who hosted the 38th season premiere of saturday night live
Seth MacFarlane
title: Saturday Night Live (season 40) text: Saturday Night Live (season 40) Saturday Night Live premiered its fortieth season during the 2014–15 television season on NBC. The season premiered on September 27, 2014, with host Chris Pratt and musical guest Ariana Grande and came to a conclusion on May 16, 2015 with host Louis C.K. and musical guest Rihanna. Former cast member Darrell Hammond succeeded Don Pardo, who had died in August, as the show's new announcer. The premiere included an interstitial photograph of Pardo – "SNL"s announcer since it premiered in 1975 (with the exception of season 7 and episode 14 of season 21 – where title: Saturday Night Live (season 31) text: Saturday Night Live (season 31) The thirty-first season of "Saturday Night Live", an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 1, 2005, and May 20, 2006. 19 episodes were produced (rather than the usual 20) due to the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. This season is notable for the people who hosted the show. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, an "SNL" cast member from 1982 to 1985 under Dick Ebersol, became the first former female cast member to come back and host the show (and also the third cast member from "Seinfeld" to host). Gilda Radner was title: Saturday Night Live (season 1) text: Tonight Show" had departed for Los Angeles two years prior), so NBC decided to base the show at their studios in Rockefeller Center to offset the overhead of maintaining those facilities. Michaels was given Studio 8H, a converted radio studio that prior to that point was most famous for having hosted Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1951, but was being used largely for network election coverage by the mid-1970s. When the first show aired on October 11, 1975 with George Carlin as its host, it was called "NBC's Saturday Night" because ABC featured a program title: Saturday Night Live (season 40) text: NIGHT LIVE (with the "NIGHT" being oriented below "SATURDAY" and "LIVE"). Prior to the start of the season, five new writers were hired: This was the final season for Mike O'Brien, who joined the writing staff in 2009 and Claire Mulaney, who joined the staff in 2013, as well as the only season for writers Natasha Rothwell, Nick Rutherford, and Alison Rich. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Saturday Night Live (season 40) Saturday Night Live premiered its fortieth season during the 2014–15 television season on NBC. The season premiered on September 27, 2014, with host Chris Pratt and musical guest Ariana Grande and came title: Saturday Night Live (season 41) text: Saturday Night Live (season 41) The forty-first season of the NBC comedy series "Saturday Night Live" premiered on October 3, 2015, during the 2015–2016 television season. The season premiered on October 3, 2015 with host & musical guest Miley Cyrus and concluded on May 21, 2016 with host Fred Armisen and musical guest Courtney Barnett. Kate McKinnon won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work in this season. After two consecutive seasons with higher-than-average levels of cast turnover, no major changes occurred prior to Season 41; the entire cast of the 2014–2015