Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a U.S. television program broadcast on NBC since Saturday, October 11, 1975. Saturday Night Live is currently the eighth most popular show on NBC and 25th overall on TV, watched by a total number of 4,140,000 people (1.28% rating, down -23% from December 20, 2025) as of the daily audience measurement on .
Demographic breakdown of the most recent historical ratings of Saturday Night Live on NBC as of Saturday, January 17, 2026.
| Saturday Night Live Daily Ratings | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Demo | Audience | Rating |
| 2026-Jan-17 FINN WOLFHARD/ | P2+ | 4,140,000 | 1.28 |
| P18-49 | 858,000 | 0.63 | |
| 2025-Dec-20 ARIANA GRANDE/ | P2+ | 5,404,000 | 1.67 |
| P18-49 | 1,224,000 | 0.90 | |
| 2025-Dec-13 JOSH O’CONNOR/ | P2+ | 3,949,000 | 1.22 |
| P18-49 | 710,000 | 0.52 | |
| 2025-Dec-06 MELISSA MCCARTHY/ | P2+ | 4,304,000 | 1.33 |
| P18-49 | 746,000 | 0.55 | |
| 2025-Nov-15 S51E006 GLEN POWELL/ | HH | 3,120,000 | 2.44 |
| P2+ | 4,165,000 | 1.29 | |
| P18-49 | 799,000 | 0.59 | |
| P25-54 | 1,093,000 | 0.87 | |
| 2025-Nov-08 NIKKI GLASER/ | HH | 3,163,000 | 2.47 |
| P2+ | 4,023,000 | 1.25 | |
| P18-49 | 733,000 | 0.54 | |
| P25-54 | 1,037,000 | 0.82 | |
| 2025-Nov-01 MILES TELLER/ | HH | 2,650,000 | 2.07 |
| P2+ | 3,496,000 | 1.08 | |
| P18-49 | 605,000 | 0.44 | |
| P25-54 | 874,000 | 0.70 | |
| 2025-Oct-25 BAD BUNNY/ | HH | 1,605,000 | 1.30 |
| P2+ | 2,105,000 | 0.65 | |
| P18-49 | 389,000 | 0.30 | |
| P25-54 | 500,000 | 0.40 | |
| 2025-Oct-18 SABRINA CARPENTER | HH | 3,094,000 | 2.40 |
| P2+ | 4,248,000 | 1.31 | |
| P18-49 | 938,000 | 0.69 | |
| P25-54 | 1,325,000 | 1.10 | |
| 2025-Oct-11 AMY POEHLER/ | HH | 3,196,000 | 2.50 |
| P2+ | 4,369,000 | 1.35 | |
| P18-49 | 893,000 | 0.66 | |
| P25-54 | 1,131,000 | 0.90 | |
| 2025-Oct-04 BAD BUNNY/ | P2+ | 4,634,000 | 1.43 |
| P18-49 | 1,125,000 | 0.83 | |
| 2025-Jun-08 SNL50 THE ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (RS) | HH | 1,119,500 | 0.89 |
| P2+ | 1,586,000 | 0.50 | |
| P18-49 | 187,500 | 0.14 | |
| P25-54 | 284,000 | 0.23 | |
| 2025-May-17 SCARLETT JOHANSSON / | P2+ | 4,874,000 | 1.54 |
| P18-49 | 890,000 | 0.21 | |
| 2025-May-10 WALTON GOGGINS / | P2+ | 4,215,000 | 1.33 |
| P18-49 | 830,000 | 0.62 | |
| 2025-May-03 QUINTA BRUNSON/ | P2+ | 4,369,000 | 1.38 |
| P18-49 | 748,000 | 0.56 | |
| 2025-Apr-12 JON HAMM/ | P2+ | 4,293,000 | 1.35 |
| P18-49 | 777,000 | 0.58 | |
| 2025-Apr-05 JACK BLACK/ | P2+ | 4,525,000 | 1.43 |
| P18-49 | 788,000 | 0.59 | |
| 2025-Mar-29 MIKEY MADISON/ | P2+ | 4,268,000 | 1.35 |
| P18-49 | 692,000 | 0.52 | |
| 2025-Mar-08 LADY GAGA | P2+ | 4,625,000 | 1.46 |
| P18-49 | 806,000 | 0.60 | |
| 2025-Mar-01 SHANE GILLIS/ | P2+ | 4,275,000 | 1.35 |
| P18-49 | 895,000 | 0.67 | |
| 2025-Feb-16 SNL50 THE ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (S) | HH | 8,774,000 | 6.97 |
| P2+ | 13,921,000 | 4.39 | |
| P18-49 | 2,904,000 | 2.17 | |
| P25-54 | 3,921,000 | 3.18 | |
| 2025-Feb-15 50 YEARS OF MUSIC 2/ | HH | 2,843,000 | 2.26 |
| P2+ | 4,058,000 | 1.28 | |
| P18-49 | 536,000 | 0.40 | |
| P25-54 | 808,000 | 0.65 | |
| 2025-Jan-27 LADIES & GENTLEMEN… 50 YEARS OF SNL MUSIC (S) | HH | 2,566,000 | 2.04 |
| P2+ | 3,486,000 | 1.10 | |
| P18-49 | 563,500 | 0.43 | |
| P25-54 | 852,000 | 0.69 | |
| 2025-Jan-25 TIMOTHéE CHALAMET | P2+ | 4,958,000 | 1.56 |
| P18-49 | 1,032,000 | 0.77 | |
| 2025-Jan-18 DAVE CHAPPELLE/ | P2+ | 4,848,000 | 1.53 |
| P18-49 | 1,021,000 | 0.76 | |
| 2024-Dec-21 MARTIN SHORT/ | P2+ | 4,793,000 | 1.51 |
| P18-49 | 940,000 | 0.70 | |
| 2024-Dec-14 CHRIS ROCK/ | P2+ | 4,200,000 | 1.32 |
| P18-49 | 817,000 | 0.61 | |
| 2024-Dec-07 PAUL MESCAL/ | P2+ | 3,839,000 | 1.21 |
| P18-49 | 739,000 | 0.55 | |
| Rank | Program | Audience | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NFL Playoff Game: Wild Card | 25,340,000 | -3% |
| 2 | NFL Playoff Pre-Kick | 19,545,000 | +2% |
| 3 | Nightly News with Tom Llamas | 6,725,000 | +8% |
| 4 | Football Night in America Pre-Game | 6,677,000 | -26% |
| 5 | Chicago Med | 5,756,000 | +7% |
| 6 | Chicago Fire | 5,303,000 | +10% |
| 7 | Chicago PD | 4,565,000 | +19% |
| 8 | Saturday Night Live | 4,140,000 | -23% |
| 9 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | 3,963,000 | |
| 10 | Law & Order | 3,878,000 | -2% |
| 11 | Happy's Place | 3,362,000 | +61% |
| 12 | Today | 2,827,000 | |
| 13 | Meet the Press with Kristen Welker | 2,694,000 | -11% |
| 14 | Dateline | 2,656,000 | |
| 15 | NBA Pregame | 2,634,000 | +2% |
| 16 | Hunting Party | 2,626,000 | +20% |
| 17 | St. Denis Medical | 2,135,000 | -24% |
| 18 | NBA Tuesday Regular Season | 2,042,000 | +17% |
| 19 | Stumble | 1,962,000 | +72% |
| 20 | Today 3rd Hour | 1,954,000 | -10% |
| 21 | Brilliant Minds | 1,379,000 | -14% |
| 22 | Today with Jenna & Sheinelle | 1,355,000 | -6% |
| 23 | NBC News Daily | 1,325,000 | -16% |
| 24 | SNL Prime | 1,218,000 | +5% |
| 25 | NBA Tuesday Regular Season Postgame | 1,156,000 | +9% |
| 26 | Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 1,090,000 | -16% |
| 27 | Dateline Mystery | 1,046,000 | -46% |
| 28 | The Wall | 978,000 | -30% |
| 29 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | 845,000 | +70% |
I've just had it with your show (SNL). I'm so tired of the President Trump bashing. He has done more for our country than any president in recent history. I have been watching SNL for so many year's and it's now just gone to shit. I'm done watching......................See ya!!!!!
They went after Trump and lied about him, and basically tried to win the election for Biden. I mean they were basically doing campaign ads for Joe with actors trying to cover up all of Biden's mistakes. Biden gave them what could have been the easiest 4 years of their existence, but they blew him, I mean it. Just confirmed how bad the show has gotten for me. Go woke go broke. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
Bring Back Alec Baldwin. America needs this
Angry leftists are not funny, never were. Used to watch every weekend in the 80’s, went to bed early ever since mgt tried grinding political axes v
The show is so sad. Bye bye.
It’s just embarrassing to watch,now, not funny, political bias
SNL will probably be more popular now that Trump is back in the White House. .
I hope they find somebody BETTER than Alec Baldwin to be TRUMP'S Official Impersonator.
I notice you don’t even bother to measure the very audience that watched you from the beginning—my sophomore year in college.
I have fond memories from watching SNL with my parents when I was growing up. We never missed it. I can't bare to watch it now. I feel second-hand embarrassment.
Correction to the below. I torrented the show, so went back to watch because of a few Reddit mentions, it as I hadn't deleted it. I was wrong to say Lorne was/is a brain in a bucket. He's sharp in the on stage credits. He's actually overcome, and not trying to lose it. I was too. He did a better job than I.