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Saturday Night Live (1975)Season 26
Saturday Night Live aired its twenty-sixth season during the 2000–2001 television season on NBC. 20 episodes were produced. The season began on October 7, 2000 and ended on May 19, 2001. Before the start of the season Cheri Oteri, Colin Quinn, and Tim Meadows left the show. With the three of them gone, the show added two new castmembers. SNL head writer Tina Fey and Second City comedian Jerry Minor joined the cast as featured players at the start of the season. Fey had been a writer on the show since 1997 and began as the show's head writer in 1999. Rachel Dratch and Maya Rudolph remained featured players. This would be Molly Shannon's final season on the show, leaving mid-season. Chris Parnell and Jerry Minor were both let go after this season ended. However, Chris Parnell would be re-hired midway through the next season. Michaels would later admit he made a mistake in firing Parnell from the cast and wanted him back. With Colin Quinn's seat on Weekend Update empty, executive producer Lorne Michaels decided to have two anchors just as SNL had had in the 1970s. Jimmy Fallon and head writer Tina Fey were brought up to anchor the segment together. Because of Fey's head writer status she would appear rarely out of Weekend Update.
- Creator
- Dick Ebersol, Lorne Michaels
- Writers
- Lorne Michaels, Jim Downey, Robert Smigel
- Network
- NBC
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- First aired
- October 11, 1975
- Status
- Returning
- Next episode
- S52E4 · October 31, 2026
Cast
Kenan ThompsonSelf - Various Characters
Darrell HammondDonald Trump (uncredited)
Colin JostEmployee (uncredited)
Seth MeyersSelf - Host
Michael CheSelf - Various Characters
Fred ArmisenSelf - Host
Al FrankenThe Life of Vlad the Impalere announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Cecily StrongSelf - Cameo (uncredited)
Kate McKinnonSelf - Host
Mikey DaySelf - Cameo (uncredited)
Aidy BryantSelf - Cameo (uncredited)
Tim MeadowsLeon Phelps (uncredited)
Bobby MoynihanSelf
Kyle MooneySelf - Various Characters
Maya RudolphSelf - Host
Kevin NealonFranz (uncredited)
Jason SudeikisPolice Officer (uncredited)
Pete DavidsonSelf - Cameo (uncredited)
Bill HaderSelf - Various Characters
Tina FeyLaughing Writer (uncredited)
Episodes
0/20 watched- Episode 1: Rob Lowe/Eminem1 h 7 min · Oct 7, 2000
- Episode 2: Kate Hudson/Radiohead1 h 7 min · Oct 14, 2000
- Episode 3: Dana Carvey/The Wallflowers1 h 7 min · Oct 21, 2000
- Episode 4: Charlize Theron/Paul Simon1 h 7 min · Nov 4, 2000
- Episode 5: Calista Flockhart/Ricky Martin1 h 7 min · Nov 5, 2000
- Episode 6: Tom Green/David Gray1 h 7 min · Nov 18, 2000
- Episode 7: Val Kilmer/U21 h 7 min · Dec 9, 2000
- Episode 8: Lucy Liu/Jay-Z1 h 7 min · Dec 16, 2000
- Episode 9: Charlie Sheen/Nelly Furtado1 h 7 min · Jan 13, 2001
- Episode 10: Mena Suvari/Lenny Kravitz1 h 7 min · Jan 20, 2001
- Episode 11: Jennifer Lopez1 h 7 min · Feb 10, 2001
- Episode 12: Sean Hayes/Shaggy1 h 7 min · Feb 17, 2001
- Episode 13: Katie Holmes/Dave Matthews Band1 h 7 min · Feb 24, 2001
- Episode 14: Conan O'Brien/Don Henley1 h 7 min · Mar 10, 2001
- Episode 15: Julia Stiles/Aerosmith1 h 7 min · Mar 17, 2001
- Episode 16: Alec Baldwin/Coldplay1 h 7 min · Apr 7, 2001
- Episode 17: Renee Zellweger/Eve1 h 7 min · Apr 14, 2001
- Episode 18: Pierce Brosnan/Destiny's Child1 h 7 min · May 5, 2001
- Episode 19: Lara Flynn Boyle/Bon Jovi1 h 7 min · May 12, 2001
- Episode 20: Christopher Walken/Weezer1 h 7 min · May 19, 2001
