November 15, 2014

November 15, 2014  Season 40 episode
Episode	772
Season Episode	6
Host	Woody Harrelson
Musical Guest(s)	Kendrick Lamar
Song(s) performed by  Musical Guest(s)	"i" "Pay For It"

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The 6th episode of Season 40 and the 772nd episode of Saturday Night Live premiered on November 15, 2014, hosted by actor Woody Harrelson, star of the NBC hit classic sitcom Cheers, and the hit films The Hunger Games film series, Zombieland, and the sequel Zombieland: Double Tap, White Men Can't Jump, Natural Born Killers, Kingpin, The Thin Red Line, Rampart, Seven Psychopaths, Now You See Me, Kate, Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Champions, and the animated film Free Birds, with rapper and songwriter Kendrick Lamar as the musical guest. This is Woody Harrelson's 3rd time as the host and his first appearance in 22 years, 5 months and 30 days. He last hosted SNL back on May 16, 1992, which is the Season 17 finale, with musical guest Vanessa Williams. This is also the 2nd musical guest stint on SNL for Kendrick Lamar.

Cast

Main Players

• Vanessa Bayer
• Aidy Bryant
• Taran Killam
• Kate McKinnon
• Bobby Moynihan
• Jay Pharoah
• Cecily Strong
• Kenan Thompson

Featured Players

• Beck Bennett
• Michael Che
• Pete Davidson
• Leslie Jones
• Colin Jost
• Kyle Mooney
• Sasheer Zamata

Sketches and Musical Performances

 Cold Open   Sketch   Pre-recorded   Weekend Update   Music Performance   Other 

Title	Image	Summary
Kentucky Bourbon Cold Open		President Obama (Jay Pharoah) and Mitch McConnell (Taran Killam) share a drink. With Sasheer Zamata as Michelle Obama.
Monologue by Woody Harrelson		Woody Harrelson returns to host SNL for the third time and his first appearance in 22 years 5 months and 30 days. He rewrites the lyrics to Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" to sing about the year 1989 with a little help from his Hunger Games costars, with cameos by Josh Hutcherson, Chris Hemsworth, and Jennifer Lawrence. Also, Lawrence badly flubs her lines.
The Dudleys		A parody commercial for a sitcom, where the network heavily modifies the series due to social media pressure. With Beck Bennett, Kate McKinnon, Woody Harrelson, and Kenan Thompson. Cameo by Uzo Adoba, star of Netflix's original comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black.
Match'd		Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, and Taran Killam are competing on a 'Dating Game'-style gameshow, where the match (Cecily Strong) turns out to be the daughter of the host (Woody Harrelson).
Decriminalized		After a lessening of criminal penalties for possession of marijuana, many stoners leave their houses for the first time. With Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Bobby Moynihan, Woody Harrelson, Leslie Jones, Vanessa Bayer, Beck Bennett, and Kenan Thompson.
Proper Tackling		A football coach (Woody Harrelson) lectures his football players (Jay Pharoah, Pete Davidson, and Beck Bennett) about the safe way to tackle. Kenan Thompson appears as a former Pittsburgh Steelers player suffering brain damage, used as a prop to demonstrate the need to avoid head impacts and Kyle Mooney as the assistant.
Young Tarts & Old Farts		Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett's album is followed-up by a new compilation of duos: Lionel Ritchie (Kenan Thompson) and Ariana Grande (Cecily Strong), Barry Manilow (Taran Killam) and Kendrick Lamar, Diana Ross (Sasheer Zamata) and Macklemore (Kyle Mooney), B.B. King (Kenan Thompson) and Meghan Trainor (Aidy Bryant), Elton John (Beck Bennett) and baby Blue Ivy Carter, Aretha Franklin (Leslie Jones) and Robyn (Kate McKinnon), Crosby (Taran Killam), Stills (Kyle Mooney), and Psy (Bobby Moynihan), James Taylor (Woody Harrelson) with Sam Smith (Taran Killam) and 2-Chainz (Jay Pharoah), and Miley Cyrus (Vanessa Bayer) and Lorde (Kate McKinnon).
Kendrick Lamar performs "'i'"
Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che.		Features guests Leslie Jones, and Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey (Taran Killam).
New New York		Four men (Taran Killam, Bobby Moynihan, Kenan Thompson, and Woody Harrelson) lament the loss of old New York staples.
Apples		A man sings a campfire song about apples. With Woody Harrelson, Bobby Moynihan, Leslie Jones, Vanessa Bayer, and Kyle Mooney.
Kendrick Lamar performs '"Pay For It"'.		Lamar is joined by Chantal Kreviazuk and Jay Rock.
Last Call		Kate McKinnon's recurring character is back, with Woody Harrelson as Chip Fister and Kenan Thompson as the bartender Anthony.
Goodnights and Closing Credits		Woody Harrelson thanked Kendrick Lamar, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Jennifer Lawrence, Lorne, the cast and crew and everyone for having him back. He also thanked his wife and his children, he loved them.

Cut For Time

 Cold Open   Sketch   Pre-recorded   Weekend Update   Music Performance   Other 

Title	Image	Summary
10,000th Tweet		Rebecca (Aidy Bryant) marks her 10,000th Tweet with President Obama (Jay Pharoah), Michelle Obama (Sasheer Zamata), the Mayor (Kenan Thompson), Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Kate McKinnon), Edward Norton and God (Woody Harrelson). Also features Beck Bennett, Cecily Strong and Taran Killam as the singers.
Pentagon Presentation		Hired to design a super soldier, a scientist (Woody Harrelson) working for the Pentagon actually designs a dancing robot (Cecily Strong) to be his companion to impress the soldiers (Kenan Thompson, Taran Killam and Beck Bennett).

Preceded by: November 1, 2014

Saturday Night Live episode

Followed by: November 22, 2014