Saturday Night Live - Staffel 34

The thirty-fourth season of the variety series Saturday Night Live began airing in 2008 and concluded in 2009 on NBC. This season of Saturday Night Live consisted of 22 episodes, in an attempt to compensate for episodes lost during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. This made it the longest season since the show's second season. The season began on September 13, 2008 on NBC, with Olympic swimming gold medalist Michael Phelps as host and Tina Fey appearing as Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, alongside Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton, and rapper Lil Wayne as the musical guest. The show scored its highest-rated premiere since September 2001 and is the second most-watched SNL ever. The season premiere date of September 13 was earlier than the premiere date for previous seasons, which typically have started during the final weekend of September or in early October. However, a month later, the show drew its highest ratings in over 14 years when the real Sarah Palin appeared. SNL had 17 million viewers during its first half-hour. Before the start of the season the cast remained mostly unchanged except for the addition of Bobby Moynihan. Moynihan came to SNL as a performer with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater; in season 33, Moynihan and Wilson were among the group of Upright Citizens Brigade performers SNL auditioned mid-season while the show was looking for a new cast member to join after the writers' strike in early 2008. Moynihan did not make the cut in his season 33 audition, but instead ended up being invited back for another audition shortly before this season started. Wilson remained a featured player.

• S34 E1 - Michael Phelps/Lil Wayne

• S34 E2 - James Franco/Kings of Leon

• S34 E3 - Anna Faris/Duffy

• S34 E4 - Anne Hathaway/The Killers

• S34 E5 - Josh Brolin/Adele

• S34 E6 - Jon Hamm/Coldplay

• S34 E7 - Ben Affleck/David Cook

• S34 E8 - Paul Rudd/Beyonce

• S34 E9 - Tim McGraw/Ludacris/T-Pain

• S34 E10 - John Malkovich/T.I.

• S34 E11 - Hugh Laurie/Kanye West

• S34 E12 - Neil Patrick Harris/Taylor Swift

• S34 E13 - Rosario Dawson/Fleet Foxes

• S34 E14 - Steve Martin/Jason Mraz

• S34 E15 - Bradley Cooper/TV on the Radio

• S34 E16 - Alec Baldwin/Jonas Brothers

• S34 E17 - Dwayne Johnson/Ray LaMontagne

• S34 E18 - Tracy Morgan/Kelly Clarkson

• S34 E19 - Seth Rogen/Phoenix

• S34 E20 - Zac Efron/Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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