Saturday Night Live - Season 27

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.

• S27 E1 - Reese Witherspoon/Alicia Keys

• S27 E2 - Seann William Scott/Sum 41

• S27 E3 - Drew Barrymore/Macy Gray

• S27 E4 - John Goodman/Ja Rule

• S27 E5 - Gwyneth Paltrow/Ryan Adams

• S27 E6 - Billy Bob Thornton/Creed

• S27 E7 - Derek Jeter/Bubba Sparxxx & Shakira

• S27 E8 - Hugh Jackman/Mick Jagger

• S27 E9 - Ellen DeGeneres/No Doubt

• S27 E10 - Josh Hartnett/Pink

• S27 E11 - Jack Black/The Strokes

• S27 E12 - Britney Spears (2)

• S27 E13 - Jonny Moseley/Outkast

• S27 E14 - Jon Stewart/India.Arie

• S27 E15 - Ian McKellen/Kylie Minogue

• S27 E16 - Cameron Diaz/Jimmy Eat World

• S27 E17 - The Rock/Andrew W.K.

• S27 E18 - Alec Baldwin/P.O.D.

• S27 E19 - Kirsten Dunst/Eminem

• S27 E20 - Winona Ryder/Moby