Saturday Night Live Season 50 Episode 15 Recap - Host Mikey Madison delivers a humorous monologue as musical guest Morgan Wallen returns

Preksha
A still from Saturday Night Live Season 50 Episode 15 (Image via YouTube/ @SaturdayNightLive)
A still from Saturday Night Live Season 50 Episode 15 (Image via YouTube/ @SaturdayNightLive)

Saturday Night Live Season 50 Episode 15 dropped on NBC on March 29, 2025. The episode featured Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison hosting the show.

As for the musical guest, Saturday Night Live invited Morgan Wallen again. He had appeared on the show back in 2020. Since his chair incident, Morgan was a controversial choice to be invited on stage.

As for Mikey, the audience was torn about her work as a host on the show. Some appreciated her debut, while some said it was dull. She recently won a wide variety of awards for her role in Anora and became the first Gen Z to win an Oscar.

As for Saturday Night Live, the series hasn't released a new episode in a while. However, recently, a lot of political and creative events have unfolded in the country, which gave them the liberty to use the content, as seen in the Cold Open.


Saturday Night Live Season 50 Episode 15 Recap - The Cold Open

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The cold open saw Mikey Madison along with Ego Nwodim and Sarah Sherman as school girls who are typically criticising other girls and talking about boys.

However, accidentally, Pete Hegseth, the Defense Secretary played by Andrew Dismukes, drops in on the chat. He has no idea to whom he is talking and thinks Mikey's character, Jennabell, is someone from Defense as well. He continues to reveal sensitive national secrets and is later joined by Vice President JD Vance.

He happens to be in Greenland and has no idea why he is sent there. They talk about exchanging the Pyramids in Egypt for how America helped the Yemen invasion.


The Monologue

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Mikey Madison introduces herself as a host for the Saturday Night Live episode during the monologue. She talks about her childhood and the effects of being home-schooled, which led her to become a "horse girl."

Sharing an instance, Mikey said that she dressed up in a couple's costume with her horse, Thumbelina. Then she introduced her brother and swapped bodies with a stunt double while claiming that it was she who did the pole stunts in Anora.


Saturday Night Live Season 50 Episode 15 Recap - Acting Teacher 2

This segment threw shade at The White Lotus series on HBO, whose season 3 saw Lochlan being intimate with his brother Saxon in the latest episode. We are reintroduced to commercial acting teacher Hernandez, who is giving tips to his students.

He claims giving an audition for The White Lotus, where he made out with his brother, but ultimately didn't get the part.

In a later segment, we see Mikey Madison as a New Yorker with her friends and waiting in a "big dumb line" for a random food item that went viral. Joe Jonas makes a cameo, where he also promotes the culture of standing in line.


Jury Duty

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Judge Smith is hearing reasons from candidates who are trying to get out of Jury Duty. Mikey Madison poses as a celebrity because she was the pedestrian hit by Caitlyn Jenner's car. Then Chloe Fineman gives her Parker Posey impression from The White Lotus.


Saturday Night Live Season 50 Episode 15 Recap - Morgan Wallen's performance

Later, Morgan Wallen performed I'm the Problem. The artist had recently released his fourth studio album in January 2025. The song is the fourth single from the same album. After the weekend update, Morgan then performed Just in Case. The song is about not being able to move on from a relationship.


This episode of Saturday Night Live aired on NBC and is now available to watch online via Peacock.

Edited by Preksha
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