Premieres Oct 1st, Host/Guest TBA.

New additions: http://gothamist.com/2016/09/12/snl_new_cast_members.php
As most of us know, departing: Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah, and Jon Rudnitsky

Also of note:

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"NBC's "Saturday Night Live" is paring down its commercial load, with plans to cut about 30% of ads out of the sketch comedy show next season. It will do this by removing two commercial breaks per episode, giving viewers more content, said Linda Yaccarino, chairman-advertising sales and client partnerships, NBC Universal."

http://adage.com/article/media/snl-air-fewer-commercials-season/303697/

New faces:

9/12/2016 2:25:51 PM

Alec Baldwin as Trump on Saturday

9/28/2016 4:06:38 PM

Margot Robbie hosting this weekend [giggity]. Musical guest: The Weeknd
Lin-Manuel Miranda hosting Oct 8th. Musical guest: Twenty One Pilots
Emily Blunt rumored to be hosting Oct 15th

9/28/2016 4:25:37 PM

I thought that they killed it last night.

10/2/2016 9:59:55 PM

Lin Manuel Miranda bit on Family Feud was great.

10/2/2016 11:11:18 PM

https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/it-looks-like-leslie-jones-just-scored-a-date-with-the-hotte?utm_term=.foKWr0rX2#.oyDR3k3wP

10/16/2016 9:25:05 PM

The Florida sinkhole news reporter skit during week one had my rolling. That was fucking hilarious.

10/17/2016 1:42:36 PM

I would like to be in a band with Bruno Mars. Looks like it would be a blast.

10/17/2016 3:46:56 PM

David S. Pumpkins was an ok sketch, but I have no idea why people are freaking out about it as much as they are

I'm going to assume it's the dancers, but I'm not entirely sure

[Edited on October 25, 2016 at 2:23 AM. Reason : the Larry David one was better]

10/25/2016 2:22:03 AM

oh hell yes

11/4/2016 5:58:19 PM

^ i was wondering wtf you were talking about, now i know!

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"In a surprising press release NBC announced Friday that Dave Chappelle will host Saturday Night Live on Nov. 12 with musical guest A Tribe Called Quest. This will be the first episode after the presidential election, and an SNL debut for both Chappelle and A Tribe Called Quest."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/04/500707855/a-tribe-called-quest-to-join-host-dave-chappelle-on-saturday-night-live

11/4/2016 9:34:22 PM

MR. SHAW

11/6/2016 11:52:31 PM

This weekend's episode was one of the worst I've ever watched.

Absolutely terrible.

11/7/2016 10:43:50 AM

^ I had to fast forward through a bunch of it.

11/7/2016 10:52:07 AM

I stopped after Weekend Update. That was abysmal.

11/7/2016 10:53:28 AM

it was a pretty bad episode, but I really loved Mr Shaw

11/7/2016 11:00:53 AM

I liked the intro with Baldwin and Mckinnon breaking character and roaming around the streets.

And Bill Murray and the Cubs singing. Don't really remember any of the other skits. Mr. Shaw was okay. It was kinda neat that the Church Lady came back, but it was pretty weak.

11/7/2016 11:07:51 AM

Yeah bill murray was the only good part.

even church lady was bad.

11/8/2016 12:56:18 AM

Solange ruled and I loved "Why is Benedict Cumberbatch Hot?"

As soon as they landed Chappelle, everyone put their good sketches back in the desk drawer for a week.

11/8/2016 1:12:07 AM

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"As soon as they landed Chappelle, everyone put their good sketches back in the desk drawer for a week."

this is my thought as well

11/8/2016 9:14:03 AM

^^ That skit was decent.

Was Solange's second song good?...because the first one was horrible.

11/8/2016 12:37:11 PM

No I thought they both were atrocious.

11/9/2016 3:21:12 PM

Yeah I didn't get it.

11/9/2016 4:05:40 PM

She was pretty hot in Johnson Family Vacation

11/9/2016 4:49:53 PM

fuck WRAL

11/13/2016 12:10:36 AM

perfect what they did for Phife

(dunno what ^ is about)

11/13/2016 12:11:41 AM

WRAL is muting out half the episode.

11/13/2016 12:27:14 AM

SNL is on a 5 min delay, has been for decades. It's not WRAL, it's actually NBC probably censoring whatever was done. It happened the entire 1.5hr and was obviously done during controversial things Chappelle was probably saying.

11/13/2016 1:03:01 AM

he said "niggas" and "pussy"

[Edited on November 13, 2016 at 1:08 AM. Reason : it wasn't censored on WCNC in Charlotte, fyi...so it's not just the NBC network]

11/13/2016 1:04:08 AM

They "censored" a bunch of shit.

It's pathetic, and it has made me sad.

11/13/2016 1:17:29 AM

First two skits (with Chris Rock and some of Chappelle's famous characters) were great but after that it seemed like your standard SNL episode.

11/13/2016 1:39:40 AM

I was watching on Dish out of a Charlotte station and didn't notice them muting anything.

11/13/2016 2:26:03 AM

I think Leonard Cohen died from embarrasssment over all of these shitty Hallelujah covers

11/13/2016 7:35:27 AM

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"SNL is on a 5 min delay, has been for decades. It's not WRAL, it's actually NBC probably censoring whatever was done. It happened the entire 1.5hr and was obviously done during controversial things Chappelle was probably saying."

http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/tv/warm-tv-blog/article114508293.html

11/13/2016 8:18:44 AM

They censored entire sentences containing the words that they found offensive, essentially making portions of the skits unintelligible.

They also seemed to whiff on the word "pussy" during the monologue and instead censored the next part of that sentence about the boss saying that it was okay.

11/13/2016 11:15:39 AM

Alec Bldwin said the word Pussy niumerous times in past episdoes recently but did not get sensored by WRAL at all.

Im lazy. Can someone point me in the direction of the full episdode uncensored online?

11/13/2016 6:30:16 PM

We just watched the recording. No censoring from our station. Awesome episode!

11/13/2016 6:36:36 PM

^^ Google SNL. It's on their site.

11/13/2016 6:44:22 PM

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"SNL is on a 5 min delay, has been for decades. It's not WRAL, it's actually NBC probably censoring whatever was done. It happened the entire 1.5hr and was obviously done during controversial things Chappelle was probably saying. "

One of the cast members said "fucking" twice last year (or maybe year before last) when she was clearly supposed to say freaking. How would this happen on a 5 minute delay?

11/14/2016 7:19:41 AM

Yeah WRAL being pricks. If you watched it online there were no muted parts. It completely changed the monologue for me and made it much better overall.

WRAL can go grab a pussy.

11/14/2016 9:08:32 AM

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"How would this happen on a 5 minute delay?"

I figure they knew Chapelle would be hosting and were prepared to use that delay button...also WTF with the 10 seconds? Why couldn't they just hit the word?

11/14/2016 9:40:33 AM

(there is no 5 minute delay)

11/14/2016 10:54:28 AM

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"One of the cast members said "fucking" twice last year (or maybe year before last) when she was clearly supposed to say freaking. How would this happen on a 5 minute delay?"

It was 2009. Only happened once, not twice. And led directly to motherfucking MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON.

11/14/2016 1:00:52 PM

Samuel L. Jackson did it too during "What's Up With That?"

11/14/2016 1:14:00 PM

^^ Damn I can't keep track of seasons of this show

11/14/2016 3:44:59 PM

I don't know if people were just freaking out over Chappelle, but I wasn't as impressed as everyone else was. It was pretty good, but not the "best SNL episode in years!!!" that everyone is proclaiming.

McKinnon's opening song was probably the strongest part on an emotional standpoint...but obviously it didn't add to the humor. Chappelle's monologue was probably a B. Some jokes were great...others soso. Skits were above average overall. The election party kind of sucked. The bar hook-up was decent. Breastfeeding was good...but anything Jones is in as a major part gets taken down a notch because she's just horrible. The Walking Dead honestly might have been the best...along with Mooney and Jones (exception to the Jones rule) hooking up.

11/15/2016 5:10:49 PM

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"It was 2009"

Nope it was last year. One of the new chicks. You're wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LsyDYwG2f4

[Edited on November 15, 2016 at 7:07 PM. Reason : k]

11/15/2016 7:05:17 PM

wat

11/15/2016 11:18:37 PM

Yah I'm not gonna pretend to know when all the F bombs have been dropped on SNL, but ^^ that link doesn't support your argument Buck.

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"It was pretty good, but not the "best SNL episode in years!!!" that everyone is proclaiming. "

Just to be clear, nobody here is proclaiming that right?

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"Chappelle's monologue was probably a B."

What are your last 5 >B SNL monologues?

11/16/2016 12:47:57 AM

^No one on here. But I woke up Sunday morning to dozens of "best SNL in years!!!" social media posts. This site doesn't have enough traffic to get a good pulse on much except for maybe NC State sports.

Give me some time on great monologues. I just know that I've been impressed by others and that I wasn't by Dave's. It was middling stand up for him.

11/16/2016 12:57:44 AM