October 7, 2017 Season 43 episode
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| Episode | 2 |
| Season Episode | 831 |
| Host | Gal Gadot |
| Musical Guest(s) | Sam Smith |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
"Too Good at Goodbyes" "Pray" |
| Previous Episode September 30, 2017 |
Next Episode October 14, 2017 |
The 831st episode and 2nd episode of Saturday Night Live's 43rd season premiered on October 7, 2017, hosted by the Israeli actress Gal Gadot, star of the DC Extended Universe films, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Wonder Woman, and Wonder Woman 1984, as well as the hit films Criminal, Keeping Up with the Joneses, Red Notice, Death on the Nile, Heart of Stone, and Disney's 2024 live-action remake film Snow White, with musical guest Sam Smith, an English singer and songwriter. This will be Gal Gadot's hosting debut, and Sam Smith's 2nd musical guest appearance on SNL and his 3rd appearance in total.
Gal Gadot's goodnights speech is "Thanks to Sam Smith (cheers and applause), to Jason Aldean, I Had the Best Time, Thank You Lorne and for Making This Happened for Me, Thank You So Much to the Amazing Cast of SNL (cheers and applause again), It's Been An Incredible, Incredible Week, Thank You, Good Night, Everybody". (cheers and applause).
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Beck Bennett
- Aidy Bryant
- Michael Che
- Pete Davidson
- Leslie Jones
- Colin Jost
- Kate McKinnon
- Kyle Mooney
- Cecily Strong
- Kenan Thompson
Featured Players[]
Cameo by Jason Aldean
Sketches and Music Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| Jason Aldean performed a cover of Tom Petty's song "I Won't Back Down" Cold Open | Country star Jason Aldean took the stage on Saturday Night Live and paid tribute to the victims of the Las Vegas shootings and to late rocker Tom Petty. | |
| Monologue by Gal Gadot | Hosting SNL for the first time, Israeli actress Gal Gadot addresses viewers watching in Israel and talks playing Wonder Woman with Leslie Jones. | |
| E! New Fall Lineup | Kendall Jenner (Gal Gadot), Bella Hadid (Kate McKinnon), Gwen Stefani (Melissa Villaseñor), NeNe Leakes (Leslie Jones), Blake Shelton (Luke Null) and Kanye West (Chris Redd) are coming to E! Cecily Strongs plays both the announcer and Alexa. With Heidi Gardner as the waitress. First appearance of Luke Null in an SNL sketch. | |
| First Date | A woman (Gal Gadot) slowly discovers her date (Kenan Thompson) is a well-known celebrity. Also Features Heidi Gardner as the waitress, Chris Redd as the waiter and Cecily Strong as the patron. | |
| The Chosen One | Only Chad (Pete Davidson) can save Etheria. Also Features Beck Bennett as the dwarf, Mikey Day as the elf, Cecily Strong as Queen Chrysalis and Kenan Thompson as centaur. | |
| Mirage | Two stranded cameramen (Kenan Thompson, Beck Bennett) see very different mirages (Gal Gadot, Kyle Mooney, Mikey Day, and Leslie Jones) in the desert. | |
| Safelite AutoGlass | Safelite AutoGlass worker (Beck Bennett) breaks windshields to be near teenager (Melissa Villaseñor) in front of her mother (Aidy Bryant). | |
| Sam Smith performed "Too Good At Goodbyes" | ||
| Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che | Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, including the shooting in Las Vegas and AOL Instant Messenger shutting down. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Kate McKinnon) stops by to shares her thoughts on working with Justice Neil Gorsuch and Pete Davidson arrived to discuss mental health. | |
| The Maiden and the Mice | Mina (Gal Gadot) is not impressed with her mice friends (Kyle Mooney, Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant) dressmaking skills. | |
| Espionage | While trying to negotiate with a spy (Gal Gadot), the police (Kenan Thompson, Alex Moffat, and Luke Null) keep getting interrupted by the stars of a Webcam show (Aidy Bryant and Cecily Strong). With Kyle Mooney as the neighbor. | |
| Sam Smith performed "Pray" | ||
| Themyscria | When two women (Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon) stumble upon Themyscria, they're surprised to learn it's inhabitants (Gal Gadot, Leslie Jones, Melissa Villaseñor, and Heidi Gardner) are not what they expected. | |
| The Naomi Show | Naomi (Gal Gadot) helps a woman (Aidy Bryant) address her difficult daughter's (Heidi Gardner) behavior by bringing in a sergeant (Kenan Thompson). With Leslie Jones as audience member. | |
| Goodbyes | Gal Gadot thanked Sam Smith and Jason Aldean, she had the best time. She also thanked Lorne for making this happen to her and the amazing cast of SNL, and said that it's been an incredible, incredible week. |
Cut For Time[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary |
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| The Last Fry | Two friends (Kyle Mooney, Beck Bennett) get distracted by a beautiful woman (Gal Gadot) and miss what's happening around them. Also features Heidi Gardner as the waitress and Chris Redd as the customer. |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- As mentioned by Gadot during the monologue, this was the first episode to be broadcast live in Israel; until this night, it took a week for episodes aired in the US to appear on Israeli TV. During the opening monologue, Gadot speaks a few sentences in Hebrew for the Israeli audience. The Hebrew sentences are subtitled in English.
- "Safelite AutoGlass" was subsequently pulled from rebroadcasts and the Internet after Safelite complained on Twitter that the sketch was offensive (and the humor in it would be considered in bad taste due to the influx of news at the time about male celebrities being outed as sexual offenders). Rebroadcasts of the show replaced the segment with a previously unaired, but released to the Internet, music video sketch called "The Last Fry".
- As of 2019, Hulu has the original Safelite sketch and "The Last Fry" is no longer shown.
- When the episode was rerun on August 18, 2018, a photograph of Aretha Franklin, who had died two days earlier, was shown in silence before the goodnights.
Credits[]
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: LORNE MICHAELS
PRODUCED BY: STEVE HIGGINS, ERIK KENWARD
DIRECTED BY: DON ROY KING
HEAD WRITERS: COLIN JOST, ROB KLEIN, BRYAN TUCKER
PRODUCERS: LINDSAY SHOOKUS, ERIN DOYLE
WRITTEN BY: JAMES ANDERSON, MICHAEL CHE, PETE DAVIDSON, LESLIE JONES, ZACH KANIN, ERIK KENWARD, LORNE MICHAELS, CLAIRE MULANEY, JOSH PATTEN, KATIE RICH, TIM ROBINSON, SARAH SCHNEIDER, PETE SCHULTZ
WRITING SUPERVISED BY: KENT SUBLETTE
WEEKEND UPDATE SUPERVISED BY: MIKEY DAY, STEVE HIGGINS, ZACH KANIN, ERIK KENWARD
SUPERVISING PRODUCER: KEN AYMONG
FILM PRODUCER: JUSTUS MCLARTY
PRODUCTION DESIGNERS: EUGENE LEE, AKIRA YOSHIMURA, KEITH IAN RAYWOOD, JOSEPH DETULLIO
LIGHTNING DESIGNER: PHIL HYMES
MUSICAL DIRECTORS: LENNY PICKETT, LEON PENDARVIS, ELI BRUGGEMANN
SKETCH MUSIC ADAPTATION: HAL WILLNER
COSTUME DESIGNERS: TOM BROECKER, ERIC JUSTIAN
COORDINATING PRODUCER: STACY FOSTER
CO-PRODUCERS: BRIAN SIEDLECKI, NICHOLAS MALLARDI, DINA MOLES, ADAM NICELY
PHOTOGRAPHER: MARY ELLEN MATTHEWS
LEAD GRAPHIC ARTIST: TARA DONNELLY
GRAPHICS: ROBERT SAMARTINO, DOUG ZIDER, BILL AFFATIGATO, EDMOND HAWKINS
EVS: ED HINCH, PAUL SCRABO
PRODUCTION STAFF: SONIA ATANACIO, LINDSEY CHARLES, JOSH PATTEN, KATIE RICH, TIM ROBINSON, SARAH SCHNEIDER, PETE SCHULTZ, KENT SUBLETTE
ANNOUNCER: DARRELL HAMMOND
| Preceded by: September 30, 2017 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: October 14, 2017 |