Saturday Night Live is at its best when it’s delivering a wide range of guest hosts and comedy styles. That’s been clear so far this season, as Amy Poehler, Bad Bunny and Sabrina Carpenter all brought very different sensibilities and subject matters to Studio 8H. I’ve enjoyed every single episode so far in its own way, but as I was looking through a list of the most popular sketches so far this season, there was an obvious recurring theme: politics.
Fans are consuming Saturday Night Live in very different ways these days. Yes, there are still plenty of people who watch the sketch comedy show live, but there are many others who wait for the sketches to get uploaded to social media. A lot of them end up on X or TikTok, but the most popular place to watch them is YouTube. SNL has had a long-running relationship with the platform and now uploads nearly all its sketches not long after they air.
