight Saigon". Tom Hanks plays himself in "Celebrity Jeopardy!", and in "Goodnight Saigon". Norm Macdonald appears in "Celebrity Jeopardy!" as Burt Reynolds, and in "Goodnight Saigon". Amy Poehler returned to co-anchor Weekend Update, and she accompanied Will Ferrell on a triangle for "Goodnight Saigon". Maya Rudolph reprised her character Glenda Goodwin in the funeral sketch and sang with Will Ferrell for "Goodnight Saigon". Paul Rudd, Artie Lange, Elisabeth Moss, and Anne Hathaway also appear in "Goodnight Saigon". Will Ferrell reprised his impersonations of George W. Bush, Alex Trebek, and Harry Caray. Darrell Hammond, Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson's final episode as cast members. This episode premiered the same night as the series finale of its rival sketch show MADtv. Coincidentally, Artie Lange cameoed on that episode in "Goodnight Saigon".

Season 35 (2009–10)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
659	1	Megan Fox	U2	September 26, 2009 (2009-09-26)	4.6/11^[20]
U2 performs "Breathe", "Moment of Surrender" and "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)". A new opening sequence, which mentions SNL's 35 years on-air, debuts with this episode. During the "Biker Chick Chat" sketch, Slate accidentally says, "You stood up for yourself, and I fuckin' love you for that." Most of the sketch before and after consisted of everyone saying "Friggin'," "frickin'" or "freakin'". Slate quickly holds her breath after realizing her mistake. Brian Austin Green cameoed in the Transformers Digital Short. Nasim Pedrad and Jenny Slate's first episode as cast members.
660	2	Ryan Reynolds	Lady Gaga	October 3, 2009 (2009-10-03)	4.7/12^[21]
Lady Gaga performs "Paparazzi" and a medley of songs including "Bad Romance", "LoveGame" and "Poker Face". She appears with Madonna in Deep House Dish, and in another sketch after her second performance. Elijah Wood appears in the SNL Digital Short. Scarlett Johansson (Reynolds' then-wife) appears in the "Porcelain Fountains" ad portraying the same Lexi character she played during her two hosting appearances. Darrell Hammond appears as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger during Weekend Update.
661	3	Drew Barrymore	Regina Spektor	October 10, 2009 (2009-10-10)	4.6/11^[22]
Regina Spektor performs "Eet" and "The Calculation". Justin Long appears as Matthew McConaughey in a sketch called "Celebrity Ghost Stories". He summarized the plot of McConaughey's movie, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
662	4	Gerard Butler	Shakira	October 17, 2009 (2009-10-17)	4.8/11^[24]
Shakira performs "She Wolf" and "Did It Again". Dwayne Johnson made a cameo reprising his role as "The Rock" Obama in the cold opening. During the advertisements, outtakes from dress rehearsal from the 1990s and 2000s were shown.^[23] James Franco appears as himself in the sketch "What Up With That". Saoirse Ronan appears in the audience during the "What Up With That" sketch.
663	5	Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift	November 7, 2009 (2009-11-07)	5.0/12^[25]
Taylor Swift performs "You Belong with Me" and "Untouchable". Amy Poehler returned to do another "Really?! with Seth and Amy" during Weekend Update. Poehler also introduced Swift's second performance.
664	6	January Jones	The Black Eyed Peas	November 14, 2009 (2009-11-14)	4.7/12^[26]
Black Eyed Peas performs "I Gotta Feeling", "Meet Me Halfway" and "Boom Boom Pow". The last song closed out the show and was played over the goodnights. They also appear in the Today Show sketch. Darrell Hammond cameoed as Lou Dobbs on Weekend Update.
665	7	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Dave Matthews Band	November 21, 2009 (2009-11-21)	4.3/11^[27]
Dave Matthews Band performs "You and Me" and "Shake Me Like a Monkey". Joseph Gordon-Levitt's opening monologue is a song and dance tribute to Donald O'Connor's "Make 'Em Laugh" number in Singin' in the Rain. Dave Matthews cameoed as Ozzy Osbourne in "The Mellow Show with Jack Johnson", while Bill Hader portrayed Matthews. Al Gore cameoed in the "What Up With That" sketch and on Weekend Update, promoting NBC "Green Week" and his new book. Mindy Kaling cameoed in "What Up With That" as the second guest.
666	8	Blake Lively	Rihanna	December 5, 2009 (2009-12-05)	4.4/12^[28]
Rihanna performs "Russian Roulette" and "Hard" and appears in the SNL Digital Short. Young Jeezy performs with Rihanna for her second song. On this episode's installment of Weekend Update, Abby Elliott appears as actress-singer Brittany Murphy, following a report about Murphy's alleged firing from a recent film. This portion of Update was cut from reruns in light of Murphy's death later that month. The episode contains a notorious sketch that makes fun of domestic abuse.
667	9	Taylor Lautner	Bon Jovi	December 12, 2009 (2009-12-12)	5.1/12^[29]
Bon Jovi performs "Superman Tonight" and "When We Were Beautiful". A memoriam picture of Heino Ripp, a former technical director, was shown before the goodnights.
668	10	James Franco	Muse	December 19, 2009 (2009-12-19)	4.4/11^[30]
Muse performs "Uprising" and "Starlight". Mike Tyson and Jack McBrayer appear during "What Up With That". This is the last episode to air during the 2000s.
669	11	Charles Barkley	Alicia Keys	January 9, 2010 (2010-01-09)	4.4/19^[31]
Alicia Keys performs "Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart" and "Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down" and appears in the SNL Digital Short. The original east coast airing was delayed 35 minutes due to the Cowboys-Eagles NFC Wild Card game's running long. This episode attracted 10.4 million viewers, and was the second highest-rated episode of the season.^[31] Charles Barkley's opening monologue features a cameo of Hannibal Buress who was a credited writer for this season. This is the first episode to air during the 2010s.
670	12	Sigourney Weaver	The Ting Tings	January 16, 2010 (2010-01-16)	5.4/14^[32]
The Ting Tings performs "That's Not My Name" and "Shut Up and Let Me Go". Darrell Hammond cameoed as Jay Leno in the cold open. James Cameron cameoed as himself in the SNL Digital Short. Future SNL cast member Colin Jost and host John Mulaney appear in the SNL Digital Short.
671	13	Jon Hamm	Michael Bublé	January 30, 2010 (2010-01-30)	5.0/12^[33]
Michael Bublé performs "Haven't Met You Yet" and "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" and appears in the "Hamm and Bublé" sketch. Sharon Jones sang with Michael Bublé for his second song.
672	14	Ashton Kutcher	Them Crooked Vultures	February 6, 2010 (2010-02-06)	5.3/13^[34]
Them Crooked Vultures performs "Mind Eraser, No Chaser" and "New Fang". As well, Dave Grohl appears in a sketch after Them Crooked Vultures' second performance.
673	15	Jennifer Lopez	Jennifer Lopez	February 27, 2010 (2010-02-27)	6.3/15^[35]
Jennifer Lopez performs "Until It Beats No More" and "Starting Over".
674	16	Zach Galifianakis	Vampire Weekend	March 6, 2010 (2010-03-06)	5.0/12^[37]
Vampire Weekend performs "Cousins" and "Giving Up the Gun". Brian Williams, Jack McBrayer, Jane Krakowski, Mehmet Oz, Anthony Anderson, and Jeremy Sisto all appear during the SNL Digital Short, "Zach Drops by the Set". Paul Rudd and Frank Rich appear during "What Up With That". Galifianakis shaved his beard before the last sketch of the show and wears a fake beard during the goodnights.^[36]
675	17	Jude Law	Pearl Jam	March 13, 2010 (2010-03-13)	4.5/11^[38]
Pearl Jam performs "Just Breathe" and "Unthought Known" and appears in the "Twilight Zone" Nightmare at 20,000 Feet parody. Julian Casablancas sang "Boombox" with The Lonely Island in the SNL Digital Short. Jerry Seinfeld cameoed on Weekend Update to do "Really?! With Seth and Jerry".
676	18	Tina Fey	Justin Bieber	April 10, 2010 (2010-04-10)	5.7/14^[40]
Justin Bieber performs "Baby" and "U Smile" and appears in two sketches. Bieber also appears in Fey's monologue. Mark Sanchez and Steve Martin made cameo appearances during Fey's monologue. Fey reprised her impersonation of Sarah Palin on the fake commercial "The Sarah Palin Network". Fey received a 2010 Emmy Award nomination as herself for Guest Actress in a Comedy.^[39]
677	19	Ryan Phillippe	Ke$ha	April 17, 2010 (2010-04-17)	5.2/13^[41]
Ke$ha performs "Tik Tok" and "Your Love Is My Drug". Phillippe promoted the film MacGruber, the first new SNL movie in over a decade.
678	20	Gabourey Sidibe	MGMT	April 24, 2010 (2010-04-24)	4.7/12^[42]
MGMT performs "Flash Delirium" and "Brian Eno". SNL writer John Mulaney delivers a Weekend Update commentary on girl scout cookies. Stefon also makes his Update debut, written by John Mulaney and Bill Hader.
679	21	Betty White	Jay-Z	May 8, 2010 (2010-05-08)	8.8/21^[45]
In early 2010, an online campaign was created on Facebook to get White to host an episode of the show. The group was called Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!^[43] The movement was sparked by White's appearance in a Snickers commercial aired during Super Bowl XLIV.^{[citation needed]} Because of this, White is the first person to ever host based on an internet movement created by fans. The commercial itself aired during one of the commercial breaks. With this episode, White, at age 88, is the oldest person ever to host the show, surpassing Miskel Spillman, the winner of SNL's "Anyone Can Host" contest in 1977.^[44] For the first set, Jay-Z performs a medley of "Public Service Announcement", "On to the Next One", "99 Problems", "03 Bonnie and Clyde", and "Empire State of Mind," featuring back-up singer Bridget Kelly. During "99 Problems", Jay-Z's band samples "Points of Authority" by Linkin Park. For the second set, Jay-Z performs "Young Forever" with Mr Hudson, which he dedicated to White. Former SNL cast members Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon appear throughout the show. Gasteyer and Shannon reprised their characters from The Delicious Dish sketches. Shannon also reprised her character Sally O'Malley during Weekend Update. Rudolph reprised her impression of Whitney Houston during Weekend Update. Fey and Poehler returned to Update as well, to participate in Really!?!. This episode was nominated for seven 2010 Emmy Awards. White won an Emmy for Guest Actress in a Comedy for hosting.^[39] TV Ratings: 14.952 million viewers [1]
680	22	Alec Baldwin	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	May 15, 2010 (2010-05-15)	5.8/14^[47]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performs "I Should Have Known It" and "Jefferson Jericho Blues", two songs from their 2010 album Mojo. Petty appears in the SNL Digital Short. Steve Martin made a filmed cameo appearance in the opening monologue. Will Forte^[46] and Jenny Slate's final episode as cast members.

Season 36 (2010–11)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest(s)	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
681	1	Amy Poehler	Katy Perry	September 25, 2010	5.3/13
Katy Perry performs "California Gurls" and "Teenage Dream", and appears in Bronx Beat and the SNL Digital Short. Back-up dancer Kherington Payne appears in both of Perry's performances. Rachel Dratch, Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, and Justin Timberlake appear in the opening monologue. Timberlake also appears in the "Actor II Actor" sketch. Maya Rudolph appears in the Bronx Beat sketch, reprising her role as Jodi Deitz. New York Governor David Paterson appears on Weekend Update, alongside Fred Armisen's portrayal of Paterson. Peter Sarsgaard appears in the SNL Digital Short. Amy Poehler reprises her roles as Betty Caruso and Amber. Vanessa Bayer, Paul Brittain, Taran Killam, and Jay Pharoah's first episode as cast members.
682	2	Bryan Cranston	Kanye West	October 2, 2010	4.8/12
Kanye West performs "Power" and "Runaway". Pusha T performs with him on the second song. Ernest Borgnine and Morgan Freeman appear in the "What Up with That" sketch; this would be the last live-action television appearance for Borgnine before his death in 2012. Helen Mirren appears in the SNL Digital Short.
683	3	Jane Lynch	Bruno Mars	October 9, 2010	4.8/12
Bruno Mars performs "Just the Way You Are" and a medley of the songs "Nothin' on You" and "Grenade". Kristen Wiig received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for this episode.
684	4	Emma Stone	Kings of Leon	October 23, 2010	4.5/11
Kings of Leon performs "Radioactive" and "Pyro". SNL writer John Mulaney appears on a Weekend Update segment called "I Love It". The song Ta Douleur by Camille is played during the Les jeunes de Paris sketch.
685	5	Jon Hamm	Rihanna	October 30, 2010	4.6/11
Rihanna performs "What's My Name?" and "Only Girl (In the World)" and appears in the SNL Digital Short. The episode's final segment features David Spade as the voice of a chihuahua in an animated short by former SNL writer Fred Wolf. Writer and future cast member Colin Jost appears in the "Back to the Future" sketch as the scene marker.
686	6	Scarlett Johansson	Arcade Fire	November 13, 2010	4.7/12
Arcade Fire performs "We Used to Wait" and "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" and appears in the SNL Digital Short. Owen Pallett plays violin during both of Arcade Fire's performances.^[48] Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner plays the synthesizer during Arcade Fire's second performance.^[49]
687	7	Anne Hathaway	Florence + the Machine	November 20, 2010	4.7/12
Florence + the Machine performs "Dog Days Are Over" and "You Got the Love".
688	8	Robert De Niro	Diddy-Dirty Money	December 4, 2010	5.0/12
Diddy-Dirty Money performs "Coming Home" and "Ass on the Floor". Additionally, Sean "Diddy" Combs appears in the "Blizzard Man" sketch. Swizz Beatz performs with Diddy-Dirty Money for their second song Robin Williams appears in the "What Up with That" sketch. Ben Stiller appears in the "Movie Fan" and "It's a Living" sketches. The episode's final segment features Dana Carvey as the voice of a hippie in an animated short by former SNL writer Fred Wolf.
689	9	Paul Rudd	Paul McCartney	December 11, 2010	5.3/13
Paul McCartney performs "Jet", "Band on the Run", a medley of "A Day in the Life" and "Give Peace a Chance", and as an encore, "Get Back", replacing the extended good-byes. Additionally, McCartney appears in the opening monologue, the SNL Digital Short, and Weekend Update. Chef Mario Batali appears in the Digital Short.
690	10	Jeff Bridges	Eminem & Lil Wayne	December 18, 2010	4.9/12
For the first set, Eminem and Lil Wayne perform "No Love". For the second set, Eminem performs "Won't Back Down" and Lil Wayne performs "6 Foot 7 Foot". David Rudman plays Cookie Monster in the opening monologue. Cookie Monster started his own campaign on Facebook, similar to that of Betty White, to audition for SNL the month before, though he did not get the part. Akon, Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, John McEnroe, Blake Lively, and Jessica Alba appear in the SNL Digital Short. At the end of the episode, Bridges exclaimed "Rest in peace, Captain Beefheart!"; Beefheart, who had performed on SNL in 1980, died the day before the episode aired. Bill Hader suffered a panic attack while impersonating Julian Assange. Hader has opened up about the experience in the years since the incident. Lorne Michaels calmed him down backstage after the sketch telling Hader, “you can work here as long as you want”.
691	11	Jim Carrey	The Black Keys	January 8, 2011	7.8/18
The Black Keys perform "Howlin' for You" and "Tighten Up". Jim Carrey reprises his Charles Bronson impression from In Living Color. The start of this broadcast was delayed 20 minutes due to the Colts-Jets AFC Wild Card game's running long.
692	12	Gwyneth Paltrow	Cee Lo Green	January 15, 2011	5.1/12
Cee Lo Green performs "Forget You" and "Bright Lights Bigger City", appears in the opening monologue, the "Bar Mitzvah" sketch and the "Forget You" sketch. Pee-wee Herman and Anderson Cooper appear in the SNL Digital Short.
693	13	Jesse Eisenberg	Nicki Minaj	January 29, 2011	5.1/12
Nicki Minaj performs "Right Thru Me" and "Moment 4 Life" and appears in the SNL Digital Short and the "Bride of Blackenstein" sketch. Mark Zuckerberg appears in the opening monologue, alongside Andy Samberg's portrayal of Zuckerberg. Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, and John Waters appear in the SNL Digital Short.
694	14	Dana Carvey	Linkin Park	February 5, 2011	5.6/13
Linkin Park performs "Waiting for the End" and "When They Come for Me". Mike Myers appears in the cold open to reprise his role as the title character in a Wayne's World sketch and introduces Linkin Park's second number. Jon Lovitz appears in the opening monologue and introduces Linkin Park's second number. Justin Bieber appears in Church Chat and a pre-taped parody of The Roommate. Jesse Eisenberg appears in the pre-recorded "Deidra Wurtz: Downsizing Expert" sketch commercial. Carvey's sons Dex and Tom appear in the goodnights. Carvey reprises his characters of Garth Algar and The Church Lady, as well as his impressions of Mickey Rooney and Regis Philbin.
695	15	Russell Brand	Chris Brown	February 12, 2011	5.0/12
Chris Brown performs "Yeah 3x" and "No BS".^[50]
696	16	Miley Cyrus	The Strokes	March 5, 2011	5.4/13
The Strokes perform "Under Cover of Darkness" and "Life is Simple in the Moonlight".
697	17	Zach Galifianakis	Jessie J	March 12, 2011	4.8/12
Jessie J performs "Price Tag" with B.o.B and "Mamma Knows Best". Seth Meyers ends Weekend Update by encouraging viewers to donate to Red Cross relief for the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.^[51] Seth Meyers made an appearance in "The Original Kings of Catchphrase Comedy Tour" sketch as comedian Boston Powers. According to Meyers, it was his first appearance in a sketch in two years.^[52]
698	18	Elton John	Elton John	April 2, 2011	5.0/12
Elton John and Leon Russell perform "Hey Ahab" and "Monkey Suit", as well as a post-show encore performance of "The Bitch Is Back",^[53] though only John is credited as the official musical guest. Will Forte appears in the "ESPN Classic" sketch, reprising his role as Greg Stink. Tom Hanks appears in the "ESPN Classic" sketch, as Michael Caine in the "Knights of the Realm" sketch, and in the SNL Digital Short. Hanks also introduces John and Russell's first performance. Carmelo Anthony appears in the "ESPN Classic" sketch, the SNL Digital Short and introduces John and Russell's second performance. Jake Gyllenhaal appears on Weekend Update.
699	19	Helen Mirren	Foo Fighters	April 9, 2011	4.7/12
Foo Fighters performs "Rope" and "Walk". Additionally, Dave Grohl appears in the SNL Digital Short and the "Bongo's Clown Room" sketch.
700	20	Tina Fey	Ellie Goulding	May 7, 2011	5.3/15
Ellie Goulding performs "Lights" and "Your Song". Maya Rudolph appears in the opening monologue, the "Birthing Seminar" sketch, and the "Googie Rene's Slightly Damaged Prom Wear Barn" sketch. Darrell Hammond appears as Donald Trump in the "GOP 2012 Undeclared Candidates Debate" sketch. Michael Bolton, Robin Wright, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer appear in the SNL Digital Short. Tina Fey reprises her impersonation of Sarah Palin in the "GOP 2012 Undeclared Candidates Debate" sketch. Tina Fey received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for this episode.^[54]
701	21	Ed Helms	Paul Simon	May 14, 2011	4.9/12
Paul Simon performs "Rewrite" and "So Beautiful or So What" and appears in the "What Up with That" sketch. Chris Colfer and Lindsey Buckingham appear in the "What Up with That". Jon Hamm, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell appear in the pre-filmed live-action segment of The Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoon "The Dark, Clenched Hole Of Evil".
702	22	Justin Timberlake	Lady Gaga	May 21, 2011	7.0/17
Lady Gaga performs a medley of "The Edge of Glory" and "Judas" and "Born This Way" and appears in the "Liquorville" sketch, the SNL Digital Short "3-Way (The Golden Rule)", and the "What's That Name?" sketch. Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson appear in the SNL Digital Short "3-Way (The Golden Rule)", reprising their roles from the "Motherlover" Digital Short. Bradley Cooper appears on Weekend Update. Jimmy Fallon appears as Barry Gibb in The Barry Gibb Talk Show sketch.

Season 37 (2011–12)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest(s)	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
703	1	Alec Baldwin	Radiohead	September 24, 2011	5.0/13
Radiohead performs "Lotus Flower" and "Staircase".^[55] Steve Martin and Seth Rogen appear in the opening monologue.^[56] Clive Deamer plays additional drums and percussion for both of Radiohead's performances.
704	2	Melissa McCarthy	Lady Antebellum	October 1, 2011	5.2/13
Lady Antebellum performs "We Owned the Night" and "Just a Kiss".^[57]
705	3	Ben Stiller	Foster the People	October 8, 2011	4.8/12
Foster the People performs "Pumped Up Kicks" and "Houdini".^[58] Hugh Jackman appears as Daniel Radcliffe in The Best of Both Worlds with Hugh Jackman, alongside Andy Samberg's impersonation of Jackman.^[59] Stiller reprises his role as Derek Zoolander from the movie Zoolander during Weekend Update.^[60] Kenny G plays soprano sax during Foster the People's performance of "Houdini".^[58] Writer Mike O'Brien appears as Max Weinberg during the "Bruce Springsteen: Just the Stories" sketch.
706	4	Anna Faris	Drake	October 15, 2011	4.8/12
Drake performs "Headlines" and "Make Me Proud" and appears in the SNL Digital Short and Weekend Update.^[61] Nicki Minaj joins Drake for his second performance.^[61]
707	5	Charlie Day	Maroon 5	November 5, 2011	4.9/11
Maroon 5 performs "Moves Like Jagger" and "Stereo Hearts". Adam Levine also appears in the "Kings of Catchphrase Comedy" commercial and the Greek Economy sketch. Gym Class Heroes' Travie McCoy joins Maroon 5 for their second performance. Day's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-star Danny DeVito appears in the opening monologue.
708	6	Emma Stone	Coldplay	November 12, 2011	4.5/11
Coldplay performs "Paradise" and "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" and appears in the "Someone Like You" sketch. Chris Martin also appears in the "Garth and Kat" segment on Weekend Update.^[62] Stone's The Amazing Spider-Man co-star Andrew Garfield appears in the opening monologue. The song A Cause Des Garçons by Yelle is played during the Les jeunes de Paris sketch.
709	7	Jason Segel	Florence + The Machine	November 19, 2011	4.6/11
Florence + the Machine performs "Shake It Out" and "No Light, No Light".^[63] Florence Welch also appears in the "New Jack Thanksgiving" sketch and the "Massachusetts Afternoon" sketch. The Muppets - Kermit the Frog (Steve Whitmire), Miss Piggy (Eric Jacobson), Rowlf the Dog (Bill Barretta), Fozzie Bear (Jacobson), Gonzo the Great (Dave Goelz), Scooter (David Rudman), Camilla the Chicken (Matt Vogel) and Statler and Waldorf (Whitmire and Goelz respectively) appear in the opening monologue. Additionally, Kermit the Frog appears in a Weekend Update segment, and Rowlf and Gonzo appear in the "Massachusetts Afternoon" sketch. Paul Rudd appears in the "Vogelchecks' Thanksgiving" sketch and the "Massachusetts Afternoon" sketch. James Franco is shown in a family photo at the end of the "Vogelchecks' Thanksgiving" sketch, reprising his role as a member of the Vogelcheck family. Former Utah Governor (and candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential primary) Jon Huntsman appears on Weekend Update. Olivia Wilde appears in the SNL Digital Short.
710	8	Steve Buscemi	The Black Keys	December 3, 2011	4.8/11
The Black Keys perform "Lonely Boy" and "Gold on the Ceiling".^[64] Maya Rudolph appears as Whitney Houston in "The Miley Cyrus Show" sketch.
711	9	Katy Perry	Robyn	December 10, 2011	4.8/11
Robyn performs "Call Your Girlfriend" and "Dancing on My Own".^[65] Darrell Hammond appears in the cold open as Donald Trump. Matt Damon and Val Kilmer appear in the SNL Digital Short. Alec Baldwin appears on Weekend Update.
712	10	Jimmy Fallon	Michael Bublé	December 17, 2011	5.3/13
Michael Bublé performs "Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". Additionally, Bublé appears in the opening monologue and in the "Michael Bublé's Christmas Duets" sketch.^[66] Rachel Dratch and Amy Poehler appear in the "Boston Teens" cold open. Chris Kattan, Tracy Morgan and Horatio Sanz make cameo appearances to reprise "Christmas is Number One" with host Jimmy Fallon.^[66] Additionally, Sanz and Kattan appear in the "Beethoven's 9th Symphony" sketch. Tina Fey, Jude Law and Amy Poehler appear on Weekend Update. Will Arnett cameos during the goodnights.
713	11	Charles Barkley	Kelly Clarkson	January 7, 2012	7.4/18
Kelly Clarkson performs "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" and "Mr. Know It All".^[67] This episode was delayed due to the Lions at Saints football game.^[68]
714	12	Daniel Radcliffe	Lana Del Rey	January 14, 2012	5.2/12
Lana Del Rey performs "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans".^[69] Paul Brittain's final episode as a cast member.
715	13	Channing Tatum	Bon Iver	February 4, 2012	4.7/11
Bon Iver performs "Holocene" and "Beth/Rest".^[70]
716	14	Zooey Deschanel	Karmin	February 11, 2012	5.0/12
Karmin performs "Brokenhearted" and "I Told You So".^[71] Jean Dujardin appears in the Les jeunes de Paris sketch. Nicolas Cage appears on Weekend Update alongside Andy Samberg's portrayal of Nicolas Cage. After the crab sketch, a picture of Whitney Houston alongside Molly Shannon from a Mary Katherine Gallagher sketch was shown; Houston's death had been reported just hours before the episode premiered.
717	15	Maya Rudolph	Sleigh Bells	February 18, 2012	4.9/12
Sleigh Bells perform "Comeback Kid" and "End of the Line". Paul Simon appears in the opening monologue. Amy Poehler appears during the Bronx Beat sketch (reprising her role as Betty Caruso), Weekend Update, and "The Obama Show" sketch (reprising her impersonation of Hillary Clinton). Justin Timberlake appears during the Bronx Beat sketch and the "Blue Ivy" sketch (impersonating Justin Vernon). Bill O'Reilly and Kate Upton appear during "What Up with That".
718	16	Lindsay Lohan	Jack White	March 3, 2012	5.5/14
Jack White performs "Love Interruption" and "Sixteen Saltines". Ruby Amanfu performs backing vocals during White's first performance. Jimmy Fallon and Jon Hamm appear in the opening monologue. Hamm also appears during Weekend Update. SNL writer and future cast member Mike O'Brien appears during the cold-open as one of Mitt Romney's sons.
719	17	Jonah Hill	The Shins	March 10, 2012	4.3/11
The Shins perform "Simple Song" and "It's Only Life". Tom Hanks appears in the opening monologue. John McEnroe appears in the SNL Digital Short.
720	18	Sofía Vergara	One Direction	April 7, 2012	5.0/16^[73]
One Direction performs "What Makes You Beautiful" and "One Thing" and appears in "The Manuel Ortiz Show" sketch. Manolo Gonzalez appears in the opening monologue. Kate McKinnon's first episode as a cast member.^[72]
721	19	Josh Brolin	Gotye	April 14, 2012	4.6/11^[74]
Gotye performs "Somebody That I Used to Know" and "Eyes Wide Open" and appears in the second SNL Digital Short. Kimbra joins Gotye on his first performance. Steven Spielberg appears in the first SNL Digital Short.
722	20	Eli Manning	Rihanna	May 5, 2012	5.2/13^[75]
Rihanna performs a medley of "Birthday Cake" and "Talk That Talk" and "Where Have You Been". Manning's wife Abby McGrew appears in the opening monologue, along with Manning's New York Giants teammates Chris Snee, David Baas, David Diehl, and Shaun O'Hara. Sacha Baron Cohen (as Admiral General Aladeen from The Dictator) and Martin Scorsese appear on Weekend Update. A short clip of the Beastie Boys performing "Sure Shot" from season 20 is shown after Weekend Update; and featured group Adam Yauch, who had died the previous day.
723	21	Will Ferrell	Usher	May 12, 2012	5.1/13
Usher performs "Scream" and "Climax" and appears in the SNL Digital Short and the "2012 Funkytown Debate" sketch. Ferrell's mother, Betty Kay Ferrell, appears in the opening monologue. Ana Gasteyer appears in the "LGBT Prom" sketch, reprising her role as Bobbi Mohan-Culp. Will Forte appears in the "ESPN Classic" sketch and the "25th Anniversary Celebration" sketch, reprising his roles as Greg Stink and Hamilton respectively. Justin Bieber, Michael Bolton, Julian Casablancas, Jon Hamm, Natalie Portman, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Justin Timberlake appear in the 100th SNL Digital Short. Liam Neeson appears on Weekend Update with Andy Samberg as Nicolas Cage. Fred Armisen's final episode impersonating President Barack Obama before giving it to Jay Pharaoh.
724	22	Mick Jagger	Mick Jagger (with Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, Jeff Beck)	May 19, 2012	5.2/13
Mick Jagger performs "The Last Time" with Arcade Fire (The Strokes' bassist Nikolai Fraiture also appears with the group), a medley of "19th Nervous Breakdown" and "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" with Foo Fighters, and "Tea Party",^[76] an original blues tune with Jeff Beck and the SNL Band. At the end of the show, Arcade Fire performs a medley of the Rolling Stones' "She's a Rainbow" and "Ruby Tuesday" as a tribute to the departing Kristen Wiig. Jon Hamm appears in the "Lawrence Welk Show" cold-open. Chris Parnell appears in the SNL Digital Short, "Lazy Sunday 2". He also appears during the goodnights. Steve Martin appears in "The Californians" sketch. He also appears during the goodnights Rachel Dratch, Will Forte, Chris Kattan, Amy Poehler and Lorne Michaels appear during the goodnights. Abby Elliott, Andy Samberg and Kristen Wiig's final episode as cast members.

Season 38 (2012–13)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest(s)	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
725	1	Seth MacFarlane	Frank Ocean	September 15, 2012 (2012-09-15)	4.8/12^[79]
Frank Ocean performs "Thinkin Bout You" and the second half/single version of "Pyramids". John Mayer plays guitar on both songs. In the opening monologue, MacFarlane utilizes his character voices of Peter, Stewie & Brian Griffin and Glenn Quagmire from Family Guy, and Roger Smith from American Dad! He also does the voices of George Takei, Droopy the Dog, Marty McFly and Kermit the Frog. Psy appears in the "Gangnam Style" sketch alongside Bobby Moynihan's impersonation. Starting with this episode, Jay Pharoah takes over impersonating President Barack Obama from Fred Armisen.^[77] Aidy Bryant, Tim Robinson and Cecily Strong's first episode as cast members.^[78]
726	2	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Mumford & Sons	September 22, 2012 (2012-09-22)	5.0/12^[80]
Mumford & Sons performs "I Will Wait" and "Below My Feet" and appears in the Song Memories sketch in which the band performs "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" as a Beatles tribute band.
727	3	Daniel Craig	Muse	October 6, 2012 (2012-10-06)	4.5/11^[81]
Muse performs "Madness" and "Panic Station". Chris Parnell reprises his Jim Lehrer impression in the cold open. Caroll Spinney appears as Big Bird on Weekend Update.
728	4	Christina Applegate	Passion Pit	October 13, 2012 (2012-10-13)	4.6/11^[82]
Passion Pit performs "Take a Walk" and "Carried Away". Usain Bolt appears in the cold open and "The Californians" sketch. Aidy Bryant does not appear in this episode, but is credited in the opening montage.
729	5	Bruno Mars	Bruno Mars	October 20, 2012 (2012-10-20)	5.4/14^[83]
Bruno Mars performs "Locked Out of Heaven" and "Young Girls". Tom Hanks appears in the cold open, introduces Mars' first number and appears in the "Merryville Brothers" sketch.
730	6	Louis C.K.	fun.	November 3, 2012 (2012-11-03)	5.0/12^[84]
fun. performs "Some Nights" and "Carry On". Tim Robinson does not appear in this episode, but is credited in the opening montage.
731	7	Anne Hathaway	Rihanna	November 10, 2012 (2012-11-10)	5.0/12^[85]
Rihanna performs "Diamonds" and "Stay".
732	8	Jeremy Renner	Maroon 5	November 17, 2012 (2012-11-17)	5.1/12^[86]
Maroon 5 performs "One More Night" and "Daylight". Additionally, Adam Levine appears in "The Stand-Off" sketch, which was pre-recorded. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appears on Weekend Update. This episode contains a cartoon, entitled "Cool Drones", animated by Augenblick Studios.
733	9	Jamie Foxx	Ne-Yo	December 8, 2012 (2012-12-08)	4.6/11^[87]
Ne-Yo performs "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)" and "She Is". 2 Chainz appears during Foxx's monologue. Dermot Mulroney appears in the "Dylan McDermott or Dermot Mulroney" sketch. Charlie Day appears in the "Maine Justice" sketch.
734	10	Martin Short	Paul McCartney	December 15, 2012 (2012-12-15)	5.1/12^[88]
Paul McCartney performs "My Valentine" with Joe Walsh on guitar, "Cut Me Some Slack" with the surviving members of Nirvana (Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear), and "Wonderful Christmastime". McCartney also appears in the "Pageant Auditions" sketch. Short brings back his characters Jackie Rogers Jr. and Ed Grimley (which he performs in a part of his monologue). Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Shaffer, and Kristen Wiig appear in the opening monologue. Alec Baldwin appears as Tony Bennett in "The Tony Bennett Show" sketch. Carrie Brownstein and Samuel L. Jackson appear in "What Up with That?", in which Martin Short reprises his Jackie Rogers Jr. character. At the beginning of the show, in lieu of the traditional opening skit, the New York City Children's Chorus performs a rendition of "Silent Night" in remembrance of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which had occurred a day earlier. The choir also joins McCartney on "Wonderful Christmastime".
735	11	Jennifer Lawrence	The Lumineers	January 19, 2013 (2013-01-19)	4.9/12^[89]
The Lumineers performs "Ho Hey" and "Stubborn Love".
736	12	Adam Levine	Kendrick Lamar	January 26, 2013 (2013-01-26)	5.0/12^[90]
Kendrick Lamar performs "Swimming Pools (Drank)" and "Poetic Justice" and appears in the SNL Digital Short. Cameron Diaz, Andy Samberg and Jerry Seinfeld appear in the opening monologue. Samberg also appears in the SNL Digital Short. Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Danny McBride appear in the SNL Digital Short. Levine's Maroon 5 bandmate Mickey Madden appears in the "Band Face-Off" sketch.
737	13	Justin Bieber	Justin Bieber	February 9, 2013 (2013-02-09)	4.9/12^[91]
Justin Bieber performs the acoustic version of "As Long as You Love Me" and "Nothing Like Us". Whoopi Goldberg appears in the opening monologue and introduces Bieber's first performance.
738	14	Christoph Waltz	Alabama Shakes	February 16, 2013 (2013-02-16)	4.6/12^[92]
Alabama Shakes performs "Hold On" and "Always Alright".
739	15	Kevin Hart	Macklemore and Ryan Lewis	March 2, 2013 (2013-03-02)	4.8/12^[93]
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis perform "Thrift Shop" with Wanz and "Can't Hold Us" with Ray Dalton. Longtime announcer Don Pardo was unavailable due to a broken hip. Instead, he is impersonated by former cast member Darrell Hammond.
740	16	Justin Timberlake	Justin Timberlake	March 9, 2013 (2013-03-09)	5.9/15^[95]
Justin Timberlake performs "Suit & Tie" with Jay-Z and "Mirrors". Dan Aykroyd, Alec Baldwin, Candice Bergen, Chevy Chase, Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Paul Simon and future cast member Mike O'Brien appear in the "Five-Timers Club" opening monologue. Aykroyd and Martin reprise the characters "The Festrunk Brothers" in the "It's a Date" sketch. Short, Martin, and Chase also introduce Timberlake's second number as the Three Amigos. Andy Samberg appears in "It's a Date" and "Maine Justice". "It's a Date" was written by Samberg along with former SNL writers Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island.^[94]
741	17	Melissa McCarthy	Phoenix	April 6, 2013 (2013-04-06)	4.8/12^[96]
Phoenix performs "Entertainment" and a medley of "Trying to Be Cool" and "Drakkar Noir". Dennis Rodman appears in the cold opening. Peter Dinklage appears on Weekend Update.
742	18	Vince Vaughn	Miguel	April 13, 2013 (2013-04-13)	4.6/12^[97]
Miguel performs "Adorn" and "How Many Drinks?" Steve Jones appears in the pre-recorded "History of Punk" sketch.
743	19	Zach Galifianakis	Of Monsters and Men	May 4, 2013 (2013-05-04)	4.4/11^[98]
Of Monsters and Men performs "Little Talks" and "Mountain Sound". Nikolaj Coster-Waldau cameos in the "Game of Game of Thrones" sketch. Galifianakis's co-stars from The Hangover series, Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms, appear in the Jennifer Aniston lookalike sketch. Jon Hamm appears in the pre-recorded edited version of the Darrell's House sketch.
744	20	Kristen Wiig	Vampire Weekend	May 11, 2013 (2013-05-11)	4.6/12^[99]
Vampire Weekend performs "Diane Young" and "Unbelievers". Jonah Hill and Maya Rudolph appeared in the opening monologue. Maya Rudolph appeared in "The Californians". Kristen Wiig reprised her roles as Gilly in a pretaped portion of the monologue, Kareena (of The Californians), Kat (of Garth and Kat) on Weekend Update, the Target Lady, and Dooneese, one of the Finger Lakes singers.
745	21	Ben Affleck	Kanye West	May 18, 2013 (2013-05-18)	4.7/12^[100]
Kanye West performs "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves". Affleck's then wife, Jennifer Garner, appears in the opening monologue. Amy Poehler returns to Weekend Update for a segment of "Really?!? with Seth & Amy" and resumes her co-anchor duties. Anderson Cooper appears on Weekend Update for a pre-taped sketch involving recurring character Stefon. Kim Gordon, Steve Jones, Aimee Mann, J Mascis, Michael Penn and Fred Armisen's Portlandia co-star Carrie Brownstein appear in his goodbye, "It's a Lovely Day", sketch. Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Tim Robinson and Jason Sudeikis' final episode as cast members.

Season 39 (2013–14)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
746	1	Tina Fey	Arcade Fire	September 28, 2013 (September 28, 2013)	4.7/12^[102]
Arcade Fire performs "Reflektor" and "Afterlife". Also, Arcade Fire members Will Butler, Régine Chassagne and Win Butler appear in the "New Cast Member or Arcade Fire" sketch. Aaron Paul appears in the cold open and the "E-Meth commercial" sketch, reprising Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad (the show's series finale airing the following day) and appears as Drunk Uncle's nephew during Weekend Update. Beck Bennett, John Milhiser, Kyle Mooney, Mike O'Brien, Noël Wells and Brooks Wheelan's first episode as cast members^[101] Cecily Strong's first episode as Weekend Update co-anchor.
747	2	Miley Cyrus	Miley Cyrus	October 5, 2013 (2013-10-05)	4.5/13^[103]
Miley Cyrus performs "Wrecking Ball" and an unplugged version of "We Can't Stop".
748	3	Bruce Willis	Katy Perry	October 12, 2013 (2013-10-12)	4.3/11^[104]
Katy Perry performs "Roar" and "Walking on Air". Aaron Paul appears in the pre-filmed "E-Meth" sketch, a repeat from the episode Tina Fey hosted during the season premiere.
749	4	Edward Norton	Janelle Monáe	October 26, 2013 (2013-10-26)	3.9/10^[105]
Janelle Monáe performs "Dance Apocalyptic" and "Electric Lady". Alec Baldwin and Miley Cyrus appear in the opening monologue. Baldwin also narrates and appears in the fake Wes Anderson trailer. Cyrus also cameos in the "12 Days Not a Slave" sketch.
750	5	Kerry Washington	Eminem	November 2, 2013 (2013-11-02)	4.9/12^[106]
Eminem performs "Berzerk" and "Survival" with Skylar Grey. Rick Rubin serves as Eminem's DJ during "Berzerk". Al Sharpton appears in the cold open. An excerpt from a season twelve performance featuring Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed, who had died on October 27 from liver disease, was featured after the show's Update segment.
751	6	Lady Gaga	Lady Gaga	November 16, 2013 (2013-11-16)	4.9/12^[107]
Lady Gaga performs "Do What U Want" with R. Kelly and "Gypsy".
752	7	Josh Hutcherson	HAIM	November 23, 2013 (2013-11-23)	4.1/10^[108]
HAIM performs "The Wire" and "Don't Save Me" and appears in the "Josie" sketch.
753	8	Paul Rudd	One Direction	December 7, 2013 (2013-12-07)	4.9/12^[109]
One Direction performs "Story of My Life" and "Through the Dark" and appear in the opening monologue and in the pre-taped "Dan Charles" sketch. Fred Armisen and Kristen Wiig appear in The Sound of Music Live! cold open, reprising their characters from The Lawrence Welk Show sketches. Rudd's Anchorman series co-stars Will Ferrell, David Koechner (SNL alumn) and Steve Carell appear in the opening monologue. Ferrell and Koechner later reprise their "drunken salesmen" characters for the "Bill Brasky" sketch.
754	9	John Goodman	Kings of Leon	December 14, 2013 (2013-12-14)	4.5/11^[110]
Kings of Leon performs "Temple" and "Wait for Me" and appear in the "Guy Fieri Holiday Special" sketch. Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone appear in the "Three Wise Guys" sketch. Wale appears in the H&M music video.
755	10	Jimmy Fallon	Justin Timberlake	December 21, 2013 (2013-12-21)	6.3/16^[111]
Justin Timberlake performs "Only When I Walk Away" and "Pair of Wings" and appears in the "Wrappinville" sketch, the Celebrity Family Feud sketch (parodying Fallon), and The Barry Gibb Talk Show sketch. Paul McCartney appears in the opening monologue. Madonna and Barry Gibb appear in The Barry Gibb Talk Show sketch. Madonna also co-introduces Timberlake's first performance. Michael Bloomberg appears during Weekend Update. Chris Rock appears during the goodnights.
756	11	Drake	Drake	January 18, 2014 (2014-01-18)	4.7/12^[112]
Drake performs a medley of "Started from the Bottom" and "Trophies" and a medley of "Hold On, We're Going Home" and "From Time" with singer-songwriter Jhené Aiko. Sasheer Zamata's first episode as a cast member.
757	12	Jonah Hill	Bastille	January 25, 2014 (2014-01-25)	4.8/12^[113]
Bastille performs "Pompeii" and "Oblivion". Hill's The Wolf of Wall Street co-star Leonardo DiCaprio appears during the opening monologue. Michael Cera appears in the pretaped "me" sketch.
758	13	Melissa McCarthy	Imagine Dragons	February 1, 2014 (2014-02-01)	5.4/13^[115]
Imagine Dragons performs "Radioactive" with Kendrick Lamar and "Demons". Amy Poehler, Bill Hader (in character as Stefon), Andy Samberg and Fred Armisen (reprising his David Paterson impersonation) appear during Weekend Update. Seth Meyers' final episode as cast member and as anchor of Weekend Update.^[114] A still of Pete Seeger, who had died five days earlier, was shown in complete silence following Weekend Update.
759	14	Jim Parsons	Beck	March 1, 2014 (2014-03-01)	4.6/12^[118]
Beck performs "Blue Moon" and "Wave". J. Tillman sang backing vocals and played guitar for both of Beck's performances.^[116] Colin Jost's first episode as a cast member and Weekend Update co-anchor.^[117]
760	15	Lena Dunham	The National	March 8, 2014 (2014-03-08)	4.1/11^[119]
The National performs "Graceless" and "I Need My Girl". Liam Neeson appears in the cold open. Jon Hamm appears in the "What are You Even Doing? You're Being Crazy" sketch. Fred Armisen appears during Weekend Update in character as one of "Vladimir Putin's Best Friends from Growing Up".
761	16	Louis C.K.	Sam Smith	March 29, 2014 (2014-03-29)	4.0/10^[120]
Sam Smith performs "Stay with Me" and "Lay Me Down".
762	17	Anna Kendrick	Pharrell Williams	April 5, 2014 (2014-04-05)	4.0/10^[121]
Pharrell Williams performs "Happy" and "Marilyn Monroe" and appears in the "Pharrell Audition" sketch. Hans Zimmer conducts the orchestra during Pharrell Williams' second performance. Icona Pop appears in the pre-taped "Dongs All Over the World" sketch. The song "Louxor j'adore" by Katerine was played during the Les jeunes de Paris sketch.
763	18	Seth Rogen	Ed Sheeran	April 12, 2014 (2014-04-12)	3.9/10^[122]
Ed Sheeran performs "Sing" and "Don't". Zooey Deschanel, James Franco and Taylor Swift appear in the opening monologue. Franco also appears in the pre-taped "Monster Pals" sketch.
764	19	Andrew Garfield	Coldplay	May 3, 2014 (2014-05-03)	3.9/10^[123]
Coldplay performs "Magic" and "A Sky Full of Stars". Additionally, Chris Martin appears in the "Spider-Man Kiss" sketch. Emma Stone appears in the opening monologue and in the "Spider-Man Kiss" sketch. Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub appear in the pre-taped "Beygency" sketch. SNL writer Leslie Jones appears during Weekend Update.
765	20	Charlize Theron	The Black Keys	May 10, 2014 (2014-05-10)	3.8/10^[124]
The Black Keys performs "Fever" and "Bullet in the Brain". Barbara Walters appears during Weekend Update.
766	21	Andy Samberg	St. Vincent	May 17, 2014 (2014-05-17)	4.0/10^[126]
St. Vincent performs "Digital Witness" and "Birth in Reverse". Maya Rudolph appears during the cold open (reprising her impression of Beyoncé), the "Vogelchecks" sketch, and the second SNL Digital Short (reprising her impression of Oprah Winfrey). Bill Hader, Seth Meyers and Martin Short appear in the opening monologue. Hader also appears during the "Vogelchecks" sketch. Lil Jon appears in the first SNL Digital Short. Paul Rudd appears during Weekend Update and the "Vogelchecks" sketch. Fred Armisen and Kristen Wiig appear in the "Vogelchecks" sketch. Wiig also appears during the "Bvlgari watch" sketch. Tatiana Maslany, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Pharrell Williams appear during the second SNL Digital Short. 2 Chainz appears in the "Blizzard Man" sketch. Cecily Strong's final episode as Weekend Update co-anchor. Don Pardo's final episode as the announcer^[125] John Milhiser, Mike O'Brien, Nasim Pedrad, Noël Wells and Brooks Wheelan's final episode as cast members.

Season 40 (2014–15)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest(s)	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
767	1	Chris Pratt	Ariana Grande	September 27, 2014 (2014-09-27)	4.0/10^[129]
Ariana Grande performs "Break Free" and "Love Me Harder" (the latter with The Weeknd) and appears as She-Ra in the "He-Man and Lion-O" sketch. Pratt's then-wife Anna Faris appears during the opening monologue. Writer and future cast member Mikey Day appears in the pre-recorded "Marvel" commercial. SNL writer Leslie Jones appears during Weekend Update and the "NFL Intros" sketch. Michael Che and Pete Davidson's first episode as cast members, and Che's first episode as Weekend Update co-anchor.^[127] Darrell Hammond's first episode as announcer.^[128] After Weekend Update, an image of Don Pardo – SNL's nearly four decades long announcer, who died six weeks earlier – is shown in silence.
768	2	Sarah Silverman	Maroon 5	October 4, 2014 (2014-10-04)	3.9/10^[130]
Maroon 5 performs "Animals" and "Maps". Adam Levine appears as Freddie Mercury in the "Joan Rivers" sketch and as himself in the "Car Ride" sketch. An image of Joan Rivers, who died a month earlier, is shown in silence following the "Joan Rivers" sketch. Former cast member and current writer Mike O'Brien makes an appearance in the "Whites" commercial.
769	3	Bill Hader	Hozier	October 11, 2014 (2014-10-11)	3.8/10^[131]
Hozier performs "Take Me to Church" and "Angel of Small Death & the Codeine Scene". Writer and future cast member Mikey Day appears in the cold open. Hader's Skeleton Twins co-star Kristen Wiig (SNL alumni) appears during the opening monologue, in the Hollywood Game Night sketch, introduces the tribute to Jan Hooks (alongside Hader), and introduces Hozier's second performance. Harvey Fierstein appears during the opening monologue. A tribute to Jan Hooks, who died two days earlier, is shown by re-airing "Love is a Dream", a sketch from 1988 with Phil Hartman. SNL writer Leslie Jones appears during the "39 Cents" commercial. Long time production designer Akira Yoshimura appears during the pre-recorded "Group Hopper" trailer.
770	4	Jim Carrey	Iggy Azalea	October 25, 2014 (2014-10-25)	4.1/10^[132]
Iggy Azalea performs a medley of "Fancy" and "Black Widow" with Rita Ora and "Beg for It" with MØ and appears in the "Halloween Party" sketch (a dance-off to Sia's "Chandelier" music video). Carrey's Dumb and Dumber series co-star Jeff Daniels appears in the "Carrey Family Reunion" sketch. Leslie Jones' first episode as a cast member.
771	5	Chris Rock	Prince	November 1, 2014 (2014-11-01)	4.9/10^[133]
Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL perform a medley including the songs "Clouds" (with Lianne La Havas), "Plectrumelectrum", "Marz" and "Anotherlove". This episode marks Prince's final television performance before his death in 2016.
772	6	Woody Harrelson	Kendrick Lamar	November 15, 2014 (2014-11-15)	4.1/10^[135]
Kendrick Lamar performs "I" and "Pay for It" (the latter with Chantal Kreviazuk and Jay Rock), and appears in the "Young Tarts & Old Farts" pre-taped sketch. Harrelson's The Hunger Games series co-stars Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth and Jennifer Lawrence appear in the opening monologue. Uzo Aduba appears in "The Dudleys" commercial. Edward Norton appears in the unaired "Tweet" sketch.^[134]
773	7	Cameron Diaz	Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars	November 22, 2014 (2014-11-22)	4.1/10^[136]
Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars perform "Uptown Funk" and "Feel Right" with Mystikal. A memorial picture of Mike Nichols, who had died of a heart attack three days before, was shown after a "High School Theater Show" sketch.
774	8	James Franco	Nicki Minaj	December 6, 2014 (2014-12-06)	4.4/10^[137]
Nicki Minaj performs "Bed of Lies" with Skylar Grey and a medley of "Only" and "All Things Go" and appears as Beyoncé in the "Jingle Ballerz Special" sketch, as Kim Kardashian on Weekend Update, and as herself in the "Brain Space" sketch. Seth Rogen appears in the opening monologue and in the "Porn Stars With James Franco and Seth Rogen" sketch. Mike O'Brien appears in the pre-recorded "Grow a Guy" short film.
775	9	Martin Freeman	Charli XCX	December 13, 2014 (2014-12-13)	3.9/10^[138]
Charli XCX performs "Boom Clap" and "Break the Rules".
776	10	Amy Adams	One Direction	December 20, 2014 (2014-12-20)	4.0/10^[139]
One Direction performs "Night Changes" and "Ready to Run" and appear in the "Girlfriends Talk Show" sketch. Mike Myers appears as Dr. Evil in the cold open. Kristen Wiig appears in the opening monologue and on Weekend Update. Fred Armisen appears on Weekend Update and in the "A Very Cuban Christmas" sketch.
777	11	Kevin Hart	Sia	January 17, 2015 (2015-01-17)	4.1/10^[140]
Sia performs "Elastic Heart" with Maddie Ziegler and "Chandelier".
778	12	Blake Shelton	Blake Shelton	January 24, 2015 (2015-01-24)	4.7/10^[141]
Blake Shelton performs "Neon Light" and "Boys 'Round Here".
779	13	J. K. Simmons	D'Angelo	January 31, 2015 (2015-01-31)	4.3/10^[142]
D'Angelo and the Vanguard performs "Really Love" and "The Charade". Fred Armisen appears in the opening monologue. Mike O'Brien and Jason Sudeikis appear in the pre-recorded "The Jay-Z Story" short film.
780	14	Dakota Johnson	Alabama Shakes	February 28, 2015 (2015-02-28)	3.8/9^[143]
Alabama Shakes performs "Don't Wanna Fight" and "Gimme All Your Love". Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson (Johnson's parents) appear during the opening monologue. A title card in memory of Leonard Nimoy appears after the Star Trek-themed sketch.
781	15	Chris Hemsworth	Zac Brown Band	March 7, 2015 (2015-03-07)	4.0/10^[144]
Zac Brown Band performs "Homegrown" and "Heavy Is the Head" with Chris Cornell. This episode marks Chris Cornell's last television performance before his death in 2017. Luke and Liam Hemsworth appear in the opening monologue.
782	16	Dwayne Johnson	George Ezra	March 28, 2015 (2015-03-28)	3.7/9^[145]
George Ezra performs "Budapest" and "Blame It on Me".
783	17	Michael Keaton	Carly Rae Jepsen	April 4, 2015 (2015-04-04)	3.7/9^[146]
Carly Rae Jepsen performs "I Really Like You" and "All That". Mike O'Brien appears in the pre-recorded "Prom Queen" segment. Norman Reedus appears as Daryl Dixon on Weekend Update.
784	18	Taraji P. Henson	Mumford & Sons	April 11, 2015 (2015-04-11)	3.8/10^[147]
Mumford & Sons performs "The Wolf" and "Believe". Darrell Hammond appears as Bill Clinton in the cold open. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau appears in the pre-recorded "Game of Thrones: South Centros" sketch. Billy Crystal appears on Weekend Update. Numerous Muppets appear in a pre-recorded "Cookie Visits Sesame Street" sketch including Big Bird (Caroll Spinney), Elmo (Ryan Dillon), Cookie Monster (David Rudman), Count von Count (Matt Vogel), Mr. Snuffleupagus (Martin P. Robinson), Bert and Ernie (Eric Jacobson and Billy Barkhurst), Murray Monster (Joey Mazzarino), and Abby Cadabby (Leslie Carrara-Rudolph) with background appearances by the Two-Headed Monster, a Honker, and an Anything Muppet.
785	19	Scarlett Johansson	Wiz Khalifa	May 2, 2015 (2015-05-02)	3.4/9^[148]
Wiz Khalifa performs "See You Again" with Charlie Puth and "We Dem Boyz", and appears during the pre-recorded "Blazer" sketch.
786	20	Reese Witherspoon	Florence + the Machine	May 9, 2015 (2015-05-09)	3.7/10^[149]
Florence + the Machine performs "Ship to Wreck" and "What Kind of Man". The mothers of Vanessa Bayer, Beck Bennett, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Kyle Mooney, Bobby Moynihan, Jay Pharoah, Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson, Sasheer Zamata, and Reese Witherspoon appear in the monologue – each speaking one line.
787	21	Louis C.K.	Rihanna	May 16, 2015 (2015-05-16)	3.8/10^[150]
Rihanna performs "Bitch Better Have My Money" and "American Oxygen". Darrell Hammond appears as Bill Clinton in the cold open. Mikey Day appears on Weekend Update.

Season 41 (2015–16)

No. overall	No. in season	Host(s)	Musical guest(s)	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
788	1	Miley Cyrus	Miley Cyrus	October 3, 2015 (2015-10-03)	4.5/11^[151]
Miley Cyrus performs "Karen Don't Be Sad" and "The Twinkle Song". Hillary Clinton (alongside Kate McKinnon's impersonation of her) and Darrell Hammond appear as Val and Bill Clinton, respectively, in the Hillary Clinton Bar Talk sketch. Additionally, Clinton also introduces Cyrus's first musical performance. The Flaming Lips appears as Cyrus' backing band for her first performance. Jon Rudnitsky's first episode as a cast member.
789	2	Amy Schumer	The Weeknd	October 10, 2015 (2015-10-10)	3.9/10^[152]
The Weeknd performs "The Hills" with Nicki Minaj and "Can't Feel My Face", and also appears on Weekend Update during a bit titled "The Weeknd Update".
790	3	Tracy Morgan	Demi Lovato	October 17, 2015 (2015-10-17)	4.2/11^[154]
Demi Lovato performs a medley of "Cool for the Summer" and "Confident" for their first set and "Stone Cold" for her second, also appearing in the "Astronaut Jones" sketch. Alec Baldwin and Larry David appear in the cold open as Jim Webb and Bernie Sanders, respectively. Baldwin, Tina Fey, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer, and Morgan all reprise their 30 Rock roles in the opening monologue. Fey also appeared on Weekend Update. Fey and Tim Herlihy received writing credits for this episode.^[153]
791	4	Donald Trump	Sia	November 7, 2015 (2015-11-07)	6.6/16^[156]
Sia performs "Alive" and "Bird Set Free". Larry David returns as Bernie Sanders in the cold open. David also appears as himself in the opening monologue. Darrell Hammond reprises his Trump impersonation in the opening monologue. Trump's daughter Ivanka appears in the "White House 2018" sketch, receiving no audience applause. Martin Short appears as Ed Grimley in the "Hotline Bling" sketch. The choice of Trump was controversial and a number of Latino groups petitioned to have his invitation to host rescinded.^[155] Unforeseen at the time, Trump would go on to win the presidency, one year and one day after hosting this episode.
792	5	Elizabeth Banks	Disclosure	November 14, 2015 (2015-11-14)	4.0/10^[157]
Disclosure performs "Magnets" with Lorde and "Omen" with Sam Smith. Mike O'Brien appears in the pretaped sketch "Uber for Jen". Cecily Strong begins the show with a tribute to France in light of the November 2015 Paris attacks, speaking both English and French. In addition, the SNL logo in the bumpers is colored blue, white, and red, the colors of the French flag. The stage lights after Sam Smith's performance and before Lorde's are also in those same colors.
793	6	Matthew McConaughey	Adele	November 21, 2015 (2015-11-21)	4.6/12^[158]
Adele performs "Hello" and "When We Were Young". J. J. Abrams, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Emma Stone, Michael Bublé, and Jon Hamm appear in a pre-recorded Star Wars Audition sketch.
794	7	Ryan Gosling	Leon Bridges	December 5, 2015 (2015-12-05)	4.1/10^[159]
Leon Bridges performs "Smooth Sailin'" and "River". Mike Myers appears in the opening monologue. A photo is dedicated to SNL wardrobe person Jenna Krempel before the goodbyes.
795	8	Chris Hemsworth	Chance the Rapper	December 12, 2015 (2015-12-12)	3.8/10^[160]
Chance the Rapper, backed by The Social Experiment, performs "Somewhere In Paradise" with Jeremih and "Sunday Candy" with Jamila Woods. Will Ferrell appears in the cold open as George W. Bush.
796	9	Tina Fey & Amy Poehler	Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band	December 19, 2015 (2015-12-19)	5.1/13^[161]
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band perform "Meet Me in the City" and "The Ties That Bind" and are later joined by Paul McCartney and the cast for "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town". Darrell Hammond portrays Donald Trump in the cold open, replacing Taran Killam (who himself appears as Ted Cruz) and appears in the goodnights singing "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" with the cast. Maya Rudolph appears in the StarVista sketch and reprises her role as Jodi Deitz on Bronx Beat. Gayle King and Amy Schumer appear in the pre-recorded "Amy and Tina's Dope Squad" segment.
797	10	Adam Driver	Chris Stapleton	January 16, 2016 (2016-01-16)	3.0/15 in 18-49 (approximately 5.7 overall)^[163]^[164]
Chris Stapleton performs "Parachute" and "Nobody to Blame". Darrell Hammond again plays Trump in the cold open. Fred Armisen appears to pay tribute to the late David Bowie who had died six days earlier. A clip of Bowie performing "The Man Who Sold the World" from season 5 is then shown. Liev Schreiber appears in a pre-recorded Golden Globes sketch. The show was delayed for viewers on the East Coast for 45 minutes due to the NFC Divisional Playoff game between the Green Bay Packers and the Arizona Cardinals going into overtime.^[162]
798	11	Ronda Rousey	Selena Gomez	January 23, 2016 (2016-01-23)	5.0/12^[165]
Selena Gomez performs a medley of "Good for You" and "Same Old Love" for her first set and "Hands to Myself" for her second. She also appears in the opening monologue and the "Bland Man" sketch. Darrell Hammond and Tina Fey appear as Donald Trump and Sarah Palin, respectively, in the cold open.
799	12	Larry David	The 1975	February 6, 2016 (2016-02-06)	5.1/12^[166]
The 1975 performs "The Sound" and "Love Me". Bernie Sanders appears as a passenger in the "Steam Ship" sketch and helps introduce The 1975's first song. Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson appear as their characters, Derek Zoolander and Hansel McDonald from the movie Zoolander, respectively, on Weekend Update.
800	13	Melissa McCarthy	Kanye West	February 13, 2016 (2016-02-13)	4.4/11^[167]
Kanye West performs "Highlights" (preceded by "Low Lights") with The-Dream, El DeBarge, Kelly Price, Young Thug, and ASAP Bari and "Ultralight Beam" with The-Dream, Kelly Price, Chance the Rapper, and Kirk Franklin. He, The-Dream, El DeBarge, Kelly Price, and Young Thug also appear in a pre-recorded Kyle Mooney film, "Kyle vs. Kanye". Darrell Hammond appears as Bill Clinton in the cold open. Von Miller appears as himself on Weekend Update. Natalie Morales, Dylan Dreyer, and Al Roker appear in the pre-recorded Kyle Mooney film, "Kyle vs. Kanye".
801	14	Jonah Hill	Future	March 5, 2016 (2016-03-05)	4.0/10^[168]
Future performs "Low Life" with The Weeknd and "March Madness" and appears in the opening monologue and in a Weekend Update segment called "News from the Future". Darrell Hammond and Jason Sudeikis appear as Donald Trump and Mitt Romney, respectively, in the cold open.
802	15	Ariana Grande	Ariana Grande	March 12, 2016 (2016-03-12)	4.0/10^[169]
Ariana Grande performs "Dangerous Woman" and "Be Alright". Darrell Hammond and Larry David appear as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, respectively, in the cold open. David also introduces both of Grande's musical performances.
803	16	Peter Dinklage	Gwen Stefani	April 2, 2016 (2016-04-02)	4.0/10^[170]
Gwen Stefani performs "Make Me Like You" and "Misery" and appears in the "Mafia Meeting" sketch. Darrell Hammond appears as Donald Trump in the cold open.
804	17	Russell Crowe	Margo Price	April 9, 2016 (2016-04-09)	4.0/10^[171]
Margo Price performs "Hurtin' (On the Bottle)" and "Since You Put Me Down". Al Sharpton appears as an analyst in the PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton sketch. An image of Merle Haggard, who had died three days earlier, is shown in silence following Price's first performance; also, Price's guitar strap has "Margo" stitched in the same style as "Merle" was on some of his guitars. Mike O'Brien and Jason Sudeikis appear in the pre-recorded short film Oprah: A Life of Love.
805	18	Julia Louis-Dreyfus	Nick Jonas	April 16, 2016 (2016-04-16)	3.9/10^[172]
Nick Jonas performs "Close" with Tove Lo and "Champagne Problems". Additionally, Jonas appears in the "Huge Jewelry" sketch and the pre-recorded "Pool Boy" short. Larry David appears in the cold open as Bernie Sanders, with Louis-Dreyfus reprising her Seinfeld role as Elaine Benes. Louis-Dreyfus' Veep co-star Tony Hale appears in the opening monologue.
806	19	Brie Larson	Alicia Keys	May 7, 2016 (2016-05-07)	4.1/10^[173]
Alicia Keys performs "In Common" and "Hallelujah". Dana Carvey and Darrell Hammond appear in the Church Chat cold open, as the Church Lady and Donald Trump respectively. The mothers of Pete Davidson, Brie Larson, and Kate McKinnon appear during the monologue. Davidson's mother also appears during Weekend Update.
807	20	Drake	Drake	May 14, 2016 (2016-05-14)	3.9/10^[174]
Drake performs "One Dance" and "Hype". Darrell Hammond appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Chris Rock introduces Drake's first performance.
808	21	Fred Armisen	Courtney Barnett	May 21, 2016 (2016-05-21)	3.7/10^[177]
Courtney Barnett performs "Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party" and "Pedestrian at Best". Larry David and Darrell Hammond appear in the cold open, as Bernie Sanders and Bill Clinton respectively. Additionally, David appears in the "High School Theater Show" sketch and in the "Harkin Brothers" sketch. Andy Samberg appears as Conner4real in the SNL Digital Short and in the "Harkin Brothers" sketch. Jason Sudeikis appears in the "New Girlfriend" sketch and in the "Harkin Brothers" sketch. Maya Rudolph appears on Weekend Update as Dilma Rousseff and in the "Harkin Brothers" sketch. Armisen's Portlandia co-star Carrie Brownstein appears in the "Harkin Brothers" sketch. Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah and Jon Rudnitsky's final episode as cast members^[175]^[176]

Season 42 (2016–17)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
809	1	Margot Robbie	The Weeknd	October 1, 2016 (2016-10-01)	5.8/15^[180]
The Weeknd performs "Starboy" and "False Alarm" and also appears on Weekend Update during a bit titled "The Weeknd Update". Alec Baldwin takes over the task of impersonating Donald Trump from Darrell Hammond, who continues on as the show's announcer.^[178] He appears in the show's cold open, a parody of the first presidential debate. Hammond and Larry David appear in the Family Feud: Political Edition sketch as Bill Clinton and Bernie Sanders, respectively. Mikey Day, Alex Moffat and Melissa Villaseñor's first episode as cast members.^[179]
810	2	Lin-Manuel Miranda	Twenty One Pilots	October 8, 2016 (2016-10-08)	5.2/13^[181]
Twenty One Pilots performs "Heathens" and "Ride". Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon appear on Weekend Update.
811	3	Emily Blunt	Bruno Mars	October 15, 2016 (2016-10-15)	5.0/12^[182]
Bruno Mars performs "24K Magic" and "Chunky" and appears in the "Drive-Thru Window" sketch. Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in both the cold open and the pre-recorded "Melanianade" sketch.
812	4	Tom Hanks	Lady Gaga	October 22, 2016 (2016-10-22)	6.1/15^[183]
Lady Gaga performs "A-Yo" with Mark Ronson on guitar and "Million Reasons". Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open and as a pilot in the "Cockpit" sketch. Hanks makes his debut appearance as David S. Pumpkins in the "Haunted Elevator" sketch.
813	5	Benedict Cumberbatch	Solange	November 5, 2016 (2016-11-05)	5.8/14^[184]
Solange performs "Cranes in the Sky" and "Don't Touch My Hair" with Sampha. Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Dana Carvey appears as The Church Lady on Weekend Update. Chicago Cubs baseball players Anthony Rizzo, Dexter Fowler, and David Ross appear in the "Surprise Bachelorette" sketch. They also appear with Bill Murray on Weekend Update, singing "Go, Cubs, Go". A memorial photo of NBC Universal employee John Homer is shown in silence before the goodnights. During the repeat of this episode on December 31, 2016, an image of Carrie Fisher, who died on December 27, is shown in silence after Weekend Update.
814	6	Dave Chappelle	A Tribe Called Quest	November 12, 2016 (2016-11-12)	6.2/16^[186]
A Tribe Called Quest performs "We the People ..." and "The Space Program" with Consequence and Busta Rhymes. The cold open addresses the aftermath of Donald Trump's unexpected election victory, with Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton performing "Hallelujah", a song by Leonard Cohen, who had died earlier that week. Chris Rock appears in the "Election Night" sketch. Donnell Rawlings appears in the pre-recorded "Walking Dead Chappelle's Show" sketch, reprising his role as Beautiful. Chappelle's Show co-creator Neal Brennan guest-wrote on this episode and directed the Walking Dead sketch.^[185]
815	7	Kristen Wiig	The xx	November 19, 2016 (2016-11-19)	4.7/12^[187]
The xx performs "On Hold" and "I Dare You". Alec Baldwin and Jason Sudeikis appear as Donald Trump and Mitt Romney, respectively, in the cold open. Steve Martin and Will Forte appear in the opening monologue. Bill Hader has a vocal cameo in the "Secret Word" sketch.
816	8	Emma Stone	Shawn Mendes	December 3, 2016 (2016-12-03)	4.4/11^[188]
Shawn Mendes performs "Mercy" and "Treat You Better". Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Jennifer Aniston appears on Weekend Update, opposite Vanessa Bayer's impersonation of Aniston's Friends role Rachel Green, and in the "Film Screening" sketch.
817	9	John Cena	Maren Morris	December 10, 2016 (2016-12-10)	4.8/12^[189]
Maren Morris performs "My Church" and "80s Mercedes". Bryan Cranston appears in the cold open, reprising his role as Walter White from Breaking Bad.
818	10	Casey Affleck	Chance the Rapper	December 17, 2016 (2016-12-17)	4.9/12^[190]
Chance the Rapper performs "Finish Line/Drown" with Noname and "Same Drugs" with Francis Farewell Starlite. He also appears in the pre-recorded "Jingle Barack" sketch and the "New York Now" sketch. Alec Baldwin and John Goodman appear in the cold open, as Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson, respectively, and appear in the opening monologue. Fred Armisen appears in the "Robot Presentation" sketch and as one of "Vladimir Putin's Best Friends from Growing Up" on Weekend Update. Darryl McDaniels appears in the pre-recorded "Jingle Barack" sketch.
819	11	Felicity Jones	Sturgill Simpson	January 14, 2017 (2017-01-14)	4.3/11^[191]
Sturgill Simpson performs "Keep It Between the Lines" and "Call to Arms". Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Tina Fey appears in the opening monologue. A tribute to former cast member Tony Rosato, who died on January 10, is shown before the goodnights.
820	12	Aziz Ansari	Big Sean	January 21, 2017 (2017-01-21)	5.1/13^[192]
Big Sean performs "Bounce Back" and "Sunday Morning Jetpack". Neal Brennan directed the Uber film.
821	13	Kristen Stewart	Alessia Cara	February 4, 2017 (2017-02-04)	5.0/13^[193]
Alessia Cara performs "Scars to Your Beautiful" and "River of Tears". Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Melissa McCarthy appears as Sean Spicer in the "Sean Spicer Press Conference" sketch. Stewart accidentally says "fuck" during the monologue.
822	14	Alec Baldwin	Ed Sheeran	February 11, 2017 (2017-02-11)	7.2/18^[194]
Ed Sheeran performs "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill." Melissa McCarthy appears as Sean Spicer in the cold open. Tracy Morgan appears in the "Beyoncé's Babies" sketch.
823	15	Octavia Spencer	Father John Misty	March 4, 2017 (2017-03-04)	5.2/14^[195]
Father John Misty performs "Total Entertainment Forever" and "Pure Comedy."
824	16	Scarlett Johansson	Lorde	March 11, 2017 (2017-03-11)	4.8/13^[196]
Lorde performs "Green Light," sings "Liability" with Jack Antonoff on piano, and appears in the "Day Without a Woman" sketch. Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open and in the pre-recorded "Ivanka Fragrance" sketch.
825	17	Louis C.K.	The Chainsmokers	April 8, 2017 (2017-04-08)	4.5/12^[197]
The Chainsmokers performs "Paris" with Emily Warren and "Break Up Every Night". Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open and as both Trump and Bill O'Reilly in the O'Reilly Factor sketch. An image of Don Rickles, who died on April 6, is shown in silence before the goodnights.
826	18	Jimmy Fallon	Harry Styles	April 15, 2017 (2017-04-15)	7.88 M avg. US viewers^[200]
Harry Styles performs "Sign of the Times" and "Ever Since New York" and appears in the opening monologue, as Mick Jagger in the "Celebrity Family Feud" sketch, and in the "Civil War Soldiers" sketch. Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Nile Rodgers plays guitar during Fallon's opening performance of "Let's Dance". Melissa McCarthy appears as Sean Spicer in the "White House Easter Message" sketch, which was actually shot in Los Angeles.^[198] Rachel Dratch reprises her role as Denise from The Boston Teens in the "Harvard University" sketch. This is the first SNL episode ever to be broadcast live in all four time zones within the contiguous United States. Previously, the show aired live only in the Eastern and Central time zones, and was tape-delayed in the Mountain and Pacific time zones.^[199]
827	19	Chris Pine	LCD Soundsystem	May 6, 2017 (2017-05-06)	6.919 M avg. US viewers^[201]
LCD Soundsystem performs "Call the Police" and "American Dream". Alec Baldwin makes a voiceover cameo appearance in the cold open as Donald Trump. Long time production designer Akira Yoshimura appears in the "Star Trek Lost Episode" sketch.
828	20	Melissa McCarthy	HAIM	May 13, 2017 (2017-05-13)	10.337 M avg. US viewers^[202]
HAIM performs "Want You Back" and "Little of Your Love" and appears in the opening monologue and in the "Kyle and Leslie" filmed sketch. Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open and in the Sean Spicer sketch and as himself in the opening monologue. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds appear in the opening monologue. Steve Martin appears during the goodnights to welcome McCarthy to the Five-Timers Club.
829	21	Dwayne Johnson	Katy Perry	May 20, 2017 (2017-05-20)	8.272 M avg. US viewers^[204]
Katy Perry performs "Swish Swish" and "Bon Appétit" with Migos, and appears in the "Rap Song" sketch. A 15-year-old boy named Russell Horning appeared in Perry's first musical performance, performing his signature arm-swinging dance move known as the Floss while wearing a backpack on stage. The performance gained social media attention with many dubbing him as the "Backpack Kid", and his dance move becoming an imitating trend among children, teens, and celebrities. Other dancers who appeared in Perry's first musical performance included Indya Moore, Jose Gutierez Xtravaganza, Vivacious, Yuhua Hamasaki, Scarlet Envy, and Brita Filter. Alec Baldwin and Scarlett Johansson appear in the cold open as Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump, respectively, performing a rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". Additionally, Baldwin appears in the opening monologue to welcome Johnson to the Five-Timers Club. Tom Hanks appears in the opening monologue and as David S. Pumpkins in the "Rap Song" sketch. An image of Brad Grey, who died on May 14, is shown in silence after Weekend Update. Vanessa Bayer, Bobby Moynihan and Sasheer Zamata's final episode as cast members.^[203]

Season 43 (2017–18)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
830	1	Ryan Gosling	Jay-Z	September 30, 2017 (2017-09-30)	4.5^[205]
Jay-Z performs "Bam" with Damian Marley and "4:44". Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Emma Stone appears in the opening monologue. Kenan Thompson's return for his fifteenth season on the show makes him the longest tenured cast member in the show's history, surpassing the previous record of fourteen seasons, which he had held jointly with Darrell Hammond. Heidi Gardner, Luke Null and Chris Redd's first episode as cast members. A photograph of Hugh Hefner, who had died the previous week, is shown in silence before the goodnights.
831	2	Gal Gadot	Sam Smith	October 7, 2017 (2017-10-07)	4.4^[205]
Sam Smith performs "Too Good at Goodbyes" and "Pray". Jason Aldean performs "I Won't Back Down" in the cold open as a tribute to the victims of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting and to Tom Petty, who died earlier in the week. As mentioned by Gadot during the monologue, this was the first episode to be broadcast live in Israel; until this night, it took a week for episodes aired in the US to appear on Israeli TV. During the monologue, Gadot speaks a few sentences in Hebrew for the Israeli audience. The Hebrew sentences are subtitled in English. The "Safelite AutoGlass" sketch was subsequently pulled from rebroadcasts and the Internet after Safelite complained on Twitter that the sketch was offensive (and the humor in it would be considered in bad taste due to the influx of news at the time about male celebrities being outed as sexual offenders). Rebroadcasts of the show replaced the segment with a previously unaired, but released to the Internet, music video sketch called "The Last Fry".^[206]^[207] As of 2019, Hulu has the original Safelite sketch and "The Last Fry" is no longer shown. When the episode was rerun on August 18, 2018, a photograph of Aretha Franklin, who had died two days earlier, was shown in silence before the goodnights.
832	3	Kumail Nanjiani	P!nk	October 14, 2017 (2017-10-14)	4.6/11^[208]
P!nk performs "What About Us" and "Beautiful Trauma". Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open.
833	4	Larry David	Miley Cyrus	November 4, 2017 (2017-11-04)	4.7/11^[210]
Miley Cyrus performs "Bad Mood" and "I Would Die for You" and also appears as a contestant in The Price Is Right sketch, Baby Snatch in the "Baby Steps" sketch, and a member of the drama club in the Fresh Takes sketch. Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open and as Tony Bennett in The Price is Right sketch. Liam Hemsworth appears in The Price is Right sketch. Houston Astros baseball players and World Series champions José Altuve, Alex Bregman, and George Springer appear on Weekend Update. Larry David's monologue generated controversy because he joked about dating in a Nazi concentration camp.^[209]
834	5	Tiffany Haddish	Taylor Swift	November 11, 2017 (2017-11-11)	4.3/10^[212]
Taylor Swift performs "... Ready for It?" and an acoustic version of "Call It What You Want." Larry David and Jason Sudeikis appear as Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, respectively, in the "DNC Commercial" sketch. David, while in character, references the controversy that his monologue from the previous week generated, saying that any guy who makes jokes about concentration camps (himself) "should rot in hell". A photo of SNL sound man George Corrado is shown in silence before the goodnights. Haddish won an Emmy in 2018 for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for hosting.^[211]
835	6	Chance the Rapper	Eminem	November 18, 2017 (2017-11-18)	4.3/10^[213]
Contrary to the usual format in which the musical guest perform two songs at two different segments, Eminem performs a single medley of "Walk on Water", "Stan",^{[n 1]} and "Love the Way You Lie." Skylar Grey performs the entire medley with Eminem, but is not credited as a musical guest. SNL writer Gary Richardson appears in the "Family Feud" sketch. Questlove and Common appear in the pre-recorded "Rap History" sketch.
836	7	Saoirse Ronan	U2	December 2, 2017 (2017-12-02)	4.3/10^[215]
U2 performs "American Soul" and "Get Out of Your Own Way." Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Greta Gerwig appears in the pre-recorded "Office Race" sketch. John McEnroe appears in the "Bachelor Auction" sketch. The "Aer Lingus" sketch generated controversy for portraying Irish people in a stereotypical manner. Ronan defended the sketch, saying that it was written with her input.^[214]
837	8	James Franco	SZA	December 9, 2017 (2017-12-09)	4.5/10^[216]
SZA performs "The Weekend" and "Love Galore." Jonah Hill, Steve Martin, and Seth Rogen appear in the opening monologue. Dave Franco appears in the "Reunion" sketch.
838	9	Kevin Hart	Foo Fighters	December 16, 2017 (2017-12-16)	4.6/11^[217]
Foo Fighters perform "The Sky is a Neighborhood" and a medley of "Everlong", "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", and "Linus and Lucy". Alec Baldwin and Scarlett Johansson appear as Donald and Ivanka Trump, respectively, in the cold open. Baldwin also introduces Foo Fighters' second performance. The credits end with the cast ice skating on the skating rink near the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree while Alec Baldwin and the Foo Fighters remain in the studio.
839	10	Sam Rockwell	Halsey	January 13, 2018 (2018-01-13)	4.6/10^[220]
Halsey performs "Bad at Love" and "Him & I" with G-Eazy. Fred Armisen and Bill Murray appear as Michael Wolff and Steve Bannon, respectively, in the cold open. Stanley Tucci appears in the pre-recorded "Tucci Gang" sketch.^[218] Rockwell accidentally said "fucking" during the Science Room with Mr. Science sketch (when he tells the kid assistants played by Mikey Day and Cecily Strong "You can't be this fucking stupid"). During Weekend Update, both Colin Jost and Michael Che said "shithole" while discussing a comment President Trump made using that word and how NBC wanted them to tone it down, but openly defied it. All instances were censored for the West Coast feed, which is delayed by a few seconds. While the program airs during the safe harbor period in the Eastern and Central time zones, SNL has aired live coast to coast since the spring of 2017, meaning that in the Mountain and Pacific time zones, Rockwell's comment would have been heard between 9:30 and 10:00 PM or 8:30 and 9:00 PM, respectively, potentially subjecting network affiliates in those regions to FCC fines for indecency if it had not been censored.^[219]
840	11	Jessica Chastain	Troye Sivan	January 20, 2018 (2018-01-20)	4.3/10^[221]
Troye Sivan performs "My My My!" and "The Good Side." Method Man appears in the pre-recorded The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air sketch.
841	12	Will Ferrell	Chris Stapleton	January 27, 2018 (2018-01-27)	4.9/11^[222]
Chris Stapleton performs "Midnight Train to Memphis" and "Hard Livin'", both with Sturgill Simpson. Tracy Morgan appears in the pre-recorded "The House" sketch.
842	13	Natalie Portman	Dua Lipa	February 3, 2018 (2018-02-03)	4.6/12^[223]
Dua Lipa performs "New Rules" and "Homesick." Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch appear in the "New England Patriots vs. The Philadelphia Eagles" sketch. Andy Samberg appears in the pre-recorded "Natalie Raps II" sketch. This is the only episode this season not to air live coast to coast due to NBC's commitment to the NFL and its NFL Honors special.
843	14	Charles Barkley	Migos	March 3, 2018 (2018-03-03)	4.2/10^[224]
Migos performs "Stir Fry" and "Narcos." Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Alex Rodriguez appears in the "Champions" sketch. Hilary Knight appears on Weekend Update.
844	15	Sterling K. Brown	James Bay	March 10, 2018 (2018-03-10)	4.1/10^[225]
James Bay performs "Pink Lemonade" and "Wild Love." Vanessa Bayer appears as Dawn Lazarus on Weekend Update.
845	16	Bill Hader	Arcade Fire	March 17, 2018 (2018-03-17)	4.5/10^[226]
Arcade Fire performs "Creature Comfort" and "Put Your Money on Me" and appears in the "CBC News Hour" sketch. John Goodman and Fred Armisen appear as Rex Tillerson and Michael Wolff, respectively, in the cold open. Armisen also reprises his role as Stuart in the Californians sketch. John Mulaney appears as Stefon's lawyer Shy on Weekend Update. Spike Jonze appears during Arcade Fire's second performance, operating a slot machine. Jon Hamm appears during the goodnights.
846	17	Chadwick Boseman	Cardi B	April 7, 2018 (2018-04-07)	4.6/11^[228]
Cardi B performs a medley of "Bodak Yellow" and "Bartier Cardi" for her first set and "Be Careful" for her second. She also appears in the pre-recorded "Aidy B" sketch. During her performance of "Be Careful", Cardi B revealed her pregnancy for the first time by displaying her pregnant belly in a Christian Siriano dress.^[227] This episode re-aired on September 5th, 2020 as a tribute to Chadwick Boseman as he died 8 days before on August 28th, 2020. Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open.
847	18	John Mulaney	Jack White	April 14, 2018 (2018-04-14)	3.9/9^[229]
Jack White performs "Over and Over and Over" and "Connected by Love" with the McCrary Sisters and appears in the unaired "Wedding Toast" sketch. Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro appear as Michael Cohen and Robert Mueller, respectively, in the cold open. Darrell Hammond mispronounces Mulaney's name as "John Mulvaney" during the introductions. Nasim Pedrad appears as Ma Anand Sheela in the pre-recorded "Wild Wild Country" sketch. Adam Driver appears in the pre-recorded "Fish Dreams" sketch, unaired during the episode though subsequently released online.
848	19	Donald Glover	Childish Gambino	May 5, 2018 (2018-05-05)	4.1/10^[230]
Childish Gambino performs "Saturday" and "This Is America." The cold open features Ben Stiller as Michael Cohen, Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump, Martin Short as Harold Bornstein, Jimmy Fallon as Jared Kushner, Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka Trump, and Stormy Daniels as herself. ASAP Rocky appears in the pre-recorded "FRIENDOS" sketch. Zoë Kravitz introduces Childish Gambino's first performance. Daniel Kaluuya introduces Childish Gambino's second performance.
849	20	Amy Schumer	Kacey Musgraves	May 12, 2018 (2018-05-12)	4.3/10^[231]
Kacey Musgraves performs "High Horse" and "Slow Burn" and appears in the pre-recorded "Spirituality Rap" sketch, unaired during the episode though subsequently released online. The mothers of Beck Bennett (Sarah), Aidy Bryant (Georgianne), Pete Davidson (Amy), Mikey Day (Sylvia), Colin Jost (Kerry), Kyle Mooney (Linda), Luke Null (Cindy), Chris Redd (Margaret), Kenan Thompson (Elizabeth), and Melissa Villaseñor (Lupe) appear in the cold open. Melissa McCarthy appears as Michael Che's stepmother on Weekend Update.
850	21	Tina Fey	Nicki Minaj	May 19, 2018 (2018-05-19)	4.5/11^[232]
Nicki Minaj performs "Chun-Li" and "Poke It Out" with Playboi Carti and appears in the pre-recorded "Friendship Song" sketch, unaired during the episode though subsequently released online. Alec Baldwin, Robert De Niro, and Ben Stiller appear in the cold open as Donald Trump, Robert Mueller, and Michael Cohen, respectively. Additionally, De Niro appears in the opening monologue. Fred Armisen, Benedict Cumberbatch, Donald Glover, Anne Hathaway, Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock, and Jerry Seinfeld appear in the opening monologue. Additionally, Armisen appears as Michael Wolff in the "What I Did for Trump" sketch. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Casey Nicholaw, Jeff Richmond (Fey's husband), and the Broadway cast of Mean Girls appear in the pre-recorded "Mean Girls" sketch. John Goodman appears as Rex Tillerson in the "What I Did for Trump" sketch. A photograph of Margot Kidder, who had died six days earlier, is shown in silence before the goodnights. Luke Null's final episode as a cast member.

Season 44 (2018–19)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest(s)	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
851	1	Adam Driver	Kanye West	September 29, 2018 (2018-09-29)	4.8/11^[235]
Kanye West performs "I Love It" with Lil Pump and Adele Givens (the latter via prerecorded video), "We Got Love" with Teyana Taylor, and "Ghost Town" with Kid Cudi, 070 Shake, Ty Dolla Sign (on guitar) and the Saturday Night Live Band (the latter replacing the extended goodnights). Additionally, Cudi appears in the pre-recorded Kyle Mooney film. Following the goodnights, West, wearing a Make America Great Again hat, went off-script with his support for Donald Trump. This was discussed in the next episode, during the opening monologue and during the Weekend Update segment.^[233] Matt Damon and Rachel Dratch appear as Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Klobuchar, respectively, in the cold open. Wendy Williams appears in the pre-recorded Kyle Mooney film. Additionally, SNL writer and future cast member Bowen Yang also appears in the same film in a non-speaking role. Ego Nwodim's first episode as a cast member. Ariana Grande was originally chosen to be the musical guest, but she withdrew and was replaced by West.^[234]
852	2	Awkwafina	Travis Scott	October 6, 2018 (2018-10-06)	4.2/10^[236]
Travis Scott performs a medley of "Skeletons" and "Astrothunder" with John Mayer and Kevin Parker on guitar and bass, respectively, and "Sicko Mode". Additionally, Scott appears in the "Dance Battle" sketch.
853	3	Seth Meyers	Paul Simon	October 13, 2018 (2018-10-13)	4.4/10^[238]
Paul Simon and yMusic perform "Can't Run But" and "Bridge over Troubled Water."^{[n 2]} Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. The union representing officers in the Baltimore Police Department criticized the portrayal of its officers in the "Thirsty Cops" sketch.^[237] During the goodnights, the crew had a birthday cake rolled out for musical guest Paul Simon, who turned 77 that day.
854	4	Jonah Hill	Maggie Rogers	November 3, 2018 (2018-11-03)	4.4/10^[239]
Maggie Rogers performs "Light On" and "Fallingwater" with Rostam Batmanglij on piano. Drew Barrymore, Candice Bergen, and Tina Fey appear in the "Five-Timers Club" opening monologue.
855	5	Liev Schreiber	Lil Wayne	November 10, 2018 (2018-11-10)	4.0/10^[241]
Lil Wayne performs "Can't Be Broken" with Halsey and "Uproar" with Swizz Beatz, and appears in the pre-recorded "Booty Kings" sketch. Robert De Niro appears as Robert Mueller in the cold open. Future appears in the pre-recorded "Booty Kings" sketch. Dan Crenshaw appears on Weekend Update opposite Pete Davidson, referencing a controversial joke Davidson made about him the previous week.^[240]
856	6	Steve Carell	Ella Mai	November 17, 2018 (2018-11-17)	4.4/11^[244]
Ella Mai performs "Boo'd Up" and "Trip". Carell's The Office costars Jenna Fischer, Ed Helms, and Ellie Kemper, his wife Nancy and their children Elisabeth and John, and SNL writer Alison Gates appear in the opening monologue. Jiggly Caliente and Peppermint appear in the pre-recorded "GPYass" sketch.^[242]^[243]
857	7	Claire Foy	Anderson .Paak	December 1, 2018 (2018-12-01)	4.1/10^[245]
Anderson .Paak performs "Tints" with Kendrick Lamar and Tayla Parx and "Who R U?". Fred Armisen, Alec Baldwin, and Ben Stiller appear as Mohammad bin Salman, Donald Trump, and Michael Cohen, respectively, in the cold open. The sketch "The War in Words" is a new rendition of a sketch from Maya and Marty, with Mikey Day reprising his role in the sketch. A short montage of Dana Carvey imitating George H. W. Bush, as well as Bush's appearance with Carvey during season 20, is shown at the end of Weekend Update as a tribute to Bush following his death the night before.
858	8	Jason Momoa	Mumford & Sons	December 8, 2018 (2018-12-08)	4.3/10^[246]
Mumford & Sons perform "Guiding Light" and "Delta". Robert De Niro appears as Robert Mueller in the cold open. A picture of SNL writer and future cast member Bowen Yang appears during the "Khal Drogo’s Ghost Dojo" sketch.
859	9	Matt Damon	Mark Ronson & Miley Cyrus	December 15, 2018 (2018-12-15)	4.8/12^[250]
Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus perform "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" and a cover of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)". For the latter song, Ronson and Cyrus are joined by Sean Lennon, son of original artists John Lennon and Yoko Ono. In a break with tradition in which the host introduces the musical guests, Pete Davidson introduces Ronson and Cyrus's second performance. It was Davidson's only live appearance on the show (though he did appear in one pre-recorded sketch). Earlier in the day, a post on Davidson's Instagram sparked public concern that he was suicidal.^[247]^[248] Alec Baldwin, Robert De Niro, and Ben Stiller appear as Donald Trump, Robert Mueller, and Michael Cohen, respectively, in the cold open. Additionally, Baldwin appears in the "Cop Christmas" sketch. This episode attracted negative reactions from Donald Trump, both when the episode originally broadcast, as well as when the episode rebroadcast on March 16, 2019.^[249]
860	10	Rachel Brosnahan	Greta Van Fleet	January 19, 2019 (2019-01-19)	4.5/11^[251]
Greta Van Fleet performs "Black Smoke Rising" and "You're the One". Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. John Mulaney appears on Weekend Update with Pete Davidson, who briefly mentions the events from last month when he publicly threatened suicide on Instagram.
861	11	James McAvoy	Meek Mill	January 26, 2019 (2019-01-26)	4.1/10^[252]
Meek Mill performs a medley of "Going Bad" and "Uptown Vibes" with Fabolous and "Championships". Steve Martin appears as Roger Stone in the cold open. At the end of Weekend Update, Michael Che signs off by saying "I'm Bird Luger" in tribute to recently deceased comedian Kevin Barnett.
862	12	Halsey	Halsey	February 9, 2019 (2019-02-09)	4.7/11^[253]
Halsey performs "Without Me" and "Eastside". Alec Baldwin makes a vocal cameo as Donald Trump in the pre-recorded "Women of Congress" sketch.
863	13	Don Cheadle	Gary Clark Jr.	February 16, 2019 (2019-02-16)	4.3/11^[254]
Gary Clark Jr. performs "Pearl Cadillac" and "This Land". Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Before the goodnights, a photo of former stage manager Joe Dicso is shown in silence.
864	14	John Mulaney	Thomas Rhett	March 2, 2019 (2019-03-02)	4.7/11^[255]
Thomas Rhett performs "Look What God Gave Her" and "Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time". Bill Hader and Ben Stiller appear as Jim Jordan and Michael Cohen, respectively, in the cold open. Additionally, Hader appears in the "What's That Name?" sketch. Before the goodnights, a photo of wardrobe department member Margaret Karolyi is shown in silence.
865	15	Idris Elba	Khalid	March 9, 2019 (2019-03-09)	4.5/11^[256]
Khalid performs "Talk" and "Better". Gwyneth Paltrow appears as Fifer James on Weekend Update. The episode's rerun on August 3, 2019, aired the originally Cut for Time sketch "New Cast Member", a short film where Kyle Mooney plays an unknown relative who appears as an unnoticed Saturday Night Live cast member. Also, before the goodnights of this rerun, a photo of former lighting director Phil Hymes was shown. Hymes had died on the Monday of that week.
866	16	Sandra Oh	Tame Impala	March 30, 2019 (2019-03-30)	4.1/10^[257]
Tame Impala performs "Patience" and "Borderline". Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro appear as Donald Trump and Robert Mueller, respectively, in the cold open. SNL writer and future cast member Bowen Yang appears as Kim Jong-un in the "Kremlin" sketch.
867	17	Kit Harington	Sara Bareilles	April 6, 2019 (2019-04-06)	4.4/11^[258]
Sara Bareilles performs "Fire" and "Saint Honesty" and appears in the pre-recorded "Theresa May" sketch (performing "She Used To Be Mine"). Jason Sudeikis appears as Joe Biden in the cold open. Harington's Game of Thrones costars Emilia Clarke, John Bradley and his wife Rose Leslie appear in the opening monologue. Ice-T and Mariska Hargitay appear in a parody of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the pre-recorded "GOT Crossovers" sketch.
868	18	Emma Stone	BTS	April 13, 2019 (2019-04-13)	3.9/10^[259]
BTS performs "Boy With Luv" and "Mic Drop". Michael Keaton appears as Julian Assange in the cold open. Pornographic film actor Ty Mitchell appears in a pre-recorded skit called "The Actress."
869	19	Adam Sandler	Shawn Mendes	May 4, 2019 (2019-05-04)	4.8/12^[262]
Shawn Mendes performs "If I Can't Have You" and "In My Blood" and appears in the "Sandler Family Reunion" sketch. Chris Rock appears in the opening monologue with Sandler and Pete Davidson, singing an original song called "I Was Fired". Jimmy Fallon, Kristen Wiig, and frequent Sandler collaborator Allen Covert appear in the "Sandler Family Reunion" sketch. Additionally, Wiig appears in the "Last Call" sketch. Prior to the goodnights, Sandler performs an unplugged musical tribute to Chris Farley that was originally performed in his 2018 stand-up special Adam Sandler 100% Fresh. Sandler also does a short impersonation of Farley during the opening monologue. He also reprises his character as Opera Man during Weekend Update. Former SNL writers Tim Herlihy, Steve Koren, and Robert Smigel guest-wrote on this episode.^[260] With this episode, Sandler ties Dan Aykroyd's record for the longest gap between being a cast member and returning to host the show. The gap for both actors stands at nine days shy of 24 years.^[261] Both actors made guest appearances on the show during the time period after leaving the cast and before returning to host. This record was beaten December 21, 2019 by Eddie Murphy whose gap was 35 years.
870	20	Emma Thompson	Jonas Brothers	May 11, 2019 (2019-05-11)	4.2/10^[263]
Jonas Brothers perform "Sucker" and a medley of "Cool" and "Burnin' Up" and appear in the "Judge Court" sketch. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler appear in the opening monologue. In honor of Mother's Day, Pete Davidson's mother, Amy Davidson, appears on Weekend Update alongside her son. Jon Hamm appears during the goodnights. His name came up during the aforementioned Weekend Update appearance by the Davidsons.
871	21	Paul Rudd	DJ Khaled	May 18, 2019 (2019-05-18)	4.0/10^[264]
DJ Khaled performs a medley consisting of "Jealous" with Lil Wayne and Big Sean, "You Stay" with Jeremih, Meek Mill, Lil Baby, and J Balvin a medley consisting of "Just Us" with SZA "Weather the Storm" with Mill "Higher" with John Legend, which was dedicated to the late Nipsey Hussle and appears in a pre-recorded "Game of Thrones/Grace and Frankie" sketch. Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro appear as Donald Trump and Robert Mueller, respectively, in the cold open. Jacob Anderson, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin appear in the aforementioned pre-recorded "Game of Thrones/Grace and Frankie" sketch. Leslie Jones' final episode as a cast member.

Season 45 (2019–20)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
872	1	Woody Harrelson	Billie Eilish	September 28, 2019 (2019-09-28)	4.1/10
Billie Eilish performs "Bad Guy" and "I Love You" with Finneas O'Connell. Eilish's performance of "Bad Guy", inspired by a dance performed by Fred Astaire in the 1951 film Royal Wedding, was controversial, with some dancers accused Eilish of "cribbing".^[265]^[266] Alec Baldwin and Liev Schreiber appear as Donald Trump and himself, respectively, in the cold open. Larry David and Maya Rudolph appear as Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, respectively, in the "Impeachment Town Hall" sketch. Towards the end of the "Inside the Beltway" sketch, a stagehand is captured by the camera coming on stage to help Aidy Bryant with costume change. This causes Bryant and Strong to break character.^[267] When this episode was rebroadcast on Saturday August 29, 2020, following the conclusion of Weekend Update, a photograph of Chadwick Boseman, who had previously hosted SNL and who had passed away earlier in the week after battling cancer, was shown in silence^{[citation needed]}. Pete Davidson does not appear in this episode due to filming commitments for The Suicide Squad, but is credited in the opening montage.^[268] Neal Brennan and former SNL staff writer Dave McCary guest-wrote on this episode.^[269] During the goodnights, Harrelson thanks Greta Thunberg while wearing a t-shirt with her picture on it. Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang's first episode as cast members.
873	2	Phoebe Waller-Bridge	Taylor Swift	October 5, 2019 (2019-10-05)	4.0/11
Taylor Swift performs "Lover" and "False God" with SNL bandleader Lenny Pickett on sax. Matthew Broderick appears as Mike Pompeo in the cold open. Pete Davidson does not appear in this episode due to filming commitments for The Suicide Squad, but is credited in the opening montage and mentioned by both Mikey Day and Colin Jost during Weekend Update.^[270]^[271]
874	3	David Harbour	Camila Cabello	October 12, 2019 (2019-10-12)	3.8/11
Camila Cabello performs "Cry for Me" and "Easy". Woody Harrelson, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Billy Porter appear as Joe Biden, Julian Castro and himself, respectively, in the cold open. SNL writers Dan Licata and Streeter Seidell appear as a robber and Cookie Monster, respectively, in the pre-recorded "Grouch" sketch. Pete Davidson returns to the show after having been absent the previous two episodes.
875	4	Chance the Rapper	Chance the Rapper	October 26, 2019 (2019-10-26)	3.8/11
Chance the Rapper performs "Zanies and Fools" and "Handsome" with Megan Thee Stallion. For the first song, Chance the Rapper introduces himself (referring to himself in the third person) with a video of his daughter filling the gap between the announcement and the beginning of the song.^[272] Alec Baldwin, Darrell Hammond and Fred Armisen appear as Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, respectively, in the cold open. Jason Momoa appears in the "Judge Barry" sketch and introduces Chance the Rapper's second performance.
876	5	Kristen Stewart	Coldplay	November 2, 2019 (2019-11-02)	4.1/11
Coldplay performs "Orphans" and "Everyday Life". SNL writer and future cast member Andrew Dismukes appears in the monologue as an audience member.
877	6	Harry Styles	Harry Styles	November 16, 2019 (2019-11-16)	3.9/10
Harry Styles performs "Lights Up" and "Watermelon Sugar". Jon Hamm appears as William B. Taylor Jr. in the cold open and introduces Styles' second performance. Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant and Cecily Strong introduces Styles' first performance. Dave McCary and Julio Torres guest wrote this episode. After Weekend Update, a photo of former NBC executive Rick Ludwin, who died earlier in the week, is shown in silence.
878	7	Will Ferrell	King Princess	November 23, 2019 (2019-11-23)	4.3/14
King Princess performs "1950" and "Hit the Back". Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. Tracy Morgan and Ryan Reynolds appear in the opening monologue. Additionally, Reynolds appears as Guy Who Knows the Owner on Weekend Update. Fred Armisen, Larry David, Rachel Dratch, Woody Harrelson and Maya Rudolph appear as Michael Bloomberg, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, respectively, in the "Democratic Debate" sketch. Additionally, Armisen and Rudolph appear in the "Thanksgiving" sketch.
879	8	Jennifer Lopez	DaBaby	December 7, 2019 (2019-12-07)	4.2/11
DaBaby performs "Bop" and "Suge", both featuring Jabbawockeez, and appears in the "Hip Hop Carolers" sketch. Alec Baldwin, James Corden, Jimmy Fallon and Paul Rudd appear in the cold open as Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron, respectively. The Rockettes appear in the opening monologue. Alex Rodriguez appears in the pre-recorded "Chad & JLo" sketch.
880	9	Scarlett Johansson	Niall Horan	December 14, 2019 (2019-12-14)	4.0/11
Niall Horan performs "Nice to Meet Ya" and "Put a Little Love on Me", and appears in the "Hot Tub" sketch.
881	10	Eddie Murphy	Lizzo	December 21, 2019 (2019-12-21)	6.7/16^[279]
Lizzo performs "Truth Hurts" and a holiday-themed remix of "Good as Hell", and appears in the cut-for-time "Aidy Bizzo and Lizzo" pre-recorded sketch.^[273] Fred Armisen, Alec Baldwin, Larry David, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and Jason Sudeikis appear in the cold open as Michael Bloomberg, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, respectively. Rudolph also appears in the prerecorded "Family Christmas" sketch. Kate McKinnon plays two characters during the cold open: Elizabeth Warren and Nancy Pelosi. Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Tracy Morgan appear in the opening monologue with Kenan Thompson. SNL writer Gary Richardson appears on Weekend Update as a cue-card holder. Usher appears during the goodnights. Murphy reprises some of his most iconic SNL characters including Mr. Robinson (Mister Robinson's Neighborhood sketch), Buckwheat (The Masked Singer sketch), Gumby (Weekend Update) and Velvet Jones (Black Jeopardy sketch). Except for his brief appearance on the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special in 2015, this episode marked Murphy's first appearance on SNL since he hosted in the tenth season 35 years earlier. An average of 9.921 million viewers watched the show live^[274] but including seven+ DVR numbers, the show totaled 16.3 million viewers, making it the highest watched episode since 2008.^[275] Eddie Murphy won his first ever Emmy Award for hosting this episode; Maya Rudolph won an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Kamala Harris on this episode and Don Roy King won an Emmy Award for directing this episode. In total, this episode received six Emmy Award nominations and four Emmy Award wins.^[276]^[277]^[278]
882	11	Adam Driver	Halsey	January 25, 2020 (2020-01-25)	3.8/11
Halsey performs "You Should Be Sad" and "Finally // Beautiful Stranger" and appears in the pre-recorded "Slow" sketch and the Cheer sketch. Jon Lovitz appears in the cold open as Alan Dershowitz. Following Weekend Update, a photo of Buck Henry, who hosted the show ten times between 1976 and 1980, is shown in silence in commemoration of his death earlier in the month.
883	12	J. J. Watt	Luke Combs	February 1, 2020 (2020-02-01)	4.1/11
Luke Combs performs "Lovin' On You" and "Beer Never Broke My Heart". Alec Baldwin appears in the cold open as Donald Trump. During the goodnights, Watt and some of the cast members wore several Los Angeles Lakers jerseys showing Kobe Bryant's #24 number with Watt tossing a crumpled piece of paper off stage (à la shooting a basketball), as a tribute to Bryant who died a week earlier from a helicopter crash, a day after the previous episode.
884	13	RuPaul	Justin Bieber	February 8, 2020 (2020-02-08)	4.3/12
Justin Bieber performs "Yummy" and "Intentions" with Quavo. Larry David, Rachel Dratch and Jason Sudeikis appear in the cold open as Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar and Joe Biden, respectively. Fred Armisen appears in pre-recorded footage as Michael Bloomberg.
885	14	John Mulaney	David Byrne	February 29, 2020 (2020-02-29)	4.0/12
David Byrne performs "Once in a Lifetime" and "Toe Jam" with the cast of the Broadway show American Utopia and appears in the "Airport Sushi" sketch as an airport worker. Fred Armisen, Larry David and Rachel Dratch appear in the cold open as Mike Bloomberg, Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar, respectively. Additionally, Mulaney appears as Joe Biden (replacing Jason Sudeikis and Woody Harrelson). Justin Theroux appears in the pre-recorded Kyle Mooney film. Jake Gyllenhaal appears in the "Airport Sushi" sketch as "Guy Who Always Travels In Pajamas". Mulaney's monologue generated controversy after he joked about bringing back the stabbing of Julius Caesar by senators in reference to Donald Trump, causing him to be investigated by the Secret Service two days after the episode premiered. The investigation, however, was dropped in December 2020 after they found out that Mulaney hadn't made any direct threats towards Trump.^[280]
886	15	Daniel Craig	The Weeknd	March 7, 2020 (2020-03-07)	4.1/11
The Weeknd performs "Blinding Lights" and "Scared to Live", the latter with Oneohtrix Point Never. The audio from the performance of “Scared to Live” was later included on the deluxe edition of The Weeknd’s After Hours. The Weeknd also appears in two sketches: in a pre-recorded "On the Couch" sketch, and on Weekend Update in a segment called "The Weeknd Update." Darrell Hammond and Senator Elizabeth Warren (alongside Kate McKinnon's impersonation of her) appear in the cold open as Chris Matthews and herself, respectively. Rachel Dratch makes an appearance reprising her role as Debbie Downer in the "Wedding Reception" sketch.

Saturday Night Live at Home

On March 16, 2020 it was announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the episodes that were to air March 28, April 4, and April 11 were cancelled,^[281] with reruns shown in place of the first two. John Krasinski and Dua Lipa had previously been announced as host and musical guest for the cancelled March 28 episode. It would have been Krasinski's first time hosting the show and Lipa's second time appearing as musical guest. Both Krasinski and Lipa's appearances were eventually rescheduled in the following season. During the 46th season, Lipa appeared as musical guest in episode 9, and Krasinski hosted the show in episode 10.

During an episode of The Strokes' radio series with guest Colin Jost, it was revealed that the band was scheduled to perform on the April 11 episode, in promotion of their new album The New Abnormal. It would have been The Strokes' fourth appearance as musical guest and first time appearing on the show since 2011.^[282] The band eventually had their fourth musical guest appearance during the October 31, 2020 episode of the 46th season. During her monologue on the October 17, 2020 episode, Issa Rae suggested that her hosting of the show had been preempted by the COVID shutdown, saying that she was supposed to have hosted the show "back in March".^[283]

The show resumed production on April 11 in a new format, with cast members remotely appearing from their homes via video conferencing. The new format for the show became known as "Saturday Night Live at Home".^[284]

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
887	16	Tom Hanks	Chris Martin	April 11, 2020 (2020-04-11)	4.6^[285]
Chris Martin performs a cover of Bob Dylan's "Shelter from the Storm". The first episode of SNL to debut after the show's hiatus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to New York's coronavirus-related stay-at-home order, the episode was not broadcast live and instead featured various sketches filmed remotely from the cast members' homes. Tom Hanks' role as host is limited. He only appears in the opening monologue, introduces Chris Martin, and delivers the goodnights. Larry David appears as Bernie Sanders in the sketch "A Message from Bernie Sanders". Alec Baldwin makes a vocal appearance as Donald Trump on Weekend Update. Fred Armisen appears in the "Whatcha' Cookin' On" sketch and in the tribute to Hal Willner. During the remote version of Weekend Update, Michael Che gave a brief tribute to his grandmother, who had died from COVID-19 the week before this show. Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Ana Gasteyer, Bill Hader, John Mulaney, Paula Pell, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Adam Sandler, Molly Shannon and Emily Spivey appear in the tribute to the show's late long-time music producer Hal Willner, who died from COVID-19.
888	17	none credited^{[lower-alpha 4]}	Miley Cyrus	April 25, 2020 (2020-04-25)	4.0^[285]
Miley Cyrus performs a cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" with Andrew Watt on guitar. Unlike most episodes of SNL, this episode does not feature an on-air credited host, monologue, or goodnights. This is the first episode without an on-air credited host since the season 10 premiere on October 6, 1984. Brad Pitt appears as Anthony Fauci in the cold open.^{[lower-alpha 2]}^{[lower-alpha 3]} Pitt also introduces Cyrus' performance, a role normally reserved for the show's host. Fred Armisen, Charles Barkley, DJ Khaled, and Jason Sudeikis appear in "What Up with That", with Barkley and Khaled appearing as themselves and Armisen and Sudeikis reprising their roles as Giuseppe and Vance, respectively. A still image of Bill Hader as Lindsey Buckingham also appears in the sketch. Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider appear in the "Stuck in the House" sketch. Judd Apatow, Nathan Fillion, Tan France, John Mulaney, Annamarie Tendler, and members of Sandler's and Pete Davidson's families make non-speaking appearances in the same sketch. Bad Bunny appears as "Big Bunny" in the "Big Papi Cooking Show" sketch. Paul Rudd appears as himself in the "FaceTime with Rudd" sketch.
889	18	Kristen Wiig	Boyz II Men featuring Babyface	May 9, 2020 (2020-05-09)	3.7^[288]
Boyz II Men and Babyface perform "A Song for Mama". Alec Baldwin appears in the cold open as Donald Trump. Martin Short appears in the "Zoom Catch-Up" sketch. Josh Gad and Al Roker appear in the "Let Kids Drink" sketch. Danny Trejo appears in the "Danny Trejo Song" sketch. Tituss Burgess and Yvette Nicole Brown appear as non-speaking roles in the "Zoom Church" sketch. Tina Fey appears on Weekend Update. After the "Lighthouse Keeper" sketch, a still photo of Little Richard, who died earlier in the day, is shown in silence.

Season 46 (2020–21)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
890	1	Chris Rock	Megan Thee Stallion	October 3, 2020 (2020-10-03)	5.6^[290]
Megan Thee Stallion performs "Savage" with pre-recorded vocals from Beyoncé, Malcolm X and Tamika Mallory, and "Don't Stop" with Young Thug. Stallion also appears in the pre-recorded "Bottom of Your Face" musical sketch and the "NBA Bubble Draft" sketch. In the cold open: Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump, Jim Carrey appears as Joe Biden, Maya Rudolph appears as Kamala Harris, and Harry Styles appears as himself (in a pre-recorded clip). Rudolph also appears in the "NBA Bubble Draft" sketch. The cold open generated controversy among conservatives who claimed that it was inappropriate to satirize Trump while he was hospitalized. Baldwin defended his portrayal of Trump saying that based on news released by the White House, Trump was not gravely ill, and that the satire was about Trump's debate performance, not about his illness.^[289] The episode pays tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died two weeks prior, with McKinnon portraying Justice Ginsburg silently sitting in the audience at the end of Weekend Update, followed by a card honoring the late justice. Maddie Rice debuts as a member of the Saturday Night Live Band and appears in a commercial bumper performing a guitar solo during the final commercial break. Andrew Dismukes, Lauren Holt and Punkie Johnson's first episode as cast members. This episode marks the show's return to Studio 8H since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
891	2	Bill Burr	Jack White^{[lower-alpha 5]}	October 10, 2020 (2020-10-10)^{[lower-alpha 6]}	4.7^[296]
Jack White performs a medley of "Don't Hurt Yourself", "Ball and Biscuit" and Blind Willie Johnson's "Jesus is Coming Soon" for his first set and "Lazaretto" for his second. Jim Carrey and Maya Rudolph appear in the cold open. Rudolph portrays Kamala Harris and Carrey portrays Joe Biden, Jeff Goldblum, and Seth Brundle, Goldblum's character from the 1986 film The Fly. Jason Momoa appears in the pre-recorded "Enough is Enough" sketch. The episode pays multiple tributes to Eddie Van Halen, who had died earlier in the week: footage of him performing with the Robert Cray Band from season 12 is shown before the goodnights,^[291] White uses a guitar designed especially for him by Van Halen during his performance of "Lazaretto",^[292] and Burr wears a Van Halen shirt during the goodnights.
892	3	Issa Rae	Justin Bieber	October 17, 2020 (2020-10-17)	4.5^[298]
Justin Bieber performs "Holy" with Chance the Rapper and "Lonely" with Benny Blanco on keyboard. Bieber and Chance also appear in Kyle Mooney's pre-recorded "Dancer" sketch. Alec Baldwin, Jim Carrey, and Maya Rudolph appear as Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris, respectively, in the cold open. Rudolph also appears in the "Your Voice Chicago" sketch, in a parody of Diamond and Silk^[297]
893	4	Adele	H.E.R.	October 24, 2020 (2020-10-24)	5.0^[299]
H.E.R. performs "Damage" and "Hold On". Alec Baldwin, Jim Carrey, and Maya Rudolph appear in the cold open as Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Kristen Welker, respectively. Rudolph also appears in the "Visiting Grandma" sketch and the pre-recorded "Ass Angel Jeans" sketch.
894	5	John Mulaney	The Strokes	October 31, 2020 (2020-10-31)	4.7^[300]
The Strokes perform "The Adults Are Talking" and "Bad Decisions". Jim Carrey and Maya Rudolph appear in the cold open as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, respectively. Rudolph also appears as the Statue of Liberty in the New York Musical sketch.
895	6	Dave Chappelle^{[lower-alpha 7]}	Foo Fighters	November 7, 2020 (2020-11-07)^{[lower-alpha 8]}	9.1 million^[301]
Foo Fighters perform "Shame Shame" and "Times Like These". Alec Baldwin, Jim Carrey, and Maya Rudolph appear in the cold open as Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris, respectively. Baldwin also makes a vocal cameo as Trump in the "DC Morning" sketch. Additionally, Baldwin and Rudolph appear in the "Uncle Ben" sketch, with Rudolph appearing as Aunt Jemima. A rerun that aired on September 18, 2021, paid tribute to former cast member and Weekend Update anchor Norm Macdonald, who passed away earlier in the week.
896	7	Jason Bateman	Morgan Wallen	December 5, 2020 (2020-12-05)	6.1 million^[302]
Morgan Wallen performs "7 Summers" and "Still Goin' Down" and appears in a sketch parodying the events leading up to the cancellation of his appearance in the second episode of the season. Eminem appears in the pre-recorded "Stu" sketch, which itself parodied his song "Stan". Cecily Strong returns after being absent from the first six episodes of the season. The January 16, 2021, repeat of this episode featured a clip of former band member Howard Johnson, who had died earlier in the week, performing with his band Gravity in 1978.
897	8	Timothée Chalamet	Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band	December 12, 2020 (2020-12-12)	6.7 million^[304]
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band perform "Ghosts" and "I'll See You in My Dreams". Chalamet's mother, Nicole Flender, appears in the opening monologue. Jimmy Fallon appears in the pre-recorded "Tiny Horse" sketch. Questlove appears in the "XXL Rap Roundtable" sketch. During the goodnights, Chalamet wore a hoodie with the Legendary Pictures logo on it, in response to the news that Dune, which he starred in and was produced by Legendary but distributed by Warner Bros., would be released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max.^[303]
898	9	Kristen Wiig	Dua Lipa	December 19, 2020 (2020-12-19)	6.3 million^[305]
Dua Lipa performs "Don't Start Now" and "Levitating" and appears in the "U.S.O. Performance" sketch. Maya Rudolph appears in the cold open as Kamala Harris, and appears in the opening monologue.
899	10	John Krasinski	Machine Gun Kelly	January 30, 2021 (2021-01-30)	4.4^[306]
Machine Gun Kelly performs "my ex’s best friend" and "Lonely". Before the goodnights, a photo of Cicely Tyson, who died two days before the episode aired, is shown in silence.
900	11	Dan Levy	Phoebe Bridgers	February 6, 2021 (2021-02-06)	4.2^[307]
Phoebe Bridgers performs "Kyoto" and "I Know the End". Dan Levy's father, Eugene Levy, appears in the opening monologue.
901	12	Regina King	Nathaniel Rateliff	February 13, 2021 (2021-02-13)	4.1^[308]
Nathaniel Rateliff performs "Redemption" and "A Little Honey" with the Night Sweats.
902	13	Regé-Jean Page	Bad Bunny	February 20, 2021 (2021-02-20)	4.2^[309]
Bad Bunny performs "La Noche de Anoche" with Rosalía and "Te Deseo Lo Mejor" and appears in the pre-recorded "Loco" sketch and the "Sea Shanty" sketch.
903	14	Nick Jonas	Nick Jonas	February 27, 2021 (2021-02-27)	4.1^[310]
Nick Jonas performs "Spaceman" and "This is Heaven" with SNL bandleader Lenny Pickett on saxophone. Nick's brother Kevin Jonas appears in the opening monologue and introduces Nick's second performance. Kenan Thompson and Chris Redd introduce Nick’s first performance.
904	15	Maya Rudolph	Jack Harlow	March 27, 2021 (2021-03-27)	3.6^[311]
Jack Harlow performs a medley of "Tyler Herro" and "Whats Poppin" for his first set and "Same Guy" with Adam Levine for his second set. He also appears in the pre-recorded "NFTs" sketch. Martin Short appears as Doug Emhoff in the "Kamala Harris Unity Seder" sketch. Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch appear in the pre-recorded "The Maya-ing" sketch.
905	16	Daniel Kaluuya	St. Vincent	April 3, 2021 (2021-04-03)	3.6^[312]
St. Vincent performs "Pay Your Way in Pain" and "The Melting of the Sun".
906	17	Carey Mulligan	Kid Cudi	April 10, 2021 (2021-04-10)	3.6^[313]
Kid Cudi performs "Tequila Shots" and "Sad People" and appears in the pre-recorded "Weird Little Flute" sketch. Mulligan's husband, Marcus Mumford, appears in the opening monologue. Timothée Chalamet appears in the "Weird Little Flute" sketch. After Update, a photo of Anne Beatts, a longtime SNL writer who died earlier in the week, was shown in silence. Before the goodnights, a photo of rapper DMX, who died the day before, is shown in silence.
907	18	Elon Musk	Miley Cyrus	May 8, 2021 (2021-05-08)	4.7^[315]
Miley Cyrus performs "Without You" with The Kid Laroi and "Plastic Hearts", appears in the cold open singing "Light of a Clear Blue Morning" originally performed by her godmother, Dolly Parton, and appears in the pre-recorded "Chad on Mars" sketch. Cyrus' mother Tish Cyrus also appears in the cold open. The mothers of the cast (excluding Michael Che, Alex Moffat, and Andrew Dismukes) appear in the cold open. Musk's mother Maye Musk appears in the opening monologue. Grimes, Musk's then partner, appears as Princess Peach in the Wario trial sketch. For the first time in the series, this episode was live-streamed internationally on YouTube to over 100 countries.^[314]
908	19	Keegan-Michael Key	Olivia Rodrigo	May 15, 2021 (2021-05-15)	3.5^[316]
Olivia Rodrigo performs "Drivers License" and "Good 4 U", with both performances accompanied by Dan Nigro playing guitar. SNL writer Steven Castillo appears during the opening monologue as an audience member. SNL writer Gary Richardson appears in the "High School Graduation" sketch.
909	20	Anya Taylor-Joy	Lil Nas X	May 22, 2021 (2021-05-22)	3.5^[317]
Lil Nas X performs "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" and "Sun Goes Down" and appears in the pre-recorded "It's Pride Again" sketch. Chris Rock, host of the season premiere, appears in the cold open, in which he and members of the cast recall their experiences of working on the season during the COVID-19 pandemic. Long time production designer Akira Yoshimura also appears in the cold open as a forgotten new cast member. After Update, a picture of Charles Grodin, who died earlier in the week, is shown. Beck Bennett and Lauren Holt’s final episode as cast members.

Season 47 (2021–22)

No. overall	No. in season	Host	Musical guest	Original air date	Live+Same Day Ratings/ Share
910	1	Owen Wilson	Kacey Musgraves	October 2, 2021 (2021-10-02)	3.5^[320]
Kacey Musgraves performs "Justified" and "Camera Roll". Musgraves performed "Justified" in the nude, wearing only a pair of boots, while seated on a stool cross-legged playing an acoustic guitar strategically placed with its strap across one shoulder, and her hair draped over the other shoulder. It was the first time in the history of the show that a musical guest performed nude on stage in front of the audience. The nudity was inspired by a scene in Forrest Gump in which Robin Wright's character performs in the nude. Musgraves' nudity was only confirmed two days after the episode aired. Her publicist said that "precautions" were taken to keep her covered from the studio audience before and after the performance.^[318] Starting with this episode, James Austin Johnson portrays President Joe Biden in the cold opens. ^[319] Owen's brothers Luke Wilson and Andrew Wilson appear during the monologue. Luke also appears as Mark Bezos in "Star Trek: Ego Trip". On Weekend Update, Pete Davidson wears a T-shirt with a picture of former SNL cast member and Update host Norm Macdonald who died on September 14. Jost and Che ended the segment with footage of Macdonald hosting Update as a tribute. A picture of former NBC president and co-creator Herbert Schlosser, who died on August 6, was shown before the good nights. During the goodnights, Colin Jost held up a cue card saying "We'll miss you, Ken", in reference to retiring supervising producer Ken Aymong, and Aidy Bryant wore an IATSE shirt. Aristotle Athari, James Austin Johnson, and Sarah Sherman's first episode as cast members.
911	2	Kim Kardashian West	Halsey	October 9, 2021 (2021-10-09)	3.8
Halsey performs "I Am Not a Woman, I'm a God" and "Darling" Lindsey Buckingham plays guitar and provides backup vocals for the performance of "Darling". Halsey also portrays Kendall Jenner in "The People's Kourt". Tyler Cameron, John Cena, Chace Crawford, Blake Griffin, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, and Jesse Williams appear in "The Dream Guy" . Kris Jenner and Khloé Kardashian appear as themselves in the pre-recorded "The Switch" and "The People's Kourt" live in studio. Writer Streeter Seidell appears in the pre-recorded "The Switch" as Aidy Bryant's husband. Writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall appear in the pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy – Hard Seltzer" . During the May 28, 2022 rerun, a photo of Ray Liotta, who died earlier in the week, was shown in silence after Update.
912	3	Rami Malek	Young Thug	October 16, 2021 (2021-10-16)	3.4
Young Thug performs "Tick Tock" with Travis Barker on drums and "Love You More" with Barker, Nate Ruess, Gunna, and Jeff Bhasker. Daniel Craig appears in "Prince Audition" and "Angelo" . Country singer Big Wet appears in the pre-recorded "Squid Game" sketch, which is a parody of his song "Turn Up on the Weekend" with Branchez.^[321] Writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall appear in the cut-for-time pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy – Rami Wants a Treat".^[322]
913	4	Jason Sudeikis	Brandi Carlile	October 23, 2021 (2021-10-23)	3.7
Brandi Carlile performs "Broken Horses" and "Right on Time". Fred Armisen, Nicholas Braun, Oscar Isaac, and Emily Ratajkowski appear in "What Up with That?". With this episode, Colin Jost breaks Seth Meyers' record for most Weekend Update segments hosted.^[323]
914	5	Kieran Culkin	Ed Sheeran^{[lower-alpha 9]}	November 6, 2021 (2021-11-06)	4.89^[325]
Ed Sheeran performs "Shivers" and "Overpass Graffiti" and appears in "The Dionne Warwick Show". Dionne Warwick appears in "The Dionne Warwick Show" alongside Ego Nwodim's impression of her. Tracy Morgan appears in "Men's Bathroom". Writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall appear in the pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy – Calling Angie".
915	6	Jonathan Majors	Taylor Swift	November 13, 2021 (2021-11-13)	4.97^[327]
Taylor Swift performs the ten minute version of "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)", with the accompanying short film of the same name (written and directed by Swift and starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien) playing on a screen behind her during the performance. Swift's performance is one of the longest in the show's history.^[326] She also appears in the pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy – Three Sad Virgins". Writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall appear in the pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy – Three Sad Virgins".
916	7	Simu Liu	Saweetie	November 20, 2021 (2021-11-20)	4.70^[328]
Saweetie performs a medley of "Tap In" and "Best Friend", and "Icy Chain". Big Wet, Marc Cohn and Method Man (as well as YouTuber "Chris the Hobby Guy") appear in the pre-recorded "Walking in Staten", which is a parody of "Walking in Memphis" performed by Cohn. Before the goodnights, a photo of former writer and featured player Peter Aykroyd, brother of original Not Ready for Primetime Player Dan Aykroyd, who died on November 6 is shown in silence. Writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall appear in the cut-for-time pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy – Touch Up".
917	8	Billie Eilish	Billie Eilish	December 11, 2021 (2021-12-11)	5.16^[332]
Billie Eilish performs "Happier Than Ever" and "Male Fantasy". Her brother, Finneas O'Connell, accompanies her on guitar and backup vocals in both songs. Finneas O'Connell also appears in the pre-recorded "TikTok Scrolling" and in "Business Garden". Kate McKinnon returns after being absent for the first seven episodes.^[329] She also introduces Eilish's second song. Eilish's mother, Maggie Baird, appears in the opening monologue. Eilish's father, Patrick O'Connell, joins wife Baird to introduce Eilish's first song. Miley Cyrus appears as herself in "Christmas Card". TikTok personality and SNL writer Jacob Kaplan appears in the "Kyle's Christmas". Writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall appear in the cut-for-time pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy – Future Selves" with actors George Aloi, James Ciccone, and Tim Hayes.^[330] Eilish becomes the first SNL host born in the 21st century (she was born on December 18, 2001).^[331]
918	9	Paul Rudd	none^{[lower-alpha 10]}	December 18, 2021 (2021-12-18)	5.15^[340]
Due to the rise of the Omicron variant in New York City, the show had a "limited cast and crew" and no audience; Kenan Thompson and Michael Che were the only current cast members on set.^[333] Most portions are pre-recorded. The episode does not have a cold open, use a title sequence or the line "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" The cast is instead listed in the end credits. Tom Hanks, Tina Fey, Steve Martin and Martin Short (the latter two pre-recorded) appear in the introduction to induct Rudd into the Five-Timers Club. Planned appearances by Candice Bergen, Jimmy Fallon, and Jon Hamm were cancelled due to the new restrictions.^[334] In January, Fallon would reveal that he had tested positive for COVID during this episode's production.^[335] Bergen, however, later made an appearance in the February 26, 2022 episode. Charli XCX was due to perform "Good Ones" and "New Shapes" on this episode, but her performance was canceled due to the new restrictions.^[336] Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek were planned to perform the latter song with her.^[337] Charli would later reschedule her appearance for March 2022. Charli does, however, appear in a pre-recorded music video spoof "The Christmas Socks".^[338] Fey fills in for Colin Jost on "Update", as he also contracted COVID.^[339] It was done in front of the main stage in director's chairs rather than on the "Update" set, with Rudd, Hanks, and Thompson watching. Some classic Christmas sketches are shown to make up for the lack of cast members; some sketches were introduced by Fey, Hanks, and Thompson. These include: "Dick in a Box" from the season 32 episode hosted by Justin Timberlake "Santa and His Naughty Elves" from the season 41 episode hosted by Ryan Gosling "The Global Warming Christmas Special" from the season 16 episode hosted by Hanks "A Holiday Wish from Steve Martin" from the season 12 episode hosted by Chevy Chase, Martin, and Short "Caleb and Monty" from the season 38 episode hosted by Short with musical guest Paul McCartney "North Pole News Report" from the season 45 episode hosted by Eddie Murphy "Now That's What I Call Christmas" from the season 39 episode hosted by Jimmy Fallon "Christmastime for the Jews" from the season 31 episode hosted by Jack Black. "Adult One Direction Fan" from the season 39 episode hosted by Rudd, while not a Christmas sketch, was also featured. Don Roy King's final episode as director.
919	10	Ariana DeBose	Bleachers^{[lower-alpha 11]}	January 15, 2022 (2022-01-15)	5.05^[342]
Bleachers performs "How Dare You Want More" and "Chinatown". Jack Antonoff's father Rick Antonoff plays acoustic guitar with the band on the first song. Claud plays keyboard and acoustic guitar on the former and latter, respectively, and Blu DeTiger plays bass on both songs. When introducing Bleachers' second song, DeBose wears a T-shirt for Covenant House, a nonprofit organization for the homeless. Freddie Gibbs appears in the cut-for-time "All on Me". Liz Patrick's first episode as sole director.
920	11	Will Forte	Måneskin	January 22, 2022 (2022-01-22)	4.80^[344]
Måneskin performs "Beggin'" and "I Wanna Be Your Slave". Willem Dafoe (the host for the next episode), Lorne Michaels, and Kristen Wiig appear in the opening monologue. Wiig also reprises her role as Vicki St. Elmo in "MacGruber" alongside Ryan Phillippe reprising his role as Dixon Piper from the film and TV series based on the sketches. Wiig also reprises her role as Jackie Snad in "Country Album". Wiig also appears in the cut-for-time "Architect Presentation" .^[343] Before the good nights, a photo tribute is made to John Bowman, a writer on the show from 1988-1989, who died on New Year's Eve at 64 years old. Writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall appear in the cut-for-time pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy – New Personalities".
921	12	Willem Dafoe	Katy Perry	January 29, 2022 (2022-01-29)	4.97^[348]
Katy Perry performs "When I'm Gone" with Alesso and an acoustic version of "Never Really Over". Peyton Manning appears on Weekend Update. Writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall appear in the pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy – Martin’s Friend" with actor Patrick Scott McDermott.^[345]^[346] With this episode, Michael Che moves into second place for most Weekend Update segments hosted, surpassing Seth Meyers and behind Colin Jost.^[347]
922	13	John Mulaney	LCD Soundsystem	February 26, 2022 (2022-02-26)	4.74^[349]
LCD Soundsystem performs "Thrills" and "Yr City's a Sucker" and appears in "Subway Churro". In the cold open, the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York perform "Prayer for Ukraine" in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins and Ben Marshall appear in the pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy – Good Variant" with Al Roker and Paul Rudd. Marshall appears during "Subway Churro”, while Rudd appears during Mulaney’s introduction to the Five-Timers Club. Candice Bergen, Tina Fey, Elliott Gould, Steve Martin, Conan O'Brien and appear during Mulaney’s introduction to the Five-Timers Club sketch. Cecily Strong returns not appearing during the previous three episodes.
923	14	Oscar Isaac	Charli XCX	March 5, 2022 (2022-03-05)	4.42^[351]
Charli XCX performs "Beg for You" and "Baby" and appears in the pre-recorded "Meatball". Writer and TikTok personality Jacob Kaplan appears in the pre-recorded "Inventing Chloe". As of this episode, Kenan Thompson has officially starred in over 1,500 sketches.^[350]
924	15	Zoë Kravitz	Rosalía	March 12, 2022 (2022-03-12)	4.36^[352]
Rosalía performs "Chicken Teriyaki" and "La Fama". Writer Alex English appears in the opening monologue as an audience member. Writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins and Ben Marshall appear in the pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy – Cat Search" with Paul Dano. Herlihy also appears in the "Wedding Speech" sketch.
925	16	Jerrod Carmichael	Gunna	April 2, 2022 (2022-04-02)	4.65^[353]
Gunna performs "Banking on Me" and "Pushin P" with Future. He also appears in the pre-recorded "Short-Ass Movie". Pete Davidson returns after not appearing in the previous three episodes. Simon Rex appears during the pre-recorded ‘’Short-Ass Movies’’ sketch. After Weekend Update, a photo tribute is made to Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died on March 25. Writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall appear in the cut-for-time pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy – Three Normal Goths".
926	17	Jake Gyllenhaal	Camila Cabello	April 9, 2022 (2022-04-09)	4.85^[354]
Camila Cabello performs "Bam Bam" and "Psychofreak" with Willow. Lorne Michaels makes a vocal cameo during the pre-recorded “Serious Night Live”. While introducing the first song, Gyllenhaal wears a T-shirt with the words Ramona & Gloria. These are the names of his sister Maggie Gyllenhaal's daughters.
927	18	Lizzo	Lizzo	April 16, 2022 (2022-04-16)	4.53^[355]
Lizzo performs "About Damn Time" and "Special". Lizzo's mother Shari Johnson-Jefferson appears in the audience in the opening monologue and introduces her daughter's second performance. Writers Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall appear in the pre-recorded "Please Don't Destroy - New Lizzo Songs". After Weekend Update, a tribute card for season 6 cast member Gilbert Gottfried, who died earlier in the week, is shown.
928	19	Benedict Cumberbatch	Arcade Fire	May 7, 2022 (2022-05-07)	4.50^[357]
Arcade Fire performs "Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)", "The Lightning I, II", and "End of the Empire II" (the latter during the closing credits). Elizabeth Olsen appears in the pre-recorded "The Understudy". During goodnights, Cumberbatch and several cast members wear T-shirts with the year 1973, referring to the year of the Roe v. Wade decision, and in protest of the leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court indicating potential reversal.^[356]
929	20	Selena Gomez	Post Malone	May 14, 2022 (2022-05-14)	4.40^[358]
Post Malone performs "Cooped Up" with Roddy Ricch and "Love/Hate Letter to Alcohol" with Fleet Foxes and appears in the pre-recorded "Intuition" and in "Baby Monitor" live in studio. Steve Martin appears in the pre-recorded "American Inventors".
930	21	Natasha Lyonne	Japanese Breakfast	May 21, 2022 (2022-05-21)	4.60^[360]
Japanese Breakfast performs "Be Sweet" and "Paprika", with Luna Li on the violin and keyboard for both performances. Michelle Zauner also appears in "Women’s Commercial". Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph appear in the opening monologue and the cut-for-time "Cigarette Show".^[359] Armisen also appears in "Mr. Dooley". Eminem appears in the cut-for-time pre-recorded "Forgot About Lorne", which parodies his song "Forgot About Dre". Aristotle Athari, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat, Kyle Mooney, Chris Redd and Melissa Villaseñor's final episode as cast members.

Specials

Title	Original air date	Ratings/ Share
"Mardi Gras Special"	February 20, 1977 (1977-02-20)	N/A
One of the few episodes to air from a location outside of NBC's studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, the Mardi Gras Special was broadcast live from New Orleans on Mardi Gras 1977. It was hosted by Randy Newman, who also performed songs, and featured a number of special guests, including Buck Henry, Eric Idle, Cindy Williams, and Henry Winkler.^[361]
"SNL Film Festival"	March 2, 1985 (1985-03-02)	N/A
A clip show hosted by Billy Crystal which featured SNL's best pretaped sketches and short films from 1981 to 1985, including short films by Albert Brooks, Gary Weis, Tom Schiller, and Christopher Guest.^[362]
"Saturday Night Live 15th Anniversary Special"	September 24, 1989 (1989-09-24)	N/A
An anniversary show celebrating SNL's 15th season. Chevy Chase returned to reprise his "opening fall" bit in the cold open and Tom Hanks performed the opening monologue. Prince and Paul Simon performed. The show featured a number of special guests, including SNL stars Kevin Nealon, Phil Hartman, Dan Aykroyd, Jon Lovitz, Jane Curtin, Christopher Guest, Martin Short, and Buck Henry, as well as others including Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Mary Tyler Moore, O. J. Simpson, and Bruce Willis.^[363]
"2nd Annual Saturday Night Live Mother's Day Special"	May, 1993 (May, 1993)	TBD
A Mother's Day special featuring the SNL ensemble with their real-life mothers as well as a compilation of sketches from the 1992-93 season.^[364]
"Saturday Night Live 25th Anniversary Special"	September 26, 1999 (1999-09-26)	N/A
A look back at the first 25 years.
"Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live"	February 20, 2005 (2005-02-20)	N/A
A documentary that takes a look back at SNL's rise to popularity from 1975 to 1979.
"SNL Goes Commercial"	November 5, 2005 (2005-11-05)	N/A
A look back at the funniest and most memorable commercial parodies from the past years of SNL, originally broadcast in the early '90s, hosted by Kevin Nealon and Victoria Jackson; later revisited in 2005, hosted by Will Ferrell, featuring a wrap-around of Ferrell heading to a commercial audition; re-edited and shown with newer commercial parodies on March 8, 2009, under the title SNL: Just Commercials.
"Lost & Found: SNL in the '80s"	November 20, 2005 (2005-11-20)	N/A
A look back at SNL's rocky history in the 1980s: Jean Doumanian's notorious tenure as producer for the 1980-1981 season, the temporary cancelling, retooling, and reviving of SNL with the help of Dick Ebersol, Eddie Murphy, and Joe Piscopo, the return of Lorne Michaels in 1985 (and the second time NBC would threaten the show with cancellation), and the second golden age of SNL with the hiring of Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jan Hooks, Kevin Nealon, Victoria Jackson, and (later) Mike Myers.
"Saturday Night Live: The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse"	April 29, 2006 (2006-04-29)	N/A
The Ambiguously Gay Duo host a retrospective of Robert Smigel's most memorable animated segments known as TV Funhouse while going behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live and tricking Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis into riding in the duo's penis-shaped car; special appearance by former cast member Jimmy Fallon.
"Saturday Night Live: Best of 06-07"	May 5, 2007 (2007-05-05)	N/A
Retrospective of the 32nd season's most memorable sketches, Digital Shorts, and Weekend Update jokes from episodes hosted by Alec Baldwin, Rainn Wilson, Peyton Manning, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dane Cook, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Laurie, Jaime Pressly, Matthew Fox, and Justin Timberlake.
"Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation^[365]"	May 6, 2007 (2007-05-06)	N/A
A look at SNL's rise, fall, and rebirth in the 1990s, featuring the hiring of Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, and David Spade as cast members (and critics attacking the show for resorting to lowbrow humor as a result of hiring Sandler, Farley, and Spade), Sinéad O'Connor's infamous performance in the 1992 episode hosted by Tim Robbins, season 20 as yet another critical and ratings low point for the show, and the third golden age of SNL with the hiring of Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond, Ana Gasteyer, Cheri Oteri, Molly Shannon, Jimmy Fallon, and Horatio Sanz.
"Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2008"	November 3, 2008 (2008-11-03)	N/A
A look at SNL's past and present political sketches; special guests John McCain and Sarah Palin.
"Saturday Night Live Sports Extra 2009"	January 4, 2009 (2009-01-04)	N/A
A clip show episode highlighting SNL's many sports-themed sketches and the many sports stars who have appeared on the show, such as Derek Jeter, Peyton Manning, Michael Phelps, Nancy Kerrigan, Walter Payton, Joe Montana, Michael Jordan, and Charles Barkley.
"Saturday Night Live Just Game Show Parodies"	March 8, 2009 (2009-03-08)	N/A
A look at SNL's past and present game show parodies.
"Saturday Night Live: Just Shorts^[366]"	May 17, 2009 (2009-05-17)	N/A
A compilation of SNL's Digital Shorts and various pre-taped segments and short films over the years, hosted by Andy Samberg.
"Saturday Night Live Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas"	December 17, 2009 (2009-12-17)	N/A
A compilation of SNL's December holiday-themed sketches, with some new sketches, hosted by Kristen Wiig as her character Gilly; the latest incarnation of SNL Christmas specials, dating back to the early '90s under the title Saturday Night Live Christmas Past.
"Saturday Night Live Sports All-Stars"	January 31, 2010 (2010-01-31)	N/A
A compilation of SNL sport-themed sketches. Several similar specials, under the name Saturday Night Live Sports Extra, aired sporadically from the early '90s to 2009, traditionally around the time of that year's Super Bowl.
"Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again"	April 15, 2010 (2010-04-15)	N/A
Documentary looking back on Saturday Night Live's transformation and memorable moments from 2000 to 2009.
"The Women of Saturday Night Live"	November 1, 2010 (2010-11-01)	2.0/5
Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kristen Wiig, Nora Dunn, Laraine Newman, Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, and Cheri Oteri come together to present new material and relive the best moments of SNL featuring the female cast members.
"Saturday Night Live Backstage"	February 20, 2011 (2011-02-20)	3.8/6
Originally a special celebrating the 35th anniversary of the show was planned but it was scrapped and replaced with this special, which shows viewers how an SNL episode is created within the span of a week.
"Saturday Night Live Christmas"	November 28, 2012 (2012-11-28)	7.36^[367]
A collection of memorable holiday-themed sketches from past and present eras.
"Saturday Night Live Halloween"	October 31, 2013 (2013-10-31)	5.32^[368]
A collection of Halloween-based sketches and scary movie parodies.
"Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving"	November 27, 2013 (2013-11-27)	4.87^[369]
A compilation of SNL Thanksgiving-themed sketches.
"Saturday Night Live Christmas"	December 4, 2013 (2013-12-04)	7.42^[370]
A collection of Christmas and December holiday-based sketches.
"Saturday Night Live: The Best of This Season"	January 4, 2014 (2014-01-04)	5.6/14^[371]
A compilation of the best sketches of seasons 38 and 39.
"Saturday Night Live Presents: A SNL Sports Spectacular"	January 30, 2014 (2014-01-30)	4.79^[372]
A collection of sketches from episodes hosted by professional athletes and other sports stars, hosted by Seth Meyers.
"SNL Shorts"	April 24, 2014 (2014-04-24)	N/A
A compilation of SNL Digital Shorts.
"Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving"	November 26, 2014 (2014-11-26)	N/A
A compilation of SNL Thanksgiving-themed sketches.
"SNL's NFL Saturday"	January 31, 2015 (2015-01-31)	3.80^[373]
Past sketches involving the NFL are shown.
"An SNL Valentine"	February 14, 2015 (2015-02-14)	N/A
A special dedicated to Valentine's Day.
"SNL 40th Red Carpet Live"	February 15, 2015 (2015-02-15)	N/A
A special hosted by Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Carson Daly, and Al Roker. They interviewed past hosts, current and previous cast members, and musical legends who had previously performed on the show.
"Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special"	February 15, 2015 (2015-02-15)	23.1^[376]
A 3 ¹⁄₂ hour prime-time special celebrating SNL's fortieth year on the air.^[374]^[375]
"SNL Goodnight Sweet Prince"	April 23, 2016 (2016-04-23)	4.5/11^[377]
Jimmy Fallon hosts this special retrospective of Prince's rare, but memorable performances on the show, including his first performance on the infamous season 6 episode hosted by Charlene Tilton (the one in which Charles Rocket's accidental utterance of the word "fuck" called for NBC to fire then-showrunner Jean Doumanian and most of her cast), his performance on the SNL 15th anniversary special, his first performance after 21 years in 2006 on the season 31 episode hosted by Steve Martin, his final performance on the season 40 episode hosted by Chris Rock, a never-before-seen clip of his performance at the cast party following the SNL 40th anniversary special, and clips of the short-lived recurring sketch The Prince Show with Fred Armisen as Prince and Maya Rudolph as Beyonce.
"Weekend Update at the RNC^[378]"	July 20, 2016 (2016-07-20)	N/A
Colin Jost and Michael Che host a special edition of Weekend Update from the 2016 Republican National Convention live on MSNBC. Kate McKinnon appears as Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
"Weekend Update at the DNC^[379]"	July 27, 2016 (2016-07-27)	N/A
Colin Jost and Michael Che host a special edition of Weekend Update from the 2016 Democratic National Convention live on MSNBC.
"The 2016 SNL Election Special^[380]"	November 7, 2016 (2016-11-07)	2.1/7^[381]
Recent political sketches involving the 2016 US presidential election, hosted by Tom Brokaw.
"SNL Thanksgiving Special^[382]"	November 23, 2016 (2016-11-23)	1.6/5^[383]
Thanksgiving-themed comedy from the Saturday Night Live crew is presented.
"SNL Christmas^[384]"	December 14, 2016 (2016-12-14)	1.6/5^[385]
Holiday-themed comedy from Saturday Night Live is presented.
"The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special"	October 28, 2017 (2017-10-28)	3.4/8^[386]
21-minute animated special where David S. Pumpkins teaches a pair of siblings the true meaning of Halloween, starring Tom Hanks as David S. Pumpkins, Mikey Day, Bobby Moynihan, and Streeter Seidell; narrated by Peter Dinklage.
"SNL Presents: Halloween^[387]"	October 28, 2017 (2017-10-28)	3.1/9^[386]
A collection of Halloween- and horror-themed sketches.
"A Saturday Night Live's Mother's Day"	May 10, 2020 (2020-05-10)	N/A
A special showing of all Mother's Day-themed sketches from previous seasons, including a mother's day Lawrence Welk Show sketch from season 35 with host Betty White.
"The 2020 SNL Election Special"	November 2, 2020 (2020-11-02)	N/A
A special showing of all fan-favorite SNL political sketches.

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↑ Episode 17 of Season 45 on the SNL website
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↑ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-saturday-sunday-dec-5-6-2020#:~:text=The%20Dec.%205%20episode%20of,%2D49%2C%20both%20season%20lows Archived December 10, 2020, at the Wayback Machine.
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↑ https://deadline.com/2021/04/saturday-night-live-ratings-carey-mulligan-1234732076/# Archived April 11, 2021, at the Wayback Machine!
↑ https://deadline.com/2021/04/saturday-night-live-ratings-carey-mulligan-1234732076/# Archived April 11, 2021, at the Wayback Machine!
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↑ "Saturday Night Live recap: Billie Eilish is the latest guest to pull double duty," from Entertainment Weekly, 12/12/2021
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↑ Kenan Thompson Hits 1,500 Sketch Milestone on Saturday Night Live,Yahoo!, 6 March 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
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Notes

↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named EllenPage
↑ In an interview two weeks prior to the show, Dr. Fauci jokingly agreed with the interviewer that Pitt would be a good choice for portraying him.^[286]
↑ Pitt briefly breaks character to thank the real Dr. Fauci and the health care professionals who have been working the front line in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the conclusion of the cold open, instead of delivering the typical "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" line, Pitt delivers it as "Live, kind of, from all across America, it's Saturday Night".
↑ While some sources independent to the show have listed Brad Pitt as the host for this episode, the show did not officially announce a host during the opening sequence. On its website, the show lists "The cast of SNL" in the title that is normally reserved for the host.^[287]
↑ Morgan Wallen's scheduled appearance as the musical guest was cancelled the week of the episode after videos surfaced showing him violating the show's COVID-19 protocols on mask wearing and social distancing.^[293] White was announced as a replacement the day before the broadcast.^[294] Wallen was later rescheduled for the December 5 episode.
↑ The episode was broadcast as planned in spite of an employee at 30 Rockefeller Plaza having tested positive for COVID-19 on air day.^[295]
↑ Chappelle is hosting the first episode immediately following the presidential election. He also hosted the first episode immediately following the 2016 presidential election.
↑ The episode was delayed due to a Clemson vs. Notre Dame college football game that went into double overtime.
↑ Sheeran performed despite having tested positive for COVID-19 thirteen days prior to show date. His performance was confirmed four days prior to show date after having been cleared of having the virus.^[324]
↑ Charli XCX was the scheduled musical act, but the rise of the COVID Omicron variant in New York City led to a limited cast and crew which meant her performances were dropped. However, she appeared in a pre-recorded sketch. She was rescheduled as a musical guest and performed in March 2022.^[336]^[338]
↑ Bleachers substitutes for Roddy Ricch, whose scheduled musical performance was cancelled due to a COVID-19 exposure.^[341]

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[229] ttps://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8297568/cardi-b-pregnant-snl

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[264] ttps://www.inquisitr.com/5378233/adam-sandlers-return-to-snl-marks-longest-gap-of-any-former-cast-member-to-host/

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[276] This can be verified here: https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/cut-for-time-aidy-bizzo-lizzo/4088749.

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[289] Weeks Ago Dr. Anthony Fauci Joked That Brad Pitt Should Play Him on 'Saturday Night Live.' Brad Pitt Delivered Time, April 26, 2020

[292] Episode 17 of Season 45 on the SNL website

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[312] ttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-saturday-sunday-dec-5-6-2020#:~:text=The%20Dec.%205%20episode%20of,%2D49%2C%20both%20season%20lows Archived December 10, 2020, at the Wayback Machine.

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[322] ttps://deadline.com/2021/04/saturday-night-live-ratings-carey-mulligan-1234732076/# Archived April 11, 2021, at the Wayback Machine!

[323] ttps://deadline.com/2021/04/saturday-night-live-ratings-carey-mulligan-1234732076/# Archived April 11, 2021, at the Wayback Machine!

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[342] "Saturday Night Live recap: Billie Eilish is the latest guest to pull double duty," from Entertainment Weekly, 12/12/2021

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[363] Kenan Thompson Hits 1,500 Sketch Milestone on Saturday Night Live,Yahoo!, 6 March 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2022.

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[290] In an interview two weeks prior to the show, Dr. Fauci jokingly agreed with the interviewer that Pitt would be a good choice for portraying him.^[286]

[291] Pitt briefly breaks character to thank the real Dr. Fauci and the health care professionals who have been working the front line in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the conclusion of the cold open, instead of delivering the typical "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" line, Pitt delivers it as "Live, kind of, from all across America, it's Saturday Night".

[293] While some sources independent to the show have listed Brad Pitt as the host for this episode, the show did not officially announce a host during the opening sequence. On its website, the show lists "The cast of SNL" in the title that is normally reserved for the host.^[287]

[301] Morgan Wallen's scheduled appearance as the musical guest was cancelled the week of the episode after videos surfaced showing him violating the show's COVID-19 protocols on mask wearing and social distancing.^[293] White was announced as a replacement the day before the broadcast.^[294] Wallen was later rescheduled for the December 5 episode.

[303] The episode was broadcast as planned in spite of an employee at 30 Rockefeller Plaza having tested positive for COVID-19 on air day.^[295]

[309] Chappelle is hosting the first episode immediately following the presidential election. He also hosted the first episode immediately following the 2016 presidential election.

[310] The episode was delayed due to a Clemson vs. Notre Dame college football game that went into double overtime.

[335] Sheeran performed despite having tested positive for COVID-19 thirteen days prior to show date. His performance was confirmed four days prior to show date after having been cleared of having the virus.^[324]

[351] Charli XCX was the scheduled musical act, but the rise of the COVID Omicron variant in New York City led to a limited cast and crew which meant her performances were dropped. However, she appeared in a pre-recorded sketch. She was rescheduled as a musical guest and performed in March 2022.^[336]^[338]

[354] Bleachers substitutes for Roddy Ricch, whose scheduled musical performance was cancelled due to a COVID-19 exposure.^[341]

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