Saturday Night Live · season 45, episode 881 · Saturday, December 21, 2019 Host: Eddie Murphy (3rd time). Musical guest: Lizzo. • Lizzo performs "Truth Hurts" and a holiday-themed remix of "Good as Hell", and appears in the pre-recorded cut-for-time "Aidy Bizzo and Lizzo". • Fred Armisen, Alec Baldwin, Larry David, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and Jason Sudeikis appear in the cold open as Michael Bloomberg, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, respectively the "PBS Democratic Debate" cold open. Rudolph also appears in the prerecorded "Family Christmas". • Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Tracy Morgan appear in the opening monologue with longest-tenured cast member Kenan Thompson. • Kate McKinnon plays her two impressions during the "PBS Democratic Debate" cold open Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Nancy Pelosi. • SNL writer Gary Richardson appears on Weekend Update as a cue-card holder. • Usher appears during the goodnights. • Murphy reprises some of his most iconic SNL characters including Mr. Robinson (Mister Robinson's Neighborhood), Buckwheat (The Masked Singer), Gumby (Weekend Update) and Velvet Jones ("Black Jeopardy"). • Except for his brief appearance on the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special in 2015, this episode marked Murphy's first appearance on SNL since he hosted in the tenth season 35 years earlier. • Each of the three times, Eddie Murphy has been hosted the Christmas show of the particular seasons of the show. • Eddie Murphy & Lizzo become the 11th set of returning host and rookie musical guest to headline the SNL Christmas show. • An average of 9.921 million viewers watched the show live but including seven+ DVR numbers, the show totaled 16.3 million viewers, making it the highest watched episode since 2008. • Eddie Murphy won his first ever Emmy Award for hosting this episode; Maya Rudolph won an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Kamala Harris on this episode and Don Roy King won an Emmy Award for directing this episode. In total, this episode received six Emmy Award nominations and four Emmy Award wins. • This marked the final SNL episode of 2019, as well as the final episode of SNL to air in the 2010s. Wiki link