January 22, 2022 Season 47 episode
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| Episode | 920 |
| Season Episode | 11 |
| Host | Will Forte |
| Musical Guest(s) | Måneskin |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Beggin'" "I Wanna Be Your Slave". |
| Previous Episode January 15, 2022 |
Next Episode January 29, 2022 |
The 920th episode and 11th episode of Saturday Night Live's 47th season premiered on January 22, 2022, hosted by longtime former cast member Will Forte, star of the Peacock's action-comedy adventure streaming television series MacGruber, and the hit films Beerfest, The Brothers Solomon, A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, That's My Boy, Life of Crime, Nebraska, She's Funny That Way, Don Verdean, Staten Island Summer, Keanu, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, Extra Ordinary, Booksmart, Good Boys, America: The Motion Picture, Studio 666, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Strays and Kinda Pregnant and the animated films Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchise, The Lego Movie franchise, Get Squirrely, My Life as a Courgette, Luis and the Aliens, The Willoughbys, Scoob!, DreamWorks Animation's film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken and Thelma the Unicorn, with musical guests Måneskin, an Italian rock band, who performing "Beggin" and "I Wanna Be Your Slave". This was Will Forte's first time as host, as well as the musical guest debut for Måneskin is made on SNL.
The goodnights speech for Will Forte is "Thanks to Måneskin, thanks to Willem Dafoe, the amazing Kristen Wiig, Lorne Michaels, this amazing cast back here and this crew that has been like a family to me and my own family up there, too. Love you all. Thank you for this experience". (Cheers and applause)
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Aidy Bryant
- Michael Che
- Pete Davidson
- Mikey Day
- Chloe Fineman
- Heidi Gardner
- Colin Jost
- Kate McKinnon
- Alex Moffat
- Kyle Mooney
- Ego Nwodim
- Chris Redd †
- Cecily Strong †
- Kenan Thompson
- Melissa Villaseñor †
- Bowen Yang
Featured Players[]
† Credited in the opening montage but did not appear in this episode.
- Cameos by another longtime former cast member Kristen Wiig and Willem Dafoe
:Pre-taped cameo by Ryan Phillippe
Onscreen appearance by executive producer Lorne Michaels
Sketches and Musical Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Comments |
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| The Ingraham Angle Cold Opening | Laura Ingraham (Kate McKinnon) speaks with Ted Cruz (Aidy Bryant), Novak Djokovic (Pete Davidson), Candace Owens (Ego Nwodim), and former president Donald Trump (James Austin Johsnon) about what's wrong with Biden's America. Kate McKinnon reached her 800th sketch on SNL, and she is the 7th person to achieve this milestone after Phil Hartman, Darrell Hammond, Kenan Thompson, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Cecily Strong. | |
| Opening Montage | The musical guests/ host clips of the opening montage were changed to one again for musical guests Måneskin and host Will Forte. | |
| Monologue by Will Forte | Longtime former cast member Will Forte returned to SNL for his hosting debut. He talks about watching previous longtime former cast members like Kristen Wiig, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis and Seth Meyers host, MacGruber the action-comedy adventure series, which is now streaming on Peacock, and he make announced the series just picked up for season 2 and preparing for this moment for 10 years. Cameo appearances by SNL alumni/MacGruber co-star Kristen Wiig, and actor Willem Dafoe (the host for the next episode). Onscreen appearance by executive producer Lorne Michaels. | |
| MacGruber: Coronavirus Part 1 | MacGruber (Will Forte) attempts to diffuse a bomb with the help of Vicki (Kristen Wiig) and Piper (Ryan Phillippe), but becomes distracted by his views on COVID, vaccines and right-wing conspiracies. | |
| Kid Klash | Mark Zazz (Will Forte) teaches a kid named Tatum (Aidy Bryant) an important lesson as she competes in a physical challenge. Also Features Bowen Yang, Heidi Gardner and Kyle Mooney as Tatum's family. Parody of Nickelodeon's classic game show Double Dare. | |
| MacGruber: Coronavirus Part 2 | MacGruber (Will Forte) has learned the error of his ways and now is "following the science." Which, for him, means downing a tube of horse de-wormer and a mouthful of hydroxychloroquine. | |
| Cinema Classics: Gaslight | On PBS' Cinema Classics, host Reese De'What (Kenan Thompson) presents Gaslight, a classic 1944 film from which the phrase originated. Also Features Will Forte as Charles Boyer, Gregory, Kate McKinnon as Ingrid Bergman, Paula and Chloe Fineman as Angela Lansbury, Nancy. | |
| Threesome | In order to appease his wife, a married couple (Mikey Day and Heidi Gardner) try to spice up their relationship by adding a third (Will Forte). The sketch was very inappropriate to watch it on YouTube and it censored later on November 2022. | |
| Måneskin performs "Beggin" | ||
| Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che | Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Prince Andrew deleting his Twitter account and scientists teaching goldfish how to drive a car. With guests, Chen Biao (Bowen Yang) stops by the Weekend Update desk to discuss NBC not sending correspondents to the Olympics, Sarah Sherman arrived to discuss staying cozy in the winter weather and roasts Colin again, and Guy Who Just Bought a Boat (Alex Moffat) arrived to discussed tailgating tips and buying a boat with Colin Jost and Pete Davidson. | |
| Clancy T. Bachleratt & Jackie Snad Sing Songs about Spaceships, Toddlers, Model T. Cars & Jars of Beer Again | Will Forte and Kristen Wiig reprise their characters as Clancy T. Bachleratt and Jackie Sand. Legendary country music hit maker, Jevner Keeblepooble (Kenan Thompson) promotes Clancy T. Bachleratt (Will Forte) and Jackie Snad's (Kristen Wiig) brand-new album. | |
| Måneskin performs "I Wanna Be Your Slave" | While introduces Måneskin's second performance, Will Forte is still in a costume wearing a fake hair and a mustache. | |
| MacGruber: Coronavirus Part 3 | As MacGruber (Will Forte) goes deeper down the rabbit hole of internet conspiracies, the third MacGruber sketch, and the final sketch of the night, sees the increasingly unstable MacGruber rocking a full QAnon Shaman headdress, and he has no shirt. | |
| In Memoriam | In memoriam title card for John Bowman, a former writer from 1988 to 1989, who died on New Year's Eve, is shown silence. | |
| Goodbyes and Closing Credits | Måneskin, Willem Dafoe, Kristen Wiig, Lorne Michaels are thanked by Will Forte. He also thanked the cast and crew for having him back home, this had been like a family to him and his own family up there. |
Cut For Time[]
Sketches and Musical Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Comments |
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| ESPN's First Take | Things get heated as co-hosts Molly Qerim (Chloe Fineman), Stephen A. Smith (Chris Redd) and Michael Irvin (Kenan Thompson) discuss Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. | |
| Please Don't Destroy Film - New Personalities | The three men (Ben, John and Martin) try out some new personalities. |
Trivia[]
- Before the goodnights, a photo tribute is made to John Bowman, a former writer on the show from 1988 to 1989, who died on New Year's Eve, he was 64 years old, is shown silence.
Trivia/Notes[]
- Longest-serving female cast member Kate McKinnon reached her 800th sketches on Saturday Night Live. She is also the 7th person to achieve this milestone after Phil Hartman, Darrell Hammond, Fred Armisen, Kenan Thompson, Bill Hader and Cecily Strong.
- Will Forte is the 37th longtime former cast member returned to SNL to host this season.
- Forte also reprises his characters as MacGruber in the "MacGruber: Coronavirus" sketch and Clancy T. Bachleratt in the "Clancy T. Bachleratt and Jackie Sand Sing Songs About Spaceships, Toddlers, Model T. Cars & Jars of Beer Again" sketch, alongside his former castmate Wiig.
- The Will Forte / Måneskin episode was the first SNL since October 18, 1975, the second episode of Season 1, hosted by legendary singer-songwriter and musician Paul Simon, with musical guests Randy Newman and Phoebe Snow where no current cast members had more than 2 sketch appearances within a single episode.
- Bleachers and Måneskin are just the 9th instance since the final two May 4, 2013 and May 11, 2013 episodes of Season 38, where SNL had consecutive bands/groups headline as the Musical Guests.
References[]
| Preceded by: January 15, 2022 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: January 29, 2022 |