Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Saturday Night Live: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last updated

News •

The Strokes Get a Surprise Visit From Walton Goggins During ‘SNL’ Performance: Watch • Nov. 8, 2026, 12:21 PM ET (Billboard)
The Strokes Better Look Out: Druski Is Coming for Their Musical Guest Gig in New ‘SNL’ Promos • Nov. 5, 2026, 8:29 PM ET (Billboard)
Tangled relationships, claims of blackmail before 'SNL' writer's sister allegedly killed, court documents show • Nov. 3, 2026, 11:25 AM ET (Los Angeles Times)
'SNL' Host Inde Navarrette Wins Halloween With Penis-Destroying Robot Sketch 'The Inventor's Wife' • Nov. 1, 2026, 4:33 AM ET (Variety)
Cabaret-style shows bring intimate events to venues big and small this week in CT arts • Oct. 31, 2026, 6:00 AM ET (Hartford Courant)

Facts

Also Known As NBC’s Saturday Night • SNL
Awards And Honors Peabody Award • Emmy Award

Photos

Saturday Night Live Season Two cast publicity photo with Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, John Belushi, Laraine Newman, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and Bill Murray posing in a row.
Gilda Radner animatedly gestures and laughs while Jane Curtin looks on with a neutral expression at a news desk, with clocks and a world map behind them on the set of Saturday Night Live.
Colin Jost and Michael Che sit behind the Weekend Update desk on Saturday Night Live, with a world map backdrop and Weekend Update banner above them.
Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri dressed as Spartan cheerleaders perform an exaggerated cheer routine in a gymnasium on Saturday Night Live.
Chris Farley leans forward and shouts at David Spade and Christina Applegate, who sit on a plaid couch looking unimpressed, in a Saturday Night Live sketch.
Chevy Chase sits at a news desk holding papers, wearing a suit and striped tie, with a rotary phone beside him and a sign reading Weekend Update in the background.
Will Ferrell performing with Queens of the Stone Age
Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton and Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump perform in a debate sketch on Saturday Night Live, with McKinnon animatedly holding a microphone.
Norm MacDonald sits at the Weekend Update news desk on Saturday Night Live, wearing a suit and tie, with a world map and repeating Weekend Update text behind him.
Jawing with Jeter
See All Images →

Related Topics and References

Topics

Related Quizzes

(Left) Ball of predictions with answers to questions based on the Magic 8 Ball; (right): Rubik's Cube. (toys)
The Dating Game: Which Came First?
1970s style television set with static on the screen, on a small table with a doily underneath. (retro style)
Pop Culture Vocabulary Quiz
Will Ferrell in the motion picture film "Elf" (2003); directed by Jon Favreau. (cinema, movies)
Will Ferrell Quiz
Graphic artwork represents music of the seventies - (source file includes the fifties, sixties, eighties, and nineties, 50s, 60s, 70, 80s, 90s, decades)
That Groovy ’70s Quiz
USA 2006 - 78th Annual Academy Awards. Closeup of giant Oscar statue at the entrance of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, film movie hollywood
Pop Culture Quiz