Episodes
See also: List of Saturday Night Live episodes| # | Host(s) | Musical guest(s) | Original airdate | |
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| 586 | 1 | Steve Carell | Kanye West | October 1, 2005 |
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Former cast member Mike Myers made a special appearance spoofing Myers and West's joint appearance in "A Concert for Hurricane Relief". Bill Hader and Andy Samberg's first episode as cast members. Kanye West performs a medley of "Gold Digger" and "Touch the Sky" in the first performance and Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine performs with West on "Heard 'Em Say" during the 2nd performance. This is the first SNL episode broadcast in high definition. |
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| 587 | 2 | Jon Heder | Ashlee Simpson | October 8, 2005 |
| Ashlee Simpson performed "Catch Me When I Fall" and "Boyfriend. | ||||
| 588 | 3 | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Franz Ferdinand | October 22, 2005 |
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At the end of Weekend Update, 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. Franz Ferdinand performs "Do You Want To" and "Take Me Out." |
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| 589 | 4 | Lance Armstrong | Sheryl Crow | October 29, 2005 |
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Chicago White Sox outfielder Scott Podsednik made a guest appearance on Weekend Update shortly after his team swept the Houston Astros in the 2005 World Series. The musical guest, Sheryl Crow, Armstrong's then-fiancé, made an appearance in the monologue and in two sketches in addition to her two performances. Crow performed "Good Is Good" and "Strong Enough." |
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| 590 | 5 | Jason Lee | Foo Fighters | November 12, 2005 |
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Kristen Wiig's first episode as a cast member. Foo Fighters perform "DOA" and "Best of You" |
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| 591 | 6 | Eva Longoria | Korn | November 19, 2005 |
| Korn performed "Twisted Transistor" and "Freak on a Leash." | ||||
| 592 | 7 | Dane Cook | James Blunt | December 3, 2005 |
| James Blunt performed "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover." | ||||
| 593 | 8 | Alec Baldwin | Shakira | December 10, 2005 |
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Tim Meadows made a guest appearance during the monologue. Shakira performed "Don't Bother" and "La Tortura", with Alejandro Sanz singing in the latter track. At the end of Weekend Update, Tina Fey shows a clip from a famous sketch from the show's premiere season where Chevy Chase and then-host Richard Pryor get into a word association that leads to the use of racial epithets, commemorating Pryor's death on the show's original airdate. |
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| 594 | 9 | Jack Black | Neil Young | December 17, 2005 |
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The Digital Short in this episode, Lazy Sunday, soon became a cult phenomenon through its exposure on the Internet. Neil Young performed "It's a Dream" and "He Was the King;" Young also makes an appearance in the Appalachian Emergency Room sketch, which also features a cameo from Johnny Knoxville. Tracy Morgan makes an appearance during Weekend Update. Jack Black's Tenacious D partner Kyle Gass makes a cameo appearance during the spelling bee skit. Darlene Love performed "White Christmas" with the SNL Band. She had provided vocals for TV Funhouse cartoon "Christmastime For The Jews". which aired right before this performance. |
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| 595 | 10 | Scarlett Johansson | Death Cab for Cutie | January 14, 2006 |
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An excerpt from the night's animated TV Funhouse sketch called "The 700 Gang" was used as the cold opening. Death Cab For Cutie performed "Soul Meets Body" and "Crooked Teeth". |
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| 596 | 11 | Peter Sarsgaard | The Strokes | January 21, 2006 |
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Drew Barrymore made a special appearance in the Weekend Update segment. The Strokes performed "Juicebox" and "You Only Live Once." |
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| 597 | 12 | Steve Martin | Prince | February 4, 2006 |
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Alec Baldwin and Jimmy Fallon cameo in the live show; Baldwin, Kelly Ripa, Scarlett Johansson, Conan O'Brien, Brian Williams and Gideon Yago all appear in filmed segments. Prince performed "Fury" collaborated with Támar to perform his second song, "Beautiful, Loved and Blessed". This episode was the highest rated episode of the season, drawing 9.3 million viewers. |
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| 598 | 13 | Natalie Portman | Fall Out Boy | March 4, 2006 |
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Dennis Haysbert made a live-action cameo during TV Funhouse. Fall Out Boy performs "Dance, Dance" and "Sugar, We're Goin Down." |
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| 599 | 14 | Matt Dillon | Arctic Monkeys | March 11, 2006 |
| Arctic Monkeys perform "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "A Certain Romance". Lead singer Alex Turner stopped in the middle of "A Certain Romance" and, visibly frustrated with the audience reaction, pointed into the crowd and yelled "That man just yawned!" | ||||
| 600 | 15 | Antonio Banderas | Mary J. Blige | April 8, 2006 |
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Former cast member Chris Kattan makes a cameo during Weekend Update. Mary J. Blige performed "Be Without You" and "Enough Cryin." |
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| 601 | 16 | Lindsay Lohan | Pearl Jam | April 15, 2006 |
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Adult film star Savanna Samson makes an appearance in the TV Funhouse cartoon. Pearl Jam performed "World Wide Suicide" and "Severed Hand." |
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| 602 | 17 | Tom Hanks | Red Hot Chili Peppers | May 6, 2006 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers performed "Dani California" and "Give It Away." | ||||
| 603 | 18 | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Paul Simon | May 13, 2006 |
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Special cameos by Al Gore, Jason Alexander, and Jerry Seinfeld. Al Gore's cold opening was written by his daughter, former SNL staff writer Kristin Gore. Al Gore made two appearances during this episode, first giving a cold opening showing an alternate universe under President Al Gore (where Osama bin Laden is caught and gas prices are at their lowest) and later appeared in the weekend update making a debate against Amy Poehler about global warming being bad (Al Gore) or good (Amy Poehler). Paul Simon performed "How Can You Live in the Northeast?" and "Outrageous". |
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| 604 | 19 | Kevin Spacey | Nelly Furtado | May 20, 2006 |
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Tina Fey, Chris Parnell, Rachel Dratch, Horatio Sanz, and Finesse Mitchell's final episode as cast members, and Beth McCarthy Miller's last episode as director. Nelly Furtado performs "Promiscuous" and "Maneater", with Timbaland performing on the former. |
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