October 7, 2000 Season 26 episode
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Episode | 486 |
Season Episode | Season 26 |
Host | Rob Lowe |
Musical Guest(s) | Eminem |
Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Stan" "The Real Slim Shady" |
Previous Episode May 20, 2000 |
Next Episode October 14, 2000 |
The season premiere of Season 26 and the 486th episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by the actor Rob Lowe with rapper Eminem as the musical guest. It premiered on October 7, 2000. This is Rob Lowe's 3rd hosting stint, and the 2nd musical guest appearance on SNL for Eminem.
This marked the first episode with Tina Fey and Jerry Minor as cast members and Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey's first episode as Weekend Update co-anchors (the first co-anchors since Season 3 with Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin).
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Jimmy Fallon
- Will Ferrell
- Ana Gasteyer
- Darrell Hammond
- Chris Kattan
- Tracy Morgan
- Chris Parnell
- Horatio Sanz
- Molly Shannon
Featured Players[]
- Rachel Dratch†
- Tina Fey (First Appearance)
- Jerry Minor (First Appearance)
- Maya Rudolph
† Credited, but did not appear.
- Cameos by Brendan Fraser, Ralph Nader, and Tim Meadows
Musical cameo by Dido
Sketches[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
Trivia[]
- Prior to this episode, Tina Fey had been a writer on the show for the past three seasons, and became the head writer the previous season, a position that she still held as she took on the Weekend Update gig.
- This is also the first episode of the fifth generation of SNL; with a new look for Weekend Update, a new intro, 3 longtime cast members (Meadows, Oteri, Quinn) gone from last season, as well as some newer cast members (Fallon, Parnell, Sanz, Dratch, Rudolph, etc.), coming into their own on the show, some longtime staff members retiring, as well as the whole new look for Weekend Update.
- This was the first episode for current stage manager Chris Kelly (not to be confused with future/former SNL head writer Chris Kelly), who replaced the retiring Bob van Ry, who retired at the end of the previous season.
- This was the first episode back for former writer Jim Downey after a two-year hiatus, after he was previously fired for producing Norm Macdonald's Weekend Update run.
- Lastly, this was also the first episode for writer James Anderson.
Preceded by: May 20, 2000 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: October 14, 2000 |