Most people noticed Julia Louis-Dreyfus was absent, but she was apparently in the audience. Gilbert Gottfried, Sen. Al Franken, Cheri Oteri and Rob Schneider all were reportedly in the audience, but not visible (and did not participate).
Much has been made about the Weekend Update montage leaving out Cecily Strong. The montage also left out the early '80s female co-anchors: Gail Matthius, Christine Ebersole and Mary Gross.
A few more absences, although some of these folks appeared in clips (and maybe I missed some!)
-Unsurprising no-shows: Abby or Chris Elliot, Janeane Garofalo, Harry Shearer (who said on Twitter he "loathes" Lorne Michaels), Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Jenny Slate, Nasim Pedrad, Michaela Watkins
-The women of the early '90s "bad boy" era (Julia Sweeney, Beth Cahill, Siobhan Fallon, Melanie Hutsell)
-George Coe from season 1!
-writer/performers Conan O'Brien (apparently in Cuba), Don Novello, Jim Downey, Alan Zweibel
-Peter Aykroyd (Dan's brother!)
-Yvonne Hudson (a utility player who actually made appearances from 1979-1984, under all three of the show's producers)
-Laurie Metcalf (later of "Roseanne"), who was there for one episode at the end of season 6
-Joan Cusack, Randy Quaid, Damon Wayans from Lorne Michaels' weak first season after he returned
-Nasim Pedrad, Mark McKinney, David Koechner, Chris Parnell, Horatio Sanz and Sarah Silverman (she was shown backstage on Twitter; did she ever actually appear on the show?)
-frequent hosts/musical guests Lily Tomlin, Buck Henry, Danny DeVito, James Taylor, Randy Newman, Tom Petty, Drew Barrymore, Ben Affleck, Adam Levine, Eminem, Elliot Gould.
-It would have been nice to have musical-guest-only montages, as they did for SNL15 and SNL25. Instead, one clip package served to include everything at the top of the show, with later montages grouped by subject. That worked out fine, but they left out big-deal musical acts Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and The Rolling Stones.
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