The Best Episodes of Saturday Night Live Season 28
Every episode of Saturday Night Live Season 28 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Saturday Night Live Season 28!
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
Season 28 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Saturday Night Live" season 28 is "Matt Damon/Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band", rated 6.1/10 from 106 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Matt Damon/Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band" aired on 10/5/2002 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Sarah Michelle Gellar/Faith Hill".
6.1/10 106 votes#1 - Matt Damon/Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Season 28 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/2002
Live From New York, it's...Chris Parnell Sketches include: ""A Message From Bush and Cheney,"" ""Swiffer Sleepers,"" ""Safety Police,"" ""Trans Am Airlines,"" ""Singing Dentist,"" ""Corona,"" ""Making the Video: Christina Aguilera's 'Dirrty',"" ""Arli$$ DVD/Backstage,"" ""A Man and His Woman,"" ""Merv the Perv at a Sexual Harrassment Seminar,"" ""Saddam Look-Alikes,"" and ""Blame Saddam."" Faith Hill performed ""Cry"" and ""Free.""
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- 6.3/10 119 votes
#2 - Sarah Michelle Gellar/Faith Hill
Season 28 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/2002
Sketches include ""Iraqi State Television,"" ""Hardball,"" ""The Gillian Woodward Story,"" ""Meet the Press,"" and ""McCain Sings Striesand."" The White Stripes performed ""Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"" and ""We Are Going To Be Friends.""
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- 5.5/10 128 votes
#3 - John McCain/The White Stripes
Season 28 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/2002
Live From New York, it's...Darrell Hammond's voice Sketches Include: Giuliani's Sponsor Ads, The Bachelor, Crazy Board Game Player, Talarico For Congress, Frankel For Congress, American Morning, Fairness In Negative Campaign Ads, The Bullhorn, Verizon, Joey Mack's Z105, John Hancock's Life Insurance, Reggie's Stories, and Jackass: The Musical Jay-Z performs (with Beyonce Knowles from Destiny's Child): Guns 'n Roses and '03 Bonnie and Clyde
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4.9/10 75 votes#4 - Eric McCormack/Jay-Z
Season 28 Episode 4 - Aired 11/2/2002
Live From New York, it's...Chris Parnell Sketches include: A Message from the President of the United States, Swiffer Sweepers (rerun from the Sarah Michelle Gellar episode of this season), Bloder Brothers, CBS News: School Elections, The Sadistic Bikini Waxer, Ferey Muhtar Talk Show, Missy Elliot's Weight Loss Tape, Falconer, Pier 1 Imports, Goodwin Attorney, and Vasquez
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- 4.5/10 74 votes
#5 - Nia Vardalos/Eve
Season 28 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/2002
Live From New York, it's...Adam Sandler Sketches include: ""The Hanukkah Song III"", ""Welcome Back, Potter"", ""The Leather Man"", ""Donahue"", ""Jarrett's Room"", ""C-SPAN: Burrell's Statement"", ""Tennis Talk"", ""Astronaut Jones"", ""TV Funhouse: The Religtables"", ""My Big Thick Novel"", and ""The Girl With No Gaydar"" Nelly performs: ""Dilemma"" and ""Hot In Herr""
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- 5.5/10 83 votes
#6 - Brittany Murphy/Nelly
Season 28 Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/2002
Live From New York, it's...Robert DeNiro Sketches include, ""C-SPAN: Terrorist Warnings"", ""McDonalds Big N' Tasty"", ""Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemmings"", ""Peter Pan Rehearsals"", ""A Department Store Santa and His Wife"", ""U.N. Weapons Inspectors"", ""Judge Horace"", ""A Very Special Versace Hanukkah"", ""Violent Car Salesman"", ""Father Story Time"", and ""Radioactive Bear"" Norah Jones performs: ""Don't Know Why"" and ""Come Away With Me""
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5.5/10 94 votes#7 - Robert De Niro/Norah Jones
Season 28 Episode 7 - Aired 12/7/2002
Live From New York, it's...Tipper Gore Sketches include: Backstage SNL: The Kissing Gores, Al Gore's 'Bachelor', Hardball, Fiesta Politica, Gore Goes Inside 'The West Wing', Jarrett's Room, Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley, Willy Wonka's Accountant, TV Funhouse: A Charlie Brown Christmas 2002, Christmas Eve at the Bar, and The SNL Christmas Song Phish performs: ""46 Days"" and ""Chalk Dust Torture"" The Trans Am Airline commercial from the Sarah Michelle Gellar/Faith Hill episode appears on the E! rerun of this episode.
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- 6.0/10 104 votes
#8 - Al Gore/Phish
Season 28 Episode 8 - Aired 12/14/2002
Live From New York, it's...Darrell Hammond Sketches include: ""CNN: These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"", ""Live With Regis & Kelly"", ""Fun Friends Club"", ""The Falconer"", ""Global Century Investments"", ""Hannibal's Brain Restaurant"", ""The Hangman"", ""Top O' The Morning"", and ""The Rialto Grande Casino"" The Donnas perform: ""Take It Off"" and ""Who Invited You?"" The E! rerun of this episode adds the TV Funhouse from the Salma Hayek/Christina Aguilera episode where Lorenzo Lamas does an ""Are You Hot?"" show for classic cartoon characters.
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- 5.7/10 83 votes
#9 - Jeff Gordon/Avril Lavigne
Season 28 Episode 9 - Aired 1/11/2003
Live From New York, It's... Chris Parnell & Maya Rudolph Sketches include,""United Nations Debate Lunch"", ""Idiot Blind Date"", ""Nutri-Quick"", ""Jarret's Room"", ""Protest"", ""Club Traxx"", ""Violent Office Stories"", ""Second Time Around"", ""McConaughey's Red Hot Texas Chili""
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- 5.6/10 77 votes
#10 - Ray Liotta/The Donnas
Season 28 Episode 10 - Aired 1/18/2003
Live from New York...it's Christopher Walken Sketches include: Hardball, Pranksters, The Continental, The Bad Raft Captain, History Channel: African American Archives, Welcome Home Colonel Angus, Cabin Lovers, and The Rialto Grande. Foo Fighters perform: ""All My Life"" (by themselves) and ""Times Like These (One-Way Motorway)"" (with Jim Carrey playing his leg like a guitar).
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- 5.6/10 78 votes
#11 - Matthew McConaughey/Dixie Chicks
Season 28 Episode 11 - Aired 2/8/2003
Sketches include; 60 Minutes, BET's 106 and Park Top 10 Live, Live with Regis and Kelly, FOX's Who Farted?, VH1's Where Are They Now: The Cherylettes, FOX's I'm a Celebrity: Who Farted?, Give Up The Ham, TV Funhouse: The X-Presidents, A&E's Profiles in Jazz, Don's Apothecary, and Horation Sanz's Mr. Rogers Tribute. Ms. Dynamite sings: ""Dy-Na-Mi-Tee!"" The NBC rerun of this episode removes the first ""FOX's Who Farted?"" sketch and fills up the missing time with a dress rehearsal version of Weekend Update.
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- 6.0/10 88 votes
#12 - Jennifer Garner/Beck
Season 28 Episode 12 - Aired 2/15/2003
Live from New York, it's...Chris Parnell (as George W. Bush)! Sketches include: ""Bush Press Conference,"" ""Top O' The Morning,"" ""TV Are You Hot?"" (cartoon), ""Versace Oscar Special,'""Husband In A Box,"" ""Vote for Frida,"" ""Seduction Class,"" ""Vote Frida to Fight Terrorism,"" ""Channel 5 Late Night Movie: King Kong, theDirector's Cut,"" and ""Vote Frida."" Christina Aguilera performed ""Beautiful"" and ""Fighter.""
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- 6.6/10 116 votes
#13 - Christopher Walken/Foo Fighters
Season 28 Episode 13 - Aired 2/22/2003
Live from New York, it's...Chris Parnell Sketches include: ""The Situation in Iraq"", ""Boston Teens At Fenway Park"", ""Brain Busters"", ""Hot Sauce Carrying Purse"", ""Black People Watching 'The Pianist'"", ""The Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Present: The Four Stooges"", ""No Smoking"", ""Second Time Around"", ""Swiffer Sleepers"" (from the Sarah Michelle Gellar/Faith Hill episode), ""Saddam's Briefing"", and ""Don Banks', Kings Of The ""Comedy"" Suits"" Good Charlotte performs: ""Anthem"" and ""Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous""
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- 4.6/10 90 votes
#14 - Queen Latifah/Ms. Dynamite
Season 28 Episode 14 - Aired 3/8/2003
Sketches include,"" Message From Saddam"", ""What's The Rush?"", ""Wake Up Wakefield!"", ""The Rialto Grande"", ""CNN"", ""Phone Booth"", ""Access Hollywood"", ""Club Traxx"", ""Uday Hussein For President""
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- 5.9/10 109 votes
#15 - Salma Hayek/Christina Aguilera
Season 28 Episode 15 - Aired 3/15/2003
Live From New York, it's...Chris Parnell Sketches include: "Bush Addresses The Nation on the USS Abraham Lincoln", "Count Chocula Silver", "Jarret's Room: 'Reloaded", "Madonna: An American Life", "Plagiarism Class", "The Falconer vs. The Muskrateer/Backstage SNL: No 'Punking", "Politics Today", "50's Ent.", and "Global Century Investments" 50 Cent performs: In Da Club (with G-Unit) and 21 Questions (with G-Unit and Nate Dogg) The "Mom Jeans" fake commercial from the episode after this (Adrien Brody/Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder) is added in the E! rerun of this episode
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- 4.7/10 75 votes
#16 - Bernie Mac/Good Charlotte
Season 28 Episode 16 - Aired 4/5/2003
Live From New York, It's...Maya Rudolph Sketches include,""American Idol"", ""Mom Jeans"", ""Brian Fellow's Safari Planet"", ""The Self-Obsessed Man"", ""Live With Regis & Kelly"", ""TV Funhouse: Saddam & Osama"", ""Lensmasters"", ""Ballroom Dance For Beginers"", and ""Velvet Productions"". Sean Paul performs: ""Get Busy"" (after an unplanned introduction by Adrien Brody) Wayne Wonder performs: ""No Letting Go""
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- 5.3/10 74 votes
#17 - Ray Romano/Zwan
Season 28 Episode 17 - Aired 4/12/2003
Live from New York, it's Darrell Hammond (and back on SNL after 24 years, it's Dan Aykroyd!) Sketches include: Hardball, Top O'The Morning, The Rialto Grande, TV Funhouse: Cokee, The Most Expensive Dog in the World, The Falconer, Donatella Versace's Backyard Barbecue, The Dog Restaurant (La Cuisina Canina), Astronaut Jones, and Dr. Deacon's Haunch Crack Powder Beyonce performs ""Crazy In Love"" (with Jay-Z) and ""Dangerously In Love"" (by herself)
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4.4/10 87 votes#18 - Ashton Kutcher/50 Cent
Season 28 Episode 18 - Aired 5/3/2003
Live From New York, it's...Chris Parnell Sketches include: ""Bush Addresses The Nation on the USS Abraham Lincoln"", ""Count Chocula Silver"", ""Jarret's Room: 'Reloaded'"", ""Madonna: An American Life"", ""Plagiarism Class"", ""The Falconer vs. The Muskrateer/Backstage SNL: No 'Punking'"", ""Politics Today"", ""50's Ent."", and ""Global Century Investments"" 50 Cent performs: In Da Club (with G-Unit) and 21 Questions (with G-Unit and Nate Dogg) The ""Mom Jeans"" fake commercial from the episode after this (Adrien Brody/Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder) is added in the E! rerun of this episode
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5.3/10 89 votes#19 - Adrien Brody/Sean Paul & Wayne Wonder
Season 28 Episode 19 - Aired 5/10/2003
Live From New York, It's...Maya Rudolph Sketches include,""American Idol"", ""Mom Jeans"", ""Brian Fellow's Safari Planet"", ""The Self-Obsessed Man"", ""Live With Regis & Kelly"", ""TV Funhouse: Saddam & Osama"", ""Lensmasters"", ""Ballroom Dance For Beginers"", and ""Velvet Productions"". Sean Paul performs: ""Get Busy"" (after an unplanned introduction by Adrien Brody) Wayne Wonder performs: ""No Letting Go""
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- 5.3/10 90 votes
#20 - Dan Aykroyd/Beyonce Knowles
Season 28 Episode 20 - Aired 5/17/2003
Live from New York, it's Darrell Hammond (and back on SNL after 24 years, it's Dan Aykroyd!) Sketches include: Hardball, Top O'The Morning, The Rialto Grande, TV Funhouse: Cokee, The Most Expensive Dog in the World, The Falconer, Donatella Versace's Backyard Barbecue, The Dog Restaurant (La Cuisina Canina), Astronaut Jones, and Dr. Deacon's Haunch Crack Powder Beyonce performs ""Crazy In Love"" (with Jay-Z) and ""Dangerously In Love"" (by herself)
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