Saturday Night Live Wiki
Register
Advertisement
 December 3, 2011
 Season 37 episode
SNL Steve Buscemi
SNL The Black Keys
 Episode 710
 Season Episode 8
 Host Steve Buscemi
 Musical Guest(s) The Black Keys
 Song(s) performed by
 Musical Guest(s)
"Lonely Boy"
"Gold on the Ceiling"
Previous Episode
November 19, 2011
Next Episode
December 10, 2011

The 8th episode of Season 37 and the 710th episode of Saturday Night Live premiered on December 3, 2011, hosted by actor and HBO's period crime drama series Boardwalk Empire, Fargo and Monsters University star Steve Buscemi and the musical guest was The Black Keys, a rock duo, who performed "Lonely Boy" and "Gold on the Ceiling." This is Steve Buscemi's 2nd hosting stint, and his first appearance in 13 years and 8 months. This is also the 2nd musical guest appearance on the show for The Black Keys.

He last hosted SNL on the April 4, 1998 episode, the seventeenth episode of SNL's 23rd season, with musical guests Third Eye Blind, a rock band.

Steve Buscemi's goodnights speech is "Thanks to the Black Keys, Maya Rudolph, Thank you, Lorne, This amazing cast and the amazing crew, We hope you feel better, Frank. Thank you so much". (Cheers and Applause)

Cast[]

Repertory Players[]

Featured Players[]

Sketches and Musical Performances[]

This Sketches section needs to be edited to bring it inline with the style guide.

See September 27, 2014 for an example of a correctly-formatted sketches section.
  • Obama in One (Cold Opening)
  • Frozen Mexican Dinner (Commercial)
  • The Miley Cyrus Show (Show)
  • SNL Digital Short - Batman
  • Dateline (Show)
  • Coach Bert
  • Surprise
  • "Sex" Ed Vincent's Couples Workshop Sex Intensive (Commercial)
  • Ornaments
  • Obama in One
  • Opening Monologue
  • Making his second hosting stint and his first appearance in 13 years, actor Steve Buscemi, who has flourished as the leading man in "Boardwalk Empire", gives advice to actors who always play auxiliary characters, as he returned to SNL.
  • Frozen Mexican Dinner
    • Fred Armisen as one of the musicians
    • Paul Brittain as one of the musicians
    • Bill Hader as the announcer (voice only)
  • The Miley Cyrus Show
  • SNL Digital Short - Batman
    • Steve Buscemi as Jim
    • Paul Brittain as Aquaman
    • Andy Samberg as Batman
    • Jason Sudeikis as the doctor
    • Kristen Wiig as the wife
  • Dateline
    • Steve Buscemi as Diego Bops
    • Bill Hader as Keith Morrison
    • Steve Higgins as the announcer (voice only)
    • Taran Killam as the witness
    • Jason Sudeikis as the coroner
    • Kristen Wiig as Martha Valentine
  • Coach Bert
    • Steve Buscemi as Coach Bert
    • Bill Hader as Brent Harrison
    • Taran Killam as Ed Markham
    • Bobby Moynihan as one of the reporters
    • Nasim Pedrad as one of the reporters
    • Jay Pharoah as Darius Bogart
    • Jason Sudeikis as Larry Stevens
    • Kenan Thompson as Agent Dauz
  • The Black Keys performed "Lonely Boy"
  • Weekend Update
  • Surprise
    • Steve Buscemi as Arnie
    • Vanessa Bayer as Sandra Snells
    • Paul Brittain as one of the employees
    • Abby Elliott as one of the employees
    • Bill Hader as one of the employees
    • Kristen Wiig as Sue
  • "Sex" Ed Vincent's Couples Workshop Sex Intensive
    • Steve Buscemi as Dustin van Camp
    • Paul Brittain as Ed Vincent
    • Steve Higgins as the announcer (voice only)
  • The Black Keys performed "Gold on the Celling"
  • Ornaments
    • Steve Buscemi as Sheila
    • Steve Higgins as the announcer (voice only)
    • Kristen Wiig as Sheila
  • Goodnights: Steve Buscemi thanked The Black Keys, Maya Rudolph, Lorne Michaels, the amazing cast and crew for having him back.

Notes/Trivia[]

Preceded by:
November 19, 2011
Saturday Night Live episode Followed by:
December 10, 2011
Advertisement