Saturday Night Live closed out its 44th season with a finale hosted by Paul Rudd with  musical guest DJ Khaled. The show, which featured appearances by Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro, averaged a 4.0 rating Live+Same Day household rating in the metered markets, and a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with local…

A day after DJ Khaled dropped his new album Father of Asahd, which includes the single "Higher" featuring John Legend and the late Nipsey Hussle, Khaled and Legend performed a portion of the song on Saturday Night Live. The duo turned it into an emotional tribute to the rapper who was gunned down in Los Angeles on…

On the heels of the Alabama state Senate passing US’ most restrictive abortion legislation, Saturday Night Live tackled the topic twice during its Season 44 finale. Leslie Jones tore into the new law, which followed similar state legislations restricting abortion in several other states, including Georgia and…

The cold open for the 44th season finale of Saturday Night Live ended on a high note, with Alec Baldwin returning as an exuberant President Trump who belted out a song about a second term. Before launching into a parody of Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now,” Baldwin’s Trump crowed: “I’m very excited about summer, getting in…

Last night’s telecast of Saturday Night Live, with host Emma Thompson and musical guest Jonas Brothers, averaged a 4.2 rating Live+Same Day household rating in the metered markets, and a 1.5 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with local people meters. The Mother’s Day-themed episode, which also featured appearances by…

Kenan Thompson is to remain on Saturday Night Live next season with NBC figuring out "scheduling issues" around sitcom The Kenan Show to accommodate the star’s three shows for the network. The broadcaster revealed that The Kenan Show, which Thompson also exec produces, will launch in a "post-fall" slot and that he…

Saturday Night Live returned to politics this weekend for the cold open — after previously taking on Game of Thrones — by posing the question to Senate Republicans: “What would it take for President Trump to lose your support?” Kyle Mooney played Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd and began the conversation by waxing…

It was a hosting 24 years in the making — former Saturday Night Live alum Adam Sandler returned to the show for the first time since leaving as a cast member in 1995. The telecast, which also featured appearances by fellow former SNL-ers Chris Rock, Kristen Wiig and Jimmy Fallon, averaged a 4.8 Live+Same Day household…

Adam Sandler met a number of life-long friends on Saturday Night Live, including David Spade and Rob Schneider. But one of his closest pals on the late-night show, Chris Farley, died of a drug overdose two years after Sandler left the program in 1995. Farley was 33. In his return to SNL as host tonight, Sandler…

For Adam Sandler fans wondering which of his classic Saturday Night Live he would bring back in his return to the NBC late-night show — it is Opera Man. In his SNL hosting debut twenty four years after exiting as a cast member, Sandler donned the black cape for an operating take on current events during Weekend Update…

Twenty four years after Adam Sandler left Saturday Night Live, the comedy actor returned to the late-night sketch comedy program for the first time as host this week. And he used his opening monologue to talk about his 1995 exit from the NBC show. “I can’t believe I’m back at Saturday Night Live after the longest…

With Attorney General William Barr skipping a House hearing earlier this week on the Mueller Report, Saturday Night Live ditched the “depressing” political scene on Capitol Hill, for “the two things all Americans can get behind” — Game of Thrones and The Avengers. With SNL regulars serving as characters from the HBO…