Thanksgiving Song Auditions

Hoping to give Thanksgiving the musical canon Christmas enjoys, three National Endowment for the Arts judges offer a grant for the holiday's defining song and hold open auditions in an empty theater. A boozy New Orleans torch singer, a heartbroken Knoxville country singer, a Kingston reggae act, a Berkeley folk singer who sides with the turkey, a howling rock singer, a Detroit crooner whose ballad keeps turning into innuendo and a frantic Orlando song-and-dance duo each take the microphone, while the panel's polite responses grow increasingly strained.

SNL Archives lists this sketch as the first appearance of Ana Gasteyer's folk singer Cinder Calhoun.