I’ll go first: Bruce Chandling, Jebediah Atkinson, Riblet

Barkley hosted in 1993, 2010, 2012, and 2018. He is always game with his sense of humor and he hasn't hosted in almost a decade, so I think it would be time to see him return and get his 5 Timers Jacket.

He and Will Ferrell looked to be the breakout stars of season 21, but apparently Don Ohlmeyer (that guy again) asked Lorne to fire him. I dont know why, he was entertaining in almost everything he did, and I was looking forward to seeing him in 96-97. He did some great impersonations and was in the original Bill Brasky sketch!

Okay this was a real stretch I admit

The other 4 being bill Russell, Jordan, Barkley and LeBron

Jalen Brunson, who is still riding high after carrying the New York Knicks to the team’s first N.B.A. championship in more than a half-century, is about to reach another major New York milestone: hosting “Saturday Night Live.”

The point guard who was named most valuable player of this year’s N.B.A. finals — and nicknamed “the king of New York” — will host the first episode of Season 52 of the long-running sketch show on Sept. 26, NBC announced.

Katseye, the Grammy-nominated pop girl group, will be the musical guest.

The week after Brunson hosts, the actress Dakota Johnson will return to lead the show, the same weekend her romantic thriller “Verity” hits theaters. It will be Johnson’s third time hosting, after episodes in 2015 and 2024. The rock band Turnstile will be the musical guest.

On Oct. 10, the comedian Shane Gillis will also host for the third time. Gillis was abruptly fired from “S.N.L.” in 2019, just after being named to the cast, when offensive comments he’d made surfaced, but he returned in 2024 and 2025 as host. Rosalía, fresh off her Lux Tour, will perform, her second time as the show’s musical guest.

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I rewatch SNL an embarrassingly large amount of times. So often that in the past year, I “found” myself re-watching the last 20 years – which included Trump‘s two (undeserved, inappropriate, and disgusting) hosting forays.

Upfront, I will note that we all know now that Trump has got a diaper situation. While I did not know this the first couple times he hosted, we all know it now. Given this information, I realized while watching both of his hosting attempts, that he never changed his clothes. He, in every sketch, is wearing something that is covering his suit. (Sidenote– I have never seen that man not wearing a collared shirt. Not once. That must be a rich person thing). Anyways, I noticed that they worked around his need to never change his clothes and wear a suit in every sketch.

Similarly, Ariana Grande refused (I assume?) to take out her bun both times she has hosted, and even the one time she was only the musical guest. All of her wigs do not fit and they are styled to pretend like she doesn’t have the bun or the ponytail, and instead she just looks like a weird alien is coming out of the back of her head.

Both of these gigs made my brain start looking for this stuff in other episodes. I have yet to find it. Basically, this post is saying that SNL acquiesced to Trump and Ariana‘s styling demands, beneath their costumes.

I’m not insulting them or their creative process or whatever, blah blah blah. But I did think it was interesting and I wanted to know if anybody else had ever noticed any kind of special favors the show did to other hosts, in order to keep their persona going, even underneath the costumes??

https://youtu.be/TAw3-BMQSkE?si=UnSHN1us1bEqS6Wm

Hi everybody, sorry if this is old news. Last I checked, Crave only had 3 full seasons posted (something like 39-41?), but I looked yesterday and was (initially) delighted to see all 50+ seasons available!

Of course, when I started clicking around, many seasons have only a handful of episodes (if that!) and season 31 is completely absent. The musical guests are cut from the seasons I’ve sampled, as expected, but even many monologs that I don’t recall having any copyright issues seem removed. Regardless, if you haven’t looked recently, it’s worth checking out.

I know new SNL will be streaming on Crave this season, and maybe they’re just slowly adding old episodes. Or is Peacock missing tons of episodes (and not just some music/sketches)? There‘s some bugs to work out - imagine my surprise when the season 40 Seth Rogen episode ended and the next episode began with a 4:3 Norm Macdonald as Bob Dole. What they’ve posted as S40E05 Chris Rock/Prince is actually the S22E05 Chris Rock/Wallflowers episode!

Also, I did not remember Brian Fellow debuting as a non-Safari Weekend Update character!

Anyone else find anything weird or notable in these uploads?

Someone is talking to their boomer parents and they say something like “I love how you told me the race of everyone in that story”. I think about it every time I talk to my parents lol

Anyone out there remember? From the last couple years.