Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2015–16
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The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during the forty-first season of SNL, which began on October 3, 2015.
Young girl interrupting porn shoots[]
The shooting of a porn movie is regularly interrupted by a young girl (Aidy Bryant), seemingly unaware of the fictional aspect of the scene she has stumbled into.
Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
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41 | October 10, 2015 | Amy Schumer | She interrupts the shooting of Hot For Teacher 8 (with Schumer and Kyle Mooney playing the actors) |
41 | January 16, 2016 | Adam Driver | She interrupts the shooting of The Doctor Is In... My Butt 4 (a gay porn with Driver and Beck Bennett playing the actors) |
43 | November 18, 2017 | Chance the Rapper | She interrupts the shooting of Skank Babysitter 17 (with Heidi Gardner and Chance playing the actors). This sketch was originally written for the Season 42 episode hosted by Dave Chappelle, with Cecily Strong in Gardner's part. |
Citizens forum[]
An array of eccentric people monopolize the podium during the citizens' forum of Bakersfield, California, to the dismay of two helpless councilors (Bobby Moynihan and Cecily Strong). The sketch was rebooted in season 47, this time taking place in a variety of situations such as a school board meeting and a tenant meeting.
Also features Aidy Bryant as disgruntled, middle-aged spinster Jan Krang and Kenan Thompson as costume store owner Gary Loomis. Kyle Mooney plays Dutch rapper MC Strategy in the season 41 sketches. In the season 47 sketches, he and Andrew Dismukes play two students who imply they have been doing something against the rules, and give the moderators a one-word insult after they are told they cannot keep doing it.
Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
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41 | October 10, 2015 | Amy Schumer | Schumer plays Amy Merryweather Sherman, a young child with strong (and discomforting) conservative beliefs. Also features Leslie Jones as Karen, an alcoholic, and Pete Davidson as Rick, a teen who asks the councilors if they are up-to-date with Justin Bieber's latest scandal. |
41 | January 23, 2016 | Ronda Rousey | Rousey plays Mary Bonham, who runs a traveling carnival and freak show. Also features Kate McKinnon as Mrs. Dodd, Pete Davidson as a young man who lost a drone, and Leslie Jones as a woman who leaves the meeting early. |
47 | October 2, 2021 | Owen Wilson | A school board meeting on COVID-19 safety policy. Alex Moffat and Ego Nwodim play the board members. Wilson plays Mr. Dodd, a middle school earth science teacher confused about the social distancing protocol. Also features Heidi Gardner as a woman concerned about critical race theory and Pete Davidson as Dog the Bounty Hunter. Kyle Mooney and Andrew Dismukes's characters are high school juniors in this sketch. |
47 | January 30, 2022 | Willem Dafoe | A tenant meeting at a New York City apartment building. Alex Moffat and Chloe Fineman play the landlords. Dafoe plays a bohemian who has been living in the building since 1971, and misses the old underground scene in New York. Also features Aristotle Athari as Milos, an Eastern European immigrant who attempts to communicate via Google Translate, Chris Redd as Robert, the building's doorman who is often mistakenly called "J'Marcus", Kenan Thompson as Mr. Carson, a man who gets noise complaints from sexual intercourse, and Kate McKinnon as Mrs. Bowman, an elderly woman who petitions for the limit on cats per unit to be raised to 75. Kyle Mooney and Andrew Dismukes's characters are students at New York University. |
Colleen Rafferty[]
Three people are being interrogated about a paranormal encounter or phenomenon they experienced. But Colleen Rafferty's (Kate McKinnon) recollection of the events vastly differs from the other two (played by Cecily Strong and the host), and is filled with unsavory details.
Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
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41 | December 5, 2015 | Ryan Gosling | Alien abduction |
41 | May 7, 2016 | Brie Larson | Near death experience |
42 | December 17, 2016 | Casey Affleck | Meeting Santa Claus |
43 | September 30, 2017 | Ryan Gosling | Another alien abduction[1] |
44 | November 10, 2018 | Liev Schreiber | Ghost encounter |
44 | May 18, 2019 | Paul Rudd | Time travel |
Deenie, somebody's mom[]
Deenie (Kate McKinnon) inaccurately recaps her favorite soap-operas on Weekend Update while eating from a plastic container.
Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
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41 | December 19, 2015 | Tina Fey, Amy Poehler | |
41 | April 9, 2016 | Russell Crowe |
Star Wars Undercover Boss[]
An Undercover Boss parody where Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) goes undercover as a low level employee to interact with his subordinates.
Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
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41 | January 16, 2016 | Adam Driver | Kylo Ren goes undercover as Matt, a radar technician. |
45 | January 25, 2020 | Adam Driver | Kylo Ren goes undercover as Randy, an entry level intern. |
America's Funniest Pets[]
The presenter of an animal-based video clip show invites the two presenters of a French similar series, Joelle LaRue and Noelle LeSoup (Cecily Strong, Kate McKinnon). He asks them to cohost the show and provide silly voiceovers for the clips. But said voiceovers turn out to be more depressing than their American counterpart.
Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
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41 | January 16, 2016 | Adam Driver | America's Funniest Cats, presented by Finn Reynolds (Driver) |
42 | October 22, 2016 | Tom Hanks | America's Funniest Pets, presented by filmmaker Ron Howard (Hanks) |
Another sketch, America's Funniest Dogs, was cut for time from the Peter Dinklage-hosted episode in Season 41.[2]
True Tales From The Sea[]
Adventurers down on their luck are rescued by a group of mostly beautiful mermaids, but that includes Shud (Kate McKinnon), a part-woman, part-blobfish mermaid who doesn't exactly enchant the men she's trying to seduce.
Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
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41 | March 12, 2016 | Ariana Grande | The mermaids (Cecily Strong, Grande, and McKinnon) meet three men. |
42 | March 11, 2017 | Scarlett Johansson | Scarlett Johansson plays Kunk, part-woman, part-anglerfish. |
Shanice Goodwin: Ninja[]
Despite her big stature and general clumsiness, Shanice Goodwin (Leslie Jones), cashier by day and ninja by night, is inexplicably a master of stealth.
Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
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41 | April 9, 2016 | Russell Crowe | |
42 | March 11, 2017 | Scarlett Johansson |
Chad[]
Pete Davidson plays Chad, an apathetic, easily distracted youth with limited conversational skills whose catchphrase is "okay". He's the heartbreaker of several people decades older than him, but he couldn't care less about their grand declarations of love. In one instance, he is the obsession of a psychopathic serial killer, but Chad takes no notice of the killer's attempts to torment him.
Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
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41 | April 16, 2016 | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Chad is a pool boy having an affair with his employer Ms. Handler (Louis-Dreyfus), a housewife. |
42 | November 5, 2016 | Benedict Cumberbatch | His philosophy teacher (Cumberbatch) tries to kiss him. |
43 | October 7, 2017 | Gal Gadot | He is "The Chosen One", chosen to take a queen (Cecily Strong)'s virginity in a Narnia-like fantasy land and save the kingdom. |
43 | December 2, 2017 | Saoirse Ronan | He takes part in a Tennis Club Bachelor Auction. Unlike the prior three sketches this was filmed live rather than pre-taped. John McEnroe appears in this sketch. |
43 | January 20, 2018 | Jessica Chastain | His doctor (Chastain) falls in love with him after saving his life. |
44 | March 2, 2019 | John Mulaney | Chad receives a call from a Scream-esque killer (Mulaney). |
44 | May 4, 2019 | Adam Sandler | Chad meets his long lost father (Sandler) after dying in an explosion caused by leaving a fork in the microwave. This sketch was cut for time, but later released online. |
45 | December 7, 2019 | Jennifer Lopez | Chad is the roadie for Lopez. Alex Rodriguez appears as himself. |
45 | February 8, 2020 | RuPaul | Ru trains Chad to be the next generation of drag. |
46 | October 24, 2020 | Adele | Chad stumbles onto a mansion haunted by the ghost of a murdered woman (Adele). |
46 | May 8, 2021 | Elon Musk | Chad canonically dies when he partially removes his helmet on a Mars mission. |
Suburban mothers[]
A group of suburban mothers engage in cult-like behavior in trying to convert a newer, inexperienced mother into doing something that would prove them of their motherhood.
Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
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41 | May 5, 2016 | Brie Larson | The moms (Bayer, Strong, Jones, Zamata, Bryant, McKinnon) teach a mom-to-be (Larson) about the "business in the front, party in the back" haircut that all suburban mothers get. |
42 | May 13, 2017 | Melissa McCarthy | The moms (Bayer, Strong, Jones, Zamata, Bryant, McKinnon, McCarthy) teach Jen (Villaseñor) about spirit animals. |
References[]
Preceded by Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2014–15 |
Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches (listed chronologically) | Succeeded by Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2016–17 |
- Lists of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches
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