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 September 22, 2012
 Season 38 episode
 Episode 726
 Season Episode 2
 Host Joseph Gordon-Levitt
 Musical Guest(s) Mumford & Sons
 Song(s) performed by
 Musical Guest(s)
"I Will Wait"
"Below My Feet"
Previous Episode
September 15, 2012
Next Episode
October 6, 2012

The 726th episode and 2nd episode of Saturday Night Live's 38th season premiered on September 22, 2012, hosted by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt with musical guest Mumford & Sons, an English folk rock band, who performed "I Will Wait" and "Below My Feet", and appeared in the "London" sketch performing "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" as a band called "Hey Dude!," a Beatles tribute band. This is Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 2nd time as host and the first time as musical guest on SNL for Mumford & Sons.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's goodnights speech is Thank you, ladies and gentlemen!, That's our show! How about Mumford and Sons? Let's hear it for them!.

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Sketches and Music Performances[]

Title Image Summary
Live with Kelly & Michael (Cold Opening)

Kelly Ripa (Nasim Pedrad) gabs with her new permanent morning bo-host Michael Strahan (Jay Pharoah).
Opening montage The SNL logo is displayed in a much smaller size tonight than it was in the debut of this opening montage in the preceding week’s season premiere. Much like in the preceding week’s season premiere, this season’s new theme music is still being played in a noticeably slower tempo than it would later go on to regularly be. Fred Armisen, Jason Sudeikis, and Kate McKinnon's photos were also changed, and the photos of the host and musical guest had switched places. (photo of the host behind the Brooklyn Bridge, the musical guest behind the city street). The season premiere’s montage ended with a shot of the camera panning up an exterior shot of 30 Rock (first screencap below), whereas tonight, that final shot has been replaced with the camera showing a shot of the lights under the neon NBC Studios marquee
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Monologue Hosting for the second time, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is excited about his recent slate of movies, but is most stoked about Channing Tatum’s role in “Magic Mike” and performs his own version of the “It’s Raining Men” sequence.
Low-Information Voters Of America

America’s undecided voters have an extensive collection of unreleated questions to ask about this year’s Presidential election.
Tres Equis Part 1

Son of the world’s most interesting man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) lives vicariously in his father’s shadow.
Private Detective

Private eye Sam Flint (Bill Hader) has tailed his Mr. Morelli’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) cheating wife, but only has hand-drawn caricatures to prove it.
Tres Equis Part 2

Son of the world’s most interesting man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) gets into a heated argument with his absentee father (Jason Sudeikis).
Hypnotist

Curtis (Taran Killam) humors hypnotist Tommy Bergamont (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) into believing he’s put him under a deep, suggestive trance.
g.o.b. Tampons

The new tampon designed by members of the Republican Party.
Mumford & Sons performs “I Will Wait”.
Weekend Update with Seth Meyers




What Are You Doing?- Seth Meyers advises Obama not to interrupt Romney’s mistakes; Bashar al-Assad’s Two Best Friends From Growing Up (Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer) badmouth him via sotto voce; Beyonce fan Ann Romney (Kate McKinnon) unapologetically defends her husband; name-dropping Stephen A. Smith (Jay Pharoah) says Tim Tebow is a detrimental Jet.
London Bar buddies (Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis, and Kenan Thompson) sing along to Hey Dude’s! (Mumford and Sons) cover version of “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” and reminisce about odd times on the eve of Chris’ (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) wedding.
The Finer Things

Hosts Swade (Kenan Thompson) and Fort Knox (Jay Pharoah) discuss fine things like handbags and long-stemmed wine glasses with Jake Thriller (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Teddy Graham (Bobby Moynihan).
Mumford & Sons performs “Below My Feet”.
My Daughter

Mr. McKeon (Fred Armisen) sets up co-worker Tom (Tim Robinson) with his daughter Evelyn (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and introduces her awkwardly via an elaborate vocal performance.
Powers Realty

Burt (Tim Robinson) and Blair (Nasim Pedrad) speak out against the pranksters who are drawing balls and weiners all over their open-mouthed bust stop
Goodnights Joseph Gordon-Levitt thanked Mumford & Sons and everyone.

Notes/Trivia[]

  • The "Powers Realty" filmed commercial sketch and the goodnights were cut short due to running time.
  • On all versions, (except the new episode version) the monologue is absent.
Preceded by:
September 15, 2012
Saturday Night Live episode Followed by:
October 6, 2012
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