History Funny / SaturdayNightLiveSeason46

** The Cold Open is another edition of "Oops, You Did It Again," with Britney Spears (Chloe Fineman) welcoming Lil Nas X (Chris Redd), Pepe le Pew (Kate Mc Kinnon in a skunk costume with a cigarette), and Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz (Pete Davidson). Things get awkward when Gaetz tries to compare himself to Lil Nas X and Pepe le Pew.

** The Cold Open is a newscast from Minnesota that has the white anchors (Kate McKinnon and Alex Moffatt) discussing the Derek Chauvin trial with the Black anchors (Ego Nwodim and Kenan Thompson), agreeing on Chauvin's guilt but not agreeing on what the outcome of the trial will be. They even get the weatherman (Chris Redd) involved. His weather forecast for the state, though, is painfully and hilariously accurate:

The 46th season of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' started on October 3, 2020, with a smaller live audience, but the same big laughs it had before the pandemic happened...especially since it's an election year (and even after that, the aftermath and ongoing problems are worth a few laughs).

** During Weekend Update Michael Che reports that Trump has stated that they will have to drag him out of the White House kicking and screaming. Che, utterly casual, pulls out a glass of scotch and says, "Good" before giving the audience a shrug, resulting in the entire audience exploding with laughter.

** The show applies a ''severe'' SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome to the regular holiday commercials of a man (Beck Bennett) surprising his wife (Heidi Gardner) with a Lexus for Christmas, as she's outraged he'd make such a huge purchase without her input, and it just goes downhill from there as it turns out he's completely ignorant about down payments and APR, and borrowed all the money for the car from his neighbor (Mikey Day) because he lost his job in March...of 2019 (which was a year before the COVID-19 pandemic upended a lot of non-essential jobs for people).

** The ten-to-one sketch has several gay people (all played by the show's three gay cast members [Kate, Bowen, and Punkie] and the host, since all of them are gay and lesbian in real life) honor the 10-year anniversary of the "It Gets Better" project (the project showing that LGBT youth shouldn't give up hope just because they're being bullied and harassed for their sexuality and gender identity), while noting that [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome their lives didn't necessarily get easier even when society became more accepting of the LGBT community]]. For example, Bowen's character talks about how terrifying it is when ''other'' gay people [[NoTrueScotsman bully you for your music tastes because they're more "organized,"]] while Kate's character is glad to have children and visit her wife in the hospital, but isn't glad that they have [[OutsideContextVillain a giant, terrifying iguana as a pet.]] ''And it can use doorknobs.'' '''''And''''' the reason her wife is in the hospital is because the iguana attacked her.

* Music/{{Adele}}/Music/{{HER}}:

** In one sketch, Anya and Aidy Bryant play two reporters who interview the cast of a popular TV show. Pete Davidson’s heartthrob character gets the most softball questions imaginable (such as “do you like dogs?”), while the rest of the cast, who are either people of color or not straight, get incredibly politically-charged questions like “why weren’t you at Standing Rock”?

** Throughout all of Bill Burr's monologue, he sharply criticizes anti-maskers, cancel culture, woke white women all at once.

** Throughout Bill Burr's monologue, he sharply criticizes anti-maskers, cancel culture and woke white women all at once.

'''Nate:''' What the ''hell''?
'''James:''' That was a commercial for ''Cheeze-Its''?

* Creator/RegeJeanPage / Music/BadBunny:

* Creator/MayaRudolph/Jack Harlow:

** The Cold Opening, featuring Trump's "victory speech"--"As anyone who died halfway through Tuesday night knows, I was reelected president" and him playing a mournful version of [[Music/VillagePeople "Macho Man"]] on the piano (obviously parodying Kate [=McKinnon=]'s Hilary Clinton performing [[Music/LeonardCohen "Hallelujah"]] in the wake of her 2016 loss), and Jim Carrey as Joe Biden channeling [[Film/AceVenturaPetDetective Ace Ventura]]--"Loser!"

* Elon Musk/Music/Miley Cyrus: