How to watch the SNL Thanksgiving special online
By Zoe West
NBC presents its Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving Special this week. Here’s where you can find it online.
The Thanksgiving special from Saturday Night Live (SNL) will feature a collection of the best turkey day skits on the show over the years. Quite a bit of the live episode that aired on Nov. 18 had a Thanksgiving tilt to it, so theoretically a few of those segments could make the cut. But I would bet that SNL goes a bit deeper into its archives than that. After all, they have been doing this kind of thing for a long time. Over the many years of SNL shows, there have been a few Thanksgiving-ish scenes that are a bit more fresh.
This sketch from 2010 paid homage to the spirit behind Thanksgiving while embracing a hilarious bit of one-upsmanship from a few of its characters.
If they want to go a bit deeper into the archives, this skit really plays with the awkward family reunion side of the holidays. It features names that are fairly well-known today (mainly Bill Murray, to be honest), and aired way back in 1979.
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What: A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving Special
When: Wednesday, Nov. 22 2017, 9 p.m. ET
Where (TV): NBC
Where (Streaming): NBC
While there obviously isn’t a traditional musical guest for the SNL Thanksgiving Special, there have been a few thanksgiving inspired songs over the years. Chance the Rapper performed one during his hosting gig just this past weekend. Adam Sadler began a tradition of Thanksgiving songs on SNL in 1992, and one has been featured on the show almost every year since. In fact, Saturday Night Live tried to make it a tradition (and mostly succeeded). Some songs have been performed by the actual musical guests and others by the SNL cast doing their impersonations. You can find a few other examples of SNL Thanksgiving songs here.