Saturday Night Live Season 42 Episode 5 Synopsis

Host Benedict Cumberbatch; Solange performs.

Saturday Night Live Season 42 Episodes...

• s42e01 - Margot Robbie / The Weekend
• s42e02 - Lin-Manuel Miranda / Twenty One Pilots
• s42e03 - Emily Blunt / Bruno Mars
• s42e04 - Tom Hanks / Lady Gaga
• s42e05 - Benedict Cumberbatch / Solange
• s42e06 - Dave Chappelle / A Tribe Called Quest
• s42e07 - Kristen Wiig / The XX
• s42e08 - Emma Stone / Shawn Mendes
• s42e09 - John Cena / Maren Morris
• s42e10 - Casey Affleck / Chance the Rapper
• s42e11 - Felicity Jones / Sturgill Simpson
• s42e12 - Aziz Ansari / Big Sean
• s42e13 - Kristen Stewart / Alessia Cara
• s42e14 - Alec Baldwin / Ed Sheeran
• s42e15 - Octavia Spencer / Father John Misty
• s42e16 - Scarlett Johansson / Lorde
• s42e17 - Louis C.K. / The Chainsmokers
• s42e18 - Jimmy Fallon / Harry Styles
• s42e19 - Chris Pine / LCD Soundsystem
• s42e20 - Melissa McCarthy / Haim
• s42e21 - Dwayne Johnson / Katy Perry

Saturday Night Live Show Summary

Since 1975, SNL has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of a generation and as "The New York Times" noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999. In defiance of both time and show business convention, "SNL" is still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture". At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.

Saturday Night Live is broadcast live from NBC's famed Studio 8H in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The program is a production of Broadway Video in association with SNL Studios. Lorne Michaels is the executive producer.