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.Harvey Fierstein appears during the opening monologue.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.Writer and future cast member Mikey Day appears in the cold open.
Former cast member and current writer Mike O'Brien makes an appearance in the "Whites" commercial.An image of Joan Rivers, who died a month earlier, is shown in silence following the "Joan Rivers" sketch.Adam Levine appears as Freddie Mercury in the "Joan Rivers" sketch and as himself in the "Car Ride" sketch.Maroon 5 performs " Animals" and " Maps".After Weekend Update, an image of Don Pardo – SNL's nearly four decades long announcer, who died six weeks earlier – is shown in silence.Darrell Hammond's first episode as announcer.Michael Che and Pete Davidson's first episode as cast members, and Che's first episode as Weekend Update co-anchor.SNL writer Leslie Jones appears during Weekend Update and the "NFL Intros" sketch.Writer and future cast member Mikey Day appears in the pre-recorded "Marvel" commercial.Pratt's then-wife Anna Faris appears during the opening monologue.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.Main article: List of Saturday Night Live episodes No. Ĭoinciding with the show's fortieth anniversary, SNL introduced a new logo created by design firm Pentagram. After making appearances on Weekend Update and in several sketches, writer Leslie Jones was promoted to the cast on Octoas a featured player. Che left SNL at the end of the previous season to become a correspondent on The Daily Show. Two comedians joined the cast at the start of the season: stand-up comic Pete Davidson, the first SNL cast member to have been born in the 1990s, and former SNL writer Michael Che as a Weekend Update co-anchor, replacing Cecily Strong, who remained in the cast. Additionally, Mike O'Brien, a writer for the show for four seasons before joining the cast at the start of the previous season, returned to the writers' room.
As part of an ongoing rebuilding process, which producer Lorne Michaels indicated would result in cast changes for the 2014–15 season, a number of changes were announced: Nasim Pedrad departed after five seasons to star on the Lorne Michaels-produced sitcom Mulaney, while John Milhiser, Noël Wells, and Brooks Wheelan were let go after one season.
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