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|Aux1= none{{efn|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.<ref name="charli1">{{cite web |title='SNL' Drops Live Audience and Musical Guest Charli XCX Due to COVID Spike |url=https://www.nbcboston.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/snl-year-end-episode-drops-live-audience-some-cast-and-crew-due-to-covid-19/2594176/ |website=NBC Boston |access-date=18 December 2021}}</ref><ref name="charli2">{{cite web |last1=Squires|first1=Bethy|title=Charli XCX Did Get to Be on SNL (in a Pretaped Sketch)|url=https://www.vulture.com/2021/12/watch-paul-rudd-and-charli-xcx-in-snl-christmas-shoes-parody.html|website=Vulture|access-date=December 19, 2021|date=December 19, 2021}}</ref>}} |
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|Viewers= 5.15<ref>{{cite news|url=https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/broadcast-news-late-night-series-12-13-12-19-2021.html|title=Broadcast News & Late Night Series 12.13-12.19.2021|work=[[Showbuzz Daily]]|date=December 21, 2021|accessdate=March 6, 2022|last=Metcalf|first=Mitch}}</ref> |
|Viewers= 5.15<ref>{{cite news|url=https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/broadcast-news-late-night-series-12-13-12-19-2021.html|title=Broadcast News & Late Night Series 12.13-12.19.2021|work=[[Showbuzz Daily]]|date=December 21, 2021|accessdate=March 6, 2022|last=Metcalf|first=Mitch}}</ref> |
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*[[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]]. |
*[[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]]. |
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**Planned appearances by [[Candice Bergen]], [[Jimmy Fallon]], and [[Jon Hamm]] were cancelled due to the new restrictions.<ref>{{Cite tweet |author=The Saturday Night Live (SNL) Standby Line |user=Standbyline |number=1472429481340063747 |title=Since everyone was wanting to know - tonight’s planned special guests were as followed: Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, Jimmy Fallon, Candice Bergen, and Tom Hanks. So sad we all didn’t get to see this iconic group together. Maybe in the future Crossed fingers #SNL #PaulRudd}}</ref> In January, Fallon would reveal that he had tested positive for COVID during this episode's production.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wang |first1=Jessica |title=Jimmy Fallon reveals he tested positive for COVID-19 before scheduled SNL appearance |url=https://ew.com/tv/jimmy-fallon-tested-positive-covid-19-snl-appearance/ |website=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=January 7, 2022|date=January 4, 2022}}</ref> Bergen, however, later made an appearance in the February 26, 2022 episode. |
**Planned appearances by [[Candice Bergen]], [[Jimmy Fallon]], and [[Jon Hamm]] were cancelled due to the new restrictions.<ref>{{Cite tweet |author=The Saturday Night Live (SNL) Standby Line |user=Standbyline |number=1472429481340063747 |title=Since everyone was wanting to know - tonight’s planned special guests were as followed: Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, Jimmy Fallon, Candice Bergen, and Tom Hanks. So sad we all didn’t get to see this iconic group together. Maybe in the future Crossed fingers #SNL #PaulRudd}}</ref> In January, Fallon would reveal that he had tested positive for COVID during this episode's production.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wang |first1=Jessica |title=Jimmy Fallon reveals he tested positive for COVID-19 before scheduled SNL appearance |url=https://ew.com/tv/jimmy-fallon-tested-positive-covid-19-snl-appearance/ |website=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=January 7, 2022|date=January 4, 2022}}</ref> Bergen, however, later made an appearance in the February 26, 2022 episode. |
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*[[Charli XCX]] was due to perform "[[Good Ones]]" and "[[New Shapes]]" on this episode, but her performance was canceled due to the new restrictions.<ref name="charli1" |
*[[Charli XCX]] was due to perform "[[Good Ones]]" and "[[New Shapes]]" on this episode, but her performance was canceled due to the new restrictions.<ref name="charli1"/> [[Christine and the Queens]] and [[Caroline Polachek]] were planned to perform the latter song with her.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hussey |first1=Allison |title=Caroline Polachek and Christine and the Queens to Join Charli XCX on SNL |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/caroline-polachek-and-christine-and-the-queens-to-join-charli-xcx-on-snl/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=18 December 2021 |date=17 December 2021}}</ref> Charli would later reschedule her appearance for March 2022. |
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**Charli does, however, appear in a pre-recorded music video spoof "The Christmas Socks".<ref |
**Charli does, however, appear in a pre-recorded music video spoof "The Christmas Socks".<ref name="charli2"/> |
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*Fey fills in for [[Colin Jost]] on "Update", as he also contracted COVID.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Late Night with Seth Meyers |title=Tina Fey Spills on Saving Saturday Night Live During the NYC Omicron Wave |url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=nKoiCHmAEVk |website=YouTube |access-date=April 20, 2022 |date=April 20, 2022}}</ref> It was done in front of the main stage in [[director's chair]]s rather than on the "Update" set, with Rudd, Hanks, and Thompson watching. |
*Fey fills in for [[Colin Jost]] on "Update", as he also contracted COVID.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Late Night with Seth Meyers |title=Tina Fey Spills on Saving Saturday Night Live During the NYC Omicron Wave |url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=nKoiCHmAEVk |website=YouTube |access-date=April 20, 2022 |date=April 20, 2022}}</ref> It was done in front of the main stage in [[director's chair]]s rather than on the "Update" set, with Rudd, Hanks, and Thompson watching. |
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*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: |
*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: |
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| Saturday Night Live | |
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| Season 47 | |
| No. of episodes | 21 |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | October 2, 2021 (2021-10-02) – May 21, 2022 (2022-05-21) |
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The forty-seventh season of the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live premiered on October 2, 2021, during the 2021–22 television season with host Owen Wilson and musical guest Kacey Musgraves,[1][2] and concluded on May 21, 2022 with host Natasha Lyonne and musical guest Japanese Breakfast.[3] For the first time, the season's first five episodes and the remainder from episode ten onward were live-streamed on the streaming service Peacock in addition to its coast-to-coast live television broadcast.[4][5]
Prior to the start of the season, Beck Bennett and Lauren Holt had both left the show, though the rest of the cast from the previous season was retained. Three new featured players were added: comedic actor and filmmaker Aristotle Athari, impressionist and actor James Austin Johnson, and surrealist comedian Sarah Sherman.[6] Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang, who were hired as featured players in season 45, were promoted to repertory status this season while Andrew Dismukes and Punkie Johnson remain as featured players.[7]
Kate McKinnon did not appear in the first seven episodes of the season, as she was filming Joe vs. Carole.[8] Cecily Strong was absent from the first three episodes of 2022 due to her appearance in the Off-Broadway revival of the one-woman play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.[9] Pete Davidson was absent from the thirteenth to the twentieth episodes due to filming the movie The Home.[10]
Don Roy King, who had directed the show since its 32nd season, retired after the ninth episode, hosted by Paul Rudd. He was succeeded by Liz Patrick, a longtime director of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.[11]
This season saw the deaths of four former cast members; on September 14, 2021, a month before the season began, former cast member and Weekend Update anchor Norm Macdonald died at the age of 61 after a nine-year battle with leukemia. Two months later, on November 6, former featured player Peter Aykroyd died at the age of 65 from septicemia caused by an untreated abdominal hernia. Later in the season, on April 12, 2022, at the age of 67, season 6 cast member Gilbert Gottfried died after a long illness from a rare ventricular tachycardia disorder complicated by type II myotonic dystrophy. On May 6, season 11 cast member Dan Vitale died from heart disease at the age of 66.[12]
This was the final season for McKinnon and Aidy Bryant, who had been cast members since 2012, Kyle Mooney who had been since 2013, and Davidson, who had been since 2014.[13]
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Prior to the start of the season, the show hired ten new writers: Mike DiCenzo, Billy Domineau, Alex English, Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Vanessa Jackson, Tesha Kondrat, Ben Marshall, Jake Nordwind, and Ben Silva.[14] Anna Drezen, Michael Che, Colin Jost, and Kent Sublette continued as the show's head writers, though after the Paul Rudd episode, Drezen left to focus on her new show for Freeform.[15] It was also the last season for writers Jasmine Pierce and Steven Castillo (who also left after the Paul Rudd episode).
Alison Gates, who has written for the show since 2018, was promoted to writing supervisor.[16] Gates and Streeter Seidell joined Che, Jost, and Sublette as head writers beginning with the Ariana DeBose episode.
Beginning with the John Mulaney episode, three new writers were hired: Rosebud Baker, Clare O'Kane and Nicole Sun.[17]
| No. overall | No.in season | Host | Musical guest | Original air date | Live+Same Day Ratings/ Share |
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| 910 | 1 | Owen Wilson | Kacey Musgraves | October 2, 2021 (2021-10-02) | 3.5[18] |
| 911 | 2 | Kim Kardashian West | Halsey | October 9, 2021 (2021-10-09) | 3.8 |
| 912 | 3 | Rami Malek | Young Thug | October 16, 2021 (2021-10-16) | 3.4 |
| 913 | 4 | Jason Sudeikis | Brandi Carlile | October 23, 2021 (2021-10-23) | 3.7 |
| 914 | 5 | Kieran Culkin | Ed Sheeran[a] | November 6, 2021 (2021-11-06) | 4.89[20] |
| 915 | 6 | Jonathan Majors | Taylor Swift | November 13, 2021 (2021-11-13) | 4.97[21] |
| 916 | 7 | Simu Liu | Saweetie | November 20, 2021 (2021-11-20) | 4.70[22] |
| 917 | 8 | Billie Eilish | Billie Eilish | December 11, 2021 (2021-12-11) | 5.16[23] |
| 918 | 9 | Paul Rudd | none[b] | December 18, 2021 (2021-12-18) | 5.15[26] |
| 919 | 10 | Ariana DeBose | Bleachers[c] | January 15, 2022 (2022-01-15) | 5.05[28] |
| 920 | 11 | Will Forte | Måneskin | January 22, 2022 (2022-01-22) | 4.80[29] |
| 921 | 12 | Willem Dafoe | Katy Perry | January 29, 2022 (2022-01-29) | 4.97[30] |
| 922 | 13 | John Mulaney | LCD Soundsystem | February 26, 2022 (2022-02-26) | 4.74[31] |
| 923 | 14 | Oscar Isaac | Charli XCX | March 5, 2022 (2022-03-05) | 4.42[32] |
| 924 | 15 | Zoë Kravitz | Rosalía | March 12, 2022 (2022-03-12) | 4.36[33] |
| 925 | 16 | Jerrod Carmichael | Gunna | April 2, 2022 (2022-04-02) | 4.65[34] |
| 926 | 17 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Camila Cabello | April 9, 2022 (2022-04-09) | 4.85[35] |
| 927 | 18 | Lizzo | Lizzo | April 16, 2022 (2022-04-16) | 4.53[36] |
| 928 | 19 | Benedict Cumberbatch | Arcade Fire | May 7, 2022 (2022-05-07) | 4.50[37] |
| 929 | 20 | Selena Gomez | Post Malone | May 14, 2022 (2022-05-14) | 4.40[38] |
| 930 | 21 | Natasha Lyonne | Japanese Breakfast | May 21, 2022 (2022-05-21) | 4.60[39] |
| Title | Original air date | US viewers (millions) |
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| "SNL Thanksgiving Special" | November 24, 2021 (2021-11-24) | 3.14[40] |
In January 2022, Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe wrote that he was "surprised with the mediocrity" of the season, suggesting that individual cast members did not have opportunities to stand out; he cited the high number of players compared to past seasons, the periodic absence of some cast members due to other commitments, and regular use of guest stars and cameo appearances in sketches as possible reasons.[41]
Conversely, Michael Boyle of Slate praised the season's filmed sketches featuring the Please Don't Destroy troupe, writing, "The basic character dynamics should be familiar to anyone who’s watched SNL before, but they’re done with an efficiency that puts the rest of the show to shame."[42]
New cast member James Austin Johnson and his impression of former U.S. President Donald Trump, which debuted on the show this season, received a positive reception from critics. Dennis Perkins of The A.V. Club wrote, "Johnson's Trump is as exact as advertised, and his Trump's discursively narcissistic screed is more comically illuminating than four full years of Alec Baldwin making funny Trump faces."[43] Dan Spinelli of Mother Jones lauded the accuracy of Johnson's impression, writing, "Close your eyes and you'll think new cast member James Austin Johnson is the real thing. He nails the preening self-regard, the incessant need for attention, and the way Trump wields 'excuse me' almost as a verbal saber."[44] Gilbert, however, criticized Johnson's impression of President Joe Biden and opined it was not as good as his version of Trump.[41] Andy Hoglund at Entertainment Weekly concurs, citing Johnson's "commendable if slightly less transcendent work as" the president.[45]
