Saturday Night Live season 37
The title card for the thirty-seventh season of Saturday Night Live. | |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 22 |
Release | |
Original network | NBC |
Original release | September 24, 2011 | – May 19, 2012
The thirty-seventh season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 24, 2011, and May 19, 2012.[1]
Contents
Cast
The season began with minimal changes to the cast, as everyone from the prior year returned. The only major change was Nasim Pedrad being upgraded to repertory status.[2]
Featured player Paul Brittain exited abruptly halfway through the season, making his final appearance on January 14, 2012.[3]
Kate McKinnon, previously a cast member on The Big Gay Sketch Show, joined the cast mid-season, as a featured player for the last five episodes of the season, making her debut on April 7, 2012, following a March 28, 2012, report of her being hired.[4][5] McKinnon is SNL's first openly gay cast member hired since Terry Sweeney in 1985,[6] and the show's first openly gay female cast member (Danitra Vance from the 1985–86 season was SNL's first lesbian cast member but Vance's sexuality was not public knowledge until her death in 1994).[7]
This was the final season for Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg, both cast members since 2005,[8][9] as well as for Abby Elliott, who had been a cast member since 2008.[10]
Cast roster
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Featured players
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bold denotes Weekend Update anchor
Writers
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This season saw several new writers. CollegeHumor writer Sarah Schneider was added to the writing staff, after serving as a guest writer for the last five episodes of season 36.[12] Also added were Chris Kelly, who previously wrote for Funny or Die and The Onion News Network; Zach Kanin, who worked on the Harvard Lampoon; and Peter Schultz, a performer from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.[13][14] This was also the last season for writer John Mulaney who had been there since 2008. [15]
The season saw the deaths of three former SNL writers. Nelson Lyon died at the age of 73 due to liver cancer; Lyon wrote for the show during its seventh season.[16] Mark O'Donnell, who also wrote during the show's seventh season, died of a heart attack at the age of 58 outside his apartment in New York.[17] Tom Davis, who was one of the original SNL writers and appeared in multiple sketches over the years died after a three-year battle with throat and neck cancer.
Episodes
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No. overall |
No. in season |
Host | Musical guest(s) | Original air date | Ratings/ Share |
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703 | 1 | Alec Baldwin | Radiohead | September 24, 2011 | 5.0/13 |
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704 | 2 | Melissa McCarthy | Lady Antebellum | October 1, 2011 | 5.2/13 |
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705 | 3 | Ben Stiller | Foster the People | October 8, 2011 | 4.8/12 |
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706 | 4 | Anna Faris | Drake | October 15, 2011 | 4.8/12 |
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707 | 5 | Charlie Day | Maroon 5 | November 5, 2011 | 4.9/11 |
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708 | 6 | Emma Stone | Coldplay | November 12, 2011 | 4.5/11 |
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709 | 7 | Jason Segel | Florence + The Machine | November 19, 2011 | 4.6/11 |
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710 | 8 | Steve Buscemi | The Black Keys | December 3, 2011 | 4.8/11 |
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711 | 9 | Katy Perry | Robyn | December 10, 2011 | 4.8/11 |
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712 | 10 | Jimmy Fallon | Michael Bublé | December 17, 2011 | 5.3/13 |
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713 | 11 | Charles Barkley | Kelly Clarkson | January 7, 2012 | 7.4/18 |
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714 | 12 | Daniel Radcliffe | Lana Del Rey | January 14, 2012 | 5.2/12 |
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715 | 13 | Channing Tatum | Bon Iver | February 4, 2012 | 4.7/11 |
716 | 14 | Zooey Deschanel | Karmin | February 11, 2012 | 5.0/12 |
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717 | 15 | Maya Rudolph | Sleigh Bells | February 18, 2012 | 4.9/12 |
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718 | 16 | Lindsay Lohan | Jack White | March 3, 2012 | 5.5/14 |
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719 | 17 | Jonah Hill | The Shins | March 10, 2012 | 4.3/11 |
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720 | 18 | Sofía Vergara | One Direction | April 7, 2012 | 5.0/16[35] |
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721 | 19 | Josh Brolin | Gotye | April 14, 2012 | 4.6/11[36] |
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722 | 20 | Eli Manning | Rihanna | May 5, 2012 | 5.2/13[37] |
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723 | 21 | Will Ferrell | Usher | May 12, 2012 | 5.1/13 |
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724 | 22 | Mick Jagger | Mick Jagger (with Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, Jeff Beck) |
May 19, 2012 | 5.2/13 |
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