Saturday Night Live · season 50, episode 969 · Saturday, September 28, 2024 Host: Jean Smart. Musical guest: Jelly Roll. • Jelly Roll performs "Liar" and "Winning Streak" and appears in the cut-for-time "Blonde Dragon People" sketch. • Hannah Einbinder, daughter of original Not Ready for Primetime Player Laraine Newman as well as Smart's co-star on Hacks, joins Smart in introducing Jelly Roll for the first song. • Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan, Andy Samberg, and Dana Carvey appear as Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Doug Emhoff, and Joe Biden, respectively, in the cold open. • Additionally, Samberg appears in the cut-for-time "Blonde Dragon People" sketch. • This episode marks the debut of a new arrangement of the theme song. • Smart sings "I Happen to Like New York" in her opening monologue. • Before the goodnights, a photo of Tom McCarthy, former senior vice president and global chief security officer for NBC, who died July 10, is shown in silence. • Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim, and Jane Wickline’s first episode as cast members. • In versions distributed online and internationally, the "Textbook Writer" sketch is amended to include a shot from the dress rehearsal version, owing to a props error made by Smart in the live program. • According to NBC, this is the most-watched episode ever on Peacock, "through the first weekend". • Blake Lively was the original intended host of this premiere, but withdrew due to the It Ends with Us fallout. Wiki link