April 16, 2016 Season 41 episode
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| Episode | 805 |
| Season Episode | 18 |
| Host | Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| Musical Guest(s) | Nick Jonas |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Close" "Champagne Problems" |
| Previous Episode April 9, 2016 |
Next Episode May 7, 2016 |
The 805th episode and 18th episode of Saturday Night Live's 41st season premiered on April 16, 2016, hosted by former Ebersol-era cast member Julia Louis-Dreyfus, star of the NBC's hit classic sitcom Seinfeld and the HBO political satire comedy series Veep, with musical guest Nick Jonas, who performed "Close" and "Champagne Problems". The episode garnered backlash on social media due to two sketches, "Heroin AM" and "God is Straight" and appeared in the "Chad: Pool Boy" pre-recorded sketch. This is Julia Louis-Dreyfus' 3rd time as host and her first appearance in 8 years, 11 months and 30 days.
This is also the 2nd musical guest stint for Nick Jonas and he also made his solo musical guest debut on SNL.
The last time Louis-Dreyfus hosted the show was on March 17, 2007, the fifteenth episode of SNL's 32nd season, with musical guests Snow Patrol, a Scottish rock band.
Cast[]
"God is Straight" trended on Facebook the following day.
Repertory Players[]
- Vanessa Bayer
- Beck Bennett
- Aidy Bryant
- Colin Jost
- Taran Killam
- Kate McKinnon
- Kyle Mooney
- Bobby Moynihan
- Jay Pharoah
- Cecily Strong
- Kenan Thompson
- Sasheer Zamata
Featured Players[]
Cameos by Larry David and Tony Hale. Archive footage features Martin Short and Brad Hall.
Musical cameo by Tove Lo
Sketches and Musical Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| Democratic Debate Cold Opening | Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon) debates Bernie Sanders (cameo by Larry David) in a debate moderated by Wolf Blitzer (Beck Bennett) with questions by an African-American expert (Kenan Thompson), Rachel from Friends (Vanessa Bayer), and Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Dreyfus and David both broke the fourth wall by discussing how Sanders' tax plan would hurt the actors and producers from Seinfeld. | |
| Opening Montage | ||
| Monologue by Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Returned to SNL to host for the third time and her first appearance in 8 years, 11 months and 30 days, former Ebersol-era cast member Julia Louis-Dreyfus lampoons her SNL past with a season 10 clip from the show (featuring Martin Short as Ed Grimley) and a clip from the movie Troll (featuring her husband and fellow SNL alum Brad Hall). Finally, she stumbles due to mistakes from her cue card holder (cameo by Dreyfus' Veep's co-star Tony Hale). | |
| Heroin AM | Commercial for a heroin-caffeine mix in pill form. With Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Beck Bennett, and Bobby Moynihan. | |
| Huge Jewelry | A commercial for a jewelry store. With Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Kate McKinnon as the store owners, and Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant, Vanessa Bayer, Sasheer Zamata, and Nick Jonas. | |
| Pool Boy | A housewife (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) ends her tryst with her pool boy (Pete Davidson). Also stars Taran Killam. | |
| Cinema Classics | Reese De'What (Kenan Thompson) introduces a movie. Start Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Taran Killam, and Kate McKinnon. | |
| Nick Jonas performs "Close" | Nick Jonas performs "Close" with Tove Lo | |
| Weekend Update with Michael Che and Colin Jost | With guests Shaquielle O'Neal (Jay Pharoah) and Charles Barkley (Kenan Thompson), the One-Dimensional Character from a Male-Driven comedy Heather (Cecily Strong) and Aidy Bryant as an animal expert Animal Annie. | |
| Who Works Here? | A game show where the contestants (Vanessa Bayer, Taran Killam, and Sasheer Zamata) must guess who the real CVS employees are. With Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the host and Cecily Strong, Pete Davidson, Bobby Moynihan, Kenan Thompson, and Leslie Jones as people in the store. | |
| Nick Jonas performs "Champagne Problems" | Nick Jonas performs "Champagne Problems" | |
| Aliens | Alien women (Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Kate McKinnon) crash a Match.com meetup looking for human men. With Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, Taran Killam, Cecily Strong, Vanessa Bayer, Jay Pharoah, and Jon Rudnitsky. Dreyfus and McKinon's voices were altered via effects processing; Dreyfus' natural voice popped through a few times. | |
| God is Straight | The trailer for a movie in the vein of God's Not Dead. A bakery owner (Vanessa Bayer) is hassled by a gay couple (Taran Killam and Jon Rudnitsky) and their Jewish lawyer from the ACLU (Kyle Mooney). Kenan Thompson stars as the judge. | |
| Goodbyes and Closing Credits | Julia Louis-Dreyfus thanked Nick Jonas, Tove Lo, Larry David, her Veep co-star Tony Hale, the cast, crew and everybody for having her back home. |
Trivia[]
- (April 16, 2016) Julia Louis-Dreyfus / Nick Jonas episode also featured the twelfth largest age gap in SNL history between an individual Host and Musical Guest.
- Louis-Dreyfus also become a third-time SNL host in this season.
| Preceded by: April 9, 2016 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: May 7, 2016 |