The ever-iconic Saturday Night Live has formally entered its landmark fiftieth season. Created by Lorne Michaels, the late-night sketch comedy present has been airing on NBC since 1975, with the inaugural episode hosted by stand-up legend George Carlin, which was portrayed in Jason Reitman’s lately launched dramedy Saturday Night time. The collection has acquired a whopping 84 Emmy wins, the most out of any other television show in history, and has been hailed by many as one of many biggest TV reveals of all time. The collection is headlined by a supremely gifted ensemble of comedian performers, a bunch (typically there to advertise a brand new challenge), a musical visitor, and quite a few cameos.
Saturday Night time Dwell has helped skyrocket the careers of a few of the greatest names in movie and tv, together with John Belushi, Invoice Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Chris Rock, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, David Spade, Adam Sandler, Norm Macdonald, Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell, Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, Will Forte, Fred Armisen, Andy Samberg, Kristen Wiig, Invoice Hader, Jason Sudeikis, Kate McKinnon, and Pete Davidson; and that is simply to call a couple of. The sketch present has even branched out of tv and has turned a few of its fan-favorite sketches into characteristic movies, comparable to Wayne’s World, The Blues Brothers, Coneheads, MacGruber, and Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain.
Will There Be a New Episode of ‘SNL’ Tonight?
Sure, there will probably be a brand new episode of SNL tonight. Since its inception, Saturday Night time Dwell has all the time aired dwell from New York on NBC, and that is most likely not ever going to vary. Season 50, Episode 9, will air on Saturday, December 14, at 11:30 pm EST, each on NBC and streaming on Peacock. The brand new episode may even be out there to stream on Peacock afterward, together with each different season of the present.
Who Is Internet hosting ‘SNL’ This Week?
Former forged member and multi-hyphenate Chris Rock is ready to host tonight’s episode of Saturday Night time Dwell, marking his fourth time as host after stints in 1996, 2014, and 2020.
Rock was first introduced onto Studio 8H in Season 16, alongside the late legendary comic Chris Farley. The 2 additionally starred collectively within the in style recurring sketch “I am Chillin,’ with Rock taking part in Onski. After leaving the collection after Season 18, Rock headlined seven profitable standup specials; Massive Ass Jokes in 1994, Deliver the Ache in 1996, Greater & Blacker in 1999, By no means Scared in 2003, Kill the Messenger in 2008, Tamborine in 2018, and most lately the dwell particular Selective Outrage in 2023. Rock has additionally gained numerous awards all through his profession, together with 4 Emmy Awards and three Grammy Awards. Rock has additionally served because the host of the Academy Awards twice, the primary time in 2005, and the second in 2016; within the latter he lampooned the Academy’s lack of range.
Rock has gone on to have a profitable film and TV profession and served because the creator of The Chris Rock Present and All people Hates Chris. He additionally headlined the fourth season of the favored FX anthology collection Fargo. On the movie facet, Rock has starred within the Grown Ups films, Loss of life on the Funeral, Good Hair, The Longest Yard, Pootie Tang, Right down to Earth, Nurse Betty, The Week Of, Spiral: From the Guide of Noticed, and Rustin. Rock has additionally directed three characteristic movies; Head of State, I Assume I Love My Spouse, and Prime 5. He has additionally lent his voice to a number of animated films, together with the Madagascar franchise, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Film, Bee Film, and Osmosis Jones.
Rock has lined up three high-profile upcoming tasks as a director; the Hollywood-set dramedy Misty Inexperienced, a biopic on Martin Luther King Jr, and an English-language remake of One other Spherical.
To this point, the Season 50 host lineup has included Hacks‘ Jean Good, slapstick comedian Nate Bargatze, Depraved‘s Ariana Grande, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice‘s Michael Keaton, slapstick comedian John Mulaney, slapstick comedian Invoice Burr, pop celebrity Charli XCX, and Gladiator II‘s Paul Mescal.
Who Is the Musical Visitor on This Week’s ‘SNL’?
Newly minted Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams is ready to make her Studio 8H debut because the musical visitor on tonight’s episode of SNL.
Abrams gained fame after performing because the opening act for each Olivia Rodrigo‘s Bitter Tour in 2022 and Taylor Swift‘s The Eras Tour from 2023 till 2024. Again in September, she started her fourth live performance tour, The Secret of Us Tour, which consists of 73 reveals and can finish in August 2025.
Abrams has launched two studio albums, Good Riddance in 2023 and The Secret of Us in 2024.
To this point, the Season 50 musical visitor lineup has included Jelly Roll, Coldplay, Stevie Nicks, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Mk.gee, Charli XCX, and Shaboozey.
Who Is within the Present Forged of ‘SNL’?
As with all long-running tv program, the forged of Saturday Night time Dwell has radically modified by means of the years. Credited as “repertory gamers” for Season 50 are Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Marcello Hernandez, James Austin Johnson, Michael Longfellow, Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, Kenan Thompson, Devon Walker, Bowen Yang, and Weekend Replace anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost. Featured gamers this season embody newcomers Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim, and Jane Wickline. Employees writers Martin Herlihy, Ben Marshall, and John Higgins, referred to as the comedy trio Please Do not Destroy, additionally seem in digital movies that seem in practically each episode and infrequently characteristic the host interacting with the three younger comedians.
Who Is Internet hosting the Subsequent Episode of ‘SNL’?
Martin Brief will cap off the yr because the host of the December 21 episode of SNL, with musical visitor Hozier.
Saturday Night time Dwell
A well-known visitor host stars in parodies and sketches created by the forged of this witty present.
- Launch Date
- October 11, 1975
- Forged
- Leslie Jones , Aidy Bryant , Kyle Mooney , Alex Moffat , Kate McKinnon , Beck Bennett , Kenan Thompson , Colin Jost , Mikey Day , Cecily Robust , Michael Che , Pete Davidson , Melissa Villaseñor
- Seasons
- 50
- Franchise
- snl
- Story By
- Colin Jost
- Community
- NBC
- Administrators
- Lorne Michaels
- Showrunner
- Lorne Michaels
