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33rd season logo for Saturday Night Live.

Saturday Night Live is currently airing its thirty-third season, during the 2007-2008 television season on NBC. No new cast members were added to the show at the beginning of the season, and the entire cast from the thirty second season returned for Season 33. The 33rd season started on September 29, 2007 with LeBron James as host and Kanye West as musical guest. This is both Amy Poehler's and Maya Rudolph's last season [citation needed]. Casey Rose Wilson is joining SNL after the WGA Strike. The season was interrupted by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike after the November 3, 2007 broadcast. The resumption of new episodes will depend on the outcome of the strike.

On November 17, 2007 it was announced that "nearly the entire production staff" of the show was laid off from NBC until further notice as a result of the strike.[1]

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On February 12, 2008, the strike was announced to be officially over with a 92.5% vote to end the strike. Production will start up again on February 18, 2008 for the February 23, 2008 episode.

Cast

Repertory players

Featured Players


It was announced that Casey Rose Wilson would join SNL. It has not been announced if she will join once the strike ends, or once season 34 starts.

Writers' strike

On October 31, 2007, after the Brian Williams/Feist episode, the Writers Guild of America's strike occurred. It was announced that SNL would have its next episode on November 10, 2007 (with host The Rock and musical guest Amy Winehouse), live on air, with a future episode to follow, featuring Jonah Hill and musical guest Kid Rock. However, on November 7, 2007, SNL's official website confirmed that reruns will be seen beginning November 10, and will continue during the duration of the strike action. The Rock / Winehouse show has been canceled, along with the Jonah Hill / Kid Rock episode.

Saturday Night Live - On Strike!

On November 18, 2007, the cast of the show, along with host Michael Cera and musical guest Yo La Tengo performed an "episode" of the show entitled Saturday Night Live - On Strike! at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (co-founded by current cast member Amy Poehler) in New York City [4]. Every cast member except for Maya Rudolph appeared, with former cast members Horatio Sanz and Rachel Dratch and musician Norah Jones appearing in cameos [5]. A similar performance of an episode of 30 Rock was held on November 19, 2007.

Returning Live

SNL will now return live on February 23, 2008. The Strike ended on February 12, 2008 lasting for exactly 100 days.

Listings

Regular Airings

Prime-time Airings

  • December 8, 2007: 9:30 The Best of Will Ferrell
  • December 13, 2007: 9:30 SNL Christmas
  • December 15, 2007: 8:00 SNL Christmas
  • December 15, 2007: 9:30 The Best of Chris Farley
  • December 22, 2007: 8:00 The Best of 2006/2007
  • December 22, 2007: 9:30 SNL Goes Commercial ('aka' Best of Commercial Parodies)

Episodes

Episode
Number		 Date Host(s) Musical Guest(s) Remarks
625 (33.1) September 29, 2007 LeBron James Kanye West
  • In the live east-coast version, the opening credits were not announced until Seth Meyers' name appeared on-screen because Don Pardo's microphone was not turned on, but was revoiced after the show for the west-coast airing.
  • Amy Winehouse was originally scheduled to be the musical guest, but dropped out due to personal issues.
  • Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine and actor Jake Gyllenhaal appear in an SNL Digital Short called 'Iran So Far', which very quickly became popular on the internet. The song is reportedly to be released on iTunes. The video of the song was uploaded to YouTube on the NBC channel, but was removed a day later, due to clearance issues.
  • Kanye West performs singles "Stronger" and "Good Life" in his first performance. In his second performance he performed "Champion" and "Everything I Am", during which he messed up a line and then freestyled about it.
  • During the October 20, 2007 rerun of this episode, the dress rehearsal version of the Lyle Cane Show was aired excluding the live version. This also applied the same for Great Moments in Guidance Counseling sketch, which had an unseen part involving Kenan Thompson as the guidance counselor, and Kanye West as the younger version of himself.
626 (33.2) October 6, 2007 Seth Rogen Spoon
  • Chevy Chase makes his first appearance on Saturday Night Live in 6 years, with the original Update set re-created for him. His last appearance was 6 years prior to the day during the Weekend Update of the Seann William Scott episode.
  • A cartoon was announced at the beginning credits, but was never shown due to time constraints. On repeats, the announcement of the cartoon was just cut out all together.
627 (33.3) October 13, 2007 Jon Bon Jovi Foo Fighters
  • Bon Jovi makes a special musical performance during Jon Bon Jovi's monologue and the credits, while Foo Fighters only made one musical performance, yet Foo Fighters were still the official musical guests.
  • Jack Nicholson was in attendance, he introduced Bon Jovi's end of show performance.
  • Will Ferrell was also in attendance for this show (according to audience members).
628 (33.4) November 3, 2007 Brian Williams Feist
  • Barack Obama made a special cameo during the cold opening. Obama also started show by "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!"
  • Former cast member Horatio Sanz returned to play Democratic hopeful Bill Richardson in the cold opening and another sketch.
  • Bono, Al Roker, and Matt Lauer appear in a digital short. Host Brian Williams was taping an interview with Bono for NBC during the week and asked him appear in the short.
  • In addition to hosting, Brian Williams fulfilled his Nightly News duties and moderated the Democratic debate on Tuesday.
  • An announcement was made for the November 10th episode hosted by The Rock with musical guest Amy Winehouse, but the episode itself was cancelled due to the 2007 WGA strike.
  • This episode was rebroadcasted only 2 weeks after its original run, which makes it tied (Dane Cook/The Killers, season 32) as the shortest period between broadcast.
629 (33.5) February 23, 2008 Tina Fey[6] TBA
630 (33.6) March 1, 2008 Ellen Page[7] TBA


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Sources

  1. ^ Report: Writers Strike Prompts NBC to Fire Entire 'SNL' Staff[
  2. ^ Writers' Strike's First Casualty: "Saturday Night Live"
  3. ^ Upright Citizens Brigade
  4. ^ Google.com
  5. ^ SNL stages two-hour live theatre show in Manhattan
  6. ^ No Pause Button: TV Studios and Writers Play Catch-Up After Strike
  7. ^ [1]
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