Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2015–16

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.

An array of eccentric people monopolize the podium during the citizens' forum of Bakersfield, California, to the dismay of two helpless councilors (Bobby Moynihan and Cecily Strong). The sketch was rebooted in season 47, this time taking place in a variety of situations such as a school board meeting and a tenant meeting.

Also features Aidy Bryant as disgruntled, middle-aged spinster Jan Krang and Kenan Thompson as costume store owner Gary Loomis. Kyle Mooney plays Dutch rapper MC Strategy in the season 41 sketches. In the season 47 sketches, he and Andrew Dismukes play two students who imply they have been doing something against the rules, and give the moderators a one-word insult after they are told they cannot keep doing it.

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 (played by Cecily Strong and the host), and is filled with unsavory details.

Deenie (Kate McKinnon) inaccurately recaps her favorite soap-operas on Weekend Update while eating from a plastic container.

An Undercover Boss parody where Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) goes undercover as a low level employee to interact with his subordinates.

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.

Another sketch, America's Funniest Dogs, was cut for time from the Peter Dinklage-hosted episode in Season 41.[2]

Adventurers down on their luck are rescued by a group of mostly beautiful mermaids, but that includes Shud (Kate McKinnon), a part-woman, part-blobfish mermaid who doesn't exactly enchant the men she's trying to seduce.

Despite her big stature and general clumsiness, Shanice Goodwin (Leslie Jones), cashier by day and ninja by night, is inexplicably a master of stealth.

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.

A group of suburban mothers engage in cult-like behavior in trying to convert a newer, inexperienced mother into doing something that would prove them of their motherhood.