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Saturday Night Live: Chris Hemsworth / Chance the Rapper Season 41, Episode 8
Thor brings the funny in this sequel to his first hosting gig (is this the first time someone has hosted twice in the same calendar year?), and actually improves on the original.
Saturday Night Live: Ryan Gosling / Leon Bridges Season 41, Episode 7
Ryan Gosling makes his hosting debut alongside first-time musical guest Leon Bridges.
Saturday Night Live: Matthew McConaughey / Adele Season 41, Episode 6
Matthew McConaughey returns to host, Adele returns to sing, we witness a Thanksgiving Miracle, and Allen Degeneres asks, Should You Chime In On This?
Saturday Night Live: Elizabeth Banks / Disclosure Season 41, Episode 5
A somber cold-open by Cecily Strong, relaying in both English and French NYC's solidarity with Paris after the 11/13/2015 attacks... [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: Donald Trump / Sia Season 41, Episode 4
Trump brings the stilted braggadocio, Sia brings the interpretive dancer, Larry David brings the "protest", and only Michael Che lands one on the host.
Saturday Night Live: Tracy Morgan / Demi Lovato Season 41, Episode 3
Tracy Morgan returns to Studio 8H to host nearly a year after suffering a near-fatal car accident. [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: Amy Schumer / The Weeknd Season 41, Episode 2
Amy Schumer brings the noise in a tight stand-up monologue, and Weekend Update is finding its groove, but the rest is kind of limp. Considering that the host is a sketch artiste in her own right with plenty to say on her own show, the sketches are depressingly generic. Virtually any female guest host could have served as the overbearing friend at someone else's wedding shower, or a badly improv-ing Mary Todd Lincoln re-enactor, or even one of the flight attendants who fall out of the plane. [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: Miley Cyrus Season 41, Episode 1
The 41st season premiere brings us Miley Cyrus hosting for the third time (and musical-guesting for the second), only one new cast member (Jon Rudnitsky), and a not-at-all-surprise cameo from Hillary Clinton. [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: Louis CK/Rihanna Season 40, Episode 21
Louis CK returns to host the 40th season finale.
Saturday Night Live: Reese Witherspoon/Florence + the Machine Season 40, Episode 20
The cast reminisce about their childhoods with their moms for the Mother's Day episode.
Saturday Night Live: Scarlet Johansson / Wiz Khalifa Season 40, Episode 19
ScarJo hosts for the fourth time (and first in five years) and proves herself as game as usual, even poking fun at her corporate masters about how maybe it's just as well there hasn't been a Black Widow movie, but the show leans a little heavy on Uncomfortable White Men for the humor.
Saturday Night Live: Taraji P. Henson / Mumford & Sons Season 40, Episode 18
A show that just felt... off, with a cold open that more or less just said "Kate McKinnon's going to be Hillary, so get used to her", a weird QVC sketch that didn't go anywhere, and two wheel-of-impressions sketches. On the plus side, a pretty strong Weekend Update that shows Colin Jost and Michael Che are comfortable with each other and the guest characters (including a lumpy Billy Crystal).
Saturday Night Live: Michael Keaton/Carly Rae Jepsen Season 40, Episode 17
Michael Keaton hosts for the first time since 1982 (which is before musical guest Carly Rae Jepsen was born). A few good Easter jokes, Weekend Update finally hitting its stride, and a goofy cameo by Norman Reedus. Fewer sketches that went on for longer and the show ran ... short?
Saturday Night Live: Dwayne Johnson / George Ezra Season 40, Episode 16
Franchise Viagra takes the reins for the fourth time, busting out "The Rock" Obama, paying tribute to his past with a deeply psychological take on wrestling feuds, and generally being charismatic and game for anything.
Saturday Night Live: Chris Hemsworth / Zac Brown Band Season 40, Episode 15
A lot of discussion of how dreamy Chris Hemsworth is, a couple of rocking performances by Zac Brown Band, a lively if blooperific Weekend Update, and another goddamn Former Porn Stars sketch give us an essentially "filler" episode this week.
Saturday Night Live: Dakota Johnson/Alabama Shakes Season 40, Episode 14
Dakota Johnson from "Fifty Shades of Grey" hosts for the first time. [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: SNL40 Season 40, Episode 25
A 3 1/2 hour retrospective of the past 40 years of Saturday Night Live on NBC (preceded by a 1 hour Red Carpet special)! [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: J.K. Simmons & D'Angelo Season 40, Episode 13
J.K. Simmons turns in an able performance (and many, many wigs), and D'Angelo owns the stage in a fair-to-middling midseason episode.
Saturday Night Live: Blake Shelton Season 40, Episode 12
Blake Shelton handles himself admirably as host and musical guest, with assistance from a Kate & Aidy musical joint and a surprisingly strong Weekend Update.
Saturday Night Live: Kevin Hart/Sia Season 40, Episode 11
The star of "The Wedding Ringer" hosts for a second time. [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: Amy Adams & One Direction Season 40, Episode 10
The Christmas episode hits Serial a few times and welcomes back Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen, with all the good and ill that entails.
Saturday Night Live: Martin Freeman/Charli XCX Season 40, Episode 9
The star of the Hobbit series, the UK version of The Office, and the FX series Fargo drops by Studio 8H.
Saturday Night Live: James Franco & Nicki Minaj Season 40, Episode 8
Minaj gets more screen time than expected, but Kate McKinnon gets less screen time than usual. Franco is more animated than usual, but the political bits are less animated than expected. [more inside]
Saturday Night Live: Cameron Diaz/Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars Season 40, Episode 7
Cameron Diaz returns to host SNL for a fourth time.
Saturday Night Live: Woody Harrelson/Kendrick Lamar Season 40, Episode 6
Woody Harrelson goes on a late-night comedy bender filled with booze, coke, pot, more pot, crack, meth, apples, and more booze.
Saturday Night Live: Chris Rock/Prince Season 40, Episode 5
An uninterrupted eight minute set by Prince couldn't compensate for a night of flubbed lines and flat sketches.
Saturday Night Live: Jim Carrey and Iggy Azalea Season 40, Episode 4
Jim Carrey returns to host a frightfully uneven Halloween episode.
Saturday Night Live: Bill Hader and Hozier Season 40, Episode 3
Bill Hader returns to Studio 8H to play some beloved characters.
Saturday Night Live: Sarah Silverman & Maroon 5 Season 40, Episode 2
Sarah Silverman makes her triumphant return to the SNL stage in a show that smacks less of triumph and more of coasting.
Saturday Night Live: Chris Pratt and Ariana Grande Season 40, Episode 1
Starlord returns to Earth to face his most terrifying ordeal yet -- hosting the 40th season premiere of Saturday Night Live.
Saturday Night Live: Andy Samberg and St. Vincent Season 39, Episode 21
The 39th season ends with a huge homecoming, two Digital Shorts, and a non-political cold open.
Saturday Night Live: Charlize Theron and the Black Keys Season 39, Episode 20
A perfectly acceptable episode, using Theron well enough and featuring a Weekend Update guest we didn't know we've been waiting for since the 1970s. [more inside]