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 February 18, 2012
 Season 37 episode
SNL Maya Rudolph 2012
SNL Sleigh Bells
 Episode 717
 Season Episode 15
 Host Maya Rudolph
 Musical Guest(s) Sleigh Bells
 Song(s) performed by
 Musical Guest(s)
"Comeback Kid"
"End of the Line"
Previous Episode
February 11, 2012
Next Episode
March 3, 2012

The 15th episode of Season 37 and the 717th episode of Saturday Night Live premiered on February 18, 2012, and was hosted by longtime former SNL cast member Maya Rudolph and Sleigh Bells was her musical guest, who performed "Comeback Kid" and "End of the Line." This is Maya Rudolph's first time as host, and Sleigh Bells made their musical guest debut on SNL.

Maya Rudolph's goodnights speech is Thanks to Sleigh Bells, Paul Simon… my little one, Amy Poehler… Justin Timberlake, Bill O’Reilly, Kate Upton. I love this building… my incredibly talented, beautiful friends! I love you, Lorne! Jenna! Tom! Dale…! Oh, my God, I love this place!

Cast[]

Repertory Players[]

Featured Players[]

Sketches and Music 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.
  • New York Sports Now (Cold Opening)
  • Bronx Beat (Show)
  • Maya Angelou's: I Know Why the Caged Bird Laughs! (Commercial)
  • Baby Blue Ivy
  • What Up With That? (Show)
  • Super Showcase (Gameshow)
  • The Obama Show (Show)
  • How's He Doing? (Show)

Notes/Trivia[]

  • One of Rudolph's bumper shoots pays homage to her late mother and soul and R&B singer Minnie Riperton from her album Perfect Angel.
  • Paul Simon appeared in the opening monologue.
  • Longtime former cast member Amy Poehler returned to reprise her role as Betty Caruso in the "Bronx Beat" sketch and appeared on the Weekend Update segment for another installment of "Really?!?!" and to resume her co-anchor duties and reprised her role as Hillary Rodham Clinton in the "The Obama Show" sketch.
  • Justin Timberlake also appeared in the "Bronx Beat" sketch and impersonated Justin Vernon in the "Baby Blue Ivy" sketch. Timberlake was also holding an "I ♥ Bon Iver" cardboard sign during the goodnights.
  • Political commentator Bill O'Reilly and model Kate Upton appeared on the "What Up With That?" sketch.
Preceded by:
February 11, 2012
Saturday Night Live episode Followed by:
March 3, 2012
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