Saturday Night Live: 2005-2006

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  Season 31: 2005-2006


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Starring:

Fred Armisen

Rachel Dratch

Tina Fey

Will Forte

Darrell Hammond

Seth Meyers

Finesse Mitchell

Chris Parnell

Amy Poehler

Maya Rudolph

Horatio Sanz

Kenan Thompson

Featuring:

Bill Hader

Andy Samberg

Jason Sudeikis

Kristen Wiig (first: 11/12/05)

Writers:

Doug Abeles

James Anderson

Alex Baze

Liz Cackowski

Tina Fey

Charlie Grandy

Steve Higgins

Colin Jost

Erik Kenward

John Lutz

Seth Meyers

Lorne Michaels

Matt Murray

Paula Pell

Akiva Schaffer

Frank Sebastiano

T. Sean Shannon

Robert Smigel

JB Smoove

Emily Spivey

Andrew Steele

Jorma Taccone

Bryan Tucker

Episodes

10/01/05: Steve Carell / Kanye West

10/08/05: Jon Heder / Ashlee Simpson

10/22/05: Catherine Zeta Jones / Franz Ferdinand

10/29/05: Lance Armstrong / Sheryl Crow

11/12/05: Jason Lee / Foo Fighters

11/19/05: Eva Longoria / Korn

12/03/05: Dane Cook / James Blunt

12/10/05: Alec Baldwin / Shakira

12/17/05: Jack Black / Neil Young

01/14/06: Scarlett Johansson / Death Cab For Cutie

01/21/06: Peter Sarsgaard / The Strokes

02/04/06: Steve Martin / Prince

03/04/06: Natalie Portman / Fall Out Boy

03/11/06: Matt Dillon / Arctic Monkeys

04/08/06: Antonio Banderas / Mary J. Blige

04/15/06: Lindsay Lohan / Pearl Jam

05/06/06: Tom Hanks / Red Hot Chili Peppers

05/13/06: Julia Louis-Dreyfus / Paul Simon

05/20/06: Kevin Spacey / Nelly Furtado

SummaryDespite reports that “Saturday Night Live” would undergo changes in advent of its 31st season, the atmosphere was left relatively untouched, with only featured performer Rob Riggle’s absence a noticeable difference. Finesse Mitchell and Kenan Thompson are upgraded to full cast member status, making way for newcomers Bill Hader and Andy Samberg as the season’s newest featured performers. Hader would quickly win the audience over with his talents as SNL’s fresh-faced impressionist, while Samberg would slowly gain notice through the use of SNL’s Digital Short segment with the help of his buddies from thelonelyisland.com. Meanwhile, Jason Sudeikis, a writer who joined the show as a featured player toward the end of last season, firmly established himself as a key player in numerous sketches. Newcomer Kristin Wiig would also join the featured cast by the season’s fifth episode, making her presence known immediately, demonstrating “SNL”‘s ability to revive itself with fresh performers. Absent from the first two episodes of the season, Tina Fey quickly returned to “SNL” after giving birth to her first child, while a very visibly pregnant Maya Rudolph returned for the season premiere, then went off on an extended maternity leave. Fey would finally leave “SNL” by season’s end, along with Rachel Dratch, to star in NBC’s prime-time series, “30 Rock”, which would parody the behind-the-scenes goings-on of Studio 8-H. To celebrate its latest anniversary, “Saturday Night Live” begins airing in high-definition.

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