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Saturday Night Live Season 26
Series	Saturday Night Live
Country of origin	United States
Network	NBC
Original run	October 7, 2000 – May 19, 2001
No. of episodes	20
Previous season	25
Next season	27

Saturday Night Live aired its twenty-sixth season during the 2000-2001 television season on NBC. The season began on October 7, 2000 and ended on May 19, 2001. Five-year veterans Cheri Oteri and Colin Quinn left the show that year. Tim Meadows, who had been on the show for nine and a half years, also left, making him the longest-serving African-American cast member on SNL. 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. Chris Parnell and Ana Gasteyer auditioned for the roles of Weekend Update anchors^{[citation needed]}, but the parts went to Jimmy Fallon and head writer Tina Fey. During what would be her six-season tenure, Tina Fey appeared very rarely outside of Weekend Update. Rachel Dratch and Maya Rudolph (who joined at the end of the previous season) remained in the featured player cast, and Second City's Jerry Minor was also added as a featured player and staff writer. Molly Shannon, who beat Victoria Jackson's record as longest-serving female cast member on SNL, left the show mid-season (on the episode hosted by Sean Hayes).

This season featured satire of the 2000 U.S presidential election, including the Republican and Democratic primaries, the campaigns of Vice-President Gore, Texas Governor George W. Bush, and Ralph Nader, the Florida election recount, and the Bush v. Gore case that came before the U.S. Supreme Court. The season also featured two prime-time February 2001 specials that parodied the CBS reality show Survivor.^{[citation needed]}

1 Cast
2 Episodes
3 See also
4 References

Cast

Repertory players

Jimmy Fallon
Will Ferrell
Ana Gasteyer
Darrell Hammond
Chris Kattan
Tracy Morgan
Chris Parnell
Horatio Sanz
Molly Shannon (Final episode: February 17, 2001)

Featured players

Prime-Time Airings

November 5, 2000: 9:00 SNL Presidential Bash 2000
May 13, 2001: 9:00 SNL Mother's Day Special 2001
May 26, 2001: 10:00 SNL Remembers Chris Farley
June 9, 2001: 10:00 Best of Game Show Parodies

Episodes

Episode #	Air Date	Host(s)	Musical Guest(s)	Remarks
486 (26.1)	October 7, 2000	Rob Lowe	Eminem	2000 Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, a former SNL host, made a cameo appearance during the monologue. Jimmy Fallon and Tina Fey became the new anchors of Weekend Update; Tim Meadows appeared during the segment to promote The Ladies Man, a film produced by SNL Studios. Tina Fey and Jerry Minor's first episode as cast members. A cartoon by Robert Smigel was announced during the opening credits. However, no cartoon was shown. The announcement was cut in re-runs of this episode.
487 (26.2)	October 14, 2000	Kate Hudson	Radiohead	Kevin Spacey was producers' first choice to host this episode, but filming for his movie K-Pax prevented him from doing so.^{[citation needed]} Spacey would host five years later in the last episode of season 31. Nomar Garciaparra appears as himself during a Sully and Denise sketch. Radiohead performed "The National Anthem" live with an accompanying horn section.
488 (26.3)	October 21, 2000	Dana Carvey	The Wallflowers Baha Men	Robert De Niro appears as himself during Weekend Update to discuss Jimmy Fallon's negative review of Meet the Parents from the previous episode. Once again, during the opening credits, it was announced that there was going to be a cartoon by Robert Smigel, but no cartoon was shown. In re-runs of this episode, the announcement remains intact.
489 (26.4)	November 4, 2000	Charlize Theron	Paul Simon
490 (26.5)	November 11, 2000	Calista Flockhart	Ricky Martin	Chris Kattan impersonates Ricky Martin right before the real Ricky Martin performs the song "Loaded" (from Martin's album Sound Loaded).
491 (26.6)	November 18, 2000	Tom Green	David Gray	Drew Barrymore was in the audience, and mentioned in the monologue by Tom Green, who said he would like to marry her during the show. Barrymore declined. Tom Green brought in his own writers for this episode, which didn't please the cast.^[1] The TV Funhouse cartoon, a Fun With Real Audio called Sex and the Country, was replaced in the NBC rerun with the TV Funhouse cartoon about Mr. T auditioning for a tampon commercial due to its depiction of humans having sex with animals.^{[citation needed]} This was also cut on Comedy Central when they aired 60-minute reruns of SNL, but the version currently airing on E! has shown this cartoon.^{[citation needed]}
492 (26.7)	December 9, 2000	Val Kilmer	U2	During U2's performance of "Elevation", Bono jumped off the stage and continued singing while playing with the camera and wandering around the studio.
493 (26.8)	December 16, 2000	Lucy Liu	Jay-Z	Jimmy Fallon parodies Bono's antics during his performance of Elevation on the previous episode during Weekend Update. With this episode, Lucy Liu becomes the first Asian-American woman to host SNL (and the second Asian-American movie star to host overall, with Jackie Chan being the first). Jay-Z cameos in the Robert Goulet Rap Album sketch. In that sketch, Jay-Z mutters the word, "Shit!" when the ashes of his cigar fall off. This was not censored when it aired in reruns on NBC and the syndicated version of this episode doesn't include the sketch.^{[citation needed]}
494 (26.9)	January 13, 2001	Charlie Sheen	Nelly Furtado
495 (26.10)	January 20, 2001	Mena Suvari	Lenny Kravitz	Outgoing U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno makes a special appearance in the "Janet Reno's Dance Party" sketch where she confronts the "Janet Reno" portrayed by Will Ferrell. Lenny Kravitz appears in two live sketches as himself; one as holding auditions for Kyle and Sean DeMarco (Chris Kattan and Chris Parnell) and another going through airport security.
Special	February 1, 2001	Primetime Extra 1		"The Culps' Mandatory Drug Awareness Assembly" sketch from this episode was included in the prime-time special "SNL Mother's Day Special 2001" as well as the clip show "The Best of Will Ferrell."
Special	February 8, 2001	Primetime Extra 2
496 (26.11)	February 10, 2001	Jennifer Lopez		This episode was delayed due to coverage of the XFL games. Lorne Michaels was so upset over this that he demanded that the episode be rerun in its entirety three weeks after the original air date.^{[citation needed]}
497 (26.12)	February 17, 2001	Sean Hayes	Shaggy	Molly Shannon's final episode as a cast member.
498 (26.13)	February 24, 2001	Katie Holmes	Dave Matthews Band	Dave Matthews Band's second song, "The Space Between", was its world premiere, other than the album version leaking on the Internet.^{[citation needed]}
499 (26.14)	March 10, 2001	Conan O'Brien	Don Henley	Conan O'Brien served as a staff writer on the show from 1988-1991, making him the first SNL writer who was never hired as a cast member to return as host. Ben Affleck's appearance at the end of the Boston Teens at the Liquor Store sketch was not in the dress rehearsal version.^{[citation needed]} Max Weinberg, drummer on the Conan O'Brien show, appears in O'Brien's opening monologue. The woman who appears with him is his wife Becky Weinberg.
500 (26.15)	March 17, 2001	Julia Stiles	Aerosmith
501 (26.16)	April 7, 2001	Alec Baldwin	Coldplay	David Spade makes a cameo appearance on Weekend Update to plug his movie Joe Dirt. Co-star and rocker Kid Rock also makes an appearance and does a couple "Hollywood Minute" jokes.
502 (26.17)	April 14, 2001	Renée Zellweger	Eve Gwen Stefani	During the week of this episode, the cast including the recently departed Molly Shannon would film the Mother's Day special that would air in May. As a favor^{[citation needed]}, the writers wrote her into the Crazy Doctor sketch that aired during this episode.
503 (26.18)	May 5, 2001	Pierce Brosnan	Destiny's Child	Julia Stiles made a cameo appearance in the cold opening, as George W. Bush's daughter, Jenna.
504 (26.19)	May 12, 2001	Lara Flynn Boyle	Bon Jovi	During the "MSNBC Investigates: The Golden Girls" sketch, during the part where video footage of four teens imitating the Golden Girls is shown, Chris Kattan chokes on his food and falls out of his chair. Kattan suffered a herniated disk as a result.^[2]
505 (26.20)	May 19, 2001	Christopher Walken	Weezer	A rumor that Drew Carey would host this episode and that he had convinced Lorne Michaels to let him do an all-improv show was picked up by wire services; it was debunked a few days later by Drew Carey's publicist.^{[citation needed]} Former cast member Kevin Nealon appears during Weekend Update to tell viewers that he's not on SNL anymore and that viewers who do see him are watching reruns from the 1990s that used to air on Comedy Central. Winona Ryder, who would later host the last episode of season 27, appears during The Weekend Update Cliffhanger. Jerry Minor's final episode as cast member.

References

^ Live From New York, The Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live.
^ http://snl.jt.org/ep.php?i=200105120

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