Saturday Night Live aired its thirty-first season in the 2005-2006 television season on NBC. This season contained minor changes that would garner major results for the show. Finesse Mitchell and Kenan Thompson's promotions to repertory players and Rob Riggle's departure led to the hiring of new feature players, Bill Hader and Andy Samberg (whose pretaped sketch "Lazy Sunday" became an Internet phenomenon). A new female cast member, Kristen Wiig ...
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Saturday Night Live aired its thirty-first season in the 2005-2006 television season on NBC. This season contained minor changes that would garner major results for the show. Finesse Mitchell and Kenan Thompson's promotions to repertory players and Rob Riggle's departure led to the hiring of new feature players, Bill Hader and Andy Samberg (whose pretaped sketch "Lazy Sunday" became an Internet phenomenon). A new female cast member, Kristen Wiig did not appear on the show until the Jason Lee/Foo Fighters episode.
Missing for most of the season were female cast members Maya Rudolph and Tina Fey (who were both pregnant and on maternity leave). Tina Fey's place on Weekend Update was briefly taken over by Horatio Sanz until her return on the Catherine Zeta-Jones/Franz Ferdinand episode, making Sanz the first (and so far only) Hispanic Weekend Update anchor. Maya Rudolph, however, appeared on the first episode of the new season, and then went on maternity leave and returned in February....
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