--- description: Jennifer Aniston made a surprise appearance during Saturday Night Live to put a stop to Vanessa Bayer's impression of Rachel Green title: Jennifer Aniston Drops By 'SNL' to Stop Vanessa Bayer's Rachel Impression image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Jennifer Aniston Drops By _SNL_ to Stop Vanessa Bayer's Rachel Impression by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Dec 4, 2016 4:15 PM CUT by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Dec 4, 2016 4:15 PM CUT Jennifer Aniston made a surprise appearance during [_Saturday Night Live_](http://time.com/4589807/snl-donald-trump-twitter/ "undefined") to put a stop to Vanessa Bayer’s impression of Rachel Green. Aniston, made famous by her portrayal of [Rachel on _Friends_](http://time.com/3941424/vanessa-bayer-friends-impression/ "undefined"), was not pleased with Bayer’s popular, spot-on impression of the ’90s character. After Bayer’s Rachel dropped by ‘Weekend Update’ to explain ’90s nostalgia to co-host Colin Jost, Aniston stopped in to question the impression and Bayer’s apparent _Friends_ obsession. “Vanessa what are you doing?” Aniston, who co-stars with Bayer in the upcoming movie [_Office Christmas Party_](http://time.com/4424371/office-christmas-party-movie-trailer/ "undefined"), asked. “I know that you love _Friends_, and we had such a great time making our movie together, but you got to really try to stop texting me everyday… _Friends_ was like five million and five years ago, so I think we just got to move on.” In response, Bayer said she does a “great bit as Rachel,” which triggered the two going off in their “Rachel” voices. The sketch concluded as the two agreed to get nachos together. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4589823/jennifer-aniston-vanessa-bayer-snl-rachel-friends/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4589823/jennifer-aniston-vanessa-bayer-snl-rachel-friends/"},"headline":"Jennifer Aniston Drops By SNL to Stop Vanessa Bayer's Rachel Impression","datePublished":"2016-12-04T16:15:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:07:42.596Z","description":"\"Friends was like five million and five years ago, so I think we just got to move on\"","url":"https://time.com/4589823/jennifer-aniston-vanessa-bayer-snl-rachel-friends/","keywords":["Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"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/4589823/jennifer-aniston-vanessa-bayer-snl-rachel-friends/","name":"Jennifer Aniston Drops By SNL to Stop Vanessa Bayer's Rachel Impression"}}]}] ```