Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2015–16

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.

Season	Episode	Host	Notes
41	October 10, 2015	Amy Schumer	She interrupts the shooting of Hot For Teacher 8 (with Schumer and Kyle Mooney playing the actors)
41	January 16, 2016	Adam Driver	She interrupts the shooting of The Doctor Is In... My Butt 4 (a gay porn with Driver and Beck Bennett playing the actors)
43	November 18, 2017	Chance the Rapper	She interrupts the shooting of Skank Babysitter 17 (with Heidi Gardner and Chance playing the actors). This sketch was originally written for the Season 42 episode hosted by Dave Chappelle, with Cecily Strong in Gardner's part.

Citizens forum

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). Also features Aidy Bryant as disgruntled, middle-aged spinster Jan Krang, Kyle Mooney as Dutch rapper MC Strategy, and Kenan Thompson as costume store owner Gary Loomis.

Season	Episode	Host	Notes
41	October 10, 2015	Amy Schumer	Schumer plays Amy Merriwether Sherman, a young child with strong (and discomforting) conservative beliefs. Also features Leslie Jones as Karen, an alcoholic, and Pete Davidson as Rick, a teen who asks the councilors if they are up-to-date with Justin Bieber's latest scandal.
41	January 23, 2016	Ronda Rousey	Rousey plays Mary Bonham, who runs a traveling carnival and freak show. Also features Kate McKinnon as Mrs. Dodd, Pete Davidson as a young man who lost a drone, and Leslie Jones as a woman who leaves the meeting early.

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

Season	Episode	Host	Notes
41	December 5, 2015	Ryan Gosling	Alien abduction
41	May 7, 2016	Brie Larson	Near death experience
42	December 17, 2016	Casey Affleck	Meeting Santa Claus
43	September 30, 2017	Ryan Gosling	Another alien abduction[1]
44	November 10, 2018	Liev Schreiber	Ghost encounter
44	May 18, 2019	Paul Rudd	Time travel

Deenie, somebody's mom

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

Season	Episode	Host	Notes
41	December 19, 2015	Tina Fey, Amy Poehler
41	April 9, 2016	Russell Crowe

Star Wars Undercover Boss

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

Season	Episode	Host	Notes
41	January 16, 2016	Adam Driver	Kylo Ren goes undercover as Matt, a radar technician.
45	January 25, 2020	Adam Driver	Kylo Ren goes undercover as Randy, an entry level intern.

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.

Season	Episode	Host	Notes
41	January 16, 2016	Adam Driver	America's Funniest Cats, presented by Finn Reynolds (Driver)
42	October 22, 2016	Tom Hanks	America's Funniest Pets, presented by filmmaker Ron Howard (Hanks)

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

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.

Season	Episode	Host	Notes
41	March 12, 2016	Ariana Grande	The mermaids (Cecily Strong, Grande, and McKinnon) meet three men.
42	March 11, 2017	Scarlett Johansson	Scarlett Johansson plays Kunk, part-woman, part-anglerfish.

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.

Season	Episode	Host	Notes
41	April 9, 2016	Russell Crowe
42	March 11, 2017	Scarlett Johansson

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.

Season	Episode	Host	Notes
41	April 16, 2016	Julia Louis-Dreyfus	Chad is a pool boy having an affair with his employer Ms. Handler (Louis-Dreyfus), a housewife.
42	November 5, 2016	Benedict Cumberbatch	His philosophy teacher (Cumberbatch) tries to kiss him.
43	October 7, 2017	Gal Gadot	He is "The Chosen One", chosen to take a queen (Cecily Strong)'s virginity in a Narnia-like fantasy land and save the kingdom.
43	December 2, 2017	Saoirse Ronan	He takes part in a Tennis Club Bachelor Auction. Unlike the prior three sketches this was filmed live rather than pre-taped. John McEnroe appears in this sketch.
43	January 20, 2018	Jessica Chastain	His doctor (Chastain) falls in love with him after saving his life.
44	March 2, 2019	John Mulaney	Chad receives a call from a Scream-esque killer (Mulaney).
44	May 4, 2019	Adam Sandler	Chad meets his long lost father (Sandler) after dying in an explosion caused by leaving a fork in the microwave. This sketch was cut for time, but later released online.
45	December 7, 2019	Jennifer Lopez	Chad is the roadie for Lopez. Alex Rodriguez appears as himself.
45	February 8, 2020	RuPaul	Ru trains Chad to be the next generation of drag.
46	October 24, 2020	Adele	Chad stumbles onto a mansion haunted by the ghost of a murdered woman (Adele).

Suburban mothers

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.

Season	Episode	Host	Notes
41	May 5, 2016	Brie Larson	The moms (Bayer, Strong, Jones, Zamata, Bryant, McKinnon) teach a mom-to-be (Larson) about the "business in the front, party in the back" haircut that all suburban mothers get.
42	May 13, 2017	Melissa McCarthy	The moms (Bayer, Strong, Jones, Zamata, Bryant, McKinnon, McCarthy) teach Jen (Villaseñor) about spirit animals.

References

1. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZortxog26-/
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNewYork/comments/4d8lce/my_peter_dinklage_dress_rehearsal_experience/?st=j8um8j1p&sh=1e0f462f