Saturday Night Live · season 50, episode 971 · Saturday, October 12, 2024 Host: Ariana Grande (2nd time). Musical guest: Stevie Nicks. • Stevie Nicks performs "The Lighthouse" and "Edge of Seventeen". • Maya Rudolph, Andy Samberg, Jim Gaffigan and Dana Carvey appear as Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff, Tim Walz and Joe Biden in the cold open. • Rudolph and Samberg also appear in the "Castrati" sketch. • Carvey also appears in the "Maybelline" sketch. • Technical issues afflicted the latter portion of the show. A malfunctioning sound board caused Nicks' second song to be delayed - following another set of commercials - which resulted in one sketch ("Cinema Classics", with Grande due to portray Judy Garland) being dropped and replaced by another ("Hotel Detective", recorded - and initially cut - at dress-rehearsal) with a shorter runtime. Broadcast reruns in the show's late night slot added new bumper footage during the commercials of Stevie and her band getting ready on stage, removing the initial broadcast's extended use of a still photo of Nicks. It also added an ad break between the Maybelline skit and the final skit. • The episode's broadcast was also delayed by six minutes owing to NBC's coverage of Ohio State-Oregon on Big Ten Saturday Night. • Ashley Padilla was credited in the opening montage, but did not appear in the episode, although she appeared on stage during the goodnights. Wiki link