October 2, 2021 Season 47 episode
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| Episode | 910 |
| Season Episode | 1 |
| Host | Owen Wilson |
| Musical Guest(s) | Kacey Musgraves |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Justified" "Camera Roll" |
| Previous Episode May 22, 2021 (Season 46) |
Next Episode October 9, 2021 |
The 910th episode and the season premiere of Saturday Night Live's 47th season premiered on October 2, 2021, hosted by actor Owen Wilson, star of the hit series Loki and the films Cars 3, Free Birds, Father Figures, Wedding Crashers, The Internship, Night at the Museum, The Big Year, Starsky & Hutch, Hall Pass, Little Fockers, Masterminds, The French Dispatch, Marmaduke, She's Funny That Way, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Drillbit Taylor, You, Me and Durpee, Wonder, Midnight in Paris, Are You Here, How Do You Know, Marley & Me, No Escape, Bliss, Zoolander, Zoolander 2 and Marry Me with the musical guest being Kacey Musgraves, a country singer. This is the 2nd appearance for Owen Wilson, as well as his first-time hosting. This is also the 2nd musical guest appearance for Kacey Musgraves on SNL.
Kacey Musgraves made her musical guest debut on the May 12, 2018 episode, the twentieth episode and the Mother's Day show of SNL's 43rd season, hosted by stand-up comedian and actress Amy Schumer.
This marked the first episode with: Aristotle Athari, James Austin Johnson, and Sarah Sherman as cast members.
Kate McKinnon was credited in the opening montage but she did not appear, as she was away filming the Peacock series Joe Exotic.
Musgraves' performance of "Justified" marks the first time a musical guest has ever performed a song nude on stage.
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Aidy Bryant
- Michael Che
- Pete Davidson
- Mikey Day
- Chloe Fineman
- Heidi Gardner
- Colin Jost
- Kate McKinnon (credited but did not appear)
- Alex Moffat
- Kyle Mooney
- Ego Nwodim
- Chris Redd
- Cecily Strong
- Kenan Thompson
- Melissa Villaseñor
- Bowen Yang
Featured Players[]
- Cameos by Luke Wilson and Andrew Wilson
Sketches and Music Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| Address from President Biden Cold Open | President Biden, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Sen. Joe Manchin, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez address the president’s infrastructure bill. First appearance of James Austin Johnson (who plays President Biden). Also features Cecily Strong (Kyrsten Sinema), Aidy Bryant (Joe Manchin), Ego Nwodim (Ilhan Omar), Melissa Villaseñor (AOC), Pete Davidson (Andrew Cuomo), and Alex Moffat (Chuck Schumer). | |
| Opening Montage | The previous season's montage is retained; however, the previously black-and-white clips have their color restored, additionally, Beck Bennett and Lauren Holt are gone from the intro, since they both left the show prior to this season. First credits for Aristotle Athari, James Austin Johnson, and Sarah Sherman; and Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang were both promoted to repertory status. | |
| Monologue by Owen Wilson | Hosting for the first time, Owen Wilson talks about reading bad reviews about his work and preparing to host Saturday Night Live. Cameos by his brothers Luke Wilson and Andrew Wilson. | |
| The Talking | A doctor (Owen Wilson) delivers COVID test results to four hosts of a talk show. Parody of the positive COVID tests on "The View". With Luke Wilson, Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner, Aidy Bryant, and Cecily Strong. | |
| Star Trek: Ego Quest | A new Star Trek spinoff follows the adventures of Captain Jeff Bezos and his brother. With Owen Wilson, Andrew Dismukes, Heidi Gardner, Alex Moffatt, Mikey Day, and Kenan Thompson. Cameo by Luke Wilson. | |
| Cars 4 | Owen Wilson has reservations about his character Lightning McQueen’s lines in Cars 4. With Mikey Day, Punkie Johnson, and James Austin Johnson. | |
| School Board Meeting | Two board members (Alex Moffat, Ego Nwodim) try to keep the school board meeting attendees focused on one topic. With Owen Wilson and all cast members except Michael Che, Colin Jost, and Kate McKinnon. First appearances of Sarah Sherman and Aristotle Athari. | |
| Kacey Musgraves performs "Justified" | Performed her song 'Justified' wearing nothing but cowboy boots. | |
| Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che | With A Black Woman Who's Been Missing for Ten Years (Ego Nwodim) and Pete Davidson. As a tribute to Norm Macdonald, the segment ended with several clips from Macdonald's tenure as Weekend Update anchor. | |
| Funeral Singer | With Owen Wilson, Kenan Thompson, Chloe Fineman, Aidy Bryant, Cecily Strong, and Andrew Dismukes, with a photo of Heidi Gardner as the deceased. | |
| Kacey Musgraves performs "Camera Roll" | Performed her song 'Camera Roll' this time with clothes on. | |
| NFL on Fox | With Owen Wilson, James Austin Johnson, and Heidi Gardner, with Chloe Fineman and Sarah Sherman in stills. | |
| Stool Test Advert | Two doctors (Andrew Dismukes, Sarah Sherman) have difficutly filming a commercial for their practice. With Owen Wilson, Aristotle Athari, and Chris Redd. | |
| Goodbyes | The segment was preceded by a memorial card to former NBC president and co-creator Herbert Schlosser, who died on August 6, was shown before the good nights. Owen Wilson thanks Kacey Musgraves, the cast, crew and everyone for having him here, he had a great time and it was terrific. During the outro music, Colin Jost held up a cue-card sign reading "We'll miss you, Ken," referring to the longtime producer Ken Aymong, who retired from SNL earlier that May after thirty-nine years and Aidy Bryant wore an IATSE shirt.[1] |
Trivia[]
- On Weekend Update, Pete Davidson wears a T-shirt with a picture of former SNL cast member and Update host Norm Macdonald who died on September 14. Colin Jost and Michael Che ended the segment with footage of Macdonald hosting Update as a tribute.
- This was Please Don't Destroy's first episode as writers for the show.
- Starting with this episode, writer Alison Gates (who joined the writing staff back in 2018), is named as a writing supervisor.
References[]
| Preceded by: May 22, 2021 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: October 9, 2021 |