Saturday Night Live timeline

SNL Season 1 Ep. 1 - George Carlin

Fun Facts: During the opening credits, announcer Don Pardo flubbed the first-ever mention of the regular cast as "the Not For Ready Prime Time... Read more

Patrick Swayze guest hosts Saturday Night Live

Swayze makes a guest appearance in one of Chris Farley's most memorable SNL skits in which both portray amateur male exotic dancers auditioning for... Read more

Andy Samberg joins Saturday Night Live

In September 2005, The Lonely Island confirmed that Samberg would be joining Saturday Night Live as a featured player and his fellow members of The... Read more

"Lazy Sunday" SNL Digital Short

"Lazy Sunday", the second SNL Digital Short, aired on the December 17, 2005 episode of Saturday Night Live. It features cast members Chris Parnell,... Read more

"Young Chuck Norris" SNL Digital Short

The Funny Site of the Day -- "Saturday Night Live" enters the trendy comedy sweepstakes, begun by Conan O'Brien and Random Chuck Norris Facts, in a... Read more

"Natalie Raps" SNL Digital Short

Natalie Portman is interviewed about her life and responds with a rap proving she is a "badass bitch", poking fun at her clean and intellectual... Read more

"Laser Cats!" SNL Digital Short

Hader and Samberg pitch to SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels their new ultra low-budget Digital Short, Laser Cats! The short within the short... Read more

"My Testicles" SNL Digital Short

Friends in the early 1990s (Kenan Thompson, Forte, and Parnell) discuss the music video by pop stars Ariel (Andy Samberg) and Efrim (Tom Hanks),... Read more

"Peyote" SNL Digital Short

An apparent suicide jumper (Samberg) is negotiated with by a man on a bullhorn (Forte). After a bit of dialogue, it is revealed that the "jumper"... Read more

"Andy Walking" SNL Digital Short

Samberg asks factual questions of passers-by outside NBC Studios in the style of the Jay Leno bit Jaywalking, instead laughing off correct answers... Read more

"Cubicle Fight" SNL Digital Short

New office employee Gary (Hader) gets into a fight to the death with incumbent cubicle holder Steve (host Dane Cook). Read more

"Harpoon Man" SNL Digital Short

Harpoon Man (John C. Reilly), a suave action hero and parody of Shaft, tracks down an insulting announcer dressed as a whale (Samberg), who is... Read more

"Dick in a Box" SNL Digital Short

"Dick in a Box" is a Saturday Night Live digital short featuring Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg that aired on December 16, 2006. Following its... Read more

"Laser Cats! 2" SNL Digital Short

Hader and Samberg apologize to Lorne Michaels for the original Laser Cats! claiming to understand where they went wrong: not enough politics. They... Read more

"Sloths" SNL Digital Short

A Staten Island Zoo worker (Wiig) introduces Staten Island Tech High School student's crude and vile documentary on sloths before previewing it... Read more

"United Way" SNL Digital Short

Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning takes time out to be a mentor to kids, but ends up being physically, mentally, and verbally abusive to them (a parody... Read more

"Iran so far" SNL Digital Short

Samberg sings a love song for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Armisen), along with Adam Levine from Maroon 5, sampling "Avril 14th" by Aphex Twin. Jake... Read more

"People Getting Punched Right Before Eating" SNL Digital Short

Samberg punches people before they get to eat then gleefully dances afterwards; victims include Forte, Armisen, Sudeikis, host Jon Bon Jovi, and... Read more

"Grandkids in the Movies" SNL Digital Short

An old man presents films which have his grandsons (Hader and Samberg) digitally inserted in order to help old people be more comfortable with... Read more

"The Mirror" SNL Digital Short

A girl (Ellen Page) wakes up from a nightmare and begins seeing a zombie (Samberg) in her bathroom mirror, which turns out to be the nightmare of... Read more

"Hero Song" SNL Digital Short

An apparently wealthy man (Samberg) sings about crime infecting the city, then turns into a superhero (a la Batman) and tries to save a woman (Amy... Read more

"Andy's Dad" SNL Digital Short

Jonah Hill confesses to Samberg about how he has fallen in love with his father, Ben Samberg (played by longtime SNL writer Jim Downey). Hader also... Read more

"Laser Cats! 3D" SNL Digital Short

Samberg and Hader attempt to pitch Laser Cats to Lorne again, this time with a scene enhanced by 3D glasses. The plot revolves around a ban on all... Read more

"Daiquiri Girl" SNL Digital Short

Samberg appears in an amateur, early-90s music video about a girl who loves to drink daiquiris. Meanwhile, text scrolls up the screen explaining... Read more

"The Best Look in the World" SNL Digital Short

Samberg and host Shia LaBeouf sing a high-energy country song about Samberg's new dress shirt, black socks, no pants look (the best look in the... Read more