October 1, 2022 Season 48 episode
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| Episode | 931 |
| Season Episode | 1 |
| Host | Miles Teller |
| Musical Guest(s) | Kendrick Lamar |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
First performance; Medley of: "Rich Spirit", and "N95" Second performance: "Father Time" with Sampha |
| Previous Episode May 21, 2022 |
Next Episode October 8, 2022 |
The 931st episode and the season premiere of Saturday Night Live's 48th season premiered on October 1, 2022, hosted by actor Miles Teller, star of the hit films Whiplash, Thank You for Your Service, The Spectacular Now, the Divergent film trilogy, 21 & Over, That Awkward Moment, Fantastic Four, The Ark and the Aardvark, Spiderhead, Two Night Stand, Get a Job, War Dogs, Bleed for This, and Top Gun: Maverick, the Amazon Prime Video crime drama Too Old to Die Young and the Paramount+ miniseries The Offer, with rapper Kendrick Lamar as the musical guest. This was Miles Teller's hosting debut and the 3rd musical guest appearance for Kendrick Lamar on SNL.
This marked the first episode for new cast members: Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker. Cecily Strong was not credited in the new opening montage, though she hadn't left the show; she was on leave to star of the Broadway play "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". This is the third-consecutive season Strong missed episodes of the season to appear in another project (after missing practically the first half of the 46th season and the January 2022 episodes of the previous season).
The last time Kendrick Lamar was the musical guest on November 15, 2014, the sixth episode of SNL's 40th season, hosted by actor Woody Harrelson, which he returned to host for the 3rd time and (his first appearance in 25 years, 4 months, and 6 days).
The goodnight speech for Miles Teller is "Thank You to Kendrick Lamar, Sampha, Jon Hamm, Shaun White, To My Family, Kelly My Wife and My Friends You Know Who You Are, I Love You Guys, Thank You to Lorne, the Cast, the Crew and the Band. This is a Dream Come True to Me and I'm So Appreciative, So Thank You All for Spending You Know This Night Would Have Me and Everybody at Home, Um Just Please Be Safe I Love You, Thank You". (Cheers and applause).
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Michael Che
- Mikey Day
- Andrew Dismukes
- Chloe Fineman
- Heidi Gardner
- Punkie Johnson
- Colin Jost
- Ego Nwodim
- Kenan Thompson
- Bowen Yang
Featured Players[]
- Marcello Hernandez (First Appearance)
- James Austin Johnson
- Molly Kearney (First Appearance)
- Michael Longfellow (First Appearance)
- Sarah Sherman
- Devon Walker (First Appearance)
- Cameos by Jon Hamm and Shaun White. Musical guest appearance by Sampha. Cecily Strong was not credited in the opening montage and did not appear in this episode.
Sketches and Musical Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| ManningCast Cold Open | A self-referential sketch where Peyton and Eli Manning (Miles Teller and Andrew Dismukes) rate the opening sketch. Also Features Mikey Day as Donald Trump Jr., Chloe Fineman as Jenna Ellis, Heidi Gardner as Kristi Noem, James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump, Sarah Sherman and Bowen Yang as Xi Jinping. First appearances of Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker. Cameos by Jon Hamm and Shaun White. | |
| Opening Montage | The opening montage is revamped from the one used for the past two years; it was filmed at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City and a new logo was introduced, it features modern and angular lettering, and the theme song—which mashes up elements of the 2003-2006 theme in the beginning with elements of the 2018-2022 theme towards the end—is played at a faster pace, additionally, 8 cast members are gone from the intro, since they left the show prior to this season. Similar to the previous intros where we see the cast in different places in New York, this intro features the cast in various places inside a New York hotel. Also no cast members are wearing masks, since COVID restrictions had died down since the last intro. First credits for new cast members Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker; and Andrew Dismukes and Punkie Johnson were both promoted to repertory status this season. | |
| Monologue by Miles Teller | Hosting for the first time, actor Miles Teller talks about preparing for his role in Top Gun: Maverick and growing up as a die-hard Saturday Night Live. Near the end of the opening monologue, Teller shows an old tape of him and his sister doing the Spartan Cheerleaders dance. | |
| DM Reply Game Show: Send Something Normal | Adam Levine (Mikey Day), Armie Hammer (James Austin Johnson), Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Kenan Thompson), and SNL cast member Bowen Yang play a game where they try send a normal DM to a woman on Instagram. Miles Teller plays the game show host Halen Hardy. | |
| BeReal | Two bank robbers (Miles Teller and Mikey Day) have their heist interrupted by BeReal. With Bowen Yang, Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, and Andrew Dismukes as the customers, Heidi Gardner as the teller, Devon Walker and Marcello Hernandez as the security guards. | |
| Charmin Bears | A Charmin bear (Miles Teller) comes clean to his family (Kenan Thompson, Heidi Gardner, and Punkie Johnson) about his real passion after getting accepted into Toilet Paper College. With Bowen Yang as William. The sketch was accused of being stolen from Youtube creator Joel Haver, who had uploaded a similar sketch in July of 2022;[1] Haver said he was willing to accept the similarities were a coincidence.[2] | |
| Rooftop Bar Conversation | Two finance bros (Miles Teller and Mikey Day) try to make conversation with two women (Ego Nwodim and Chloe Fineman) at a bar. With Heidi Gardner as the bartender. | |
| AMC Theaters Commercial (II) | Nicole Kidman (Chloe Fineman) really enjoys her time at the movie theater. With Kenan Thompson as one of the viewers, Punkie Johnson as the employee, James Austin Johnson, Molly Kearney, and Michael Longfellow as the viewers. | |
| Kendrick Lamar performs a medley of "Rich Spirit" and "N95" | ||
| Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che | Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband is filing for divorce and the CIA is launching a new podcast. With guests Mitch McConnell (James Austin Johnson) and Herschel Walker (Kenan Thompson) stop by to discuss the 2022 midterms elections, new cast member Michael Longfellow to talk about having conservative family members, and a spotted Lanternfly (Bowen Yang) arrived to respond to people calling him an invasive species and crops (Andrew Dismukes) stops by to fight him, after Lanternfly insulting. | |
| Grimace | McDonalds' Grimace (Miles Teller) shocks his fellow mascots (Kenan Thompson, Mikey Day, Bowen Yang, and Sarah Sherman) with a new look. | |
| Kendrick Lamar performs "Father Time" | Lamar was joined by guest Sampha. | |
| Carribean Queens | Two talk show hosts on a vacation at a Carribean resort (Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner) interview the hunky guys they met the night before (played by Miles Teller and Kenan Thompson). With Punkie Johnson (Lia) and Devon Walker (Frank Ocean). | |
| Goodbyes and Closing Credits | Miles Teller thanked Kendrick Lamar, Sampha, Jon Hamm, Shaun White, his wife, Kelly and family, Lorne, the cast, crew and the band, this is a dream come true to him and remind everyone at home to be safe and he loved them. The end credits revealed that Colin Jost and Michael Che are no longer head writers as of this episode. Also, this is the first episode since March 7, 2020, where the cast, former cast members, band, host, guests, musical guests, and the audience members are no longer wear COVID-19 masks in the goodnights. Some of the cast point to Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker, as this is their first episode in the cast. |
Trivia[]
- This episode aired concurrently on Peacock, with future episodes available one day after broadcast. It is the first episode to stream exclusively on Peacock since NBC’s prior next-day streaming rights deal with Hulu ended in mid-September.
- As of this episode, Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che are no longer head writers on the show (though they continue as regular writers, and of course, continue to anchor Weekend Update).
- Also, for the 48th season premiere, Kenan Thompson returns for his 20th season on the show. Thompson joined the cast way back in 2003.
- This is the first episode of the Eighth generation of SNL, as 10 cast members left within the past calendar year (8 of whom were longtime cast members), there's a new intro and logo, a change in head writers, a longtime producer and a longtime band member left, and there are 4 new cast members, this season.
- This is the first episode of season 48 to be produced in-studio since March 7, 2020, the fifteenth episode of Season 45, hosted by English actor Daniel Craig, with musical guest The Weeknd, where the current cast members, longtime former cast members, the band, hosts, guests, musical guests and the audience members are no longer wearing masks during the goodnights and the opening monologue.
- This also marked the first episode for Summer Camargo as the new member of the Saturday Night Live Band. She plays the trumpet, and joined at the beginning of the season, replacing longtime band trumpet player Earl Gardner (who retired after having been with the band for past 37 years).
- This is also even Jimmy Fowlie, Ceara O'Sullivan, Auguste White and KC Shornima's first episode as writers on SNL.
- Former SNL writer Gary Richardson (who previously wrote on the show from 2017 to 2021), returns to SNL, starting with this episode, after a one-year hiatus from the show.
Trivia/Notes[]
- Miles Teller plays the impression of Peyton Manning in the ManningCast cold open. The last time a first-time host appeared in a premiere cold open was actor Chris Pratt (which he hosted for the first time), and he played the impression Roger Goodell, during the "State of the Union" cold open on September 27, 2014, which is the Season 40 premiere, with musical guest Ariana Grande.
- At 41 sketches, Jon Hamm ties Dwayne Johnson for 18th place in sketch appearances among Non-Cast Member SNL hosts.
- Michael Longfellow becomes the first cast member since then-current cast member Pete Davidson in 2014 (Season 40) to appear on Weekend Update in their first episode of the season.
- James Austin Johnson take over the impression of Mitch McConnell from former cast member Beck Bennett and makes his first Weekend Update appearance on the show.
- The sketch was accused of being stolen from YouTube creator Joel Haver, who had uploaded a similar sketch in July of 2022; Haver said he was willing to accept the similarities were a coincidence.
References[]
| Preceded by: May 21, 2022 (Season 47) |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: October 8, 2022 |