This was a massive season for Saturday Night Live, which celebrated 50 years on air. Along with two huge specials – a musical celebration and the big primetime anniversary show – it was also an election year. The season was loaded from start to finish with returning cast members and huge guest stars.
You’d think this would translate into a truly memorable run of episodes, but alas, that wasn’t the case with a season that was as choppy as any over the past decade. Which isn’t to say there was nothing good; as with every season, there were any number of sketches that got a lot of attention and laughs. Sometimes more the former than the latter – see the mega-popular Domingo sketches starring Marcello Hernández, which, let’s face it, only went viral because each of them co-starred a pop princess with a huge stan army. But others were legitimately hilarious.
