The start of the broadcast was delayed 35 minutes due to the Cowboys-Eagles NFC Wild Card game running long. The original airing did not start on time on the East and Central time zones.
Alicia Keys performed "Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart" and "Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down" and appeared in the SNL Digital Short.
In the original live airing, the "Barkley's Bank" sketch was cut off prematurely due to time. On the June 5th, 2010 rerun, a dress rehearsal version of the sketch aired instead of the live show version.
Charles Barkley is now the first basketball player to host SNL more than once. This episode attracted 10.4 million viewers, and was the highest-rated episode of the season until the Betty White/Jay-Z episode four months later.
At the opening credits, the featured players' names weren't announced.
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