--- title: Paris Attacks: Saturday Night Live Honors France description: Cecily Strong started the show with a message of solidarity canonical: https://time.com/4113622/paris-attacks-saturday-night-live/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-15T13:20:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:38:21.604Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the 'Saturday Night Live' Cold Open Honoring Paris og:description: Cecily Strong started the show with a message of solidarity og:url: https://time.com/4113622/paris-attacks-saturday-night-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the 'Saturday Night Live' Cold Open Honoring Paris twitter:description: Cecily Strong started the show with a message of solidarity twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch _Saturday Night Live_’s Cold Open Honoring Paris ## Video: Know Right Now: French Officials Search for Second Fugitive [Watch (HLS stream): Know Right Now: French Officials Search for Second Fugitive](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/93oYwVPg.m3u8) (1:01)  _Published 2015-11-17. A manhunt is underway for at least one suspect involved in the Paris attacks_ by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Nov 15, 2015 1:20 PM CUT by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Nov 15, 2015 1:20 PM CUT _Saturday Night Live_ knows when to play it straight, and this weekend, the NBC show [started on a serious note](http://www.hulu.com/watch/871258 "undefined") with a cold open by Cecily Strong. “Paris is the city of light, and here in New York City, we know that light will never go out,” she said a night after [the deadly Paris terrorist attacks](http://time.com/4113248/paris-terror-investigations-isis-belgium-greece/ "undefined"). “Our love and support is with everyone there tonight. We stand with you.” Strong then repeated the same message in French, before kicking off the show as usual: “And now, live from New York, it’s Saturday night.” Watch it above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4113622/paris-attacks-saturday-night-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4113622/paris-attacks-saturday-night-live/"},"headline":"Watch Saturday Night Live’s Cold Open Honoring Paris","datePublished":"2015-11-15T13:20:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:38:21.604Z","description":"Cecily Strong started the show with a message of solidarity","url":"https://time.com/4113622/paris-attacks-saturday-night-live/","keywords":["Television","SNL","Know Right Now"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4113622/paris-attacks-saturday-night-live/","name":"Watch Saturday Night Live’s Cold Open Honoring Paris"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Know Right Now: French Officials Search for Second Fugitive","description":"A manhunt is underway for at least one suspect involved in the Paris attacks","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/93oYwVPg/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-17T18:51:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/93oYwVPg.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4113622/paris-attacks-saturday-night-live/","duration":"PT1M1S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4113622/paris-attacks-saturday-night-live/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```