March 28, 2015 Season 40 episode
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| Episode | 782 |
| Season Episode | 16 |
| Host | Dwayne Johnson |
| Musical Guest(s) | George Ezra |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Budapest" "Blame It on Me" |
| Previous Episode March 7, 2015 |
Next Episode April 4, 2015 |
The 16th episode of Season 40 and the 782nd episode of Saturday Night Live premiered on March 28, 2015. It was hosted by former professional wrestler and actor Dwayne Johnson with George Ezra, an English singer, as the musical guest. This is Dwayne Johnson's 4th time as host, and George Ezra's musical guest debut on SNL.
Cast[]
Main[]
- Vanessa Bayer
- Aidy Bryant
- Taran Killam
- Kate McKinnon
- Bobby Moynihan
- Jay Pharoah
- Cecily Strong
- Kenan Thompson
Featured[]
Sketches[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| The Rock Obama | President Obama (Jay Pharoah) holds a discussion with John Boehner (Taran Killam), Tom Cottom (Kyle Mooney), and Ted Cruz (Bobby Moynihan), until his anger causes a Hulk-like transformation into The Rock Obama (Dwayne Johnson). A message from a Secret Service agent (Beck Bennett) causes a similar transformation in Michelle Obama (Sasheer Zamata and Leslie Jones). | |
| Opening montage | ||
| Monologue by Dwayne Johnson | Dwayne Johnson returns to SNL to host for his fourth time. He sings about which Hollywood franchises he'd like to join next, with help from Cecily Strong, Sasheer Zamata, Kate McKinnon, and Aidy Bryant. | |
| Pep Boys: Genderflect | A Pep Boys commercial that is a parody of the Starbucks #RaceTogether campaign, in which Pep Boys employees (Bobby Moynihan, Kyle Mooney, Beck Bennett, Aidy Bryant, and Jay Pharoah) talk to customers (Vanessa Bayer, Taran Killam, Kate McKinnon, and Sasheer Zamata) about gender identity. | |
| Wrestlemania Promo | A wrestler (Dwayne Johnson) gets too personal in attacking his opponent (Bobby Moynihan) while filming a promo. With Taran Killam and Kyle Mooney. | |
| Bambi reboot | Disney is filming a live-action Bambi reboot, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Bambi, Vin Diesel (Taran Killam) as Thumper, Tyrese Gibson (Jay Pharoah) as Flower, and Michelle Rodriguez (Cecily Strong) as Faline (aka The Girl Bambi). With Pete Davidson, Kyle Mooney, and Bobby Moynihan as hunters. | |
| The Date | A couple (Kenan Thompson and Vanessa Bayer) are dining out when they are accosted by the man's jury duty acquaintance and his date (Dwayne Johnson and Cecily Strong). With Beck Bennett as the waiter. | |
| Escape from Jungle Island | A hypersexed jungle explorer (Kate McKinnon) is driven to hysterics by the actions of her male colleagues (Dwayne Johnson and Pete Davidson) as they suck poison from each other's wounds. With Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney as natives. | |
| Brogaine | Two college students (Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney) discuss hair loss at college age. With Pete Davidson, Sasheer Zamata, and Kenan Thompson. | |
| George Ezra Performs "Budapest" | ||
| Weekend Update with Michael Che and Colin Jost | With Kate McKinnon as Olya and Kenan Thompson as Che's neighbor Willie. | |
| Cooking With Paul | A convicted sex offender (Kenan Thompson) hosts a cooking show, flanked by his parole officer (Dwayne Johnson). | |
| Improv Tonight | A improv group (Beck Bennett, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, and Pete Davidson) go to call up an audience participant, only to have that participant turn out to by Robert Durst (Kate McKinnon). With Cecily Strong and Sasheer Zamata. | |
| Police interrogation | A criminal (Taran Killam) is interrogated by a detective (Vanessa Bayer), and her partner who is poor at intimidating suspects (Dwayne Johnson). | |
| George Ezra Performs "Blame It on Me" | ||
| Circus news story | Kyle Mooney returns again in his awkward interviewer persona, talking to circus-goers. | |
| Goodnights | Dwayne Johnson thanked George Ezra, Lorne Michaels, Stephen Higgins and all of his dance partners. |
| Preceded by: March 7, 2015 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: April 4, 2015 |