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The forty-seventh season of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live premiered on October 2, 2021, during the 2021–22 television season with host Owen Wilson and musical guest Kacey Musgraves, [1][2] and concluded on May 21, 2022 with host Natasha Lyonne and musical guest Japanese Breakfast. [3]
The forty-sixth season of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live premiered on October 3, 2020, during the 2020–21 television season with host Chris Rock and musical guest Megan Thee Stallion, [1] [2] [3] and concluded on May 22, 2021, with host Anya Taylor-Joy and musical guest Lil Nas X.
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The 47th season of Saturday Night Live premiered on October 2, 2021, with host Owen Wilson and musical guest Kacey Musgraves, and concluded on May 21, 2022, with host Natasha Lyonne and musical guest Japanese Breakfast.
Prior to the season, longtime cast member Beck Bennett departed after spending eight seasons on the show since 2013. Featured player Lauren Holt had both left the show at the end of the previous season. Despite Bennett and Holt's departures, the rest of the cast from the previous season was retained.
Three new featured players were added: comedic actor and filmmaker Aristotle Athari, impressionist and actor James Austin Johnson, and surrealist comedian Sarah Sherman. Sherman is now the second youngest female cast member and the sixth cast member in the current cast overall to be born in the 1990s, after former first year cast members Luke Null and Holt. Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang, who had been with the cast since Season 45, were both promoted to repertory status, while Andrew Dismukes and Punkie Johnson, both of whom were hired for Season 46, remained as featured players.
While credited, Kate McKinnon did not appear in the first seven episodes of the season, as she was filming the Peacock drama streaming limited series Joe vs. Carole. She returned for the December 11, 2021 episode, hosted by Billie Eilish. Similarly, Cecily Strong missed from the January episodes of 2022, due to her starring in the Off-Broadway play The Search for Signs of Inteligent Life in the Universe. Pete Davidson was absent from the thirteenth episode until the twentieth episode due to filming the movie The Home.
Just before the start of the season, SNL lost four former cast members. Former cast member and Weekend Update anchor Norm MacDonald died on September 14, 2021, after a nine-year battle with leukemia. Two months later, former featured player Peter Aykroyd (the brother of Dan Aykroyd) died of sepsis on November 6, 2021. Late in the season, former cast member Gilbert Gottfried died after a long illness on April 12, 2022, and Dan Vitale died from heart disease on May 6, 2022.
In the leadup to the finale, Deadline and Variety reported it would be the final season for Aidy Bryant (who had been a cast member since 2012), Pete Davidson (a cast member since 2014), Kate McKinnon (a cast member since 2012), and Kyle Mooney (cast member since 2013). During the week of April 30, McKinnon's first episode (April 7, 2012) aired in the SNL Vintage timeslot. Michael Che had announced in late March that he would depart the Update desk at the end of the season, but ultimately decided to remain. He later stated that he'd changed his mind after producer Lorne Michaels had agreed to give him more time for side projects.
ChangesRepertory PlayersFeatured Players•Peter Aykroyd (November 6, 2021)
•Gilbert Gottfried (April 12, 2022)
Oct 3, 2021 · Saturday Night Live has unveiled the cast of its new season, with two performers leaving. Beck Bennett, who joined the sketch show in 2013 and became a regular in 2015, is departing after eight...
This was Anya Taylor-Joy's hosting debut and the musical guest debut on SNL for Lil Nas X. This marked the final episode for longtime cast member Beck Bennett (a cast member since 2013), as he left the show after eight years.
Oct 23, 2021 · The 913th episode and 4th episode of Saturday Night Live 's 47th season premiered on October 23, 2021, hosted by longtime former cast member Jason Sudeikis, star of the Apple TV+ sports comedy-drama television series Ted Lasso with musical guest Brandi Carlile, a singer and songwriter.
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Sep 27, 2021 · As of this writing, Beck Bennett and Lauren Holt are not returning. The casting announcements arrive after a longer-than-usual process, as producer Lorne Michaels reportedly got serious about...
