October 6, 2012 Season 38 episode
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Episode | 727 |
Season Episode | 3 |
Host | Daniel Craig |
Musical Guest(s) | Muse |
Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Madness" "Panic Station" |
Previous Episode September 22, 2012 |
Next Episode October 13, 2012 |
The 727th episode and 3rd episode of Saturday Night Live's 38th season, hosted by English actor Daniel Craig, star of James Bond franchise, Knives Out and the standalone sequel Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and the musical guest was Muse, an English rock band, who performed "Madness" and "Panic Station." It premiered on October 6, 2012. Daniel Craig’s hosting debut was made, and this is the 2nd musical guest appearance on SNL for Muse.
Cast[]
Main Players[]
- Fred Armisen
- Vanessa Bayer
- Bill Hader
- Taran Killam
- Seth Meyers
- Bobby Moynihan
- Nasim Pedrad
- Jay Pharoah
- Jason Sudeikis
- Kenan Thompson
Featured Players[]
- Cameos by longtime former cast member Chris Parnell and Sesame Street's Big Bird
Sketches[]
Title | Image | Summary |
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First Presidential Debate (Cold Opening) | Barack Obama (Jay Pharoah) loses focus during first debate with Mitt Romney (Jason Sudeikis). Also features former cast member Chris Parnell as moderator Jim Lehrer. | |
Opening montage | This season’s new theme music is being played at a faster tempo tonight than it was in this season’s previous episodes. This faster tempo will remain for the rest of this theme song’s run, over the next two seasons. | |
Daniel Craig's Monologue | Having now starred in three James Bond films, English actor Daniel Craig plays In Memoriam reel of the people he’s killed in the movies, as he hosted SNL for the first time. | |
Construction Workers | Jack (Daniel Craig) keeps making unsophisticated comments while trying to fit in with his fellow lewd construction workers (Tim Robinson, Bobby Moynihan and Kenan Thompson). Also features Vanessa Bayer, Aidy Bryant, Nasim Pedrad and Cecily Strong as women, Bill Hader as father and Jason Sudeikis as the foreman. | |
Bond 50 | The ultimate James Bond Blu-Ray collection features a bevy of babes and unlikely Bond girls from throughout the 50-year franchise. | |
Three Days Later: A Look Back at the Obama Debate Disaster | The liberal news media tries desperately to spin President Barack Obama’s poor performance at the first Presidential debate. | |
Long Island Medium | Theresa Caputo (Kate McKinnon) reads fellow Italian-Americans. | |
Mars Mission | Kirby (Bobby Moynihan) annoys his fellow space crew members (Daniel Craig, Taran Killam, Cecily Strong and Kenan Thompson) by getting misty about the pet kitty cat he left behind on Earth. | |
Muse performs "Madness". | ||
Weekend Update with Seth Meyers | Seth Meyers groups those affected by presidential debate into Winners & Losers. Sesame Street's Big Bird comments on his newfound celebrity status since being mentioned by Mitt Romney at the Presidential debate. Cecilia Giminez (Kate McKinnon) defends her forgery of a painting of Jesus. | |
A Sorry Lot We Are | In a long-running BBC comedy series, a group of losers (Daniel Craig, Bill Hader, Bobby Moynihan) hang out at the pub and mull over their sorry lot in life. Also Features Fred Armisen as guy, Aidy Bryant as Maggie, Bill Hader as Raza, Taran Killam as the voice of announcer, Kate McKinnon as the waitress, Bobby Moynihan as Rodney, Tim Robinson as another guy. | |
Loving Couple | Carl (Daniel Craig) is eager to show off his new girlfriend Regine (Fred Armisen) and their extraneous devotion to one another to his unsuspecting friends (Bill Hader, Vanessa Bayer, Aidy Bryant and Tim Robinson). | |
Muse performs “Panic Station”. | ||
Low-Information Voters of America | America’s undecided voters have an extensive collection of unrelated questions to ask about this year’s Presidential election. | |
Goodnights and Closing Credits | Daniel Craig thanked Muse, Chris Parnell, Big Bird of Sesame Street, the brilliant cast, the writers, and the crew. |
Notes/Trivia[]
- Caroll Spinney portrayed Big Bird from Sesame Street on the Weekend Update segment.
Preceded by: September 22, 2012 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: October 13, 2012 |