Saturday Night Live (season 35)

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The title card for the thirty-fifth season of Saturday Night Live.
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 22
Release
Original network NBC
Original release September 26, 2009 (2009-09-26) – May 15, 2010 (2010-05-15)
Season chronology
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List of Saturday Night Live episodes

The thirty-fifth season of Saturday Night Live (also branded SNL 35), an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 26, 2009, and May 15, 2010.

A total of 22 episodes were broadcast during the show's eight-month-long season, which included a two-week break in February due to the 2010 Winter Olympics. The season was accompanied by three prime-time episodes of Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday and three prime-time SNL clip shows.

A notable moment of the season was when an internet campaign was created to get actress Betty White to host an episode of the show. The campaign was started in early 2010 on Facebook and the group was called "Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!" The campaign was successful, and White became the oldest person ever to host the show. For White's episode, Lorne Michaels brought back former cast members Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon. The episode garnered the show's highest ratings in over a year. with a rating of 5.8 in the 18–49 rating, demographic and with 12.1 million viewers overall.[1]

Cast

Before the start of the season, Darrell Hammond, who was the last cast member from the 1990s, left the show. At the time he became the longest-running cast member with a total of 14 seasons, he would later be surpassed by Kenan Thompson in 2017. Featured players Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson were both let go from the show before the start of the season.[2] To fill their absence the show brought in two new featured players, Nasim Pedrad of The Groundlings and stand-up comic Jenny Slate.[3] Abby Elliott and Bobby Moynihan remained as featured players.

This would be the last season for longtime cast member Will Forte, who had been with the cast for 8 seasons since 2002.[4] This would also be the only season for featured player Jenny Slate.

Cast roster

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

Writers

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Second City theater performer Mike O'Brien joins the writing staff.[5] He would join the cast for the show's thirty-ninth season. Season 35 would prove to be the final season with Lonely Island member Jorma Taccone as a credited writer. He would make contributions to select Lonely Island sketches.

Episodes

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Main article: List of Saturday Night Live episodes
No.
overall		 No. in
season		 Host Musical guest Original air date Ratings/
Share
659 1 Megan Fox U2 September 26, 2009 (2009-09-26) 4.6/11[6]
660 2 Ryan Reynolds Lady Gaga October 3, 2009 (2009-10-03) 4.7/12[7]
661 3 Drew Barrymore Regina Spektor October 10, 2009 (2009-10-10) 4.6/11[8]
662 4 Gerard Butler Shakira October 17, 2009 (2009-10-17) 4.8/11[9]
663 5 Taylor Swift Taylor Swift November 7, 2009 (2009-11-07) 5.0/12[10]
664 6 January Jones The Black Eyed Peas November 14, 2009 (2009-11-14) 4.7/12[11]
665 7 Joseph Gordon-Levitt Dave Matthews Band November 21, 2009 (2009-11-21) 4.3/11[12]
666 8 Blake Lively Rihanna December 5, 2009 (2009-12-05) 4.4/12[13]
667 9 Taylor Lautner Bon Jovi December 12, 2009 (2009-12-12) 5.1/12[14]
668 10 James Franco Muse December 19, 2009 (2009-12-19) 4.4/11[15]
669 11 Charles Barkley Alicia Keys January 9, 2010 (2010-01-09) 4.4/19[16]
670 12 Sigourney Weaver The Ting Tings January 16, 2010 (2010-01-16) 5.4/14[17]
671 13 Jon Hamm Michael Bublé January 30, 2010 (2010-01-30) 5.0/12[18]
672 14 Ashton Kutcher Them Crooked Vultures February 6, 2010 (2010-02-06) 5.3/13[19]
673 15 Jennifer Lopez Jennifer Lopez February 27, 2010 (2010-02-27) 6.3/15[20]
674 16 Zach Galifianakis Vampire Weekend March 6, 2010 (2010-03-06) 5.0/12[21]
675 17 Jude Law Pearl Jam March 13, 2010 (2010-03-13) 4.5/11[22]
676 18 Tina Fey Justin Bieber April 10, 2010 (2010-04-10) 5.7/14[23]
677 19 Ryan Phillippe Ke$ha April 17, 2010 (2010-04-17) 5.2/13[24]
678 20 Gabourey Sidibe MGMT April 24, 2010 (2010-04-24) 4.7/12[25]
679 21 Betty White Jay-Z May 8, 2010 (2010-05-08) 8.8/21[26]
680 22 Alec Baldwin Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers May 15, 2010 (2010-05-15) 5.8/14[27]

Specials

Title Original air date
"Saturday Night Live Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas" December 17, 2009 (2009-12-17)
"Saturday Night Live Presents: Sports All-Stars" January 31, 2010 (2010-01-31)
"Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again" April 15, 2010 (2010-04-15)

Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday

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Main article: Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday

The second season of Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday, a limited-run series based on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" sketch, has aired in conjunction with this season. The show is hosted by Seth Meyers, Update's current host, and former Update co-host Amy Poehler. Like the sketch, the show is a parody of local news broadcasts and satirizes contemporary news stories and figures. As of June 2010, three episodes have aired. An additional three episodes were scheduled to air in spring 2010, but were scrapped.[28]

Episode number Original airdate Notes
Episode 1 September 17, 2009
Episode 2 September 24, 2009
Episode 3 October 1, 2009

MacGruber film

The first SNL film since 2000's The Ladies Man, MacGruber was released on May 21, 2010. The film, starring SNL cast members Will Forte and Kristen Wiig and former cast member Maya Rudolph, is based on the "MacGruber" sketches from the show. It received mixed reviews from critics and, in spite of a wide initial release, was a box office bomb. After a two-week opening commitment during which it was shown in 2,546 theaters, it was dropped from all but 177 theaters starting in its third week, a drop exceeded since 1982 only by Meet Dave and The Rocker.[29]

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