Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2015–16#Chad
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The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced during the forty-first season of SNL, which began on October 3, 2015.
Young Girl Interrupting Porn Shoots
The shooting of a porn movie is regularly interrupted by a young girl (Aidy Bryant), seemingly unaware of the fictional aspect of the scene she has stumbled into.
Citizens Forum
An array of eccentric people monopolize the podium during the public comments segment of different public events such as a city council or school board meeting.
Colleen Rafferty
Three people are being interrogated about a paranormal encounter or phenomenon they experienced. But Colleen Rafferty's (Kate McKinnon) recollection of the events vastly differs from the other two (one of which typically is the host), and is filled with unsavory details.
Deenie, Somebody's Mom
Deenie (Kate McKinnon) inaccurately recaps her favorite shows on Weekend Update while eating from a plastic container.
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| 41 | December 19, 2015 | Tina Fey, Amy Poehler | Deenie gives a year-end wrap-up of daytime soaps while she eats baked salmon. {{cite episode |title=Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band |network=NBC |season=41 |series=Saturday Night Live |series-link=Saturday_Night_Live |episode-link=Saturday_Night_Live_season_41 |date=December 19, 2015}} |
| 41 | April 9, 2016 | Russell Crowe | Deenie discusses The People v. O. J. Simpson with Colin Jost while eating brussels sprouts and imitation crab. {{cite episode |title=Russell Crowe, Margo Price |network=NBC |season=41 |series=Saturday Night Live |series-link=Saturday_Night_Live |episode-link=Saturday_Night_Live_season_41 |date=April 9, 2016}} |
Undercover Boss
An Undercover Boss parody where Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) goes undercover as a low level employee to interact with his subordinates.
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| 41 | January 16, 2016 | Adam Driver | Kylo Ren goes undercover as Matt, a radar technician. {{cite episode |title=Adam Driver, Chris Stapleton |network=NBC |season=41 |series=Saturday Night Live |series-link=Saturday_Night_Live |episode-link=Saturday_Night_Live_season_41 |date=January 16, 2016}} |
| 45 | January 25, 2020 | Adam Driver | Kylo Ren goes undercover as Randy, an entry level intern. {{cite episode |title=Adam Driver, Halsey |network=NBC |season=45 |series=Saturday Night Live |series-link=Saturday_Night_Live |episode-link=Saturday_Night_Live_season_45 |date=January 25, 2020}} |
America's Funniest Pets
The presenter of an animal-based video clip show invites the two presenters of a French similar series, Joelle LaRue and Noelle LeSoup (Cecily Strong, Kate McKinnon). He asks them to cohost the show and provide silly voiceovers for the clips. But said voiceovers turn out to be more depressing than their American counterpart.
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| 41 | January 16, 2016 | Adam Driver | Finn Raynal-Beads (Driver) presents America's Funniest Cats with LaRue and LeSoup. {{cite episode |title=Adam Driver, Chris Stapleton |network=NBC |season=41 |series=Saturday Night Live |series-link=Saturday_Night_Live |episode-link=Saturday_Night_Live_season_41 |date=January 16, 2016}} |
| 42 | October 22, 2016 | Tom Hanks | Ron Howard (Hanks) presents America's Funniest Pets with LaRue and LeSoup. {{cite episode |title=Tom Hanks, Lady Gaga |network=NBC |season=42 |series=Saturday Night Live |series-link=Saturday_Night_Live |episode-link=Saturday_Night_Live_season_42 |date=October 22, 2016}} |
True Tales From The Sea
Adventurers down on their luck are rescued by beautiful mermaids, including Shud (Kate McKinnon), a part-woman, part-blobfish mermaid who doesn't exactly enchant the men she's trying to seduce.
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| 41 | March 12, 2016 | Ariana Grande | Mermaids (Grande, Cecily Strong, McKinnon) of different aquatic species rescue three sailors (Beck Bennett, Taran Killam, and Bobby Moynihan) from a watery grave. Each mermaid needs to receive a kiss in order to become fully human. {{cite episode |title=Ariana Grande |network=NBC |season=41 |series=Saturday Night Live |series-link=Saturday_Night_Live |episode-link=Saturday_Night_Live_season_41 |date=March 12, 2016}} |
| 42 | March 11, 2017 | Scarlett Johansson | A World War 2 fighter pilot (Mikey Day) is shot down and falls into the sea but is rescued by Titacles (Beck Bennett) and must marry one of his mermaid daughters (Cecily Strong, Sasheer Zamata, McKinnon, Johansson). Cunk (Johansson) is 92% angler fish and grotesque like Shud. {{cite episode |title=Scarlett Johansson, Lorde |network=NBC |season=42 |series=Saturday Night Live |series-link=Saturday_Night_Live |episode-link=Saturday_Night_Live_season_42 |date=March 11, 2017}} |
Shanice Goodwin: Ninja
Despite her big stature and general clumsiness, Shanice Goodwin (Leslie Jones), cashier by day and ninja by night, is inexplicably a master of stealth.
Chad
Pete Davidson plays Chad, an apathetic, easily distracted youth with limited conversational skills whose catchphrase is "okay". He's the heartbreaker of several people decades older than him, but he couldn't care less about their grand declarations of love. In one instance, he is the obsession of a psychopathic serial killer, but Chad takes no notice of the killer's attempts to torment him.
Suburban Mothers
A group of suburban mothers engage in cult-like behavior in trying to convert a newer, inexperienced mother into doing something that proved them of their motherhood.
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| 41 | May 7, 2016 | Brie Larson | The moms convince a soon-to-be mother (Brie Larson) at her baby shower to get the "mom" haircut. As she realizes that she's transitioning to mom behaviors, the cut magically appears on her head. {{cite episode |title=Brie Larson, Alicia Keys |network=NBC |season=41 |series=Saturday Night Live |series-link=Saturday_Night_Live |episode-link=Saturday_Night_Live_season_41 |date=May 7, 2016}} |
| 42 | May 13, 2017 | Melissa McCarthy | The moms explain to a new neighbor (Melissa Villaseñor) the ritual of choosing a "mom" animal to represent their entire personality. {{cite episode |title=Melissa McCarthy, HAIM |network=NBC |season=42 |series=Saturday Night Live |series-link=Saturday_Night_Live |episode-link=Saturday_Night_Live_season_42 |date=May 13, 2017}} |
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