Most watched SNL skits from the last year

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In this skit featuring Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot, E! announces a slate of new fall TV shows  for those who want to be “completely numb and turn your brain off” to the news of the day. Gadot plays Kendall Jenner, Kate McKinnon is Bella Hadid, Melissa Villaseñor is Gwen Stefani, Luke Null is Blake Shelton and Chris Redd is Kanye West.

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Veronica Elders (Jessica Chastain), hosts the game show, “What Even Matters Anymore,”  in which contestants (Cecily Strong, Kate McKinnon, Kenan Thompson) judge if what something the president did will matter to the public. The sketch poked fun at recent admissions by Trump, including his relationship with a porn star and a comment he made in which he called a handful of poor nations “shitholes.”

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In this cold open, a mall Santa (Kenan Thompson) and his elf helper (Kate McKinnon) entertain  Christmas present requests from children that aren’t toys, but political in nature. One child asks about the Al Franken and Roy Moore scandals, another asks about kneeling in the NFL and another asks about the president’s sexual misconduct allegations.

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A director (Alex Moffat) tries to film an emotional scene involving a basketball player and his coach (Pete Davidson, Kenan Thompson), but background players (Jimmy Fallon, Mikey Day) are completely inept at playing basketball and end up being more distracting than anything.

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College students (Kristen Stewart, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kyle Mooney) share drunken stories, but one student (Kristen Wiig) has stories that are so over-the-top they're almost disturbing.

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Colin Jost and Michael Che, anchors on the “Weekend Update” segment of the show, get the audience up to speed on the big news of the week including President Donald Trump's accusation that President Obama wiretapped him, Senators wearing white in remembrance of the suffrage movement and the president’s Congressional address.

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Reporters on a cable news show (Cecily Strong, Bobby Moynihan, Scarlett Johansson) keep accidentally calling an animal photographer (Mikey Day) an animal pornographer.

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Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (Mikey Day) meets with Vice President Mike Pence (Beck Bennett) and Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) to discuss Moore’s allegations of sexual misconduct with minors.

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Three scientists (Scarlett Johansson, Kyle Mooney, Mikey Day) invent a translator for pets, but are shocked to discover that their dog is a Trump supporter.

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson plays a man desperate for an illegal male enhancement drug in an advertisement for "Xantrex."

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A woman (Gal Gadot) is oblivious to the fact that her date (Kenan Thompson) is O.J. Simpson.

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President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) makes an address in which he checks in with Vice President Mike Pence (Beck Bennett) to make sure he’s leaving any sports game in which a player kneels, and takes shots at Senator Bob Corker and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for calling him a “moron.”

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Host Kristen Stewart recounts the time when President Trump tweeted about her relationship with Robert Pattinson 11 times.

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Natalie Portman is back with another rap about the outrageous things going on in her life. Former SNL alum Andy Samberg makes a guest appearance.

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De-Von-Tré (Chance the Rapper, Kenan Thompson, Chris Redd) sing an R&B love ballad in the style of Boys II Men to President Barack Obama, pleading for him to come back to office.

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Actors (Scarlett Johansson, Mikey Day, Leslie Jones, Kenan Thompson) film reaction shots for an Olive Garden commercial, but the director has the crew do extra, outlandish things to get “alternative” shots.”

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Rob Gronkowski (John Cena), Conor McGregor (Alex Moffat) and John Daly (Bobby Moynihan) compete on Where'd Your Money Go?, hosted by Charles Barkley (Kenan Thompson). Each contestant is a rich celebrity who is notorious for spending their money frivolously. They are asked whether they’d spend money in different scenarios.

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President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) holds a rally in Arizona, and talks about the solar eclipse, and tries to set the record straight about his reaction to the racist events in Charlottesville.

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Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon) tries to appeal to Jake Tapper (Beck Bennett) and gain his trust by showing up unannounced in his apartment.

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Mika Brzezinski (Kate McKinnon) and Joe Scarborough talk about the President's remark in which he called some African countries "shitholes." They interview author of "Fire and Fury" Michael Wolff (Fred Armisen), Steve Bannon (Bill Murray) and Oprah Winfrey (Leslie Jones).

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The writer (Beck Bennett) of Kendall Jenner's (Cecily Strong) Pepsi commercial shares the premise with family before the shoot, and is warned that his concept is a bad idea. The satire is based on true events in which people criticized the Pepsi commercial for being “tone-deaf.”

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President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) fields questions with supporters (Mikey Day, Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant) in Boone County, Kentucky, but the residents find that the president's answers don’t exactly address their problems.

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President Trump (Alec Baldwin) checks in on Paul Manafort (Alex Moffat) before Manafort is taken to prison, and concocts a plan to pardon him with the help of Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon). This is alluding to Manafort’s indictment after information about his collusion with Russian officials was revealed by the Mueller probe.

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It starts out as a run-off-the-mill Totino’s commercial, in which a woman (Vanessa Bayer) is ordered to serve the snack to her husband and his friends while they watch a football game. But when a stranger (Kristen Stewart) offers, to help her, they start an over-the-top romance while nobody is watching.

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Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin), Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon), Mike Pence (Beck Bennett), Eric Trump (Alex Moffat), Donald Trump Jr. (Mikey Day), Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant), Melania Trump (Cecily Strong) and Ivanka Trump (Scarlett Johansson) perform "Hallelujah." This harks backs to when Kate McKinnon reprised her role as Hillary Clinton and sang the song after Clinton lost the presidential election — this served as a sort of swan song for the end of the season and Baldwin's impression of the president.

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A sequel to the famous “Close Encounter” sketch with the same cast, three people (Ryan Gosling, Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong) come back to CIA headquarters to recount their second alien adbuctions.

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Two gay women (Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon) find themselves on Themyscira (the mythical island inhabited by Amazons in Wonder Woman), they assume that those who live there (Gal Gadot, Leslie Jones, Melissa Villaseñor, Heidi Gardner) all seem to be straight.

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President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) sits down with Lester Holt (Michael Che) to discuss his decision to fire FBI director James Comey. The bit harps on the fact that Trump never saw repercussions for admitting that he obstructed justice.

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SNL cast members edit the U.S. Customs video to reflect the changes that President Trump planned to enact with his travel ban. This pokes fun at the U.S. claiming that its borders are open to many.

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Will Ferrell reprises his role as former President George W. Bush to remind the nation that aspects of Trump's presidency are not as bad as his were.

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Around the Christmas holiday, in satire of A Christmas Carol, President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) sees the ghosts of Michael Flynn (Mikey Day), Billy Bush (Alex Moffatt), Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett) and Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon).

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On a parody of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough (Alex Moffat) and Mika Brzezinski (Kate McKinnon) speak with John Miller (Alec Baldwin), who says he’s a spokesman for President Donald Trump, but is just Trump impersonating someone else.

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A dramatic montage shows Steven (Ryan Gosling) a man who, years later, still hates that the logo for Avatar was written in the Papyrus font.

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President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin), along with Vice President Mike Pence (Beck Bennett),  reflects on his 100 days in office then decides which of his advisors Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner (Jimmy Fallon) to keep.

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A comment on the ongoing revelation of sexual misconduct by men in many industries (the most notable being Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein), women (Saoirse Ronan, Cecily Strong, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Leslie Jones, Melissa Villaseñor) sing a satirical pop song about how this kind of climate has been something women have been dealing with all along.

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A take on the famous bus top bench scene in the film Forrest Gump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) reveals to various strangers (Octavia Spencer, Leslie Jones, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant, Beck Bennett) at a bus stop that he’s been colluding with Russia.

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On Weekend Update, Colin and Michael explain super orgasms and cover the marriage of two 90-year-olds. After Neo-Nazi and white supremacy groups marched on the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, SNL alum (and UVA grad) Tina Fey comes on the show to explain her protest plan, which she called “sheet-caking.”

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Ivanka Trump (Scarlett Johansson)’s new fragrance is called “Complicit,” in a spoof commenting on what some see as her failure to push back against some of her father’s policies.

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Bill O'Reilly and President Donald Trump (both played by Alec Baldwin) address the sexual harassment accusations surrounding O'Reilly.

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President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) tries to give a rousing speech to the military (Kenan Thompson, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant, Leslie Jones, Sasheer Zamata, Beck Bennett, Alex Moffat, Kate McKinnon) during an alien attack, but instead uses the time to tout his platform.

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President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) and Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant) speak with Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (Melissa Villaseñor) of San Juan about giving aid to Puerto Rico after the hurricane. Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) and Senator Chuck Schumer (Alex Moffat) also make an appearance.

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In a satire of Stephen King’s It, Kellyanne Conway (Kate McKinnon) plays “Kellywise” the clown, who tries to pull Anderson Cooper (Alex Moffat) into a gutter.

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During an Easter address, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer (Melissa McCarthy) explains and apologizes for his use of the term “Holocaust Centers” during a recent press briefing.

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Sean Spicer (Melissa McCarthy) addresses rumors of collusion with Russia, and rides his podium to the White House to confront Trump (Alec Baldwin) about replacing him with Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy Bryant).

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A commercial for "Amazon Echo Silver," Amazon's new Echo designed for older consumers (Kenan Thompson, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant) shows elderly users mispronouncing Alexa in hilarious ways. 

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President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) is urged by Steve Bannon to call and declare war on Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (Beck Bennett), Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto (Alex Moffat) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Kate McKinnon).

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Eagles fans Justin Bieber (Kate McKinnon), Samuel L. Jackson (Leslie Jones), Paula Deen (Aidy Bryant) and Roger Goodell (Beck Bennett) are up against Patriots fans Gisele Bündchen (Kristen Stewart), Bill Belichick (Bobby Moynihan), Casey Affleck (Alex Moffat) and Lady Gaga (Melissa Villaseñor).

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On an episode of People’s Court, President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) goes against the Ninth Circuit Court judges (Kyle Mooney, Vanessa Bayer, Pete Davidson), who rule his travel ban unconstitutional.

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Sean Spicer (Melissa McCarthy) and Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) conduct a press briefing (Bobby Moynihan, Mikey Day, Vanessa Bayer, Sasheer Zamata, Cecily Strong,  Kyle Mooney) after news that the travel ban has been blocked by Ninth Circuit Court judges. Spicer explains the travel ban using dolls.

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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer (Melissa McCarthy) and Secretary of Education Nominee Betsy DeVos (Kate McKinnon) address the media during a press briefing (Bobby Moynihan, Kristen Stewart, Cecily Strong, Vanessa Bayer, Alex Moffat, Mikey Day), tackling the president's new supreme court nominee, the Muslim travel ban and Steve Bannon's role on the National Security Council.