The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between September 26, 2009, and May 15, 2010, the thirty-fifth season of SNL.
Jason Sudeikis and Will Forte are commentators in an ESPN Classic presentation of a women's sporting event from the 1980s or 1990s. While Sudeikis' Pete Twinkle attempts to engage Forte's Greg Stink in actual discussion or analysis of the event, Greg is incapable of even basic conversation. (Pete: "She just crushed a shot put with her bare hands!" Greg: "I've gotta correct you, Pete! She doesn't have bear hands, she has HUMAN hands! And people don't really say 'bear hands', they say 'paws.'")
The heart of the sketch is in the frequent asides where Pete promotes the feminine or sexual product sponsoring that day's event, using rhyming jingles such as "KY Jelly: Protect her from your girth, with the greatest lube on earth!"
The sketches are written by Forte, Sudeikis, and SNL writers John Lutz and John Solomon.[1] At the end of the 2009-2010 season, Forte told The A.V. Club, "I dislike the overuse of recurring characters as much as the next person, but we just have so much fun doing that sketch. I know we've done it a lot this year, but God, we have fun. That's kind of what it's all about."[2]
In January 2010, Pete Twinkle and Greg Stink hosted a two-hour special, SNL Presents: Sports All-Stars, featuring sports-related SNL clips.[1]
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 10, 2009 | Tampax to the Max Tournament of Champions 1991 (billiards)[3] [4] | ||
| December 5, 2009 | Vagisil Superstars of Bowling Tournament 1989[5] | ||
| January 16, 2010 | Summer's Eve Lady Stars of Darts Championship 1988[6] | ||
| February 27, 2010 | Gyne-Lotrimin Ladies' World Cup of Curling 1987[7] | ||
| April 17, 2010 | Today Sponge Women's Weightlifting Championship 1986[8] | ||
| April 2, 2011 | K-Y Jelly Ladies Shot Put Championship 1985[9] | ||
| May 12, 2012 | Stayfree Maxi Pads Ladies Long Drive Championship 1994 (golf);[10] Ferrell covers O.J. Simpson's police chase | ||
| February 15, 2015 | 40th Anniversary Special | Epilady feminine razors; as part of montage of famous sports sketches | |
See main article: What Up with That?. Talk show host Diondre Cole (Kenan Thompson) constantly interrupts his guests by breaking into song and introducing gimmicky performers. His third guest is always Lindsey Buckingham (played by Bill Hader) who never gets an opportunity to utter a word. On the May 14, 2011, episode, the real Lindsey Buckingham appears and manages to get a few words in, attempting to explain how there happens to be two of him, but he is cut off by Diondre Cole breaking back into his song before he can do so.
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 17, 2009 | Guests: An environmental activist (Abby Elliott), James Franco (as himself), Lindsey Buckingham (Bill Hader).[11] | ||
| November 21, 2009 | Guests: Al Gore (as himself), Mindy Kaling (as herself), Buckingham (Hader).[12] | ||
| December 19, 2009 | Guests: Mike Tyson (as himself), Jack McBrayer (as himself), Buckingham (Hader).[13] | ||
| March 6, 2010 | Guests: Paul Rudd (as himself), Frank Rich (as himself), Buckingham (Hader).[14] | ||
| October 2, 2010 | Guests: Morgan Freeman (as himself), Ernest Borgnine (as himself), Buckingham (Hader).[15] | ||
| December 4, 2010 | Guests: De Niro (as himself), Robin Williams (as himself), Buckingham (Hader).[16] | ||
| May 14, 2011 | Guests: Paul Simon (as himself), Chris Colfer (as himself), The real Lindsey Buckingham as an unexplained "another" Lindsey Buckingham, Lindsey Buckingham (Hader).[17] | ||
| February 18, 2012 | Guests: Bill O'Reilly (as himself), Kate Upton (as herself), Buckingham (Hader).[18] | ||
| December 15, 2012 | Guests: Samuel L. Jackson (as himself), Carrie Brownstein (as herself), Buckingham (Hader).[19] | ||
| February 15, 2015 | 40th Anniversary Special | As part of montage of famous musical sketches | |
| April 25, 2020 | no host | Quarantine Edition with guests: Charles Barkley and DJ Khaled | |
| October 23, 2021 | Guests: Oscar Isaac (as himself), Emily Ratajkowski (as herself), Nicholas Braun (as himself, although Cole mistook him for Lindsey Buckingham). | ||
Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig play obnoxious celebrity interviewers Brady Trunk and Anastasia Sticks.
A typical Hollywood Dish sketch starts with Trunk and Sticks introducing themselves to their guest just before the interview starts. During the interview they distract their guest by making strange faces and gestures. The guest becomes more and more uncomfortable throughout the interview. They tempt the guest in giving an over-the-top reaction to some experience she has had. The guest becomes so uncomfortable she wants to leave, but is convinced to answer one more question. This question is about her opinion about a television show the guest has not seen. Bill Hader does a spit-take in response. The guest leaves when she realises the interviewers are not listening to her anymore. The sketch ends with a promo to the recording in which Trunk and Sticks question their guest's sanity, showing the over-the-top reaction.
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 7, 2009 | [20] | ||
| February 27, 2010 | |||
| November 13, 2010 | [21] | ||
Fred Armisen stars in this sketch where a talk show's female host is unavailable and the show's abrasive, vulgar and misogynistic producer fills in to answer the audience's questions. Bill Hader appears as a crew member getting the questions from the audience.
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 21, 2009 | Woman to Woman | ||
| April 17, 2010 | Teen Talk[22] | ||
| September 25, 2010 | Maternity Matters[23] | ||
| December 11, 2010 | Sexually Speaking[24] | ||
| September 15, 2012 | Sex After 50[25] | ||
A parody of the 1960s game show Password, in which two contestants must guess hidden words based on clues from their celebrity partners. Bill Hader plays host Lyle Round, who often makes rude wisecracks about his wife; Kristen Wiig plays celebrity contestant Mindy Grayson, a washed-up stage actress. The celebrities spend more time displaying their egos and less on the game, which they are never good at playing. Kenan Thompson, as Grant Choad, took over Hader's role whenever Kristen returned to host.
The "Secret Word" sketches are written by James Anderson and Kent Sublette.[26]
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 21, 2009 | Levitt plays South American singer Ricardo Consoles. Will Forte and Jenny Slate play Wiig and Gordon-Levitt's respective partners. | |||
| March 13, 2010 | Law plays Russian ballet star Vladimir Kuchev. Kenan Thompson and Fred Armisen play Wiig and Law's respective partners.[27] | |||
| October 9, 2010 | Lynch plays comic Peggy Zellers. Armisen and Paul Brittain play and Lynch's respective partners.[28] | |||
| January 15, 2011 | Paltrow plays racist socialite Titsy Bismark Dublinson. Taran Killam and Thompson play Wiig and Paltrow's respective partners.[29] | |||
| May 21, 2011 | Timberlake plays illusionist The Amazing Crandell. Abby Elliott and Bobby Moynihan play Wiig and Timberlake's respective partners.[30] | |||
| November 12, 2011 | Stone plays pageant winner and ventriloquist Charlene Stumphries. Brittain and Killam play Wiig and Stone's respective partners.[31] | |||
| February 4, 2012 | Tatum plays Buster Allright an astronaut suffering flashbacks of alien anal probing. Nasim Pedrad and Andy Samberg play Wiig and Tatum's respective partners.[32] | |||
| May 19, 2012 | Jagger plays closeted actor Chaz Bragman. Vanessa Bayer and Killam play Wiig and Jagger's respective partners.[33] | |||
| November 19, 2016 | Cecily Strong plays actress Isabella Lola Coppola. Melissa Villaseñor and Moynihan playing Wiig and Strong's respective partners.[34] | |||
| December 19, 2020 | Kate McKinnon plays actress Elka Legerdi. Lauren Holt and Andrew Dismukes play Wiig and McKinnon's respective partners. |
As DJ Supersoak and Li'l Blaster, Jason Sudeikis and Nasim Pedrad host a series of commercials for bizarre music festivals, parodying the Gathering of the Juggalos. Bobby Moynihan appears in each one as special guest Ass Dan, and once as his identical twin brother, Butt Dave; Jay Pharoah appeared three times as "charity" promoter MC George Castanza.
The sketches are written by Mike O'Brien and Colin Jost; according to O'Brien, they were originally prompted by seeing a lengthy infomercial for the Gathering:
Colin and I decided we were going to write a parody. We came back at 3 a.m. I sat at the keyboard and he would doze in and out of sleep. Every once in a while he'd say something. "Hot dog explosion. Cast of Growing Pains." Then he'd go back to sleep. Then it would be both of us staring for a while. "Fart Monsters. Return of the Fart Monsters. Mrs. Potato Dick." And that's the first one where I really couldn't stop laughing.[35]
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 5, 2009 | Kickspit Underground Rock Festival | ||
| December 18, 2010 | Crunkmas Karnival[36] | ||
| April 9, 2011 | Crunk-Ass Easter Festival[37] | ||
| October 8, 2011 | Columbus Day Assblast[38] | ||
| October 20, 2012 | Donkey Punch the Ballot[39] | ||
The original sketch was first performed in dress rehearsal for the November 14, 2009, episode, featuring the episode's host January Jones instead of Pedrad, but was cut before airing. The version with Pedrad was performed in dress rehearsal for the November 21, 2009, episode, but was again cut before airing.
On the April 17, 2010, episode, the characters appeared in an "Underground Rock Minute" sketch introducing a new video from the "Thrilla Killa Klownz", played by Moynihan, as Ass Dan, and the episode's host Ryan Phillippe. The video was a parody of the video for the Insane Clown Posse's song "Miracles".
Jenny Slate plays the proprietor of an array of custom doorbells, car horns and alarm clocks, each of which features Cheneuse's voice simply speaking a phrase (such as, in a doorbell for someone who likes computers, "Ding dong! Router! Netflix! What?").
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 12, 2009 | Doorbells and More[40] | ||
| February 27, 2010 | Car Horns and More[41] | ||
| April 24, 2010 | Alarm Clocks and More[42] | ||
Fred Armisen and Kristen Wiig appear on Weekend Update as a musical duo who, having forgotten they were scheduled to perform, are forced to improvise holiday songs live on air. Garth and Kat insist that the songs are written in advance, and repeatedly beg Seth Meyers to continue performing, despite being wholly unprepared.
Wiig confirmed in an interview that Garth and Kat performances are unrehearsed; Armisen leads each song and she "just [tries] to follow." She told Movieline, "It's the most fun I have because so much of the show is writing, working, deadlines, trying to figure things out, punching up your sketch, knowing you're going to perform live. And that two and a half minutes of airtime is so freeing and fun."[43]
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 19, 2009 | ||||
| February 6, 2010 | [44] | |||
| May 15, 2010 | [45] | |||
| October 30, 2010 | [46] | |||
| January 15, 2011 | Paltrow appears as Garth & Kat's new songwriter, Kim Castle. | |||
| May 14, 2011 | ||||
| November 12, 2011 | Chris Martin (from that week's musical guest Coldplay) appears as Garth & Kat's new back-up singer. | |||
| April 14, 2012 | [47] | |||
| May 11, 2013 | This was Wiig's first appearance on SNL following her departure from the show. | |||
| Dec 20, 2014 | ||||
| February 15, 2015 | 40th Anniversary Special | As part of montage of famous musical sketches |
Fred Armisen hosts a Latino talk show in which everyone dances wildly as each guest enters or exits.
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 19, 2009 | |||
| May 8, 2010 | [48] | ||
| November 13, 2010 | |||
| October 15, 2011 | [49] | ||
| April 7, 2012 | [50] | ||
Nasim Pedrad plays an adolescent girl who finds her parents and other adults to be much more enthralling than kids her own age.
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 10, 2010 | At a school dance, Bedelia would rather spend time with her mother (Fey), who's chaperoning, than with her classmates.[51] | ||
| May 15, 2010 | Bedelia hangs out with her dad (Baldwin) at her birthday party cookout.[52] | ||
| May 7, 2011 | Bedelia wants her mother (Fey) to attend a sleepover with her.[53] | ||
In the dress rehearsal for the December 18, 2010, episode (hosted by Jeff Bridges), a sketch appeared in which Bedelia wanted to hang out with her drama teacher (Bridges) rather than her classmates; the sketch was cut for the live episode.
Jason Sudeikis appears on Weekend Update to comment on the week's news as the Devil. Sudeikis has also appeared as Jesus in several sketches, portraying an almost identical personality and mannerisms as his portrayal of the Devil.
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 10, 2010 | The Devil is outraged by the Catholic sex abuse scandal.[54] | ||
| March 5, 2011 | The Devil is disgusted by the Westboro Baptist Church's funeral protests.[55] | ||
| May 7, 2011 | The Devil is annoyed by Osama bin Laden's recent arrival in Hell. | ||
| November 12, 2011 | The Devil is horrified by the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. | ||
| May 18, 2013 | Appears with other characters in the background of Stefon sketch.[56] | ||
| October 23, 2021 | |||
Mort Mort Feingold (Andy Samberg) is an old-school, low tech, Jewish CPA with an old-fashioned adding machine on his desk and stacks upon stacks of paper files all over his office. He specializes in preparing tax returns for wealthy celebrities, and the sketches lampoon the publicly perceived lifestyles, eccentricities, and vices of those celebrities through Mort Mort's comments about their financial records. Mort Mort himself is a composite of good-natured Jewish stereotypes, and throughout each sketch he delivers a steady stream of Borscht Belt comic style self-deprecating one liners about himself and about his clients' public images. A running gag in the sketches is that Mort Mort is extremely short of stature. In one installment of the sketch, he displays a photo of himself with his good friend Danny DeVito, which has been digitally manipulated to make Andy Samberg (in character as Mort Mort) appear to be several inches shorter than DeVito. The illusion of shortness is achieved in the live sketch via very simple forced perspective (specifically, Samberg is seated behind a normal-height desk on an unseen extremely low chair).
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 17, 2010 | Phillippe plays Robert Pattinson. | ||
| April 9, 2011 | Mirren plays Helena Bonham Carter. | ||
Bobby Moynihan appears on Weekend Update as a "second-hand news correspondent", offering the latest headlines, each of which he's slightly misunderstood (for example, that President Obama is "going to repeal the Bush haircuts").
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 17, 2010 | ||||
| October 2, 2010 | [57] | |||
| January 8, 2011 | [58] [59] | |||
| March 5, 2011 | [60] | |||
| May 14, 2011 | ||||
| October 15, 2011 | [61] | |||
| January 19, 2013 | [62] [63] | |||
| May 11, 2013 | [64] | |||
| October 26, 2013 | ||||
| December 6, 2014 | ||||
| December 5, 2015 | Gosling appears as Angelo Skaggs. |