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Kristen Wiig gave her final performance as a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live during the show’s season finale on Saturday (May 19).

The episode featured guest host Mick Jagger, who doubled as the evening’s musical guest.

During the final sketch of the night, the entire cast appeared in graduation caps and gowns with Mick playing a teacher.

“Many of you are moving onto college, but I’d like to take a moment to say goodbye to one particular student who is leaving this summer… to become a nun,” Mick said before calling Kristen up to briefly slow dance with each cast member.

SNL creator Lorne Michaels even appeared as the final dance partner while Kristen could barely contain her tears.

Watch the touching send off to Kristen Wiig below…

Check out Natalie Portman and Justin Timberlake in the Digital Short from last night’s Saturday Night Live!

To celebrate the 100th Digital Short, the writers brought back some of the “best of” short stars, and created one star-studded video!

Along with Justin and Natalie, Justin Bieber, a shirtless Jon Hamm, host Will Ferrell, musical guest Usher, and singer Michael Bolton made appearances!

“so the east coast knows the secret. #snl” Justin Bieber wrote on his Twitter account after the short aired.

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Usher performed his latest single “Scream” on Saturday Night Live‘s May 12 episode.

Later in the show, the 33-year-old entertainer performed his song “Climax.”

Usher is featured on the cover of this month’s Billboard magazine. Check out his interview, where he chats about his new album, Looking 4 Myself, in stores June 12.

Usher is set to perform later this month in Las Vegas at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards.

Watch “Scream” below and click inside to see “Climax”…

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Check out Sacha Baron Cohen as The Dictator (Admiral General Aladeen) and Kristen Wiig as the Tanning Mom in this hilarious Weekend Update sketch on Saturday Night Live on Saturday (May 5).

Host Seth Meyers spoke with Sacha in character as The Dictator, who also brought out special guest, director Martin Scorsese, as one of his fake torture victims. Martin directed Sacha in Hugo!

Kristen Wiig delivered laughs as the Tanning Mom aka Patricia Krentcil. “I would never bring a 5-year-old into a tanning bed…you may not know this Seth, some people over tan!” Kristen said.

Check out Sacha as The Dictator below, and click inside to see Kristen impersonate the infamous Tanning Mom…

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Eli Manning is colorful in full drag as Miss Chicken-Fried Steak in a sketch called “Miss Drag World” from last night’s Saturday Night Live episode!

The 31-year-old football star and this week’s host played a man dressed as a woman who reacts poorly to losing a beauty pageant.

“Third place! Do the judges not have eyeballs?!” Eli said in the sketch.

Eli is not the only sports star to go drag on SNL – both Charles Barkley and Derek Jeter have donned ladies clothing on the hit sketch comedy show!

Rihanna poses in one of the bumper images for her appearance on Saturday Night Live on Saturday (May 5).

The 24-year-old singer performed twice during the show. Her first performance started out with “Birthday Cake” before she segued into “Talk That Talk”. Later in the show, RiRi performed her new hit, “Where Have You Been”.

Unfortunately, Rihanna did not act in a sketch during the episode as she had done the first two times she appeared on the show.

Watch “Birthday Cake/Talk That Talk” below and click inside to watch “Where Have You Been”…

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