Saturday Night Live (season 26) - Episodes

2000 Presidential candidate Ralph Nader made a cameo appearance during the monologue.

Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey became the new anchors of Weekend Update; Tim Meadows appeared during the segment to promote The Ladies Man, a film produced by SNL Studios.

Tina Fey and Jerry Minor's first episode as cast members.

Brendan Fraser cameos in a sketch featuring Chris Kattan getting ready for the next sketch like the athletes featured in the Olympic Profiles segment.

Nomar Garciaparra appears as himself during a Sully and Denise sketch.

Robert De Niro appears as himself during Weekend Update to discuss Jimmy Fallon's negative review of Meet the Parents from the previous episode.

The Wallflowers performed "Sleepwalker" and "Hand Me Down."

Paul Simon performed "Hurricane Eye" and "Old."

Ricky Martin performed "She Bangs" and "Loaded."

Chris Kattan impersonates Ricky Martin right before the real Ricky Martin performs the song "Loaded" (from Martin's album Sound Loaded).

Drew Barrymore was in the audience, and mentioned in the monologue by Tom Green, who said he would like to marry her during the show. Barrymore agreed, but changed her mind 5 minutes before the live ceremony was to take place.

Tom Green brought in his own writers for this episode, which didn't please the cast.

U2 performed "Beautiful Day" and "Elevation."

The previous day marked the 20th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination; Bono paid tribute to Lennon by singing a verse of "All You Need Is Love" over the end of "Beautiful Day."

Nelly Furtado performed "I'm Like a Bird."

Outgoing U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno makes a special appearance in the "Janet Reno's Dance Party" sketch where she confronts the "Janet Reno" portrayed by Will Ferrell.

Jennifer Lopez performed "Play" and "Love Don't Cost a Thing."

Shaggy performed "It Wasn't Me" and "Angel."

Max Weinberg, the drummer on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Weinberg's wife Becky appear in O'Brien's opening monologue.

With this episode, Conan O'Brien becomes the first SNL writer who never became a cast member to come back and host, and the second NBC late-night take show host to host SNL (ironically, after Jay Leno, who hosted back in 1985 when he was just known as a stand-up comic).

Ben Affleck appears at the end of the "Boston Teens at the Liquor Store" sketch.

Coldplay performed "Yellow" and "Don't Panic."

Eve and Gwen Stefani (who wasn't credited for her appearance) performed "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" for the first performance. Eve performed "Who's That Girl?" for the second performance.

Destiny's Child performed "Survivor" and "Emotion," and also appeared in a sketch as former members of "Gemini's Twin", a recurring parody of the group.

Bon Jovi performed "It's My Life" and "You Give Love a Bad Name."

This is Jerry Minor's final episode as a cast member, and Chris Parnell's until the middle of the next season.

Weezer performed "Hash Pipe" and "Island in the Sun."

Former cast member Kevin Nealon appears during Weekend Update to tell viewers that he's not on SNL anymore and that viewers who do see him are watching reruns from the 1990s that at the time aired on Comedy Central.