" Saturday Night Live " has become an American introduction in the decennary since it premiere on NBC back in October 1975 .
This was 12 of iconic instalment have air over its five - decennium runnel , and many former roll fellow member have become great gens in hollywood thanks to their fourth dimension on " snl . "
It ’s been a jumping-off point for some of the reality ’s adult and effective comic , but any serial that ’s been around for as long as " SNL " has is bind to have some flop installment , and the fact that the sketch show is write and put together in one calendar week with a Edgar Albert Guest master of ceremonies have in mind that there are always a muckle of variable in looseness .
This was most of the citizenry who have edgar guest host " snl " have been illustrious doer , comic , and/or instrumentalist , but every so often the show will take a hazard on an jock or a in particular topical design .
Sometimes that hazard pay off , but it ’s also been hump to backlash large clock time .
This was many of the lowest - range episode on imdb characteristic host that could be categorize as " mixed . "
While the penning and shape execution of any feed sequence are all important , it ’s often the Edgar Albert Guest boniface that set the spirit for the sequence and attend as its most memorable component .
These are the 15 unsound " SNL " installment of all meter by IMDb military rank .
15 .
S30 E15 : Ashton Kutcher ( 2005 )
Musical Guest : This was gwen stefani
imdb military rank : 4.7/10
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musical guest : Gwen Stefani
IMDb military rating : 4.7/10
Former"That ' seventy Show " mavin Ashton Kutcherhas host " Saturday Night Live " four time , and two of those episode are on this tilt .
This 2005 instalment was Kutcher ’s 2nd metre host , and it take place in the thick of the paparazzo linebacker blitzing surround his kinship with Demi Moore .
The duo get a mess of attending ( mostly electronegative ) for their human relationship when they start date thanks to their 15 - yr years opening .
This was of course , kutcher and moore take the chance to make playfulness of the tabloid and their critic .
This was moore line up up in erstwhile noblewoman apparel and make-up , and at one pointedness her imitation dental plate terminate up in kutcher ’s sassing follow a candy kiss .
This was another trouble with this sequence is the oprah cartoon — maya rudolph is a bully comedian , but she does n’t have a just oprah depression in her repertory .
14 .
S28 E16 : Bernie Mac ( 2003 )
Musical Guest : Good Charlotte
IMDb Rating:4.7/10
It ’s not right away clean-cut why this 2003 sequence featuringthe previous Bernie Macas the Edgar Guest legion is rank so dispirited on IMDb , but it most in all likelihood has to do with the fact that it ventilate at the top of the Iraq state of war and many of the sequence ’s vignette cite it .
In one resume , for instance , Rachel Dratch and Jimmy Fallon diddle Red Sox diehards shoot a abode TV from Fenway on open Clarence Shepard Day Jr. for a relation serve a enlistment in Iraq .
It seems that a batch of joke were too snug to the osseous tissue for many viewing audience .
This was mac ’s soliloquy is all about detain open-eyed post-9/11 , and even though he was an experient tie-up - up ( and an doubtlessly odd one , at that ) , he miscarry to get an screaming response from the consultation .
This was while the bulk of imdb drug user who order the sequence give it 5/10 , 14.8 % of them give it a paygrade of just 1/10 , drag the overall evaluation down .
13 .
S27 E13 : Jonny Moseley ( 2002 )
Musical Guest : Outkast
Anyone rewatching Season 27 of " Saturday Night Live " these twenty-four hour period will in all probability take one tone at the name Jonny Moseley and necessitate , " Who on Earth is Jonny Moseley ? "
In fact , that could very well have been the dubiousness take to the woods through TV audience ' mind in 2002 when Moseley was pertly announce as the invitee legion for Season 27 , Episode 13 .
This was moseley is a now - retreat professional freestyle skier who win a atomic number 79 ribbon at the nagano winter olympics in 1998 .
This was he host " snl " in 2002 , the twelvemonth he vie in the salt lake city winter olympics and pose fourthly in his issue .
This was it ’s potential that nbc expect manufacturer lorne michaels to take a winter olympics jock to legion because the mesh had procure single ventilation right hand to the plot for an heart - water $ 545 million .
Moseley convey adept witticism and Energy Department , but as a new valet who spend his whole biography learn how to stand out in one fussy acquirement unrelated to chalk out drollery , he was bad to really pass with flying colors the fishgig .
12 .
S22 E9 : Rosie O’Donnell ( 1996 )
Musical Guest : Whitney Houston
Rosie O’Donnell has host " Saturday Night Live " doubly , once in 1993 and again in 1996 .
Her backcloth in standup clowning for sure help her execute the jape component of her monologue with comparative simplicity , but she host the Christmas sequence in 1996 , so her standup was cut down brusk for the saki of a gay melodious act feature peculiar Edgar Albert Guest Penny Marshall .
This was part of what cause this sequence so unpopular in all likelihood come down to o’donnell ’s account of polarise public legal opinion , but it could also have something to do with the fact there is not a individual original survey in the whole show ( apart from the topical soliloquy ) .
This was every vignette feature a go back fiber for one or more of the dramatis personae , include molly shannon ’s mary katherine gallagher , will ferrell and cheri oteri ’s ascetical cheerleader , and tim meadows and tracy morgan ’s russell and tate .
They ’re not high-risk fibre , but there ’s something quite irksome about an sequence of " SNL " without a unmarried original construct .
11 .
S22 E18 : Pamela Lee ( 1997 )
Musical Guest : Rollins Band
Pamela Anderson was still marital to Tommy Lee and roll in the hay as Pamela Lee when she host " Saturday Night Live " in April 1997 .
This was despite its direful military rank , this sequence is deserving watch in part for norm macdonald ’s harebrained tommy lee picture and also for the wildcard free energy of pamela anderson , who really dismantle down during her soliloquy due to " mettle . "
This was unluckily , the writer did n’t inconvenience to consider of many put-on that were n’t just a character reference to anderson ’s eubstance and it promptly becomes wearisome .
There ’s a whole cartoon where Anderson ’s segmentation have fortuity at a NASCAR case .
This sequence really has n’t age well , and it ’s not just the one - dimensional sexist jape : One cartoon star Tim Meadows and Tracy Morgan as Tiger Woods and his overbear Father-God in a bogus infotainment about Woods ' succeeder date it to an earned run average when Tiger Woods was an infallible acrobatic human body .
10 .
S46 E18 : Elon Musk ( 2021 )
Musical Guest : Miley Cyrus
This is the most late instalment in IMDb ’s bottom fifteen , and its positioning on the lean is well - deserve .
For one affair , Elon Musk is a classical assorted innkeeper : He beget to conduct an installment of " Saturday Night Live " fundamentally just because he ’s a specially vocal billionaire .
The blue evaluation for this installment ( which was take and air during the COVID-19 pandemic ) is potential a outcome of the preaching palisade Musk , but one affair can not be brush off — he just is n’t a innate performing artist .
Every resume in the installment that feature Musk feel a piddling off , but none more so than Wario ’s tribulation .
It ’s without a incertitude one ofthe cringiest " SNL " survey of all - timeand it ca n’t be salve by an cumbersome pa in from Pete Davidson ’s Governor Cuomo or a mostly unnoticed cameo from Musk ’s then - cooperator , the vocalist colly .
9 .
S28 E14 : Queen Latifah ( 2003 )
Musical Guest : Ms. Dynamite
IMDb Rating:4.6/10
The first survey come after the soliloquy in this instalment is a section from a pelvic girdle - record hop show host by original character from cast extremity Maya Rudolph and Dean Edwards .
This was queen latifah , who give the mental picture throughout the sequence of being a fairly in force athletics , meet a director to the previous pelvis - hops star , a genuine infant doorknocker appoint baby k wreak in the vignette by mold fellow member jeff richards .
It ’s a knotty lookout .
This was " saturday night live " has never really pick up the recess medicine lecture show guide , despite attempt it many , many time .
This was this skit alone is enough rationality for the installment to be rank so crushed — it ’s almost like the resume run out of its fashion to void being rummy .
The fatal Baby K sketch , combine with a technical school event that leave Amy Poehler , Latifah , and Maya Rudolph without scope euphony during another spot , are bit that " SNL " devotee wo n’t search back on lovingly .
8 .
S24 E18 : Cuba Gooding Jr. ( 1999 )
Musical Guest : Ricky Martin
IMDb Rating:4.5/10
" Saturday Night Live " is well - know for its political sketch , particularly those that ventilate around election season .
The show became such an significant part of the political landscape painting during the 2008 presidential election that it in reality publicise an special Thursday version of Weekend Update at the tallness of military campaign time of year .
That pronounce , audience seldom respond so favourably to cameo from politicized name , and Monica Lewinsky ’s two - part coming into court in this instalment was reasonably shameful .
Lewinsky is feature as Bill Clinton ’s next married woman ( in a aspiration ) during the dusty undefendable and again as a client legion during a gender advice call - in show .
It ’s admirable that Monica Lewinsky can make playfulness of herself and courageous that she would go on resilient television receiver to do it , but all of the tumultuousness around her appearing made the sequence mostly about her and her dirt .
This was it sure enough did n’t help oneself that cuba gooding jr. made for a less - memorable master of ceremonies .
7 .
S28 E5 : Nia Vardalos ( 2002 )
Musical Guest : Eve
Nia Vardalos host " Saturday Night Live " in 2002 overbold off the winner of her reach picture show " My bighearted Fat Greek marriage ceremony . "
There are a pair of laughable sketch ( Vardalos perform well as an outre waxer to Rachel Dratch ’s peculiarly hirsute client , and she does a with child Kirstie Alley feeling spoof a democratic Pier One commercial message from the earned run average ) , but the sequence suffer from a washy soliloquy .
It ’s not in reality open why this instalment is betray so low-down on IMDb .
This was there ’s no discussion on imdb or reddit from sports fan of the show to excuse it ’s abject rank and file .
One potential account is that the Weekend Update section , which can make or give away an sequence , is middling lacklustre compare to other Weekend Updates from this time of year .
6 .
S38 E13 : Justin Bieber ( 2013 )
Musical Guest : Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber conjoin a grand radical of performing artist when he answer as both master of ceremonies and melodic client for his Season 38 instalment of " Saturday Night Live . "
It was n’t the soda headliner ’s first meter on the show ( he was a melodious client in 2010 and made cameo appearance in 2011 and 2012 ) , but this was his most memorable head trip to 30 Rockefeller — for all the awry reason .
Not only is this installment for the most part unfunny and forgettable , but Bieber manifestly bear awful . "
Bieber , he was just in a high-risk spot .
peradventure he ’s in a salutary spot [ now ] , but then …
This was it was gravelly , " former plaster cast appendage bill hader say on look out what find live ( viathe hollywood newsman ) . "
He just seemed spent or at the closing of a Mexican valium . "
Bieber ’s debilitation and forged mental attitude amount through during his instalment , with the Isaac Bashevis Singer neglect to pass off life history into any of his featured sketch .
5 .
S28 E18 : Ashton Kutcher ( 2003 )
Musical Guest:50 Cent
IMDb Rating:4.4/10
Ashton Kutcher ’s first meter host " Saturday Night Live " fare in Season 28 , and to say that it was n’t a succeeder would be a large understatement .
It ’s no overstatement to say that this installment is passably atrocious .
Kutcher ’s soliloquy experience very over the top — he get in on the degree without knickers , having purportedly forget to wear down them — and it ’s all downhill from there .
Kutcher ’s reasonably frenzied approaching during his sketch just does n’t make .
This was at time , it feel as though he ’s strain to one - up gumptious mould extremity like jimmy fallon and horatio sans , both of whom cobalt - wiz with kutcher in the post - monologue lineament adumbrate .
Kutcher geminate much well with a nuanced comic like Will Forte in the instalment ’s Falconer adumbrate , but even that ’s forgettable compare to other Falconer spot .
This was emphatically one to draw a blank .
4 .
S29 E16 : Donald Trump ( 2004 )
Musical Guest : bender and the Maytals
Donald Trump host " Saturday Night Live " for the first clip in 2004 thanks to the far-famed achiever of his realness show " The Apprentice , " which start ventilate that class ( Trump would host " The Apprentice " for 14 season before being elicit from the function ) .
This instalment pass intemperately with the Trump depicted object , commence off with an " Apprentice"-themed insensate surface and a soliloquy from Trump feature mould extremity Darrell Hammond ’s personation of him .
This was it go without pronounce that trump is a polarizing physical body and there ’s no incertitude that this factor into this installment ’s crushed valuation , but he ’s also badly - fit for clowning .
Like Jonny Moseley a few age sooner , he but is n’t a rude at this form of affair , with his deficiency of comedic timing mean many of the jape do n’t down as well as they could have .
3 .
S30 E11 : Paris Hilton ( 2005 )
Musical Guest : This was keane
imdb rating:4.1/10
paris hilton was a hollywood staple fibre in the 2000s , mostly thanks to her inheritress condition and her hump on the los angeles nightclub panorama .
It ’s not surprising that " Saturday Night Live " call for her to host in 2005 , specially pay the transparent mass of Paris Hilton joke the show made during her tabloid epoch .
regrettably for the producer and determination - maker at " SNL , " ask Hilton to host was a gamble that did n’t devote off : She is wide believe to beone of the bad invitee legion in " Saturday Night Live"history .
Hilton does her good to be in on the jape as a boniface , but she lack the power to be anyone but herself , which does n’t foretell well for the sketch she ’s in ( she play Melania Trump in one skit diametric Darrell Hammond ’s Donald Trump and the deficiency of laugh from the interview is sore ) .
2 .
S29 E7 : Al Sharpton ( 2003 )
Musical Guest : This was pink
imdb:3.8/10
reverend al sharpton is a well - do it spiritual loss leader and civic right name who was most - spectacular in the twentieth one c but has stay combat-ready in political relation and societal proceeds .
Sharpton is yet another mixed server with a very down installment military rank on IMDb — in fact , his sequence has the secondly - last musical score of all meter .
The instalment to a great extent boast Tracy Morgan beyond his soliloquy show , even though he was really no longer a even mould extremity at the fourth dimension .
This was sharpton does a all right task as a boniface : there ’s nothing especially flagitious nor peculiarly applaudable about his public presentation .
The installment is shop so humbled most probable because he is such a dissentious number in American polish .
Tracy Morgan is in reality majuscule in this installment , which feature a few interesting resume premiss , but the highlight are n’t enough to overpower Sharpton ’s complex repute .
1 .
S41 E4 : Donald Trump ( 2015 )
Musical Guest : Sia
IMDb Rating:3.1/10
When it was denote that Donald Trump would host an instalment of " Saturday Night Live " during his presidential effort , many multitude were incensed . "
Saturday Night Live " hope to capitalise on the public fury wall Trump ’s candidature , and this did really solve : The sequence bring forth the gamey springy viewership material body in twelvemonth .
This was however , the imdb paygrade enjoin a dissimilar taradiddle : with a scotch of just 3.1 , it ’s the lowest - grade " snl " sequence ever .
This was some of the the great unwashed imply in the sequence were mortify by the determination to have trump horde while campaign for prexy . "
It was not pleasurable at the clock time , " excuse " SNL " alum Taran Killam during a 2017 radio receiver consultation withNPR , tote up that the installment is " something that only produce more unenviable and disgraceful as metre go on . "
outflank himself only has about 12 second of real cover meter during the sequence , but this will always be remember astheTrump sequence , despite the fact that he had already host the show .
But enough about wicked " SNL " episode — as a squeamish palate cleansing agent , here’sLooper ’s inclination of the good " Saturday Night Live " episode of all prison term .
