History Funny / SaturdayNightLiveSeason42

* A skit about a meeting of mad scientists from all over the world ''really'' pushes the envelope, as Dwayne's character has a submission of a ''child-molesting robot''. [[EvenEvilHasStandards The villains present are all repulsed]], just like we are. And then it turns out it was a commercial for White Castle ("We serve anybody!")

* The cold open - you knew it was coming - of the Third and Final Presidential Debate of 2016, with Hanks as the moderator Chris Wallace noting "This is kind of like ''ReturnOfTheKing'' in that you don't wanna watch but hey you've come this far." It gets worse... okay, funnier from there.[[note]]It doesn't help that a lot of the skit is taken from real things Trump said during and after the debate.[[/note]]

* Hanks as a stereotypical-looking DeepSouth Trump Supporter from the south showing up for "Black Jeopardy!" whose distrust of the government [[NotSoDifferent are very similar]] to the Black contestants, along with with his surprising love of Creator/TylerPerry movies and preference for a BigBeautifulWoman. He's actually winning at "Black Jeopardy!" up until the Final Jeopardy question "Lives that Matter".

* Hanks as a stereotypical-looking DeepSouth Trump Supporter from the south showing up for "Black Jeopardy!" whose distrust of the government [[NotSoDifferent are very similar]] to the Black contestants, along with with his surprising love of Creator/TylerPerry movies and preference for a BigBeautifulWoman. He's actually winning at "Black Jeopardy!" up until the Final Jeopardy question [[spoiler: "Lives that Matter".]]

* Dave considered not reprising any of his old characters for the show, but after ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had its' season premiere, Dave couldn't resist. He thus plays [[BigBad Negan]] choosing someone to die, and has to choose between a collection of his old characters. Among them is white supremacist Clayton Bigsby (who dons a Trump hat), Tyrone Biggums, and none other than Busta Rhymes as Music/LilJon. Ultimately, [[spoiler: Biggums gets the bat, and his head is knocked clean off of his body... but continues to roll around, dodging Negan and Lucille. Biggums' head monologues, is superimposed on the bodies of every major political figure of the year as he does so, and then escapes.]]

* Kate reprises the "Last Call" sketch, this time with Dave, with Kenan as the bartender who grows progressively more disgusted with their flirting. Kate also mentions that her zodiac sign is "Vagittarius" (as a nod to Kate being a lesbian in real life). Kenan claims that the apocalypse must have arrived, and on cue, a rubber frog falls from above. When Dave and Kate begin tonguing at the bar, Kenan begins frantically pouring bleach into his eyes! When they go for broke and begin tonguing again as they fire off streams of beer, Kenan declares he must do what he must -- [[spoiler: and promptly begins shooting at the two to chase them out of his bar.]]

* The final sketch of the night features Dave as a man living with his mother (Leslie), and his friends, who are over for a football game, are repulsed when [[spoiler: Dave starts breast feeding with his mother despite being a grown man. It gets worse when Dave emerges from behind his mother's blanket with milk all over his face, and his sister (Sasheer) later joins in too, and milk squirts all over the other guys. Kyle stays while the others flee in terror.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o8LVdTvw8c This parody]] of ''Creator/AndersonCooper 360'' has Cooper (Alex Moffat) host a panel about various questionable activities regarding Trump. All the other members of the panel react to each piece of "Breaking News" with the ''exact same wording'' each time, the only differences including everyone sounding progressively more enraged, and Dana Bash (Kristen Wiig) mentioning the previous piece of news as something the current subject "isn't like". Each cycle ends with Trump supporter Kayleigh [=McEnany=] (Kate [=McKinnon=]) asking, "Um, can we just remember that most Americans voted for Trump?" to which Van Jones (Kenan Thompson) responds, "Actually, they didn't, Kayleigh!", eliciting laughter from everyone. [[spoiler:When Cooper starts to realize the show has become formulaic, everyone freezes. Two maintenance guys (Mikey Day and Pete Davidson) point him out as a robot who "...was starting to remember", replace him with a Jake Tapper (Beck Bennett) robot, and continue the program as usual. None of the other robots ask where Cooper went, and instead continue spouting their stock phrases, until the ''Westworld'' logo appears.]]

* A sketch revolving around a family (Vanessa, Kyle, Beck, and Cecily) watching the Macy's Thanksgiving parade up close and personal.. only for the balloons of Literature/{{Madeline}} (Kristen) and [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Woody]] (Mikey) to be non-stop NightmareFuel, seemingly coming to life and stalking the family. Then Bobby appears as [[Literature/{{It}} Pennywise]], an unblinking, grinning Pennywise at that. The three balloons gang up on the family, following them as they move. Then Madeline picks up Creator/KristinChenoweth (portrayed by a doll) [[spoiler: and drops her!]] Beck quips, "So much for [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} defying gravity!]]"
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzcSJ1setd0 Whiskers R We]]" makes a return, with Kristen as Kate's latest fellow cat lady, who's even ''[[LesYay more]]'' thirsty than the previous one (Melissa [=McCarthy=]) for Kate. It gets to the point that when she decides to pinch a cat for bad behavior (including voting for Jill Stein), [[spoiler: she spends a minute searching for Kate's left nipple, and finally gets a hold of it. Kate quickly loses her composure in what is perhaps the biggest instance of her breaking character on the show ''ever''.]]

* The ColdOpen of Jeff Sessions as Film/ForrestGump, talking about his troubles over lying to the Senate committee about talking to Russians and comparing them to his box of chocolates. Using a few too many racially insensitive observations, bumping fists with shirtless Putin ("This meeting never happened." "I wasn't gonna say anything about it anyway!"), and running into Spencer's character from ''Film/TheHelp'' [[spoiler:with her giving Sessions her infamous pie.]]

* Louis plays a weird, pathetic guy [[https://youtu.be/X-XuT5qKt00 who hires a kids' birthday clown]] (Bobby) [[OnePersonBirthdayParty for his solitary party]]. The clown gets more and more creeped out, though they seem to form an understanding as Louis apologizes to the clown, who consoles him and is ready to make peace with him... until he finally warns away a couple other kids' entertainers with "You don't want this!" and [[spoiler:blithely accepts the guy casually revealing he's going to murder him and chop off his limbs. "Yeah, that seems about right."]]

* Trump (Baldwin) does the Cold Open stuck going over the highlights of his first 100 days with a fawning Mike Pence (which is only ''one'' accomplishment, appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, which Republicans had to [[MovingTheGoalposts change the rules]] to get in), and is told he's going to have to make a decision over who gets to run his White House: [[GrimReaper Steve Bannon]] or his shy son-in-law Jared (Fallon). So Trump does it the only way he knows how: hosting another ''TheApprentice'' and judging the final based entirely on who has the better photo head. [[spoiler:He went with Jared's.]]

* Jimmy Fallon's ex-girlfriend (Cecily Strong) refuses all his attempts to get her back, and after numerous vague accusations that he knows what he did, it turns out [[spoiler:he's one of the airport cops that pulled the doctor off the United flight that week. And then she finds that the guy she's with now (Bennett) directed the Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial, to which she gives a BigNo.]]
** Bonus points: [[spoiler: [[BrickJoke The new guy was portrayed by Beck, who played the director in the sketch spoofing the Pepsi Commercial the previous week.]]]]

* With Pine hosting, there ''had'' to be a ''Star Trek'' skit... with Pine pulling off a believably hammy Shatner-as-Kirk impression. The skit itself is a "Lost" episode involving [[spoiler:Spock's half-brother Spocko from Brooklyn.]]

* On Weekend Update, Michael Che introduces a new weathergirl, Dawn Lazarus (Vanessa Bayer). Unfortunately, she gets so nervous in front of the camera, that she delivers nothing but barely comprehensible blabbering. [[spoiler:Later, she delivers some "Break'n Hnews" about a hurricane, but Michael realizes she just made it up, as an excuse to come back onscreen.]]

-->'''Trump''': I'm not giving up, because [[NeverMyFault I've done nothing wrong!]] ...[[ScapeGoat I dunno about these people, though]].

* Another Wrestle Mania promo starring Dwayne and Bobby, though Dwayne's character Koko [=WatchOut=] goes ''way'' below the belt (no pun intended) with some bombshell revelations about Trashyard Mutt, topped off by the revelation that [[spoiler: they are actually [[Film/{{Twins}} long-lost twins thanks to a genetic experiment gone awry]], and that Koko is the sperm donor for Mutt's wife... making the child both Koko's nephew and son.]] The skit ends with Mutt going off-camera to puke and Koko saying his catchphrase, "And that's what the Koko [[ActorAllusion is cooking!]]"

* An over-the-top and overcrowded music video parodying D.J. Khaled's AvengersAssemble-type track "I'm the One", where Kenan headlines a crew of wacky rappers. They're joined by even wilder rappers as Kenan realizes things are getting way too crowded (even musical guest Katy Perry joins the fun!). And who's the last rapper to join in? None other than [[spoiler: '''David S. Pumpkins!!!''' [[note]]Here, his name is David S. Pimpkins.[[/note]]]]

* A skit about a meeting of mad scientists from all over the world ''really'' pushes the envelope, as Dwayne's character has a submission of a ''child-molesting robot''. [[EvenEvilHasStandards The villains present are all repulsed]], just like we are. [[spoiler: And then it turns out it was a commercial for White Castle ("We serve anybody!")]]

* On the Weekend Update, Colin remarks how disgraced New Jersey governor Chris Christie joining Trump's forthcoming cabinet is counterproductive to "draining the swamp", and describes several other confirmed names as assorted swamp life, which gets quite a bit of jeering from the audience. Michael quips about driving down to New Jersey in relation to said "swamp life", then begins his next story, and Colin makes a joke about how [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lee_lane_closure_scandal one shouldn't use a bridge to get to Jersey]]. Michael couldn't even start his story because he and the audience lost it.

* The pizza skit. With Beck Bennett being the ComicallySerious as a cop taking in a criminal, and Kenan Thompson getting distracted by the animatronics, you half-expect the bots to come to life and murder everyone like in ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys''.

* The spoof of ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeoff'' is so lovingly elaborate that it's hilarious as well as awesome. Melissa Villasenor and Aidy Bryant are practically spot on as Sue and Mel respectively (though Kate Mckinnon wasn't aged up enough to match Mary Berry.) And then there's Emily Blunt and Cecily Strong as two chavettes who apparently belong on a different sort of reality show.

* Aziz plays a nerdy scientist in a sketch revolving around the game show "Beat the Bookworm", and is smug as can be when the first few categories about science are listed... but screams in horror when the last category is revealed to be about 90's pop culture, as he's completely inept about pop culture due to being so devoted to his studies. He ends up getting every question from the category wrong, from Creator/MichaelJackson to Music/{{TLC}}.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} Welcome folks, to the]] Baldwin Administration!]]

Season 42 of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', premiering on October 1, 2016 and concluding on May 20, 2017, was a wild one, for sure. From the election of Donald Trump (Creator/AlecBaldwin) to the presidency, a dancing man in a pumpkin suit, a rampaging cross-cast Creator/MelissaMcCarthy, the last hurrah for Drunk Uncle, and the first and last for Dawn Lazarus, ''SNL'' had one hell of a year, and it needed its own page for all the laughs it gave us.

** Also, all of [=Clinton's=] expressions while Trump is talking. They include, "did he really just say that?" when he says something outrageous to a gleefully smug "yes he's still saying it". Borders on SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome at times as Kate's StunnedSilence face is so still it's practically a screencap.
*** Then she starts crying because it's all going so well for her.
** Alec Baldwin lampshading all the faux pas that Trump makes and then immediately insisting they're good ideas.
** At one point, Clinton says that Trump can have her turn to talk and then makes reeling-in gestures as he continues to say outrageous things.

** Kellyanne can only make up ludicrous claims about Hillary and seems to think she's on a game of jeopardy. Ivanka is portrayed as a brainless beauty, and when Steve says she's sexy, he says that its okay for him to do so since [[ParentalIncest her father]] has said the same thing. Vladimir Putin somehow knows about Steve's nightmares about him. Ivanka summons her brother Junior (the brains), as she is the beauty... and Eric is just Eric. Steve calls them the "children of the corn", and when they fail to get any points, the three of them descend slowly in unison into hammerspace. Chris Christie looks down and around in confusion.

** Bill Clinton says he's looking forward to not being president but still living at the White House, as he can just chill while Hillary takes on the job. Sarah Silverman says she feels excited about the prospect of electing a female president from her head to her vagina ("You're that nasty kind of adorable", Steve quips), and Lin goes into a rap leaving Steve confused as to what beat, if any, he's following. Bernie later says that he thinks Hillary is the prune juice of the election - she may not seem that appetizing, but if you don't take her now, you'll have a whole lot of crap later.
** Bernie later refuses to play when Kellyanne screws up her question, deeming it too much of a hassle despite the protests of his team. When asked one last time a reason why you might be late, he suggests because Jill Stein [[note]]the Green Party candidate who has amassed a following among Bernie's dejected supporters as she's advertised herself basically as Bernie 2.0[[/note]] keeps calling you late at night for advice. It ends up getting Team Clinton the top score!

"I trust white people to defend the national anthem like I trust Phylicia Rashad to defend Creator/BillCosby. 'Now I dunno what he did to yall, but [[PrecisionFStrike the nigga made me rich.]]' "
** For context, that was about Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem during a game due to another police shooting, and Michael restores said context the best way he can.
--->"Colin Kaepernick is not the only one trying to raise awareness during the game for a sad cause. They're turning uniforms pink for breast cancer awareness tomorrow, ain't nobody's sad about that. [[ARareSentence I bet if the police went around shooting unarmed boobies everyone would take a knee.]]"

* Lin-Manuel's monologue, a spoof of [[Theatre/{{Hamilton}} "My Shot,"]] throws in an additional ''Hamilton'' reference when Lin spots a portrait of one of the previous season's hosts, [[CurseCutShort "Piece of shi-"]] Donald Trump:
-->[under his breath] [[HilariousInHindsight ''Never gon' be president now,]] [[HarsherInHindsight never gon' be president now...'']]
* Speaking of Trump: the cold open, which mocks Trump's (at the time) latest scandal about being caught on mic in 2005, making disparaging remarks about women and groping them without their consent. Trump (as played by Creator/AlecBaldwin) tells anchorwoman Brooke Baldwin (Cecily Strong) he "apple-ogizes" (he'd never ''apologize''), but continues to make disparaging remarks while he thinks his mic is off. Hillary, meanwhile, is reached for comment while celebrating an almost guaranteed victory at the following night's debate (complete with the [[MemeticMutation shoulder shimmy]]). At the end, Trump is caught laughing at how the once-proud Ted Cruz was recorded on video phone-banking for him with a pained look on his face... and doesn't apple-ogize for it.
** As part of the 2005 hot mic cold open, one of ''SNL'''s newest cast members, Melissa Villaseñor, plays [[FakeNationality Asian debate moderator Elaine Quijano]], [[BitingTheHandHumor "...because, baby steps."]]
* Trump gets mocked again in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjbc15X1zSM "A Day Off with Kellyanne Conway"]] (Trump's campaign manager), whose half-assed excuses for Trump's behavior are shown to just be rattled off so she can get back to her day off. The not-quite NoodleIncidents that lead to her being summoned to CNN headquarters sweeten the pot.
-->''Of course black people don't have one less toe than white people.''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJBL7kuzvsg "Melanianade"]] a parody of Music/{{Beyonce}}'s "Sorry" video from her "Lemonade" album where the women in Donald Trump's life: his wife Melania (Cecily Strong), his daughter Ivanka (Emily Blunt), his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway (Kate [=McKinnon=]), his other daughter Tiffany (Vanessa Bayer), and his "one black friend", Omarosa (Sasheer Zameda) call him out on his treatment of them.

* The cold open - you knew it was coming - of the Third and Final Presidential Debate of 2016, with Hanks as the moderator Chris Wallace noting "This is kind of like ''ReturnOfTheKing'' in that you don't wanna watch but hey you've come this far." It gets worse... okay, funnier from there.[[note]]It doesn't help that a lot of the skit is taken from real things Trump said during and after the debate.[[/note]]
** Trump promises to talk quietly and soft like a "baby Trump." [[BlatantLies He doesn't make it past the first question]].
** Hillary wins her Bingo card when Trump says the "Bad Hombres" bit.
** When asked about the sexual assault allegations Trump replies "Nobody respects women more than me!" Cue video clips of ''entire audiences'' laughing in response including [[DistantReactionShot a shot of the Planet Earth]].
--->'''Moderator:''' Alright, alright, settle down, entire planet.

** Trump tries to boost himself by pointing out all the high-profile people backing him, including Scott Baio (Chachi) and THE [[ActorAllusion Best Baldwin]] brother... Stephen.

-->'''Hillary:'''You have a choice America. You can vote for the Republican candidate or you can vote for Donald Trump.

-->'''Clinton:''' Mark [Burnett] my baby, I know you’re sitting on some pretty racist tapes of Donald on ''Series/TheApprentice'', so, Mark, as they say on ''Series/WheelOfFortune'': ‘Give me an N.’

* During the election night skit, as results in Donald Trump's favor continue to roll in, the white Hillary supporters in the party react in shock and seem to discover for the first time that racism exists in America. Dave and guest Creator/ChrisRock can only guffaw in response.
-->'''Cecily Strong:''' Oh my God, I think America is racist!\\
'''Chappelle:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh my God!]] You know I remember my great-grandfather told me something like that. He was, like, a slave or something.
* Plus their reactions to the new results show that they're [[NotSoAboveItAll fairly racist themselves.]]
-->'''Beck Bennett:''' I'm calling it: Florida's going blue. (raises glass) To Latinos!\\
'''The women:''' To Latinos!\\
''(after the Florida results come in)''\\
'''Chappelle:''' I guess the Latinos didn't hear your toast.

* On the Weekend Update, Colin remarks how disgraced New Jersey governor Chris Christie joining Trump's forthcoming cabinet is counterproductive to "draining the swamp", and describes several other confirmed names as assorted swamp life, which gets quite a bit of jeering from the audience. Michael quips about driving down to New Jersey in relation to said "swamp life", then begins his next story, and Colin makes a joke about how [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lee_lane_closure_scandal one shouldn't use a bridge to get to Jersey]]. Michael couldn't even start his story because he and the audience lost it.
** Kate returns as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and insists she will not retire thanks to Trump's victory. She contends that she will simply stock up on vitamins, and promptly scarfs down a huge amount of powdery Vitamin C, the stuff cascading out of her mouth and onto her gown.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUWSLlz0Fdo cold open]] features Alec Baldwin reprising his role as President-elect Donald Trump, in the midst of his transition and preparation for taking office. Kellyanne Conway winces that she got Trump elected, and Trump himself gets spooked when he begins to realize the sheer scope of the powers he must assume and the promises he made (a wall thousands of miles long, deporting millions of people, etc). Trump begins to abandon his plans, and later makes Mike Pence promise that he will handle everything once they enter office.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOb-kmOgpI The Bubble]]", depicting a supposed safe-zone within a giant bubble where progressives can live in peace in the wake of Trump's election. Bernie Sanders is on the $1 bill (which earns a big round of cheers from the audience), smart cars, "the rawest milk you've ever tasted", housing prices are through the roof... but hey, you're away from Trump! Kyle also insists that "we don't see color, we celebrate it!", earning him a grimace from Sasheer.

-->"[[DeliberateValuesDissonance Tanya told the teacher that the preacher didn't touch her. The preacher told the teacher that he simply couldn't reach her.]]"
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o8LVdTvw8c This parody]] of ''Creator/AndersonCooper 360'' has Cooper (Alex Moffat) host a panel about various questionable activities regarding Trump. All the other members of the panel react to each piece of "Breaking News" with the ''exact same wording'' each time, the only differences including everyone sounding progressively more enraged, and Dana Bash (Kristen Wiig) mentioning the previous piece of news as something the current subject "isn't like". Each cycle ends with Trump supporter Kayleigh [=McEnany=] (Kate [=McKinnon=]) asking, "Um, can we just remember that most Americans voted for Trump?" to which Van Jones (Kenan Thompson) responds, "Actually, they didn't, Kayleigh!", eliciting laughter from everyone. [[spoiler:When Cooper starts to realize the show has become formulaic, everyone freezes. Two maintenance guys (Mikey Day and Pete Davidson) point him out as a robot who "...was starting to remember", replace him with a Jake Tapper (Beck Bennett) robot, and continue the program as usual. None of the other robots ask where Cooper went, and instead continue spouting their stock phrases, until the ''Westworld'' logo appears.]]

* Another Trump cold open, this one about Trump's obsession with tweeting, and also bringing in Steve Bannon [[note]]Trump's new chief strategist, also a notorious Neo-Nazi, Islamophobe and all around racist[[/note]], who is portrayed as a Grim Reaper-esque figure.
* The opening monologue has Emma happy to be back on SNL, and especially to be back with her old flame... Bobby Moynihan, who is played up as a hunky jock she slept around with. While he was engaged.

* A sketch on the birth of Jesus has Emma as the overwhelmed Mary moments after the birth of Christ. RealityEnsues when the three wise men arrive and Mary derides her husband for letting them in... then Joseph demands Mary make drinks for the three wise men.

* The cold open features Beck and Kate returning as Jake Tapper and Kellyanne Conway discussing president-elect Trump's newest Cabinet pick - none other than Creator/BryanCranston reprising his [[Series/BreakingBad role]] as [[Characters/BreakingBadWalterWhite Walter White]]! Turns out, Walt has been picked by Trump to run the DEA of all things, and Walt is delighted as a wall will mean less competition. When Tapper asks if he means competition for jobs, Walt says "SureLetsGoWithThat". He also insists that Trump will make America cook again, and is ready to support the red, white, and lots of blue.
* Cena's monologue is continuously interrupted by the cast playing wacky wrestlers themselves, among them Bobby as "The Waddler", and Leslie Jones as herself!

* Weekend Update features Kate as German chancellor Angela Merkel, bemoaning how Trump's platforms and policies are lining up with UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. She also chews out the alt-right movement, saying that in Germany, the alt-right is "[[ArgentinaIsNaziland why Grandpapa lives in Argentina now]]." Cecily also appears as Cathy Anne to rant about Pizza Gate, and also rips into the alt-right, musing how they're Nazi's but hate being called Nazi's. She also looks directly into the camera and lampshades how Trump is probably watching right now.

* "Through Donald's Eyes" has Cena play Trump going through an average day, imagining his hands becoming huge, only to rage-quit when he gets mean tweets. Kellyanne (Kate) has to tuck him into bed like a mother coddling her spoiled child.

* Alec Baldwin returns as Trump in the cold open featuring him getting ready for a Christmas party he's hosting. Suddenly, UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin (Beck Bennett) climbs down the chimney with a bag of toys and shirtless (of course) to cheers from the audience. Putin asks Trump if he really believes him over basically the entire American intelligence community, and Trump shrugs and only cares that he won. Putin is appropriately bewildered. He then gifts Trump with an "elf on the shelf" to keep next to his Internet router all year long, and implies he'll give him one for each of his four years. Then Rex Tillerson (Creator/JohnGoodman), Trump's pick for Secretary of State, arrives and is giddy to see "Putie" and vice versa. The two then begin going over their plans to increase their oil production and all, and when Trump asks what's going on, they both insist [[AuthorityInNameOnly he not worry about it]]. They even go "LIVE FROM NEW YORK" without him at first!

* The cold open parodies the absolutely chaotic press conference President-elect Trump had that week and the reported tape of Trump having a golden showers-type escapade with Russian hookers. Trump also announces that in a week, he'll be sworn in as the 45th president... and in a few months, Mike Pence will likely become the 46th president. When told that people could die if the Republicans successfully end Obamacare, Trump admits that as he's about to be president, we're ''all'' gonna die. After making lots of pee jokes and puns, Vladimir Putin arrives, claiming to be CNN's Wolf Blitzer (both played by Beck) and he asks Trump to once again admit that Russia interfered in the election... while waving the alleged "pee-pee tape". Trump panics and blames Meryl Streep!

!From the Creator/AzizAnsari episode:
* The cold open stars Vladimir Putin addressing his new constituents in the wake of Trump's inauguration. He tries to calm America down, insisting he won't have Trump do anything too crazy. Olya Pavlotsky shows up and puts on a pink pussy hat to protest Putin while he's not looking.
* Aziz gets more than his fair share of hilarious moments during his opening monologue as the show's guest host. [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Whde50AacZs&ebc=ANyPxKpeSdYJGkJPkVCBkpjN6luth8VEkaxmV7D1yIgeNLSqSgPYLdWuV13srlEV3EUmtMGlVziv Words cannot do it justice.]]

* Creator/KateMcKinnon really gets to shine in a ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}''-esque showstopper, depicting Trump's senior adviser (and who many people decry as borderline delusional) Kellyanne Conway's [[IWantSong desire to be famous]] as the reason she's always fighting for Trump. Aside from Kate being one hell of a MsFanservice the entire time, she brings up how the real Conway actually endorsed Ted Cruz a year before the election and claimed Trump was acting unpresidential. Even Jake Tapper (Beck Bennett) joins in on the musical number after a while. Careful viewers will also notice that Kate uses some of the choreography from ''Chicago'', as she mentioned back in "Crucible Cast Party" earlier in the season.

-->"You can't expect all of America to stand out there in the cold after knowing that they'll lose their healthcare!"

[[folder: Kristen Stewart]]
!From the Creator/KristenStewart episode:
* The Trump Cold Open where a "tired and cranky" Trump (Baldwin) tries to call various heads of state with disastrous results: insulting Australian Prime Minister Turnbull ([[TruthInTelevision really happened]]), trying to trick Mexican President Nieto to agree to pay for the Wall and then threatening to send in troops to deal with "the bad hombres" ([[RunningGag really happened]]), and scaring German Chancellor Merkel as she begs for Obama to come back ([[RuleOfThree probably happened]]). All the while Steve Bannon (a skeletal GrimReaper) encourages him through each call... before declaring at the end that he thinks that was enough fun for this evening, asking Trump to give him his rightful seat at the President's desk back. Trump immediately obliges as he calls Bannon "Mr. President" and instead moves over his desk -- a kid-sized version of the President's desk -- to play with toys.
** The phone calls end when Trump tries to call a country that HAS an actual dictator -- Zimbabwe's Mugabe -- where the dictator immediately [[PretenderDiss chews out Trump as a weak wannabe]] ("I will rip out your spine and drink from your skull! You cannot even walk down stairs, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch you little white bitch]]! Don’t you ever call Zimbabwe again!") and hangs up on ''him''.
* Stewart nervously dropping an F-bomb during her monologue, something every long-time viewer of the show knows [[SarcasmMode will go over well with Lorne.]] Stewart even quips that she's probably never coming back now (though at present there's been no announcement of her being blacklisted).
* Another Super Bowl commercial for Totino's Pizza Rolls, where the overworked housewife (Vanessa Bayer) gets some assistance from the lesbian sister (Stewart) of one of the game-watchers... and the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot two women get it on]] - from finger-touching while placing the pizza rolls on an oven tray before stripping and making out on the kitchen table re-enacting ''BlueIsTheWarmestColor'' (even speaking in FRENCH) - while the clueless guys are laser-focused on the game.
* And the winner of the evening (and possibly ''forever''): Creator/MelissaMcCarthy guest-stars as a bullying Sean Spicer - Trump's press secretary - [[http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/see-melissa-mccarthys-epic-takedown-of-sean-spicer-on-snl-w465049 who opens up yelling at the press corps]], threatens to chew gum (consumes an entire container of gum tablets) and punch faces, offering up InsaneTrollLogic, and getting crazier -- including using the oversized podium to pummel reporters -- from there.
** Highlights:
--->'''Spicer''': [''very loudly, glaring''] Before we begin I know that myself and the press have gotten off to a rocky start. And by "rocky start" I mean in the sense of ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' the movie because I came out here to PUNCH you! In the FACE! And also I don't talk so good.\\
[...]
--->'''Spicer''': I'd like to begin today by apologizing on behalf of ''you'' to ''me''... for how you have treated me these last two weeks... And that apology [[InsaneTrollLogic is NOT accepted]]!\\
[...]
--->'''Spicer''': As you know, President Trump announced his Supreme Court pick on the national TV today. When he entered the room the crowd greeted him with a STANDING ovation! Which lasted a full FIFTEEN MINUTES! And you can check the tape on that. Everyone was ''smiling''. Everyone was ''happy''. The men all had erections, and every single one of the women was ovulating ''left'' and ''right''. And no-one, ''no-one'' was ''sad''. Okay, those are the facts forever and there's something else. [''starts to read from a piece of paper''] We got something x, three four, capital T, capital P, eight, four -- hang on, that's my email password, forget that one. Alright, nobody write that -- [''gives DeathGlare to journalist''] Stop writing that down!\\
[...]
--->'''Spicer''': That's enough for today. Spicy's gonna go bye-bye right now, need a big boy nap. I will be woken up exactly one minute before tomorrow's press concert- [[CatchPhrase LIVE FROM NEW YORK]] [[LateToThePunchline IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!]].
--->'''Reporter''': [[NoFourthWall Uhm, yeah, that... already happened.]]
--->'''Spicer''': [''attacks the reporter with the podium'']
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!From the Creator/AlecBaldwin episode:
* Melissa [=McCarthy=] returns as Sean Spicer for the ColdOpen... and she, uh he has been told to cut back [[note]] as a response to the real Sean Spicer's comments[[/note]] on the gum-chewing to just one stick (Spicer pulls out a stick of gum bigger than her head). Spicer proceeds to give a press conference ''crazier'' [[SerialEscalation than the first]], turns it into a QVC sale for Ivanka's canceled line of apparel from Nordstrom's, and ends it by ''driving'' the podium into the reporter pool.
** A few weeks later, Spicer himself threatened to "make the podium move" during a press briefing. And this was actually a bald-faced defiance of Trump telling him not to acknowledge the show!
* During the Cold Open, Spicer says that Donald Trump is going to take on the 9th Circuit on Series/ThePeoplesCourt... and [[BrickJoke several skits later]], we get exactly that. From Marilyn Milian pointing out that the 9th Circuit judges are "more real than she is" to Donald calling himself "A TV president." Also, Donald saying he's going to call a character witness, to which his son starts to stand, before calling forth a shirtless as ever Vladimir Putin. Putin does a secret handshake with Steve Bannon, Donald, Jr., and tries to give Eric a fist bump... but Eric just claps his hand over Putin's.
--->'''Judge''': [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech I want one day without a CNN alert that scares the hell out of me]]!
** The skit ends with the revelation that the next case is... Donald Trump suing Nordstrom's.
* Jake Tapper goes home one night to find Kellyanne Conway in a nightgown, [[https://youtu.be/2pRt4dFBkCA demanding she be let back on the air]] [[AttentionWhore to be back in the spotlight]]. Tapper refuses, citing how Conway made up a massacre to try to slam the media ([[RunningGag really happened]]) and how CNN can't have her on if she's going to keep making up stuff and lying. Conway then begins threatening Tapper in a parody of ''Film/FatalAttraction'' until Tapper agrees to let her on CNN again, eventually saying that if he won't let her back on, she'll go to [=HuffPo=] Live - [[EveryoneHasStandards but hangs up with an "ew"]] [[TakeThat shortly after they pick up]]. Conway thanks Jake, only to fall out of an open window to her apparent death. Her flayed body suddenly repairs itself, and Conway says she's okay, but only has three lives left.
** The real Jake Tapper reacted with an "Um..." to the sketch, but [[ActuallyPrettyFunny later admitted it was funny]]. The real Kellyanne Conway took it in stride too.
* Weekend Update features Senator Elizabeth Warren (Creator/KateMcKinnon), who had been silenced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch [=McConnell=] for reading Coretta Scott King's letter slamming Jeff Sessions, Trump's pick for Attorney General who was denied a judge license in the 1980's for being too racist, the letter having been written back then. Warren says her now famous rallying cry, "nevertheless, she persisted" to big applause [[note]]this was the phrase used by [=McConnell=] when remarking on her being silenced[[/note]], and says she's made Twitter her bitch. Warren goes on to interrogate Colin over the fact that [[BitingTheHandHumor he's credited and paid as a main cast member despite the fact he only appears in Weekend Update]]. She then tries to read a negative review of the episode where Trump hosted the show back in fall 2015.
** When discussing Jeff Sessions being approved for Attorney General, Colin announces that Sessions has been approved as our new ''Confederate'' General, then corrects himself.
** Also featured on Weekend Update is a couple (Leslie Jones and Mikey Day) who have started trying BDSM. While Leslie is portrayed as a meek girl who is secretly a freak, Mikey is portrayed as being desperate to escape his relationship and has several cuts and bruises.
* Leslie does a sketch where she campaigns to play Trump whenever Alec Baldwin isn't available - especially to piss off the real Trump who was most angry about the fact Spicer was portrayed by a woman. Leslie looks pretty unholy but fitting at the same time, but Lorne refuses her offer. Leslie is carried away screaming after manhandling Lorne, crying that she wants to [[LampshadeHanging show she has range since she's usually cast as a loud, screaming woman]]. Leslie is evicted from the studio, but her appearance fools the passing Melania, and so she hops in the limo.

!From the Creator/OctaviaSpencer episode:
* The ColdOpen of Jeff Sessions as Film/ForrestGump, talking about his troubles over lying to the Senate committee about talking to Russians and comparing them to his box of chocolates. Using a few too many racially insensitive observations, bumping fists with shirtless Putin ("This meeting never happened." "I wasn't gonna say anything about it anyway!"), and running into Spencer's character from ''Film/TheHelp'' [[spoiler:with her giving Sessions her infamous pie.]]
* Kellyanne Conway randomly showing up throughout the episode in her infamous feet-up pose, not even saying anything or with any attention brought to her.
* The trailer for the one brave Republican who broke from the party line when he couldn't stand by and watch the evils of the Trump administration anymore...To Be Determined (TBD) as soon as someone actually ''does it'' and they can fill in his name and anything he says.
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* The ColdOpen is set in 2018, where Earth is being attacked by aliens. At a military base, Alec Baldwin returns as President Trump, who naturally is more concerned with his lies that he won the popular vote and ''The Apprentice'' (expressing glee when he hears that California has been wiped out, including Arnold). The aliens arrive, and when they ask for the human leader to be surrendered to them, Trump immediately tosses the general to the aliens.

* "Complicit" a perfume commercial parody starring Scarlett as Ivanka Trump mocking the new First Daughter's image as the [[TokenGoodTeammate progressive member]] of the Trump family when really she [[AccompliceByInaction does little to help those hurt by her father's policies]].
-->'''Voiceover:''' I bet when she watches ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' she thinks she's Rose. Sorry girl, you're ''Billy Zane''.
* A sketch revolving around a dog being given a device to let him speak his mind, but to his owner's (Scarlett) horror, he's a Trump supporter. Everyone reacts in disgust as the dog keeps defending Trump's platform and ideology, but the show-stealer is when the poor dog used in the sketch actually takes the device prop off of his neck. Beck, who was voicing the dog off-screen, rolls with it and [[ThrowItIn throws in the dog demanding it to be taken off of him]]. Scarlett has to return the device to the dog's neck.

* Weekend Update features Senator Al Franken (Alex Moffatt) and Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Kate), and when the former tries to get the latter to swear on the Bible, Sessions tries to do it with a fake hand.

* Trump (Baldwin) does the Cold Open stuck going over the highlights of his first 100 days with a fawning Mike Pence (which is only ''one'' accomplishment, appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, which Republicans had to [[MovingTheGoalposts change the rules]] to get in), and is told he's going to have to make a decision over who gets to run his White House: [[GrimReaper Steve Bannon]] or his shy son-in-law Jared (Fallon). So Trump does it the only way he knows how: hosting another ''TheApprentice'' and judging the final based entirely on who has the better photo head. [[spoiler:He went with Jared's.]]
* It's Easter, so the White House Egg Roll opens with Sean Spicer ([=McCarthy=]) coming out as the Easter Bunny[[note]]TruthInTelevision, Spicer once dressed up as the Bunny during the W. years[[/note]], and Spicy spends most of the presser "apologizing" for his real-world gaffe trying [[GodwinsLaw to compare Syria's Assad]] to [[HitlerAteSugar Hitler]]. He then tries to show how he "gets" Passover by using ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' dolls, and concludes the presser by noting Trump will [[OhCrap bomb North Korea by Monday and that this is likely our last Easter]].

* The ColdOpen parodying [=MSNBC's=] ''Morning Joe'' with hosts Joe Scarborough (Moffat) and Mika Brzezinski ([=McKinnon=]) discussing the House of Representatives repeal of Obamacare while making [[UnresolvedSexualTension not-at-all subtle innuendos]] towards each other [[note]]Scarborough and Brzezinski had announced their engagement days before the episode aired[[/note]]. Later, Scarborough and Brezinski take a call from White House affiliated publicist "John Miller" whose voice on the phone is clearly Donald Trump's (Baldwin) [[note]][[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-alter-ego-barron/2016/05/12/02ac99ec-16fe-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html?utm_term=.0519c5f01a19 This is a reference to the times Trump]] [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer would pose as a publicist under the pseudonym "John Miller" during phone conversations with reporters]] in order to [[ButHeSoundsHandsome brag about himself]] [[/note]]. During the conversation, "Miller" wishes a happy Cinco de Mayo which according to him is the day [[CriticalResearchFailure every Mexican eats a sink full of mayonnaise]] [[note]]Cinco de Mayo is meant to commemorate Mexico's victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla in 1862 during the Franco-Mexican War[[/note]], before revealing that the White House hosted a huge party to celebrate the Obamacare repeal only for Scarborough to point out that the bill still needs to pass the Senate.
--> '''"John Miller"''': [[FlatWhat ...What now?]]
--> '''Joe Scarborough''': The bill goes through the Senate. [[SpannerInTheWorks They might even rewrite the entire thing if they even pass it at all]]"
--> '''"John Miller"''': [[DidntThinkThisThrough But...there was beer.]]
--> '''Mika Brzezinski''': Mr. Miller, the bill has a long way to go so it seems a little premature to celebrate.
--> '''"John Miler"''': [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere ... You know what, we're going to look into this. Talk to you soon, bye bye]]! (hangs up)

* It's already hit a Crowning Moment of Funny before it even aired: [[http://gizmodo.com/melissa-mccarthy-is-riding-the-sean-spicer-podium-outsi-1795162855 Twitter exploded with pictures]] of [=McCarthy=] dressed as Sean Spicer driving that podium down the streets of New York.
* From the ColdOpen where Lester Holt (Che) is interviewing Trump (Baldwin): Trump openly admits he fired FBI Director Comey over the investigation into Russia's alleged interference of the 2016 election.
-->'''Holt''': But that's Obstruction of Justice!\\
'''Trump''': Sure, okay.\\
'''Holt''': Wait, so... [[HopeSpot did I get him?]] Is this all over?! (listens to his producer over the earpiece) Oh! No, I didn't? [[DespairEventHorizon Nothing matters]]? Absolutely ''nothing'' matters anymore???
** And Trump reveals he can do ''anything'' now because the Republican Congress are in the palm of his hands. To demonstrate, he has Speaker Paul Ryan come out to give him his two scoops of ice cream.[[note]]An insider's report on the White House revealed Trump gets two scoops to everyone else's one.[[/note]]
* Spicey's Back. The press briefing starts off with Spicer ([=McCarthy=]) hiding among the bushes[[note]]based on the RealLife hiding he did during the evening of the Comey firing[[/note]] and then charging back into the room to take command when the press starts hinting that his substitute Sarah Huckabee Sanders take his place. Spicer goes into yet another crazy bout of shouting, props, and denials about the "Russia thing", and when the reporters keep insisting Trump is close to firing him Spicer [[SerialEscalation pulls out a Roman column from the wall to toss into the pack]].
** And then confronted with the possibility that Trump is lying to ''him'', Spicer starts to worry and angrily drives the podium out of the room, sprinting off ([[TravelMontage via map]]) to New York City to confront Trump. [[AlasPoorVillain As Spicy drives about in despair]] to a haunting Music/SimonAndGarfunkel "Only Living Boy In New York," he wheels the podium about town begging Trump "I promise to talk better!" and finding gum on the street to chew. Finally reaching Trump Tower, Spicer demands to talk to his boss only for the doorman to sadly tell him "Trump doesn't come here anymore."
** Cut to "A New Jersey Golf Course"[[note]]Trump has been spending nearly every weekend traveling to his golf club properties, undermining the arguments Republicans had that Obama golfed too much.[[/note]] where Spicer finally confronts Trump... and Trump offers a tearful Spicer a BigDamnKiss which he warns Spicer is also a KissOfDeath like in ''Film/TheGodfather.''
* The game show "Just Desserts!" where the insane rules make it so that only one contestant (played by [=McCarthy=]) gets hit in the face with pie. And sprinkles. And cake. And more sprinkles. And...

* The cold open of the 2016-2017 Season Finale, where the show poked fun at itself, having various members of the Trump family and administration performing "Hallelujah" parodying when Kate [=McKinnon=]'s Hilary did so after the election. While Kate's solo was both a tribute to the late Leonard Cohen and poking fun at all those horrified by Trump's victory, this performance is an ode to the imploding Trump administration. Though ''SNL'' admits it's predicted wrong in the past, this cold open very well could be the last to take place in Trump's presidency due to the nuclear meltdown over the Russia investigation. Even Steve Bannon comes back to join in! Scarlett Johansson also returns as Ivanka Trump.
-->'''Trump''': I'm not giving up, because [[NeverMyFault I've done nothing wrong!]] ...[[ScapeGoat I dunno about these people, though]].
* Responding to real-life speculation that he'll run for president, Dwayne announces a faux-campaign for the 2020 election with none other than Creator/TomHanks as his running mate! Alec Baldwin is a bit miffed that he wasn't tapped as Dwayne's VP, though he pokes fun at several unfortunate incidents in the past that have tarnished his reputation as he chases after Lorne for supposedly talking to his wife.
* A commercial for a gold, fancy fidget spinner, which proves to be more entertaining than the vain, ridiculous woman played by Vanessa.

* Weekend Update has Colin and Michael remarking on the disastrous week Trump has had and also suspect that Mike Pence will be taking over as president soon enough. And as this episode marks the final performance for long-runners Vanessa Bayer and Bobby Moynihan, they get in one last hurrah as Dawn Lazarus and Drunk Uncle, respectively.

* Mikey Day and Alex Moffat come back as Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. Alex's Eric continues to be incredibly dumb, and when Donald Jr. gives him a fidget spinner, Eric is perfectly content to just stare at it without spinning. Donald Jr. shows him that it spins, and Eric's mind is blown!
* Creator/BillHader returns to play none other than Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House Communications Director who enjoyed a hilariously short tenure of ''ten days''. The Mooch lampshades and gets Che to confess that ''SNL'' was slightly disappointed that he left so soon, as they were no doubt cooking up something good to hit him with once the show returned in the fall.
* Colin talks about how too much of a good thing can lead to over saturation... and then makes a [[SelfDeprecation quick promo for next week's episode.]]
!!August 17, 2017
* During the coverage of the Charlottesville Nazi riots, surprise guest Creator/TinaFey, who actually went to college in that state, talks about "sheetcaking", ie. ordering an American flag cake from a bakery run by minorities as a silent protest. Except it's clear from the way she tears into that cake that the whole business is having a clear effect on her.
-->'''Tina''': (still chewing) Also who drove the car into the crowds, Hilary's emails?!
** Then she brings up the fact that Southern "gun-toting rednecks" have been deliberately arming and training themselves through legal means (or at least professionally, with former police and soldiers involved) to form militias, supposedly all over America instead of just the Southern states anymore.
-->'''Michael''': [[INeedAFreakingDrink Gimme some of that cake man...]] (grabs a handful and eats)
** Tina continues gorging herself with the cake and even scoops up some of it with a grilled cheese sandwich. She then goes on to call Speaker of the House Paul Ryan a "pussy" for, as usual, not directly standing up to Trump.
!!August 24, 2017
* This episode features a ColdOpen with the return of Alec Baldwin as Trump at his rather unhinged Phoenix rally.
** Trump shows up wearing eclipse glasses and after taking them off, remarks that his audience looks so white, except for Kenan, who plays the one black guy in the audience behind Trump. Turns out, "Kenan" is just an actor responding to a wanted ad for POC to attend his rally to make himself not look racist. Kenan nearly steals the show from Trump himself!
** The episode aired the week after the departure of everybody's [[SarcasmMode favorite]] white supremacist chief strategist Steve Bannon from the White House. Trump brings him on stage for a farewell appearance, and Bannon arrives with his sinister {{Leitmotif}} blaring as usual. When Trump tries to thank him for his service, Bannon only sneers that he's made him more powerful and that he'll eventually destroy him. Naturally, Trump quickly ushers him from the stage.
* The guys lampshade that of course, [[InsaneTrollLogic Trump]] stared directly into the eclipse without glasses [[note]]the sunlight during an eclipse is especially concentrated since so little of it is passing on to Earth, making it more dangerous than usual to stare at it[[/note]].

** And then confronted with the possibility that Trump is lying to ''him'', Spicer starts to worry and angrily drives the podium out of the room, sprinting off (via map) to New York City to confront Trump. [[AlasPoorVillain As Spicy drives about in despair]] to a haunting Music/SimonAndGarfunkel "Only Living Boy In New York," he wheels the podium about town begging Trump "I promise to talk better!" and finding gum on the street to chew. Finally reaching Trump Tower, Spicer demands to talk to his boss only for the doorman to sadly tell him "Trump doesn't come here anymore."

* A parody of ''MrRobot'' where hacker Elliot(Pete Davidson) is asked by Leslie Jones to find out who hacked into her computer and leaked nude photos she took of herself(which actually happened in RealLife two months before).

* Spoofing [[Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSanDiego children's television]] with a pitch-perfect "Where Is the World Is Kellyanne Conway?" where contestants try to figure out where the White House had hidden Conway as it'd been weeks since she appeared on the news channels to defend Trump. When they bring out the two contestants, the kids are asked "Are you ready to find Kellyanne Conway?"

-->'''Voiceover:''' I bet when she watches ''Film/{{Titanic}}'' she thinks she's Rose. Sorry girl, you're ''Billy Zane''.

* Gemma and Ricky return to join Kenan and Vanessa on the ''Ride/JurassicParkRiverAdventure'' ride at UniversalStudios. Poor Vanessa keeps getting doused with water, culminating in a giant ''T.rex'' animatronic absolutely drenching her. And Gemma and Ricky can't be bothered to tell her to move out of harm's way.

** And then confronted with the possibility that Trump is lying to ''him'', Spicer starts to worry and angrily drives the podium out of the room, sprinting off (via map) to New York City to confront Trump. [[AlasPoorVillain As Spicy drives about in despair]] to a haunting SimonAndGarfunkel "Only Living Boy In New York," he wheels the podium about town begging Trump "I promise to talk better!" and finding gum on the street to chew. Finally reaching Trump Tower, Spicer demands to talk to his boss only for the doorman to sadly tell him "Trump doesn't come here anymore."

** Cut to "A New Jersey Golf Course"[[note]]Trump has been spending nearly every weekend traveling to his golf club properties, undermining the arguments Republicans had that Obama golfed too much.[[/note]] where Spicer finally confronts Trump... and Trump offers a tearful Spicer a BigDamnKiss which he warns Spicer is also a KissOfDeath like in ''TheGodfather.''

* The ColdOpen of Jeff Sessions as Film/ForrestGump, talking about his troubles over lying to the Senate committee about talking to Russians and comparing them to his box of chocolates. Using a few too many racially insensitive observations, bumping fists with shirtless Putin ("This meeting never happened." "I wasn't gonna say anything about it anyway!"), and running into Spencer's character from ''TheHelp'' [[spoiler:with her giving Sessions her infamous pie.]]

* The ColdOpen of Jeff Sessions as ForrestGump, talking about his troubles over lying to the Senate committee about talking to Russians and comparing them to his box of chocolates. Using a few too many racially insensitive observations, bumping fists with shirtless Putin ("This meeting never happened." "I wasn't gonna say anything about it anyway!"), and running into Spencer's character from ''TheHelp'' [[spoiler:with her giving Sessions her infamous pie.]]

* We get a new version of the "Close Encounter" sketch, this time as one with Santa Claus. Only Ms. Rafferty ended up encountering what's strongly implied to be ''[[TheKrampus]]''. HilarityEnsues.

* It's Easter, so the White House Egg Roll opens with Sean Spicer ([=McCarthy=]) coming out as the Easter Bunny[[note]]TruthInTelevision, Spicer once dressed up as the Bunny during the W. years[[/note]], and Spicy spends most of the presser "apologizing" for his real-world gaffe trying [[GodwinsLaw to compare Syria's Assad]] to [[HitlerAteSugar Hitler]]. He then tries to show how he "gets" Passover by using VeggieTales dolls, and concludes the presser by noting Trump will [[OhCrap bomb North Korea by Monday and that this is likely our last Easter]].

* The cold open of the 2016-2017 Season Finale, where the show poked fun at itself, having various members of the Trump family and administration performing "Hallelujah" parodying when Kate [=McKinnon=]'s Hilary did so after the election. While Kate's solo was both a tribute to the late Leonard Cohen and a time of healing for all those horrified by Trump's victory, this performance is an ode to the imploding Trump administration. Though ''SNL'' admits it's predicted wrong in the past, this cold open very well could be the last to take place in Trump's presidency due to the nuclear meltdown over the Russia investigation. Even Steve Bannon comes back to join in! Scarlett Johansson also returns as Ivanka Trump.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJBL7kuzvsg "Melanianade"]] a parody of Music/{{Beyonce}}'s "Sorry" video from her "Lemonade" album where the women in Donald Trump's life: his wife Melania(Cecily Strong), his daughter Ivanka(Emily Blunt), his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway(Kate [=McKinnon=]), his other daughter Tiffany (Vanessa Bayer), and his "one black friend", Omarosa(Sasheer Zameda) call him out on his treatment of them.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJBL7kuzvsg "Melanianade"]] a parody of Music/{{Beyonce}}'s "Sorry" video from her "Lemonade" album where the women in Donald Trump's life: his wife Melania(Cecily Strong), his daughter Ivanka(Emily Blunt), his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway(Kate [=McKinnon=]), his other daughter Tiffany(Vanessa Bayer), and his "one black friend", Omarosa(Sasheer Zameda) call him out on his treatment of them.

* For any viewers that happen to be from across the pond, the spoof of ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeoff'' is so lovingly elaborate that it's hilarious as well as awesome. Melissa Villasenor and Aidy Bryant are practically spot on as Sue and Mel respectively (though Kate Mckinnon wasn't aged up enough to match Mary Berry.) And then there's Emily Blunt and Cecily Strong as two chavettes who apparently belong on a different sort of reality show.

* During the election night skit, as results in Donald Trump's favor continue to roll in, the white Hillary supporters in the party react in shock and seem to discover for the first time that racism exists in America. Dave and guest ChrisRock can only guffaw in response.

* A sketch where Felicity plays a princess cursed by a [[Disney/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]]-esque sorcerer (Kate really hamming it up), and her prince (Beck) promising he will love her no matter what her curse is. The witch reveals that at night, the princess is cursed to gain 15 pounds. The prince is horrified and immediately begins backtracking, even asking if the weight she gains goes all over or to a particular area. Sure enough, he books.