--- ---  # Donald Trump Says SNL Hosting Gig Was Supposed to Be Just One Sketch by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Nov 4, 2015 6:12 PM CUT by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Nov 4, 2015 6:12 PM CUT ### See Donald Trump on SNL Over the Years  The 'Saturday Night Live' skit 'A Trump Christmas' featured Phil Hartman as Donald Trump and Jan Hooks as Ivana Trump on Dec. 10, 1988. Raymond Bonar—NBC/Getty Images  Darrell Hammond played Donald Trump during the "Donald Trump's Address" skit on Jan. 10, 2004. Mary Ellen Matthews—NBC/Getty Images  Donald Trump hosted 'Saturday Night Live' on April 3, 2004\. He appeared in the 'Donald Trump's House of Wings' sketch with Amy Poehler, Kenan Thompson, Seth Meyers and Maya Rudolph. Mary Ellen Matthews—NBC/Getty Images  Darrell Hammond as Donald Trump, right, appears with Donald Trump as Jerry the Janitor in the SNL sketch 'The Prince and the Pauper' on April 3, 2004. Mary Ellen Matthews—NBC/Getty Images  Darrell Hammond and Paris Hilton appeared as Donald Trump and Malania Knauss during "The New Trump Family" skit on Feb. 5, 2005. Dana Edelson—NBC/Getty Images  SNL's 'Domino's Ad Shoot' skit from May 7, 2005, featured Darrell Hammond as Donald Trump. Dana Edelson—NBC/Getty Images  Comedian Darrell Hammond appeared as Donald Trump during the skit 'Trump's Press Conference' on Jan. 13, 2007. Dana Edelson—NBC/Getty Images  The SNL skit 'Trump Steaks' featured Darrell Hammond as Donald Trump and Molly Shannon as Melania Knauss on May 12, 2007. Dana Edelson—NBC/Getty Images  Comedians Taran Killam, as Donald Trump, and Cecily Strong, as Melania Trump, appeared in the sketch 'Trump Cold Open' on Oct. 3, 2015. Dana Edelson—NBC/Getty Images Donald Trump is set to [host _Saturday Night Live_ this week](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/13/donald-trump-snl-host "undefined"), but the presidential candidate told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday’s episode of _New Day_ that he was initially set to appear in a single sketch. “It actually started off as a skit,” Trump said. “And I said, ‘All right, I’ll do it.’ And they took it up to Lorne Michaels, who’s an amazing guy, he’s run _Saturday Night Live_ brilliantly for many years, and he’s a friend of mine. He said, ‘Well, wait a minute: Donald’s agreed to do this skit. Would he do the whole thing?’ “ As we now know, Donald would gladly do “the whole thing”: He told Cuomo he agreed partly because _SNL_ is “iconic.” “It’s an honor,” he said. Watch the interview [here](http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/11/04/donald-trump-new-day-full-interview-part-2.cnn/video/playlists/donald-trump/ "undefined") (they start discussing _SNL_ at about the eight-minute mark). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/04/donald-trump-snl-saturday-night-live-appearance "undefined") _originally appeared on_ _._ Trump: SNL Hosting Gig Was Supposed to Be Just a Sketch ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4100047/trump-snl-appearance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4100047/trump-snl-appearance/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Says SNL Hosting Gig Was Supposed to Be Just One Sketch","datePublished":"2015-11-04T18:12:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:03.092Z","description":"Trump tells CNN he was only supposed to be in one skit on SNL this Saturday but then was asked to host","url":"https://time.com/4100047/trump-snl-appearance/","keywords":["Television","SNL","Saturday Night Live","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8808e292ae453ef9/69886fa5cd1bba33526fdf39/trump-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8808e292ae453ef9/69886fa5cd1bba33526fdf39/trump-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald-Trump-Facebook-Crop","caption":"Donald Trump in August 2015.","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4100047/trump-snl-appearance/","name":"Donald Trump Says SNL Hosting Gig Was Supposed to Be Just One Sketch"}}]}] ```