The WORST episodes of Saturday Night Live
Every episode of Saturday Night Live ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Saturday Night Live!
Each week, live from New York, a famous guest host appears in sketches and parodies alongside a company of up-and-coming comedians. A popular musical guest, short films, and Weekend Update - a recurring satirical newscast - form the backbone of one of the most influential and culturally significant comedy shows in history.
#1 - Winona Ryder/Moby
Season 27 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/18/2002
Live From New York, It's...Maya Rudolph and (for the final time) Will Ferrell Sketches include ""Jimmy Carter In Cuba,"" ""Celebrity Jeopardy: Music Edition,"" ""Dueling Wedding Singers,"" ""Botox"", ""Bear Researchers,"" ""Girl Next Door: The Search For a Playboy Playmate,"" ""Jacuzzi Lovers II,"" ""Mango, Winona, and Moby Go Shoplifting,"" and ""Farewell To Will Ferrell."" Moby performs: ""We Are All Made Of Stars"" and ""South Side""
#2 - Bea Arthur/The Roches
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/17/1979
Sketches include ""Sex Change,"" ""The Backers' Audition,"" and ""First, He Cries.""
#3 - Tom Green/David Gray
Season 26 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/2000
Sketches include ""Decision 2000,"" ""Bald Eagles,"" ""Rap Street,"" ""Lorne and Tom in a Tub,"" ""Hardball,"" ""Dog Show,"" ""Oprah,"" ""Story Tellers,"" ""TV Funhouse: Sex and the Country"", ""Rock Around the Clock,"" and ""Tom and Drew's Wedding."" The NBC rerun replaces the ""Sex and the Country"" TV Funhouse with the one from the Charlize Theron episode where Mr. T lands a job doing a tampon commercial.
#4 - Linda Hamilton/Mariah Carey
Season 17 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/1991
Sketches include ""Weekend Update Special Report,"" ""Toonces, the Cat Who Can Drive a Car,"" ""It's Pat,"" ""Annoying Double Date,"" and ""The Chris Farley Show.""
#5 - Fred Savage/Technotronic
Season 15 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/1990
Sketches include ""Church Chat,"" ""Left Alone with a Gun,"" ""The Pat Stevens Show,"" ""Imaginary Friend,"" and ""Hooked on Sushi"" (film). Technotronic performed ""Pump Up The Jam.""
#6 - John Larroquette/Timbuk 3
Season 12 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/18/1987
Live from New York, it's... Dana Carvey! Sketches include "Pagan Easter Special," "Sold-Out Gold," "Collecting Evidence," "Heaven Has The Answers," "Instant Coffee," "ICM Meeting," and "Grab Bag Store." Timbuk 3 performs "Just Another Movie" and "Hairstyles & Attitudes."
#7 - John Lithgow/Anita Baker
Season 12 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/11/1987
Live from New York, it's... John Lithgow! Sketches include "Embassy Spies," "Laramie Vice," "The Pat Stevens Show," "World's Meanest Methodist Minister," "Master Thespian," "Discover," "Cab Ride," and "The Fighter." Anita Baker performs "Sweet Love" and "Same Ole Love."
#8 - Ron Reagan/The Nelsons
Season 11 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/8/1986
Live From New York, it's...Ronald Reagon, Jr. Sketches include: White House Risky Business, You're Going To Hell: A Message From The Almighty (repeat from the Madonna/Simple Minds episode), The Pat Stevens Show, Dalkon Shield Trout Lure, Back To The Future, Penn And Teller Guest Performance, Limits of the Imagination, Shakespeare In The Slums With Flotilda Williams, and The Woody Allen Fan The Nelsons performs: Walk Away and Do You Know What I Mean
#9 - Malcolm McDowell/Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/22/1980
Live from New York, it's...Gilbert Gottfried! Sketches include: Sitting Up Straight In The Electric Chair, Mutually Omaha's Wild Kingdom: In Search of the Negro Republican, Tobacco Growers of America, Serf City, Amy Carter Gets Adopted To The Reagans, Alex DeLarge For The American Milk Association, SNL Film: Showdown, Gothic Novel Shop, The 100 Years War, The Leather Weather Report, Commie Hunting, The Rocket Report, Jack The Stripper, SNL Film: Someone Is Hiding In My Apartment, and The Wine Cellar With Caroline Parker Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band perform: ""Hothead"" and ""Ashtray Heart""
#10 - Cicely Tyson/Talking Heads
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/10/1979
Sketches include "Cicely Confronts Garrett Monologue," "Nick Rails, the Train Lounge Singer," and "The Widettes."
#11 - Donald Trump/Toots and the Maytals with Bootsy Collins and The Roots
Season 29 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/3/2004
Live from New York, it's...Donald Trump Sketches include 'The SNL Apprentice,' 'Fear Factor Junior,' 'Live with Regis and Kelly,' 'The VIP Seats,' 'Donald Trump's House of Wings,' 'Weekend Trump-Date,' 'Prince and the Pauper '04,' 'Fathers and Sons,' '9/11 Hearings,' and 'Donald's Band Rehearsal.' Toots and the Maytals perform 'Love Gonna Walk Out on Me' (with Ben Harper and Jack Johnson) and 'Funky Kingston' (with Bootsy Collins and The Roots).
#12 - Rosario Dawson/Fleet Foxes
Season 34 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2009
Actress Rosario Dawson hosts; Fleet Foxes perform "Mykonos" and "Blue Ridge Mountains." Sketches include "Vice President Dick Cheney: The Final Interview," "North American Savings Commercial," "Da Learnin' Train," "Guantánamo Bay Liquidation Sale," "Aladdin and Jasmine's Anniversary," "Digital Short: Singing Narrator," "Gilly," "Weekend Update" with guests Bernard Madoff, Judy Grimes, and Larry the Goose, "La Policia Mexicana," "The View," and "Good Excuse!"
#13 - Louise Lasser/Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/24/1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include--Belushi thinks Chevy has a big head, Louise Lasser locks herself dressing room, General "V.D" Amin, Sven and Inger, John Belushi tries to sell his clothes, Ode to Television, Louise apologizes to her dog, Jimmy Carter talks about the campagin.
#14 - Michael Palin/James Taylor
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/12/1979
Sketches include "Mother's Day Monologue," "Miles Cowperthwaite, Part Two: I Am Nailed to the Hull," and "Black-Market Gasoline." Weekend Update includes "Margaret Thathcer Interview."
#15 - Buck Henry/The Grateful Dead
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/1978
Sketches include--"Concession Speech,", "Rovco Chinch Canch" commercial parody, "Samurai Optometrist," "Uncle Roy #1," "The Death Of Rasputin," "Nick Sands, the Lounge Singer," More Flu To Worry About, and "St. Mickey's Knights of Columbus."
#16 - James Van Der Beek/Everlast
Season 24 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/1999
Sketches include ""Clinton and Flynt,"" ""Spelling Bee Finals,"" ""7 Degrees Celsius,"" ""Dog Show,"" ""Harry Connick Jr.,"" ""The War Abroad and at Home,"" ""Frankenstein,"" and ""Maria and Anthony.""
#17 - Lisa Kudrow/Sheryl Crow
Season 22 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1996
Sketches include ""Bob Dole,"" ""Suel Forrester,"" Single and Loving It,"" ""The Randolph Hotel,"" ""Women's Poetry Night,"" and ""Gene the Ex-Convict.""
#18 - Seth Rogen/Phoenix
Season 34 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/4/2009
Obama's Business Rulings, The Fast & The Bi-Curious, Save The Funnies, La Rivista Della Televisione, SNL Digital Short: Like A Boss, Phone Voices, Musical Performance "Lisztomania", Weekend Update, Corporate Meeting, Milestone High, Clancy T. Bachleratt and Jackie Snad Sing Easter Songs, Musical Performance "1901", Muppet Bus, Musical Performance "Too Young"
#19 - Scarlett Johansson/Björk
Season 32 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/21/2007
"Live" from New York, it's... Senator Charles Schumer!Sketches include "White House Witnesses," "Live with Regis and Kelly," "Mrs. Hastings and the Prom Dress," "Roy Rules!" (film), "Mike's Marbleopolis," "WIIX News," "Kuatos," "News Makers with Jane Pauley," and "Torboto" (cartoon).Björk performed "Earth Intruders" and "Wanderlust."
#20 - Jodie Foster/Brian Wilson
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1976
Live from New York, It's...Gilda Radner Sketches include-- Gilda wont be in much of tonight's show, Wendy, Bee Peter Pan and Tinkerbee, Rovco's Puberty Helper, Metal Man, Steve Bashekis, Im Not Black, The Crush on the Biology Teacher, Don Pardo--The First Fifty Years, Laraine Newman's talents, Mr.Mike's Least Loved Bedtime Tales--""he Little Train That Died".
#21 - Justin Bieber
Season 38 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/9/2013
Host and musical guest Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber performs the acoustic version of "As Long as You Love Me" and "Nothing Like Us". Sketches include Super Bowl Blackout Cold Open, Justin Bieber Valentine’s Day Monologue, The Californians: Runaway, Justin Bieber Doubles, Bravo TV Shows, Weekend Update with guests King Richard III’s Friends Growing Up and Corey, 50s Romance, The Miley Cyrus Show, Protective Brother and Principal Frye: Valentine’s Dance.
#22 - Dick Cavett/Marshall Efron, Jimmy Cliff
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/31/1976
Live from New York, It's...Chevy Chase Sketches include--Voodoo on Chevy Chase, Alcohol and Firearms, Lowell Brock of H&R Brock, "Looks at Books", Dick Cavett's School of Hydroplane Operation, Dance To The Nation, "The Apple Follies", Our Town.
#23 - Chris Rock/The Wallflowers
Season 22 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1996
Sketches include ""Bob Dole and George Bush,"" ""Charles Grodin,"" ""The Dark Side with Nat X,"" and ""The Culps.""
#24 - Elliott Gould/Anne Murray
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/10/1976
Live from New York, it's... Chevy Chase Sketches include "The Dead String Quartet," "Interior Demolitionists," "Vito Corleone in Therapy," "The Killer Bees," "Birthright", "Gilda and Elliot," "New Shimmer," The Muppets, "Play Misty for Me" (film), "Jamitol," "Try-Hard 1-11," and "Powwow With the Press" (stand-up). Anne Murray performed "Long Distance Call" and "Boogie With You."
#25 - Madeline Kahn/Taj Mahal
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1977
Live From New York, It's...Bill Murray Sketches include--"Lee Harry Oswald", "Swill", "Bad Opera", "The 'Anyone Can Host' Contest", "Bianca Jagger Talks with Close Personal Friends", "The Acid Generation - Where Are They Now?", "Blind African-American", "Autumn In New York", "Ultra-Personal Feminine Product", "Dubbing Hercules", "Dame Edna Everage", "Pocket Pal", "Phone Secrets""