October 3, 2015 Season 41 episode
| |
|---|---|
| Episode | 788 |
| Season Episode | 1 |
| Host | Miley Cyrus |
| Musical Guest(s) | Herself (with The Flaming Lips) |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Karen Don't Be Sad" "The Twinkle Song" |
| Previous Episode May 16, 2015 |
Next Episode October 10, 2015 |
The 788th episode of Saturday Night Live was hosted by Miley Cyrus and also performed as the musical guest. It was the first episode with Jon Rudnitsky as a cast member. Hillary Clinton made a cameo.
Cast
Main
- Vanessa Bayer
- Beck Bennett
- Aidy Bryant
- Colin Jost
- Taran Killam
- Kate McKinnon
- Kyle Mooney
- Bobby Moynihan
- Jay Pharoah
- Cecily Strong
- Kenan Thompson
- Sasheer Zamata
Featured
Sketches
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Donald and Melania Trump | Donald Trump (Taran Killam) and his wife, Melania (Cecily Strong), clear up some of the misconceptions about him, like that he hates women and immigrants. | |
| Miley Cyrus Monologue | Host Miley Cyrus bids goodbye to the people who made summer 2015 memorable, including Rachel Dolezal, Kim Davis and the dentist who killed Cecil the lion. | |
| Abilify For Canidates | For Rick Santorum (Taran Killam), Mike Huckabee (Bobby Moynihan) and the nine more people who think they can be president, there's Abilify. | |
| 50's Dance | Three couples (Kyle Mooney, Kate McKinnon, Taran Killam, Cecily Strong, Jon Rudnitsky, Miley Cyrus) declare their love for each other through song at a high school dance. | |
| Hillary Clinton Bar Talk | Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon) confides her concerns about the 2016 presidential race to her bartender, Val (Hillary Clinton). | |
| Miley Cyrus Performs | Miley Cyrus performs "Karen Don't Be Sad". | |
| Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che | Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, including Jeb Bush’s criticism of Donald Trump and Burger King’s Halloween bun. Pope Francis stops by the Update desk. Other News, Polish American Heritage Month and an arrest in a Walmart parking lot. Resident young person Pete Davidson talks politics and Leslie Jones discusses texting etiquette. | |
| The Millennials | Beautiful twenty-somethings (Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, Miley Cyrus, Jon Rudnitsky) search for the love and success they're entitled to on The Millennials. | |
| Katz' Deli | When a group of friends (Vanessa Bayer, Leslie Jones, Miley Cyrus, Cecily Strong) takes turns enacting the fake orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally, one takes it too far. | |
| The Squad | At first it was just the models and athletes, but eventually, everyone joined Taylor Swift's squad. | |
| Miley Cyrus Performs | Miley Cyrus Performs "The Twinkle Song". | |
| American Voices | American Voices looks back at "Too Late with Ruby Nichols," a short-lived late-night program hosted by an African-American woman (Leslie Jones). | |
| Miley's Wedding Tape | Kyle Mooney doesn't want to marry Miley Cyrus and Bobby Moynihan and Beck Bennett can't figure out why. | |
| Closings |