October 15, 2011 Season 37 episode
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| Episode | 706 |
| Season Episode | 4 |
| Host | Anna Faris |
| Musical Guest(s) | Drake |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Headlines" "Make Me Proud" with Nicki Minaj |
| Previous Episode October 8, 2011 |
Next Episode November 5, 2011 |
The 4th episode of Season 37 and the 706th episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by actress Anna Faris and the musical guest was Drake, a Canadian rapper and singer, who performed "Headlines" and "Make Me Proud" with Nicki Minaj and also appeared in the SNL Digital Short and in the Weekend Update segment as the teenager dressed as a werewolf. It premiered on October 15, 2011. This is the first time as musical guest for Drake on SNL and the 2nd hosting stint for Anna Faris.
Anna Faris' goodnights speech is "Thank you to Drake and Nicki Minaj, Lorne Michaels, all the cast and crew at "Saturday Night Live", Thank you so much". (Cheers and applause)
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Fred Armisen
- Abby Elliott
- Bill Hader
- Seth Meyers
- Bobby Moynihan
- Nasim Pedrad
- Andy Samberg
- Jason Sudeikis
- Kenan Thompson
- Kristen Wiig
Featured Players[]
Sketches and Musical Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| A Message From The Mayor Cold Opening | New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Fred Armisen) appluds the Occupy Wall Street protestors, but offers them a few words of advice to make sure they all see eye to eye. | |
| Monologue by Anna Faris | Anna Faris takes intelligent questions beyond her grasp from the audience, then meets the one woman in the audience (Abby Elliott) who shares her intellect, as she returned to SNL to making her second hosting stint. | |
| The Manuel Ortiz Show | Manuel Ortiz (Fred Armisen) and his guests dance their way through a segment in which a cheating husband (Bill Hader) is exposed on camera. | |
| What's Wrong With Tanya?! | Moms (Anna Faris, Vanessa Bayer and Kristen Wiig) from different Lifetime Network TV-movies are challenged to determine what’s wrong with Tanya prototypes. | |
| SNL Digital Short: Drake Interview | Andy Samberg performs a number of goofy interview concepts with musical guest Drake. | |
| Yet Another GOP Debate | Marriott TV moderates their own version of the GOP debate at their lavish facilities. | |
| Drake performed "Headlines" | ||
| Weekend Update with Seth Meyers | With guests Secondhand News correspondent Anthony Crispino (Bobby Moynihan) mixes up more recent stories and Two teenagers dressed as werewolves (Drake, Jay Pharoah) rap about their new Halloween trend, bag jacking. | |
| Tell Him | 50’s-era teenage girls (Abby Elliott, Kristen Wiig, Nasim Pedrad, Anna Faris) use the power of song to teach their confused friend (Vanessa Bayer) how to use deception to land a guy in the modern world. | |
| J-Pop America Fun Time Now! | Japan-crazed American teenagers (Taran Killam, Vanessa Bayer) get all their cultural facts wrong while purporting to express their love for the Land of the Rising Sun. | |
| Drake performed "Make Me Proud" with Nicki Minaj | ||
| Lord Wyndemere | Home from college, Debbie (Anna Faris) hopes to impress her parents (Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig) with her new boyfriend, the foppish, spritely Lord Cecil Wyndemere (Paul Brittain). | |
| Ferrari Calendar | Airheads (Kristen Wiig, Anna Faris) are excited to see the new 2012 Ferrari calendar so they scope out all the hot guys within before their asses explode from the anticipation. | |
| Goodnights and Closing Credits | Anna Faris thanked Drake and Nicki Minaj, Lorne Michaels, all the cast and crew at "Saturday Night Live". |
Notes/Trivia[]
- This is the first episode of the season to have no commercial sketches.
| Preceded by: October 8, 2011 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: November 5, 2011 |