February 4, 2023 Season 48 episode
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| Episode | 942 |
| Season Episode | 12 |
| Host | Pedro Pascal |
| Musical Guest(s) | Coldplay |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"The Astronaut" Medley of: "Human Heart" and "Fix You" with Jacob Collier and the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers |
| Previous Episode January 28, 2023 |
Next Episode February 25, 2023 |
The 942nd episode and 12th episode of Saturday Night Live's 48th season premiered on February 4, 2023. It was hosted by Chilean-American actor and comedian Pedro Pascal, star of the Netflix crime series Narcos, Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian and the spin-off series The Book of Boba Fett and the HBO's. post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us, and the hit films Bloodsucking Bastards, The Great Wall, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, The Equalizer 2, Prospect, If Beale Street Could Talk, Triple Frontier, Wonder Woman 1984, We Can Be Heroes, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and The Bubble, with the legendary British pop rock band Coldplay as the musical guest. This was Pedro Pascal's hosting debut, while Coldplay made their 7th musical guest appearance on SNL.
The last time Coldplay were the musical guests was on November 2, 2019, the fifth episode of SNL's 45th season, hosted by the actress Kristen Stewart. An honorable mention, bandleader Chris Martin served as the musical guest for the first SNL at Home episode on April 11, 2020, the sixteenth episode later in that season, hosted by actor Tom Hanks.
The goodnights speech for Pedro Pascal is "Thanks to Coldplay, (Cheers and applause), Jacob Collier and the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers, Sarah Paulson, To This Amazing -- To This Amazing Cast That Such Taking Care of Me, Lorne Michaels, My Family, Thank You for Being Here Tonight, Best Night of My Life". (Cheers and applause again).
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Michael Che
- Mikey Day
- Andrew Dismukes+
- Chloe Fineman
- Heidi Gardner
- Punkie Johnson
- Colin Jost
- Ego Nwodim
- Kenan Thompson
- Bowen Yang
Featured Players[]
+ Credited but did not appear
+ Appeared only in goodbyes.
- Cameo Appearance by Sarah Paulson
- Guest musical appearance Jacob Collier and the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers
Sketches and Musical Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| Spy Balloon Cold Open | Katy Tur (Chloe Fineman) reports on the U.S. military shooting down a suspected Chinese spy balloon (Bowen Yang) with the help of a Pentagon official General William Hamilton (Kenan Thompson). | |
| Opening Montage | The musical guests/hosts introductions clips of the opening montage were changed to two, just for this episode (the hosts/musical guests clips had two, as opposed to two clips of them playing at the same time for musical guests Coldplay and host Pedro Pascal). | |
| Monologue by Pedro Pascal | Hosting for the first time, Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal talks about filming HBO's post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us and being recognized by fans. | |
| The Big Hollywood Quiz | Game show contestants (Pedro Pascal, Ego Nwodim, and Chloe Fineman) answer a series of entertainment trivia questions. Bowen Yang plays the game show host Jack Delmar. | |
| HBO Mario Kart Trailer | In a video game turned series, a trailer follows a group of people Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Toad (Pedro Pascal, Mikey Day, Bowen Yang, Marcello Hernandez) as they try to help Princess Peach (Chloe Fineman) get to Rainbow Road. Also Features Kenan Thompson as Bowser and Heidi Gardner as the girl. | |
| Waking Up | A hospital patient (Pedro Pascal) wakes up confused after a long coma. With Heidi Gardner as the patient's wife, Kenan Thompson as his friend, Sarah Sherman as his sister and Bowen Yang as the doctor Dr. Jin. | |
| Fancam Assembly | A teacher (Pedro Pascal) can't figure out why his students (Bowen Yang, Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, and Devon Walker) are obsessed with making fancams of him and the rest of the school staff. With James Austin Johnson as the principal and Molly Kearney as Paulina the school lunch lady. Cameo by Sarah Paulson as Ms. Jenny. | |
| Wing Pit | A wing commercial for a Super Bowl party goes off the rails. With Pedro Pascal, Kenan Thompson, Heidi Gardner, Molly Kearney, and Michael Longfellow. | |
| Coldplay performed "The Astronaut" with Jacob Collier and the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers. | ||
| Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che | Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like George Santos lying about producing Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and a school official stealing $1 million worth of chicken wings. With guests, Groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil (Michael Longfellow), to discuss seeing his shadow and predicting six more weeks of winter and British rappers, Milly Pounds and Shirty (James Austin Johnson, Devon Walker), to discuss King Charles III's coronation and the new era of the British monarchy. | |
| Protective Mom | A man named Luis (Marcello Hernández) introduces his girlfriend (Chloe Fineman) to his overprotective mom (Pedro Pascal). | |
| Italian Waiters | Things go off the rails at diner when waiters at an Italian restaurant when the head waiter (Pedro Pascal) give their guests (Heidi Gardner, Punkie Johnson, Chloe Fineman, Ego Nwodim, and Sarah Sherman) compliments. With Kenan Thompson as Dino the chef, Mikey Day and Marcello Hernandez as the waiters. | |
| Coldplay performed a medley of "Human Heart" and "Fix You", once again with Jacob Collier and the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers. | ||
| Lisa from Temecula | Lisa from Temecula (Ego Nwodim) disrupts her sister's (Punkie Johnson) birthday dinner. With Pedro Pascal as Paul, Bowen Yang, Molly Kearney as Shanya's friends, Michael Longfellow as the waiter and Devon Walker as the manager. | |
| Band Shot | The Saturday Night Live Band plays the final music piece during the final commercial break. | |
| Goodbyes and Closing Credits | Pedro Pascal thanked Coldplay, Jacob Collier and the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers, Sarah Paulson, the cast that such taking care of him, Lorne Michaels and his family and everyone for being here tonight, the best night of his life. Only appearance of Andrew Dismukes. |
Trivia[]
- Starting with this episode, writers Gary Richardson (who had been with the show as a writer since 2017, with the exception of Season 47), Will Stephen (a writer since 2015), and Celeste Yim (who joined the show's writing staff back in 2020), are the show's writing supervisors.
- This was likely the last episode for longtime production designer Eugene Lee, who passed away two days after this episode premiered, at the age of 83. He had worked on the show since the show's premiere in 1975, only missing seasons 6-10 (1980-1985).
- Pedro Pascal joined the group of alternative names that have hosted SNL.
- The "Fancam Assembly" sketch features the song "Big Boys from this season's Keke Palmer episode.
Notes[]
- Coldplay had previously performed "Fix You" on May 21, 2005, which is the Season 30 finale, hosted by actress Lindsay Lohan.
| Preceded by: January 28, 2023 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: February 25, 2023 |