Finn Wolfhard's Saturday Night Live hosting debut has drawn criticism from some fans over a sketch parodying Stranger Things characters, with viewers taking issue with jokes about the series' storylines. The 23-year-old actor, who played Mike Wheeler for nearly a decade on Netflix's blockbuster series, hosted SNL on 18 January 2026, just weeks after the conclusion of Stranger Things' fifth and final season on 31 December 2025.
In his opening monologue, Wolfhard reflected on his transition from child star to adult performer, joking that '400 million people got to watch me go through puberty'. He was joined onstage by co-stars Caleb McLaughlin and Gaten Matarazzo, who joked about their collective evolution from adolescents to grown men.
