List of Saturday Night Live writers


The following is a list of Saturday Night Live writers. The show, created by Lorne Michaels, is an American live sketch comedy and variety show. Airing since 1975, it has employed a large and changing staff of writers.

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Season 1">Saturday Night Live (season 1)">1 (1975–76)

Producer
Lorne Michaels
Writing Supervised By
Michael O'Donoghue, Lorne Michaels
Chevy Chase, Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels, Rosie Shuster
Michael O'Donoghue, Herb Sargent
Script Consultant
Herb Sargent
Writing staff


Season 5">Saturday Night Live (season 5)">5 (1979–80)

Producer
Lorne Michaels
Script Consultant
Herb Sargent
Writing staff


Season 8">Saturday Night Live (season 8)">8 (1982–83)

Producer
Bob Tischler
Supervising Producers
Barry W. Blaustein and David Sheffield
Writing staff

  • Paul Barrosse
  • Barry W. Blaustein
  • Robin Duke
  • Ellen L. Fogle
  • Nate Herman
  • Tim Kazurinsky
  • Andy Kurtzman
  • Eddie Murphy
  • Pamela Norris
  • Margaret Oberman
  • Joe Piscopo
  • David Sheffield
  • Andrew Smith
  • Bob Tischler
  • Tracy Tormé
  • Eliot Wald

Season 9">Saturday Night Live (season 9)">9 (1983–84)

Producer
Bob Tischler
Head Writer
Andrew Smith
Script Consultant
Herb Sargent
Script Supervisor
Pamela Norris
Writing staff


Season 10">Saturday Night Live (season 10)">10 (1984–85)

Producer
Bob Tischler
Script Consultant
Herb Sargent
Writing staff


Season 11">Saturday Night Live (season 11)">11 (1985–86)

Producers
Al Franken and Tom Davis
Head Writer
Jim Downey
Script Consultant
Herb Sargent
Writing staff


Season 12">Saturday Night Live (season 12)">12 (1986–87)

Producer
Jim Downey
Script Consultant
Herb Sargent
Writing staff


Season 13">Saturday Night Live (season 13)">13 (1987–88)

Producer
Jim Downey
Script Consultant
Herb Sargent
Writing staff

  • A. Whitney Brown
  • Greg Daniels
  • Tom Davis
  • Jim Downey
  • Al Franken
  • Shannon Gaughan
  • Jack Handey
  • Phil Hartman
  • George Meyer
  • Lorne Michaels
  • Conan O'Brien
  • Bob Odenkirk
  • Herb Sargent
  • Rosie Shuster
  • Robert Smigel
  • Bonnie Turner
  • Terry Turner
  • Christine Zander

Season 17">Saturday Night Live (season 17)">17 (1991–92)

Season 21">Saturday Night Live (season 21)">21 (1995–96)

Season 22">Saturday Night Live (season 22)">22 (1996–97)

Producer
Steve Higgins
Consulting Producers
Jim Downey and Fred Wolf
Writing Supervised By
Tim Herlihy and Adam McKay
Writing staff

  • Ross Abrash
  • David Breckman
  • Cindy Caponera
  • Robert Carlock
  • Stephen Colbert
  • Jim Downey
  • Hugh Fink
  • Tom Gianas
  • Tim Herlihy
  • Steve Higgins
  • Norm Hiscock
  • Adam McKay
  • Dennis McNicholas
  • Lorne Michaels
  • Lori Nasso
  • Paula Pell
  • Matt Piedmont
  • Colin Quinn
  • Frank Sebastiano
  • Robert Smigel
  • Harper Steele
  • Scott Wainio
  • Fred Wolf

Season 25">Saturday Night Live (season 25)">25 (1999–2000)

Producers
Steve Higgins and Tim Herlihy
Writing Supervised By
Tina Fey
Creative Consultants
Dennis McNicholas and Paula Pell
Writing staff

  • Kevin Brennan
  • Robert Carlock
  • Jerry Collins
  • Steven Cragg
  • Tony Daro
  • Ali Farahnakian
  • Tina Fey
  • Hugh Fink
  • Richard Francese
  • Tim Herlihy
  • Steve Higgins
  • Adam McKay
  • Dennis McNicholas
  • Lorne Michaels
  • Paula Pell
  • Matt Piedmont
  • J. J. Philbin
  • Michael Schur
  • T. Sean Shannon
  • Robert Smigel
  • Harper Steele
  • Scott Wainio

Season 26">Saturday Night Live (season 26)">26 (2000–01)

Note: Beginning with the ninth episode of this season, the head writer receives a "head writer" credit for the first time since the 1985-86 season instead of "writing supervisor," and the "creative consultant" credit is renamed "writing supervisor."

Season 30">Saturday Night Live (season 30)">30 (2004–05)

Season 31">Saturday Night Live (season 31)">31 (2005–06)

Producer
Steve Higgins
Head writer
Tina Fey, Seth Meyers, and Harper Steele
Writing Supervisors
Seth Meyers
Writing staff

  • Doug Abeles
  • James Anderson
  • Alex Baze
  • Liz Cackowski
  • Tina Fey
  • Charlie Grandy
  • Steve Higgins
  • Colin Jost
  • Erik Kenward
  • John Lutz
  • Seth Meyers
  • Lorne Michaels
  • Matt Murray
  • Paula Pell
  • Akiva Schaffer
  • Frank Sebastiano
  • T. Sean Shannon
  • Robert Smigel
  • J. B. Smoove
  • Emily Spivey
  • Harper Steele
  • Jorma Taccone
  • Bryan Tucker

Season 35">Saturday Night Live (season 35)">35 (2009–10)

Season 39">Saturday Night Live (season 39)">39 (2013–14)

Season 43">Saturday Night Live (season 43)">43 (2017–18)

Note: Beginning with the show's forty-third season, Weekend Update writers were credited separately from the rest of the writing staff.

Season 46">Saturday Night Live (season 46)">46 (2020–21)

Source:
Producers
Steve Higgins, Erik Kenward
Head writer
Anna Drezen, Colin Jost, Michael Che, and Kent Sublette
Writing Supervisors
Sudi Green, Fran Gillespie, and Streeter Seidell
Writing staff

  • Dan Bulla
  • Megan Callahan-Shah
  • Steven Castillo
  • Emma Clark
  • Alison Gates
  • Fran Gillespie
  • Sudi Green
  • Steve Higgins
  • Sam Jay
  • Erik Kenward
  • Dan Licata
  • Dennis McNicholas
  • Lorne Michaels
  • Josh Patten
  • Jasmine Pierce
  • Gary Richardson
  • Pete Schultz
  • Streeter Seidell
  • Mark Steinbach
  • Will Stephen
  • Bryan Tucker
  • Celeste Yim

Season 47">Saturday Night Live (season 47)">47 (2021–22)

Source:
Producers
Steve Higgins, Erik Kenward
Head writer
Colin Jost, Michael Che, Kent Sublette, Anna Drezen, Alison Gates and Streeter Seidell
Writing Supervisors
Streeter Seidell and Alison Gates
Writing staff

  • Rosebud Baker
  • Dan Bulla
  • Megan Callahan-Shah
  • Steven Castillo
  • Mike DiCenzo
  • Billy Domineau
  • Alex English
  • Martin Herlihy
  • John Higgins
  • Steve Higgins
  • Vannessa Jackson
  • Erik Kenward
  • Tesha Kondrat
  • Ben Marshall
  • Dennis McNicholas
  • Lorne Michaels
  • Jake Nordwind
  • Clare O'Kane
  • Josh Patten
  • Jasmine Pierce
  • Josh Patten
  • Pete Schultz
  • Ben Silva
  • Mark Steinbach
  • Will Stephen
  • Nicole Sun
  • Bryan Tucker
  • Celeste Yim

Season 48">Saturday Night Live (season 48)">48 (2022–23)

Source:
Producers
Steve Higgins, Erik Kenward
Head writer
Kent Sublette, Alison Gates and Streeter Seidell
Writing Supervisors
Gary Richardson, Will Stephen, and Celeste Yim
Writing staff

  • Rosebud Baker
  • Dan Bulla
  • Megan Callahan-Shah
  • Michael Che
  • Mike DiCenzo
  • Alex English
  • Jimmy Fowlie
  • Martin Herlihy
  • John Higgins
  • Steve Higgins
  • Vannessa Jackson
  • Colin Jost
  • Erik Kenward
  • Ben Marshall
  • Dennis McNicholas
  • Lorne Michaels
  • Jake Nordwind
  • Clare O'Kane
  • Ceara O'Sullivan
  • Josh Patten
  • Gary Richardson
  • Pete Schultz
  • KC Shornima
  • Ben Silva
  • Will Stephen
  • Bryan Tucker
  • Asha Ward
  • Auguste White
  • Celeste Yim