Starring: Fred Armisen Will Forte Bill Hader Darrell Hammond Seth Meyers Amy Poehler Maya Rudolph Andy Samberg Jason Sudeikis Kenan Thompson Kristen Wiig

Writers: Doug Abeles James Anderson Alex Baze Jim Downey Charlie Grandy Steve Higgins Colin Jost Erik Kenward John Lutz Seth Meyers Lorne Michaels Matt Murray Paula Pell Marika Sawyer Akiva Schaffer Robert Smigel John Solomon Emily Spivey Andrew Steele Jorma Taccone Bryan Tucker

Episodes

09/30/06: Dane Cook / The Killers 10/07/06: Jaime Pressly / Corinne Bailey Rae 10/21/06: John C. Reilly / My Chemical Romance 10/28/06: Hugh Laurie / Beck 11/11/06: Alec Baldwin / Christina Aguilera 11/18/06: Ludacris 12/02/06: Matthew Fox / Tenacious D 12/09/06: Annette Bening / Gwen Stefani, Akon 12/16/06: Justin Timberlake 01/13/07: Jake Gyllenhaal / The Shins 01/20/07: Jeremy Piven / AFI 02/03/07: Drew Barrymore / Lily Allen 02/10/07: Forest Whitaker / Keith Urban 02/24/07: Rainn Wilson / Arcade Fire 03/17/07: Julia Louis Dreyfus / Snow Patrol 03/24/07: Peyton Manning / Carrie Underwood 04/14/07: Shia LaBeouf / Avril Lavigne 04/21/07: Scarlett Johansson / Bjork 05/12/07: Molly Shannon / Linkin Park 05/19/07: Zach Braff / Maroon 5

Summary

"Saturday Night Live" returned for its thirty-second season at the heels of a $10 million budget cut, not to mention the dual announcement that not only would no new cast members be hired, but three others would be relieved of their performance duties. Head writer Tina Fey and long-time cast member Rachel Dratch departed "SNL" to star in a prime-time series about the behind-the-scenes humor of an SNL-like sketch comedy show. After much speculation by fans, cast members Horatio Sanz and Finesse Mitchell were finally let go, as was Chris Parnell for the second time this century. Seth Meyers moved up the ranks to be become the new head writer (with Paula Pell and Andrew Steele as his co-horts) and Amy Poehler's co-anchor on "Weekend Update." Don Roy King takes over as director.