Saturday Night Live · season 43, episode 830 · Saturday, September 30, 2017 Host: Ryan Gosling (2nd time). Musical guest: Jay-Z. • Jay-Z performs "Bam" with Damian Marley and "4:44". • Alec Baldwin appears as Donald Trump in the cold open. • Emma Stone appears in the opening monologue. • Kenan Thompson's return for his fifteenth season on the show makes him the longest tenured cast member in the show's history, surpassing the previous record of fourteen seasons, which he had held jointly with Darrell Hammond. • Heidi Gardner, Luke Null and Chris Redd's first episode as cast members. • A photograph of Hugh Hefner, who had died the previous week, is shown in silence before the goodnights. Wiki link