Saturday Night Live (season 32)

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The title card for the thirty-second season of Saturday Night Live.
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 20
Release
Original network NBC
Original release September 30, 2006 (2006-09-30) – May 19, 2007 (2007-05-19)
Season chronology
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List of Saturday Night Live episodes

The thirty-second season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between September 30, 2006, and May 19, 2007.

History

As in the previous season, The Lonely Island created another popular SNL Digital Short that aired around Christmas time; this time, it was the R&B video spoof "Dick in a Box" (featuring host Justin Timberlake). The short won a Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Music and Lyrics.[1][2]

Cast

Before the start of the season, the show suffered massive budget cuts. Finesse Mitchell, Chris Parnell and Horatio Sanz were all fired from the show. This was the second time Parnell had been fired from the show due to budget cuts, the first being after the 2000–01 season ended. In addition, Rachel Dratch and Tina Fey left the show on their own terms to begin to work on 30 Rock.[3]

Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis, and Kristen Wiig were all promoted to repertory status. Due to budget cuts, this was the first time since the 1997–98 season that the show did not have any featured players or hire any new cast members (budget cuts also explains why the previous season had only 19 episodes instead of the usual 20).[3] These changes also resulted in the smallest cast in recent memory, just 11 people.[4]

With Fey's departure, Seth Meyers became Amy Poehler's co-anchor on Weekend Update.[5] (Although Meyers was no longer appearing in many of the sketches, he remained as a member of the cast on the show.) Don Roy King was hired as director, replacing Beth McCarthy-Miller.[3]

A new logo was introduced this season. It is based on the logo seen during Dick Ebersol's tenure as showrunner between 1981 and 1985, but with a modern typeface. This logo would remain in use until the show's fortieth season.

Cast roster

Repertory players

bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

Episodes

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Main article: List of Saturday Night Live episodes
No.
overall		 No. in
season		 Host Musical guest(s) Original air date
605 1 Dane Cook The Killers September 30, 2006 (2006-09-30)
606 2 Jaime Pressly Corinne Bailey Rae October 7, 2006 (2006-10-07)
607 3 John C. Reilly My Chemical Romance October 21, 2006 (2006-10-21)
608 4 Hugh Laurie Beck October 28, 2006 (2006-10-28)
609 5 Alec Baldwin Christina Aguilera November 11, 2006 (2006-11-11)
610 6 Ludacris Ludacris November 18, 2006 (2006-11-18)
611 7 Matthew Fox Tenacious D December 2, 2006 (2006-12-02)
612 8 Annette Bening Gwen Stefani
Akon		 December 9, 2006 (2006-12-09)
613 9 Justin Timberlake Justin Timberlake December 16, 2006 (2006-12-16)
614 10 Jake Gyllenhaal The Shins January 13, 2007 (2007-01-13)
615 11 Jeremy Piven AFI January 20, 2007 (2007-01-20)
616 12 Drew Barrymore Lily Allen February 3, 2007 (2007-02-03)
617 13 Forest Whitaker Keith Urban February 10, 2007 (2007-02-10)
618 14 Rainn Wilson Arcade Fire February 24, 2007 (2007-02-24)
619 15 Julia Louis-Dreyfus Snow Patrol March 17, 2007 (2007-03-17)
620 16 Peyton Manning Carrie Underwood March 24, 2007 (2007-03-24)
621 17 Shia LaBeouf Avril Lavigne April 14, 2007 (2007-04-14)
622 18 Scarlett Johansson Björk April 21, 2007 (2007-04-21)
623 19 Molly Shannon Linkin Park May 12, 2007 (2007-05-12)
624 20 Zach Braff Maroon 5 May 19, 2007 (2007-05-19)

Specials

Title Original air date
"The Best of Darrell Hammond" November 4, 2006 (2006-11-04)
"SNL in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation" May 6, 2007 (2007-05-06)
"The Best of 2006-2007" May 5, 2007 (2007-05-05)

References

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