Saturday Night Live aired its twenty-seventh season during the 2001-2002 television season on NBC. The season started on September 29, 2001 and ended on May 18, 2002, 20 episodes were produced.
Eighteen days before the season started, the September 11, 2001 attacks took place in New York. The season premiere went on as scheduled, with a special cold open featuring Rudy Giuliani, the Mayor of New York City at the time, along with the firefighters and police officers of New York, declaring that despite the terrorist attack, New York City will run as normal and Saturday Night Live will go on as planned.
Three weeks into the season the show faced another scare when anthrax was found in the GE Building. The scare caused most of the cast and crew, as well as that week's guest host Drew Barrymore, to evacuate the building.
Before the start of the season, Jerry Minor and Chris Parnell were both let go from the show. However, luck was on Parnell's side as he was hired back to the show mid-season in the episode hosted by Jonny Moseley, becoming the second cast member to be hired back to the show after being fired, the first person being Jim Belushi in 1983.
Release Date
Sep 29, 2001
Episodes
20 episodes
CAST
Amy Poehler
Self - Various Characters
Seth Meyers
Self - Various Characters
Maya Rudolph
Self - Various Characters
Will Ferrell
Self - Various Characters
EPISODES
1
Reese Witherspoon/Alicia Keys
Sep 29, 2001
2
Seann William Scott/Sum 41
Oct 6, 2001
3
Drew Barrymore/Macy Gray
Oct 13, 2001
4
John Goodman/Ja Rule
Nov 3, 2001
5
Gwyneth Paltrow/Ryan Adams
Nov 10, 2001
6
Billy Bob Thornton/Creed
Nov 17, 2001
7
Derek Jeter/Bubba Sparxxx & Shakira
Dec 1, 2001
8
Hugh Jackman/Mick Jagger
Dec 8, 2001
9
Ellen DeGeneres/No Doubt
Dec 15, 2001
10
Josh Hartnett/Pink
Jan 12, 2002
11
Jack Black/The Strokes
Jan 19, 2002
12
Britney Spears
Feb 2, 2002
13
Jonny Moseley/Outkast
Mar 2, 2002
14
Jon Stewart/India.Arie
Mar 9, 2002
15
Ian McKellen/Kylie Minogue
Mar 16, 2002
16
Cameron Diaz/Jimmy Eat World
Apr 6, 2002
17
The Rock/Andrew W.K.
Apr 13, 2002
18
Alec Baldwin/P.O.D.
Apr 20, 2002
19
Kirsten Dunst/Eminem
May 11, 2002
20
Winona Ryder/Moby
May 18, 2002
Details
Language
English
Country
Production
Network
Metadata
TMDB ID
59614