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Saturday Night Live Season 38 Episodes
Season 38 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
Seth MacFarlane/Frank Ocean
Sat, Sep 15, 201290 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
Episode 2
Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Mumford & Sons
Sat, Sep 22, 201290 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
Episode 3
Daniel Craig/Muse
Sat, Oct 6, 201290 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
Episode 4
Christina Applegate/Passion Pit
Sat, Oct 13, 201290 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, featuring Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson, and Cecily Strong. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
Episode 5
Bruno Mars
Sat, Oct 20, 201290 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, featuring Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson, and Cecily Strong. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
Episode 6
Louis C.K./Fun
Sat, Nov 3, 201290 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, featuring Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson, and Cecily Strong. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
Episode 7
Anne Hathaway/Rihanna
Sat, Nov 10, 201290 mins
After a defeated Mitt Romney (Sudeikis) goes on a lactose binge, Anne Hathaway hosts: the SNL cast joins her in a faux song from "Les Mis," and she plays a new best friend on a teen talk show, a woman transfixed by a dancing Japanese zombie, a McDonald's manager about to announce layoffs, an addled Carrie Mathison in a spoof of "Homeland," Katie Holmes guesting on "Ellen," and the woman posing for Grant Woods's "American Gothic." President Obama (Pharoah), two gay lobstermen from Maine, and Drunk Uncle appear on "Weekend Update." Rihanna sings "Diamonds" and "Stay." Flaritin, a pill for fake allergies, sponsors the show.
Episode 8
Jeremy Renner/Maroon 5
Sat, Nov 17, 201290 mins
After Paula Broadwell (Strong) reads salacious pages from her biography of David Petraeus, Jeremy Renner hosts, playing rejected movie theme songs on a piano, an attorney on "The Californians," a gunman in an intimate Mexican standoff, an arrowless Hawkeye in "The Avengers," a A-list actor in a scene with an over-amped extra, the putative mayor of Tampa commenting about Jill Kelley to CNN, a clueless guy asked to identify his brother's body at a morgue. There's a cartoon about drones, an appearance by Chris Christie on "Weekend Update," a commercial for the Hometown Tourism Board, and performances by Maroon 5 of "One More Night" and "Daylight."
Episode 9
Jamie Foxx/Ne-Yo
Sat, Dec 8, 201290 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, featuring Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson, and Cecily Strong. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
Episode 10
Martin Short/Paul McCartney
Sat, Dec 15, 201290 mins
After a children's choir sings "Silent Night," Martin Short hosts, singing as the walks through the set (cameos abound), then playing Tony Bennett's brother on a Christmas show, Buckingham Palace's protocol chief coaching Kate Middleton's OB/GYN, Larry David in a star-studded revival of "You're a Rat Bastard, Charlie Brown," running into a high school friend at a hardware store, and a tightly-wound amateur singer auditioning with a put-upon triangle player. Paul McCartney performs "Cut Me Some Slack" with Nirvana and "Wonderful Christmas Time" with the children's chorus. "What's Up With That" ignores Samuel L. Jackson and Carrie Brownstein.
Episode 11
Jennifer Lawrence/The Lumineers
Sat, Jan 19, 201390 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, featuring Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson, and Cecily Strong. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
Episode 12
Adam Levine/Kendrick Lamar
Sat, Jan 26, 201390 mins
After Obama receives a midnight visit on Inauguration Day from the all-too-human ghost of Dr. King, Adam Levine hosts - getting advice from Andy Samberg, Cameron Diaz, and Jerry Seinfeld. He co-hosts a show on the Gay Network, plays a future Mafioso with Tony Soprano in high school, chats with a firefighter's ex-girlfriend at a party, hosts a spoof of MTV's "Catfish," gets into a bar face-off with three other rock-band leaders, backs Samberg in a digital short ("You Only Live Once"), and goes to an unlikely groupie's apartment after a concert. Rosetta Stone sponsors the episode; Kendrick Lamar performs.
Episode 13
Justin Bieber
Sat, Feb 9, 201390 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, featuring Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson, and Cecily Strong. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
Episode 14
Christoph Waltz/Alabama Shakes
Sat, Feb 16, 201390 mins
Christoph Waltz hosts an episode that leans into his darkly comedic style, highlighted by Djesus Uncrossed, a Tarantino-inspired trailer where he plays a resurrected Jesus seeking revenge. Additional sketches feature him as a polite European baffled by American habits and a menacing dating-show contestant. Alabama Shakes provide two performances, rounding out a night of sharp satire and cinematic parody.
Episode 15
Kevin Hart/Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Sat, Mar 2, 201390 mins
After President Obama (Pharoah) explains sequestration, Kevin Hart hosts: he plays Quvenzhane Wallis as the new Pope, a bitten interloper on "The Walking Dead," a horse-phobic guest on Steve Harvey's show, an over-amped pitchman for Z-shirts, Seth Meyer's partner in a "Really?!" sketch, the neck-braced host of "360 News," an actor reading for a Dove Chocolate commercial, a guy pitching a product on "Shark Tank," a bookstore manager who has to fire someone, and a gadfly at a funeral. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis (with Wanz) perform "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us"; a spoof of Starbucks Verismo airs.
Episode 16
Justin Timberlake
Sat, Mar 9, 201390 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, featuring Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson, and Cecily Strong. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
Episode 17
Melissa McCarthy/Phoenix
Sat, Apr 6, 201390 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City.� This season, the cast includes Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, featuring Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson, and Cecily Strong.
Episode 18
Vince Vaughn/Miguel
Sat, Apr 13, 201390 mins
Sketches include Gun Control Cold Open, Vince Audience Monologue, Pacino Promo, The Weather Channel, History Of Punk, Short-Term Memory Loss Theatre, Weekend Update including Jason & Kenan as Brad Paisley & LL Cool J, and Kate as Marina Chapman (Raised by Monkeys), Junior Prom, and Last Call.
Episode 19
Zach Galifianakis/Of Monsters and Men
Sat, May 4, 201390 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, featuring Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson, and Cecily Strong.
Episode 20
Kristen Wiig/Vampire Weekend
Sat, May 11, 201390 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, featuring Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson, and Cecily Strong. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
Episode 21
Ben Affleck/Kanye West
Sat, May 18, 201390 mins
America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 38th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson, featuring Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Tim Robinson, and Cecily Strong. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
