--- description: Saturday Night Live's 43rd season finale was hosted by alum Tina Fey, who reprised her role as Sarah Palin during a star-studded show. title: Tina Fey Hosts Celebrity-Filled 'Saturday Night Live' Finale Packed With Cameos image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt729d0c0f873c7c84/698930f5929fad38adbf09c1/tina-fey-hosts-snl-43rd-finale.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Tina Fey Hosts Celebrity-Filled _Saturday Night Live_ Finale Packed With Cameos by [Alix Langone](/author/alix-langone/) ## Alix Langone Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 20, 2018 2:47 PM CUT  SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- "Tina Fey" Episode 1746 -- Pictured: (l-r) Tracy Morgan, Fred Armisen, Ben Stiller, Host Tina Fey, Musical Guest Nicki Minaj, Chris Rock, Donald Glover, Jerry Seinfeld, Alec Baldwin during "Goodnights & Credits" in Studio 8H on Saturday, May 19, 2018. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- "Tina Fey" Episode 1746 -- Pictured: (l-r) Tracy Morgan, Fred Armisen, Ben Stiller, Host Tina Fey, Musical Guest Nicki Minaj, Chris Rock, Donald Glover, Jerry Seinfeld, Alec Baldwin during "Goodnights & Credits" in Studio 8H on Saturday, May 19, 2018.Will Heath - NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images by [Alix Langone](/author/alix-langone/) ## Alix Langone Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 20, 2018 2:47 PM CUT Tina Fey hosted the star-studded 43rd season finale of _Saturday Night Live_ and she was in good company. More than a dozen other famous comedians, actors and celebrities joined her for the season’s final episode. _SNL’s_ opening was reliably a Trump skit that riffed on _The Sopranos_, with Alec Baldwin as Trump sitting in a diner just like the one on the finale of the HBO series. Baldwin as Trump was joined by Kate McKinnon as Rudy Giuliani, who boasted about being his lawyer — “I told them you were openly colluding with Russia,” McKinnon says, “and then I said, ‘So what?’” Robert De Niro played special counsel Robert Mueller and Ben Stiller played a forlorn Michael Cohen, who lamented that he was having a really bad day and “mostly just preparing to go to jail and stuff.” Another politically charged skit included Fey reprising her always-memorable impression of Republican politician Sarah Palin, joking, “One minute you’re on top, and then you’re gone in the blink of a Scaramucci.” _SNL_ cast member Aidy Bryant sang a song as Sarah Huckabee Sanders while the rest of the cast, portraying others connected to Trump, reminisced about what they had done for him : Kate McKinnon was Kellyanne Conway, Cecily Strong was Stormy Daniels and Leslie Jones was Omarosa Manigault Newman. John Goodman also showed up to play ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, making jokes about his days running Exxon Mobile. _SNL_ poked fun at itself during Fey’s monologue, in which she took questions from the audience, notably one from Jerry Seinfeld who asked: “Do you think the show has too many celebrity cameos these days?” Other celebrities who made cameos in the opening monologue and answered audience questions were Benedict Cumberbatch, Anne Hathaway, Chris Rock, Fred Armisen and Donald Glover. _Hamilton_ creator Lin-Manuel Miranda also showed up, acting in a short skit with Fey making fun of her _Mean Girls_ Broadway musical, and writing her name down in his “burn book,” while executive producer Lorne Michaels made a rare appearance in the skit as himself. > [](https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/998061585955409921) Of course, _SNL_ had a royal wedding skit, in which Cecily Strong played Kate Middleton joking, “The past six years I’ve been pregnant, so I’m goin’ hard tonight.” Saturday’s 43rd season finale was Fey’s sixth time hosting the storied comedy show. 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