December 12, 2020

December 12, 2020 Season 46 episode


Episode	897
Season Episode	8
Host	Timothée Chalamet
Musical Guest(s)	Bruce Springsteen and The E-Street Band
Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s)	"Ghosts" "I'll See You in My Dreams"

Previous Episode
December 5, 2020

Next Episode
December 19, 2020

The 897th episode and 8th episode of Saturday Night Live's 46th season premiered on December 12, 2020, hosted by American and French actor Timothée Chalamet, star of the hit films One & Two, Love the Coopers, Muss Stevens, Call Me by Your Name, Interstellar, Lady Bird, Little Women, Beautiful Boy, Dune and the sequel Dune: Part Two, and Bones and All, with musical guests Bruce Springsteen and The E-Street Band. This was Timothée Chalamet's SNL (and hosting) debut.

This is also Bruce Springsteen's 4th musical guest appearance and the E-Street Band's 3rd musical guest stint on SNL.

The last time Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band were the musical guests was on December 19, 2015, the ninth episode and the Christmas show of SNL's 41st season, hosted by longtime former cast members and Weekend Update anchors Tina Fey & Amy Poehler.

The goodnights speech for Timothée Chalamet is "Thank You to Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, Questlove, Listen They Told Me I Have 30 Seconds to Say, I Had Nothing Plan, You Know, I Can Say One Thing, Treat Others with Kindness and Uh... You Know We've All Been Through a Crazy Year, That Could Be That Sounds Corny, Someone Famous Made That Well Known, Harry Styles Did Few Seconds Ago. It's True, We Could All Do a Little Bit of Kindness, So Every Little Gesture Counts, Good Night". (Cheers and applause)

Cast[]

Repertory Players[]

Featured Players[]

+ Credited in the opening montage, but did not appear in this episode.

Cameos by longtime former cast member and Weekend Update co-anchor and The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, Questlove of The Roots and Nicole Flender (Timothée's mother)

Sketches and Musical Performances[]

Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other

Title	Image	Summary
Dr. Fauci & Dr. Birx Cold Opening		Wolf Blitzer (Beck Bennett) interviews Dr. Fauci (Kate McKinnon) and Dr. Birx (Heidi Gardner) about the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine.
Opening montage		The musical guests/hosts introductions clips of the opening montage was changed to two, only for this episode (for musical guest Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band and host Timothée Chalamet).
Monologue by Timothée Chalamet		As he hosted SNL for the first time, actor Timothée Chalamet shares what he loves the most about Christmas in New York City. He also shared that his mother had done background work for the late-night sketch show and appeared alongside the late Chris Farley in a sketch. For the later part of his monologue Chalamet was joined by Pete Davidson who reminisced on his time growing up in Staten Island. Cameo appearance by Chalamet's mother Nicole Flender.
A Rona Family Christmas		A family of coronavirus particles (Timothée Chalamet, Cecily Strong, Beck Bennett, and Lauren Holt) have a disagreement during a Christmas reunion. With Andrew Dismukes as their daughter's boyfriend, Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang as Genital and Oral Herpes.
December to Remember Car: Lexus Commercial		A dad’s (Beck Bennett) Christmas surprise to his family (Timothée Chalamet, Heidi Gardner) isn’t received as he expected. Also Features Mikey Day as Mike. Cecily Strong plays the announcer.
The Dionne Warick Talk Show		Dionne Warwick (Ego Nwodim) struggles to identify her celebrity guests Harry Styles (Timothée Chalamet), Billie Eilish (Melissa Villaseñor), Timothée Chalamet (Chloe Fineman) and Machine Gun Kelly (Pete Davidson).
Tiny Horse		A young man named Ernest (Timothée Chalamet) has big dreams for his pet horse. With Beck Bennett and Heidi Gardner as Ernest's parents Randall and Abigail. With Lauren Holt as E! Announcer. Cameo by longtime former cast-member and The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon.
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band performed "Ghosts"
Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che		Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like President Trump's election lawsuits getting denied by the Supreme Court and Vice President Pence announcing new Space Forces bases. With guests, medical expert Dr. Wayne Wenowdis (Kate McKinnon) and Melissa Villaseñor.
Holiday Baking Championship 2020		Contestants (Timothée Chalamet, Kyle Mooney, Heidi Gardner, and Lauren Holt) on a holiday baking competition show present their confections to judges (Cecily Strong, Beck Bennett, and Ego Nwodim). Alex Moffat plays the host. Cecily Strong plays a judge in place of Aidy Bryant
XXX Rap Roundtable		A host (Ego Nwodim) moderates a panel on hip-hop featuring Questlove of The Roots, Queen Latifah (Punkie Johnson) and a rap duo (Timothée Chalamet, Pete Davidson).
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band performed "I'll See You In My Dreams"
Sportsmax Commercial		An anchor (Alex Moffat) hosts Newsmax’s latest TV offering, Sportsmax. Also features host Timothée Chalamet, Pete Davidson, Andrew Dismukes and Punkie Johnson.
Goodbyes and Closing Credits		Timothée Chalamet thanked Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band and Questlove of The Roots, the cast and crew of SNL, and he gives everyone an advice to treat people with kindness. During the goodnights, Chalamet wore a hoodie with the Legendary Pictures logo on it, in response to the news that Dune, which he starred in and was produced by Legendary but distributed by Warner Bros., would be released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max.

Trivia[]

At age 24 years old, Timothée Chalamet is the youngest SNL host that they had in Season 46!
During the goodnights, Chalamet wore a hoodie with the Legendary Pictures logo on it, in response to the news that Dune, which he starred in and was produced by Legendary but distributed by Warner Bros., would be released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max.

References[]

Preceded by: December 5, 2020	Saturday Night Live episode	Followed by: December 19, 2020