Saturday Night Live Transcripts Season 40: Episode 2 ]]>
Air Date: Host: Musical Guest: Special Guests: Cameos: Bit Players:
October 4th, 2014 Sarah Silverman Maroon 5 None None None 60 MinutesSummary: Steve Kroft (Beck Bennett) grills President Barack Obama (Jay Pharoah) about White House Secret Service gaffes. Recurring Characters: President Barack Obama.
Montage
Sarah Silverman’s MonologueSummary: Sarah Silverman seeks praise from a female audience member before taking questions from her younger self in the audience. Transcript
The Fault in Our Stars 2Summary: Cancer teen Theodore (Taran Killam) is repulsed to discover he’s entered a relationship with Ebola teen Olive (Sarah Silverman).
Joan RiversSummary: Joan Rivers (Sarah Silverman) arrives in Heaven and begins to roast other celebrities. Recurring Characters: Joan Rivers, Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs. Transcript
WhitesSummary: White dominance won’t last much longer, so let’s all enjoy it while we still can!
Forgotten TV GemsSummary: A look back at an unsuccessful daytime soap opera that portrayed women as friendly toward one another instead of catty and bitchy.
Maroon 5 performs “Animals”
Weekend Update with Colin Jost & Michael CheSummary: Al Sharpton (Kenan Thompson). Colin Jost checks with Michael Che to see which black words he can get away with using as a white man. Garage (Kate McKinnon) & Her (Sarah Silverman). Recurring Characters: Al Sharpton.
RiverboatSummary: A trio of Tina Turner impersonators (Sasheer Zamata, Cecily Strong, Sarah Silverman) lament their lives as they perform “Proud Mary”.
Car RideSummary: Girl’s (Sarah Silverman) confession of overseas infidelity leads to unanounced family turmoil during the ride home from the airport.
PoemSummary: After (Kyle Mooney) discovers he shares a common interest with Ashley (Sarah Silverman), he’s beat up by her jealous boyfriend (Beck Bennett).
Maroon 5 performs “Maps”
VitamixSummary: In an infomercial, (Vanessa Bayer) touts the overpriced blender that her friend (Sarah Silverman) can’t afford.
Don Roy King has directed fourteen seasons of Saturday Night Live. That work has earned him ten Emmys and fourteen nominations. Additionally, he has been nominated for fifteen DGA Awards and won in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
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