May 4, 2019 Season 44 episode
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| Episode | 869 |
| Season Episode | 19 |
| Host | Adam Sandler |
| Musical Guest(s) | Shawn Mendes |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"If I Can't Have You" "In My Blood" |
| Previous Episode April 13, 2019 |
Next Episode May 11, 2019 |
The 869th episode and 19th episode of Saturday Night Live's 44th season premiered on May 4, 2019, hosted by former longtime cast member Adam Sandler, star of the hit films, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, The Wedding Singer, Big Daddy, Mr. Deeds, 50 First Dates, Anger Management, Airheads, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Bedtime Stories, That's My Boy, Reign Over Me, Spanglish, Funny People, Punch-Drunk Love, Hubie Halloween, Grown Ups and its 2013 sequel Grown Ups 2, The Cobbler, Pixels, The Ridiculous 6, The Do-Over, Sandy Wexler, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), The Week Of, Murder Mystery, and its 2023 sequel Murder Mystery 2, Just Go With It, Jack and Jill, Blended, Uncut Gems, Hustle, You Are So Not Invited To My Bar Mitzvah and Spaceman and the animated films Eight Crazy Nights the Hotel Transylvania franchise and Leo, and his stand-up comedy specials What the Hell Happened to Me, Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh, and Adam Sandler: I Love You, with Candian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes as the musical guest. This was Adam Sandler's first time as host, making him the fourth Bad Boy in SNL history to come back and host the show, and Shawn Mendes made his 2nd musical guest appearance on SNL.
Shawn Mendes previously made his musical guest (and SNL) debut on December 3, 2016, the eighth episode of SNL's 42nd season, hosted by actress Emma Stone.
The long goodnights speech for Adam Sandler is "Yo, that was just a great time. I'll never forget it. Thank you so much. Thanks to Shawn Mendes (Cheers and applause). How about that guy? And Chris Rock for coming by. Kristen Wiig. So nice of her to come by. Jimmy Fallon. Thank you. Yo, I love that I know this cast now. I love these guys. They're great people. The Writers, thank you so much. Lorne, thank you for having me back. And I can't tell you, that really felt amazing. To my wife and kids, I'm glad you guys got to witness that, 'cause I loved it, man, okay? I love you all. Have a great, great night. All Right, all right". (Cheers and applause again)
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Beck Bennett
- Aidy Bryant
- Michael Che
- Pete Davidson
- Mikey Day
- Leslie Jones
- Colin Jost
- Kate McKinnon
- Alex Moffat
- Kyle Mooney
- Cecily Strong
- Kenan Thompson
- Melissa Villaseñor
Featured Players[]
- Cameos by longtime former cast members Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon, and Kristen Wiig
Sketches and Musical Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| Family Feud: Game Of Thrones vs. Avengers Cold Open | Characters from the Avengers (Alex Moffat, Beck Bennett, Ego Nwodim, and Leslie Jones) battle characters from Game Of Thrones (Kate Mckinnon, Mikey Day, Cecily Strong, and Kyle Mooney) on an episode of Family Feud, hosted by Steve Harvey (Kenan Thompson). | |
| Opening Montage | The musical guests/hosts introductions clips of the opening montage were opposite of two and three, for this episode (for musical guest Shawn Mendes and host Adam Sandler). | |
| Monologue by Adam Sandler | Former cast member Adam Sandler returned to SNL to hosting for the first time. He sings a song about how he was fired from the show. Also Features Pete Davidson. Cameo appearance by former cast member Chris Rock. | |
| CNN Special Report | A reporter (Mikey Day) uses Snapchat to get through to CNN while in a warzone, but it goes horribly wrong when he uses multiple funny looking filters. Also Features Adam Sandler as the lieutenant, Cecily Strong as Brooke Baldwin and Beck Bennett as Arthur Wenzel. | |
| Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney and Adam Sandler performed "Holes" | Adam Sandler, Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney sing a song about clothes are really just holes. | |
| Romano Tours | Romano of Romano Tours (Adam Sandler) makes tours to Italy, but constantly reminds people that they can't feel better simply for being on their tours. Also Features Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat and Kenan Thompson as the customers. | |
| Sandler Family Reunion | Adam Sandler reunites with his family (Kyle Mooney, Mikey Day, Aidy Bryant, Kenan Thompson, Kristen Wiig, Jimmy Fallon, Pete Davidson, Melissa Villaseñor, Beck Bennett, and Shawn Mendes), but they accuse him of using them for material. Also Features Chris Redd as the waiter. Cameo by frequent Sandler's collaborator Allen Covert. | |
| Rectix | Have problems with erectile dysfunction? Just use Rectix, the all-natural, male enhancing pill! With Adam Sandler as John, Beck Bennett as David, Aidy Bryant as Maureen, and Heidi Gardner as Emily. Cecily Strong plays the announcer. | |
| Shawn Mendes performed "If I Can't Have You" | ||
| Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che | Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like William Barr testifying about Robert Mueller's Russia report and the intimate story Moby revealed about President Trump in his memoir. With guests, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Kate Mckinnon) talked to Colin Jost about her crazy platform for the 2020 presidential election, including student debt forgiveness and Opera Man (Adam Sandler) returns after 24 years to sing about the week's top headlines including Game of Thrones, the 2020 presidential election and Donald Trump's presidency. | |
| Last Call with Adam Sandler | Sheila Sovage (Kate Mckinnon) is, once again, participates in a hookup with a single man (Adam Sandler) and his wife (Kristen Wiig). This marked the final appearance of SNL sketch. Kate McKinnon reached her 150th episode as a cast member. | |
| Shawn Mendes performed "In My Blood" | ||
| Adam Sandler performed "Chris Farley Song" | Adam Sandler sings a song to his former best friend and castmate, Chris Farley. | |
| Goodbyes and Closing Credits | Shawn Mendes, Chris Rock, Kristen Wiig, Jimmy Fallon, the writers, cast, crew and Lorne Michaels are all thanked by Adam Sandler for having him back home, he loved them all and to his wife and kids. |
Cut for Time[]
Sketches and Musical Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| Chad's Journey | Chad (Pete Davidson) dies and meets his father (Adam Sandler) in the afterlife. With Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner and Kenan Thompson. |
Trivia[]
- This is Kate McKinnon's 150th episode as a cast member. She then became the longest running female cast member in the show's history; as she surpassed her former SNL castmate Vanessa Bayer as the longest serving female cast member in history.
- Prior to the goodnights, Sandler performs an unplugged musical tribute to his former castmate Chris Farley that was originally performed in his 2018 stand-up comedy special Adam Sandler 100% Fresh.
- Sandler also does a short impression of Farley during the opening monologue.
- He also respires his character as Opera Man during Weekend Update.
- Former SNL writers Tim Herlihy, Steve Koren, and Robert Smigel guest-wrote on this episode.
- With this episode, Sandler ties Dan Aykroyd's record for the longest gap between a cast member and returning to host the show. The gap for both actors stands at nine days shy of 24 years. Both actors made guest appearances on the show during the time period after leaving the cast and before returning to host. This record was beaten on December 21, 2019 by former Ebersol-era cast member Eddie Murphy whose gap was 35 years, 5 months and 19 days.
Trivia/Notes[]
- (May 4, 2019) Adam Sandler / Shawn Mendes episode also featured the seventeenth largest age gap in SNL history between an individual Host and Musical Guest.
| Preceded by: April 13, 2019 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: May 11, 2019 |