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 November 18, 2017
 Season 43 episode
Chance the Rapper 43
Eminem43
 Episode 835th
 Season Episode 6
 Host Chance The Rapper
 Musical Guest(s) Eminem
 Song(s) performed by
 Musical Guest(s)
"Walk on Water"
"Stan"
"Love the Way You Lie"
Previous Episode
November 11, 2017
Next Episode
December 2, 2017

The 835th episode and 6th episode of Saturday Night Live's 43rd season premiered on November 18, 2017, hosted by Chance The Rapper, a rapper, singer and songwriter. with musical guest Eminem, another rapper. This was the first-time hosting and the third appearance for Chance The Rapper (He previously was the musical guest on the December 12, 2015 and December 17, 2016 episodes respectively). This was also the 7th time as musical guest on SNL for Eminem.

The last time Eminem was the musical guest was on November 2, 2013, the fifth episode of SNL's 39th season, hosted by the actress Kerry Washington.

Cast[]

Repertory Players[]

Featured Players[]

Musical guest appearance by Skylar Grey
Pre-filmed cameos by Common and Questlove of The Roots

Sketches and Music Performances[]

 Cold Open   Sketch   Pre-recorded   Weekend Update   Music Performance   Other 

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The Mueller Files Cold Open   Eric (Alex Moffat) and Donald Trump Jr. (Mikey Day) meet with Julian Assange (Kate McKinnon) to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Monologue by Chance The Rapper: Chance-giving   Hosting for the first time, former two-time musical guest Chance The Rapper performs a song about Thanksgiving in hopes that it will become a holiday classic. With Cecily Strong, Kate McKinnon, Beck Bennett, Luke Null, and Kenan Thompson as uncles, Pete Davidson and Kyle Mooney as cousins, Leslie Jones as Aunt Shavonne, Heidi Gardner as niece and Melissa Villaseñor as girl.
Wayne Manor   Locals (Chance the Rapper, Leslie Jones, Kenan Thompson, Chris Redd) tell Bruce Wayne (Beck Bennett) that Batman is too forceful with the people in their neighborhood. Also Features Kate McKinnon as the assistant and Melissa Villaseñor as the citizen.
Chance The Rapper, Kenan Thompson and Chris Redd performed "Come Back Barack"   De-Von-Tré (Chance the Rapper, Kenan Thompson, Chris Redd) wishes President Barack Obama would come back.
Family Feud: Family Edition   Janelle (Leslie Jones), Mike (Chris Redd), Andre (Michael Che) and Ricky Harvey (writer Gary Richardson) face off against Carol (Aidy Bryant), Peter (Beck Bennett), Justin (Mikey Day) and Cecil (Chance the Rapper) Didrickson.
Eminem performed a medley of "Walk on Water", "Stan" and "Love the Way You Lie" with Skylar Grey   Contrary to the usual format in which the musical guest perform two songs at two different segments, Eminem performs a single medley of "Walk on Water", "Stan",[n 1] and "Love the Way You Lie." Skylar Grey performs the entire medley with Eminem, but she is not credited as a musical guest.
Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, including Senator Al Franken being accused of sexual misconduct and Association of British Scrabble players banning a player for cheating. With guests, Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) discusses his latest hearing, in which he repeatedly answered questions with "I do not recall", Veteran stand-up comedian Bruce Chandling (Kyle Mooney) shares why he loves Thanksgiving and Pete Davidson explains why he isn't looking forward to going home for Thanksgiving.
MSG   MSG's Knicks correspondent (Chance the Rapper) is forced to cover a hockey game. With Beck Bennett as Dale Worthy, Mikey Day as Tim Hayward, Alex Moffat as Brady Skjei and Cecily Strong as Chrissy Smith.
Rap History   Lil Doo Doo (Pete Davidson) gets a lesson in rap history from the Soul Crush Crew (Chance the Rapper, Kenan Thompson, Chris Redd). Cameos by Questlove of The Roots and Common.
Career Day   Two students (Chance the Rapper, Mikey Day) are overly excited about their dads' (Kenan Thompson, Beck Bennett) career day presentation. Also Features Aidy Bryant as Mrs. Sellers, Pete Davidson as Matthew Sellers, Luke Null and Melissa Villaseñor as students and Cecily Strong as Mrs. Tylerson.
Shank Babysitter 17   A young girl (Aidy Bryant) interrupts her babysitter's (Heidi Gardner) alone time with the pizza deliveryman (Chance the Rapper). Also Features Beck Bennett as the plumber, Alex Moffat as handyman and Kyle Mooney as UPS delivery man.
Goodnights and Closing Credits   Chance The Rapper thanked Eminem, Skylar Grey, the entire cast and crew for this amazing week and behind him, Lorne, and everybody for believing them, he can't wait to see the rest of his family and they will too.
Preceded by:
November 11, 2017
Saturday Night Live episode Followed by:
December 2, 2017
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