He left the show following poor ratings in 1995. Sandler made his hosting debut with the May 4 episode, almost 30 years after he first joined SNL as a writer in 1990 and became a featured player the following year. He also appeared in a Thanksgiving-inspired musical sketch, as well as another musical bit that spoofed Grease’s “Beauty School Dropout” scene, with Carell playing a teen girl’s dad moonlighting as a guardian angel giving advice. He proceeded to troll President Donald Trump in various ways, like announcing a new delivery service called Amazon Caravan and outfitting delivery drones with a Trump-esque toupee.Ĭarell also played a dumb dad trying to tell his kids that he was taking them to Disney World without realizing that his wife had left him, as well as a NASA astronaut on a space mission gone wrong. Later on the show, in a prerecorded sketch, Carell portrayed Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, who talked about the announcement of the new company headquarters in Brooklyn and northern Virginia.

Highlights of the Carell-hosted episode include the cold open, in which Carell's former Office castmates showed up to implore him to sign on for a reboot of the beloved comedy. The sketches, which were about two men known as The Ambiguously Gay Duo, was originally featured on the short-lived Dana Carvey Show and later lived on on SNL. Across 13 episodes from 1996-2011, Carell voiced 'Gary' in a series of Robert Smigel-produced animated shorts that also featured Stephen Colbert. And although he was never technically a castmember or writer, some of The Office star's first work in television was for SNL.

Carell returned to the comedy show to host for his third time in November.

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