Saturday Night Live - Season 27
Description: 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.
Episodes
Reese Witherspoon/Alicia Keys
Aired: Sep 29, 2001
Live From New York, It's...Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Sketches include: ""9/11 Trib...
Seann William Scott/Sum 41
Aired: Oct 6, 2001
Live From New York, It's...Will Ferrell Sketches include: Bush Warns bin Laden,...
Drew Barrymore/Macy Gray
Aired: Oct 13, 2001
Live From New York, It's...Darrell Hammond Sketches include ""A Message from Di...
John Goodman/Ja Rule
Aired: Nov 3, 2001
Live From New York, It's...Darrell Hammond Sketches include: ""MSNBC: Ashcroft'...
Gwyneth Paltrow/Ryan Adams
Aired: Nov 10, 2001
Live From New York, It's...Will Ferrell (speaking Arabic) Sketches include ""Ge...
Billy Bob Thornton/Creed
Aired: Nov 17, 2001
Live From New York, It's...Darrell Hammond Sketches include ""Donald Rumsfeld's...
Derek Jeter/Bubba Sparxxx & Shakira
Aired: Dec 1, 2001
Live From New York, It's...Will Ferrell Sketches include: George W. Bush's 'You...
Hugh Jackman/Mick Jagger
Aired: Dec 8, 2001
Live From New York, It's...Darrell Hammond Sketches include ""Gore's White Hous...
Ellen DeGeneres/No Doubt
Aired: Dec 15, 2001
Live From New York, It's...Darrell Hammond Sketches include ""CBS News Special ...
Josh Hartnett/Pink
Aired: Jan 12, 2002
Live From New York, It's...Darrell Hammond Sketches include ""Buddy The Dog's F...
Jack Black/The Strokes
Aired: Jan 19, 2002
Live From New York, It's...Jimmy Fallon Sketches include: White House Cops: The...
Britney Spears
Aired: Feb 2, 2002
Live From New York, It's...Seth Meyers Sketches include ""Morman Winter Olympic...
Jonny Moseley/Outkast
Aired: Mar 2, 2002
Live From New York, It's...Will Ferrell Sketches include ""George W. Bush's Axi...
Jon Stewart/India.Arie
Aired: Mar 9, 2002
Live From New York, It's...Darrell Hammond Sketches include: Cheney's Concerns,...
Ian McKellen/Kylie Minogue
Aired: Mar 16, 2002
Live From New York, It's... Darrell Hammond Sketches include ""Tom Ridge Terror...
Cameron Diaz/Jimmy Eat World
Aired: Apr 6, 2002
Live From New York, It's...Will Ferrell & Ana Gasteyer! Sketches include ""The ...
The Rock/Andrew W.K.
Aired: Apr 13, 2002
Live From New York, It's...Will Ferrell Sketches include: Bush's Guccione Peace...
Alec Baldwin/P.O.D.
Aired: Apr 20, 2002
Live From New York, It's...The Parrot From ""Barretta"" Sketckes include ""FOX ...
Kirsten Dunst/Eminem
Aired: May 11, 2002
Live From New York, It's...Will Ferrell Sketches include ""George W. Bush, Cond...
Winona Ryder/Moby
Aired: May 18, 2002
Live From New York, It's...Maya Rudolph and (for the final time) Will Ferrell S...