“Saturday Night Live” got two new cast members last week, but except for the opening, you would have been hard pressed to find them.

Abby Elliot, daughter of former “SNL” cast member and “Cabin Boy” scribe Chris Elliot, and Michaela Watkins made their debut Saturday. Beside the aforementioned opening credits and the “everybody-wave-good-bye” part, the two played the smallest of roles in the episode, hosted by Paul Rudd with musical guest Beyonce.

Their first appearance was in the SNL Digital Short, in which the two play members of an auction crowd that begins to kill themselves after seeing a painting Rudd painted of Andy Samberg, who was naked from the waist down.

Their second appearance came when Rudd was directing a music video for Beyonce in which he had his three sons—Samberg, Bobby Moynihan and special guest Justin Timberlake—backup dance. Elliot was the person using the marker before each take and Watkins was doing Beyonce’s makeup.

Though they might not have liked the little screen time they got, the episode, as a whole, was pretty good, especially considering it’s the first post-election episode. There were some good skits, like the over affectionate family (Rudd, Samberg, Will Forte, Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig) that consistently kisses. On the mouth. Or the “Four Guys Reminisce Over a Song” skit, which had Forte tell a story about how he stored urine in his mouth, Hader married a girl he knocked up only because her mom was nominated for vice president (who he then broke up with on Nov. 5) and revealed Rudd had a cell phone up his butt. And as always, Weekend Update was solid.

“SNL” has really been hit-or-miss this season, hitting with political skits and missing with pretty much everything else. But as a show that had only one political skit, Saturday’s episode was one of the best of the season. I hope “SNL” is on an upswing because now that Mad TV is cancelled—which was overdue, especially after they changed their format a few years ago—there aren’t that many places where sketch comedy fans can get their fix.