Saturday Night Live season 37

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Saturday Night Live
Season 37
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No. of episodes22
Release
Original network NBC
Original releaseSeptember 24, 2011 (2011-09-24) 
May 19, 2012 (2012-05-19)
Season chronology
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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.

Vanessa Bayer, Paul Brittain, Taran Killam, and Jay Pharoah all remained as featured players. [2] Brittain, who had joined the show for season 36 alongside Bayer, Killam, and Pharoah, exited abruptly halfway through this season, making his final appearance on January 14, 2012. [3] Following Brittain's departure, impressionist and writer Kate McKinnon, previously a cast member on The Big Gay Sketch Show , joined the cast midseason, as a featured player, 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 (Denny Dillon from the 1980–81 season was SNL's first lesbian cast member but Dillon's sexuality was not public knowledge until much later). [7]

This was the final season for longtime cast members 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] Elliott was let go from the show following the finale, while Wiig and Samberg both left on their own terms.

Cast roster

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

Writers

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. [11] 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. [12] [13] This was also the last season for writer John Mulaney, who had been there since 2008. [14]

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. [15] 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. [16] 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

No.
overall
No. in
season
HostMusical guest(s)Original air dateRatings/
Share
7031 Alec Baldwin Radiohead September 24, 20115.0/13

7042 Melissa McCarthy Lady Antebellum October 1, 20115.2/13

7053 Ben Stiller Foster the People October 8, 20114.8/12

7064 Anna Faris Drake October 15, 20114.8/12

7075 Charlie Day Maroon 5 November 5, 20114.9/11

7086 Emma Stone Coldplay November 12, 20114.5/11

7097 Jason Segel Florence + The Machine November 19, 20114.6/11

7108 Steve Buscemi The Black Keys December 3, 20114.8/11

7119 Katy Perry Robyn December 10, 20114.8/11

71210 Jimmy Fallon Michael Bublé December 17, 20115.3/13

71311 Charles Barkley Kelly Clarkson January 7, 20127.4/18

71412 Daniel Radcliffe Lana Del Rey January 14, 20125.2/12

71513 Channing Tatum Bon Iver February 4, 20124.7/11

71614 Zooey Deschanel Karmin February 11, 20125.0/12

71715 Maya Rudolph Sleigh Bells February 18, 20124.9/12

71816 Lindsay Lohan Jack White March 3, 20125.5/14

71917 Jonah Hill The Shins March 10, 20124.3/11

72018 Sofía Vergara One Direction April 7, 20125.0/16 [34]

72119 Josh Brolin Gotye April 14, 20124.6/11 [35]

72220 Eli Manning Rihanna May 5, 20125.2/13 [36]

72321 Will Ferrell Usher May 12, 20125.1/13

72422 Mick Jagger Mick Jagger
(with Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, Jeff Beck)
May 19, 20125.2/13

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