Saturday Night Live/Season Forty-Two

Season Forty-Two
Saturday Night Live
Season Premiere	October 1, 2016
Season Finale	May 20, 2017
Episode Count	21 + 1 special
Previous Season Forty-One	Next Weekend Update Summer 2017

Season Forty-Two of Saturday Night Live premiered on October 1, 2016.

Cast

Main Cast:

• Vanessa Bayer
• Beck Bennett
• Aidy Bryant
• Michael Che (Weekend Update anchor)
• Pete Davidson
• Leslie Jones
• Colin Jost (Weekend Update anchor)
• Kate McKinnon
• Kyle Mooney
• Bobby Moynihan
• Cecily Strong
• Kenan Thompson
• Sasheer Zamata

Featuring:

• Mikey Day
• Alex Moffat
• Melissa Villaseñor

Episodes

#	#	Title			Airdate
810	1	Margot Robbie/The Weeknd			October 1, 2016
811	2	Lin-Manuel Miranda/Twenty One Pilots			October 8, 2016
812	3	Emily Blunt/Bruno Mars			October 15, 2016
813	4	Tom Hanks/Lady Gaga			October 22, 2016
814	5	Benedict Cumberbatch/Solange Knowles			November 5, 2016
SP	SP	The 2016 SNL Election Special			November 7, 2016
815	6	Dave Chappelle/A Tribe Called Quest			November 12, 2016
816	7	Kristen Wiig/The xx			November 19, 2016
817	8	Emma Stone/Shawn Mendes			December 3, 2016
818	9	John Cena/Maren Morris			December 10, 2016
819	10	Casey Affleck/Chance the Rapper			December 17, 2016
820	11	Felicity Jones/Sturgill Simpson			January 14, 2017
821	12	Aziz Ansari/Big Sean			January 21, 2017
822	13	Kristen Stewart/Alessia Cara			February 4, 2017
823	14	Alec Baldwin/Ed Sheeran			February 11, 2017
824	15	Octavia Spencer/Father John Misty			March 4, 2017
825	16	Scarlett Johansson/Lorde			March 11, 2017
826	17	Louis C.K./The Chainsmokers			April 8, 2017
827	18	Jimmy Fallon/Harry Styles			April 15, 2017
828	19	Chris Pine/LCD Soundsystem			May 6, 2017
829	20	Melissa McCarthy/HAIM			May 13, 2017
830	21	Dwayne Johnson/Katy Perry			May 20, 2017