The twenty-eighth season of Saturday Night Live, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on NBC between October 5, 2002 and May 17, 2003.

Cast

Fred Armisen and Will Forte were brought on as featured players in the wake of Will Ferrell's and Ana Gasteyer's departures in the previous season. This season would also be the last for Chris Kattan and Tracy Morgan. Dean Edwards did not return the following year.

Cast roster

Repertory players Featured players Bold denotes Weekend Update anchor

Writers

With the John McCain-hosted episode, T. Sean Shannon (who had been a writer since 1998) is named as a co-writing supervisor, alongside Paula Pell and Harper Steele.

Episodes

Specials