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The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced between September 29, 2007, and May 17, 2008, the thirty-third season of SNL.
Claiming to be a political comedian, Nicholas Fehn (Fred Armisen) takes the top headlines from newspapers and offers his own "skewed view" of them. However, he never actually manages to say anything satirical or clever, often simply shouting "C'mon!" or "No!" and sometimes "Who asked?!" When confronted with his lack of humorous material, he will try to defend himself, but will get only about a dozen or so words into each thought when he will go off on a tangent, resulting in his argument going nowhere. On a live episode of WTF with Marc Maron, Armisen revealed that Fehn was partially inspired by Maron, David Cross, and himself.
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | October 13, 2007 | Jon Bon Jovi | |
| 33 | March 1, 2008 | Ellen Page | |
| 33 | April 12, 2008 | Ashton Kutcher | |
| 34 | September 13, 2008 | Michael Phelps | |
| 34 | October 25, 2008 | Jon Hamm | |
| 35 | November 7, 2009 | Taylor Swift | |
| 37 | January 7, 2012 | Charles Barkley | |
Judy Grimes is Weekend Update's Travel Expert, played by Kristen Wiig. Grimes suffers from extreme stage fright, causing her to appear visibly nervous and talk in long, fast-paced sentences; she often uses the phrase "just kidding" to punctuate her run-on sentences. In her first appearance she talked in small portions and laughed nervously throughout them, but now it has shifted into very long parts.
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | April 12, 2008 | Ashton Kutcher | |
| 34 | September 27, 2008 | Anna Faris | |
| 34 | January 17, 2009 | Rosario Dawson | |
| 35 | September 26, 2009 | Megan Fox | |
| 35 | April 24, 2010 | Gabourey Sidibe | |
| 37 | November 5, 2011 | Charlie Day | |
Jean K. Jean, portrayed by Kenan Thompson, is a black comedian signed by Def Jam France, but speaks perfect English and whose act consists of Americanized urban quips and zings. The punchline of these zings incorporate French words or references. Once accomplishing the zing, he shouts "Zut Alors!", stands up, and grooves to a hip-hop beat, waits three seconds and gives the cut-off hand signal (swift hand movement across the neck). The music stops sharply on his cue, he sits back down, and shouts "Incroyable!" His attire consists of various outfits, but the only stereotypical French items appearing in all of his appearances is a beret and a scarf. Jean K. Jean is occasionally introduced as being from Paris but according to one segment he claims to be from Marseille.
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | March 8, 2008 | Amy Adams | |
| 33 | May 10, 2008 | Shia LaBeouf | |
| 34 | October 18, 2008 | Josh Brolin | |
| 34 | April 4, 2009 | Seth Rogen | |
| 35 | September 26, 2009 | Megan Fox | |
| 35 | February 6, 2010 | Ashton Kutcher | |
| 36 | April 9, 2011 | Helen Mirren | |
| 38 | October 13, 2012 | Christina Applegate | |
| 38 | May 18, 2013 | Ben Affleck | Appears with other characters in the background of Stefon sketch. [1] |
A parody of the financial advice program The Suze Orman Show , starring Kristen Wiig as Suze Orman.
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | March 15, 2008 | Jonah Hill | |
| 33 | May 10, 2008 | Shia LaBeouf | |
| 34 | October 18, 2008 | Josh Brolin | |
| 35 | April 24, 2010 | Gabourey Sidibe | |
| 36 | October 9, 2010 | Jane Lynch | |
Wiig also appeared as Orman on the October 1, 2009, episode of Weekend Update Thursday.
Jonah Hill plays a precocious six-year-old comedian who performs Borscht Belt humor while visiting a hibachi restaurant with his divorced father, Evan (Bill Hader).
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | March 15, 2008 | Jonah Hill | Adam and his recently divorced father have a lively dinner at Benihana. |
| 37 | March 11, 2012 | Jonah Hill | Adam joins his father on a date with a woman (Vanessa Bayer) he met on J-Date at Benihana. |
| 39 | January 25, 2014 | Jonah Hill | Adam and his new stepmother Debbie (Vanessa Bayer) dine at Benihana. |
| 44 | November 3, 2018 | Jonah Hill | Adam and his nanny (Leslie Jones) eat at Benihana and talk to a couple (Mikey Day and Kenan Thompson). |
Kristen Wiig plays Sue, who loves surprises but has trouble keeping them secret.
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | April 5, 2008 | Christopher Walken | Grandpa (Walken) is surprising his granddaughter with a birthday party. |
| 34 | October 18, 2008 | Josh Brolin | At a Japanese restaurant, Chris (Brolin) tells his friends he'll be proposing to his girlfriend. |
| 35 | December 12, 2009 | Taylor Lautner | Alex (Lautner) and Ashley (Abby Elliott) tell Aunt Sue they want to surprise Ashley's parents about her pregnancy. |
| 37 | December 3, 2011 | Steve Buscemi | A manager (Buscemi) tells his employees he wants to surprise their co-worker with a promotion. |
| 42 | November 19, 2016 | Kristen Wiig | A woman (Cecily Strong) plans to surprise her mother (Vanessa Bayer) with the return of her brother Paul (Pete Davidson) from the military. |
Deidre Nicks (Amy Poehler), Toni Ward (Casey Wilson), and Jacqueline Seka (Kristen Wiig) host a talk show for "cougars", older women who date younger men. Other characters in this sketch include Kenneth (Kenan Thompson) the stage director and Kiki Deamore (Cameron Diaz), the show's most frequent guest.
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | April 12, 2008 | Ashton Kutcher | Kutcher plays Kiki's new "boy biscuit", tennis coach Jaden. |
| 34 | September 20, 2008 | James Franco | Franco plays Kiki's new boyfriend, emo musician Madison. |
| 34 | February 14, 2009 | Alec Baldwin | New host Barbara Lincoln (Michaela Watkins) replaces Deidre. Baldwin plays male cougar Blaine Bagby. |
This sketch also appeared in the dress rehearsal for the November 14, 2009, episode hosted by January Jones, but was cut for the live episode.
As part of the Scared Straight program, Officer Sikorsky (Jason Sudeikis) invites two imprisoned convicts, Lorenzo MacIntosh (Kenan Thompson) and another played by the episode's host, to speak to three young hoodlums (Bill Hader, Bobby Moynihan and Andy Samberg) about the horrors of prison life. However, each story the convicts tell is easily recognized by the kids as the plotline from a feature film. As they identify each movie, the convicts turn the film into a reference to prison rape (for example, following The Wizard of Oz : "It won't be a lion, a tin man and a scarecrow. It'll be you, lying down, while ten men make you a scared ho!").
| Season | Episode | Host | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | May 10, 2008 | Shia LaBeouf | LaBeouf appears as one of the teenagers (with Hader and Samberg); Lorenzo MacIntosh (Thompson) is the only convict. Gone in 60 Seconds , The Goonies , Weekend at Bernie's . |
| 34 | November 15, 2008 | Paul Rudd | Rudd appears as one of the teenagers (with Hader and Samberg); Lorenzo MacIntosh (Thompson) is the only convict. |
| 34 | March 14, 2009 | Tracy Morgan | Morgan plays fellow convict Kendrick MacEntire. Sideways , Groundhog Day , E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
| 35 | November 7, 2009 | Taylor Swift | Swift plays "Skeet Devlin", a male fellow convict. |
| 35 | January 9, 2010 | Charles Barkley | Barkley plays Lorenzo MacIntosh's father. |
| 35 | May 8, 2010 | Betty White | White plays Lorenzo MacIntosh's grandmother and fellow convict, Loretta MacIntosh. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory , The Wizard of Oz |
| 36 | March 12, 2011 | Zach Galifianakis | Galifianakis plays a dangerously psychotic convict forced to wear a strait jacket and be tied to a board to speak to the young punks. |
| 37 | March 4, 2012 | Lindsay Lohan | Lindsey Lohan plays herself - a fellow convict. |
This sketch was included in the dress rehearsal for the October 8, 2011, episode (hosted by Ben Stiller), but was cut for the final broadcast.
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