List of Saturday Night Live guests


Saturday Night Live is a late-night sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. It premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the title NBC's Saturday Night. The show usually satirizes contemporary American popular culture and politics, and it has featured a wide array of hosts and musical guests. SNL features a two-tiered cast: the repertory members, also known as the "Not Ready for Prime-Time Players", and newer cast members, known as "Featured Players." A typical episode of SNL features a guest host, who delivers the opening monologue and goodnights, introduces the musical guest, and performs in sketches with the cast. While the format also features a musical guest, and many episodes feature celebrity cameos, the focus of the show is the guest host.
George Carlin hosted the show on its premiere episode. Three episodes later, Candice Bergen became the first female host and she was the first to host a second time later in 1975. Guests who host five times become members of the Five-Timers Club, introduced on the December 8, 1990, episode, when Tom Hanks became the seventh person to host their fifth episode. Actor Alec Baldwin holds the record for most times hosting, having done so seventeen times since 1990; Baldwin took the record from actor Steve Martin who has hosted sixteen times since 1976.
Several former cast members have returned to take on hosting duties. Original cast member Chevy Chase has hosted the most times, eight in total. Tina Fey follows behind, having hosted six times, while Bill Murray and Will Ferrell have hosted five times. On December 11, 1982, Eddie Murphy became the only person to host while still a member of the cast, filling the role at the last minute when the scheduled host became ill. Multiple former writers have also returned to host: Conan O'Brien, Louis C.K., Larry David and John Mulaney.
Musical guests can be solo acts or bands, who perform two to three musical numbers. Dave Grohl is the most frequent musical guest, performing on sixteen shows since 1992. There have been 47 episodes on which the show's host also served as the musical guest; the first was Paul Simon on the second episode on October 18, 1975. The most recent to pull double duty was Sabrina Carpenter on October 18, 2025. The Rolling Stones are the only band to ever serve as both host and musical guest during the same episode, which aired October 7, 1978.
In 1982, at age 7, Drew Barrymore became the youngest person to host the show. Betty White is the oldest person to host, having done so at 88 years of age in 2010; several cast members were on standby to replace her if she became fatigued but she appeared through the whole show as planned. In 2000, singer Britney Spears was the youngest person to both host and simultaneously serve as the show's musical guest, at 18 years and 161 days old.
In addition to making cameo appearances, political figures have also hosted the show. Donald Trump, who hosted in 2004 and in 2015 as a presidential hopeful, is the only host who eventually became President of the United States. Al Gore hosted in 2002, the only former vice president to do so. Former, current, or future presidential candidates who have hosted include Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson and George McGovern, Steve Forbes, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and Al Sharpton. Sarah Palin appeared on SNL in 2008 after weeks of Tina Fey doing impressions of her on the show. In more recent years, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Nikki Haley appeared on the show during their presidential campaigns in 2016, 2020 and 2024, respectively. In 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared alongside Kate McKinnon's impersonation of her. In November 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on the last pre-election episode alongside Maya Rudolph, who portrayed her on the show. The episode also featured Virginia Senator and former candidate for Vice President Tim Kaine.

List of guests

Five-Timers Club

History

The Five-Timers Club is the group of performers who have hosted SNL at least five times. SNL first mentioned the Club on December 8, 1990, when Tom Hanks said that it was his fifth appearance as host in his monologue:
After Hanks delivered his monologue, the show segued to a sketch set in a richly appointed private club, featuring Hanks and Five-Timers Steve Martin, Elliott Gould, and Paul Simon, who had actually only served as host four times. Then-writer Conan O'Brien appeared in a cameo as a doorman.
Chevy Chase was the first former SNL cast member to both host the show and join the Five-Timers Club. This was subsequently done by Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, and Kristen Wiig. Martin Short joined this list upon hosting on December 21, 2024. Mulaney is the second former writer to join the Five-Timers Club, as Fey was the head writer as well as a cast member. The Five-Timers Club was next mentioned when Danny DeVito was inducted in 1999. The mark featured on the show when reached by hosts John Goodman, Alec Baldwin, Christopher Walken, Drew Barrymore, Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck, Scarlett Johansson, Melissa McCarthy, Dwayne Johnson, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, John Mulaney, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Kristen Wiig, and Martin Short.
In 2006, a sketch featuring Steve Martin and Baldwin introduced the Platinum Lounge, featuring only hosts that have hosted the show at least twelve times, on the occasion of Baldwin's 13th time hosting the show. Martin Short appeared as a waiter, as he would during many subsequent Five-Timers Club sketches. Since then, John Goodman has become the third person to host more than twelve times. The club has been spoofed by SNL itself. During her fourth appearance as host in April 2019, Emma Stone anticipated "Four-Timers Club" honors in her monologue. Paul Rudd was the next person to host for the fifth time, although his show was affected due to the rise of Omicron cases, which resulted in a reduced cast and no audience.
Jonah Hill was taken to the Club by Five-Timer Tina Fey. Once in, he is greeted by Candice Bergen, and Drew Barrymore. Seeing no men in the club, Hill wonders if it's "Ladies Night". He is told by Fey that the other men "are not allowed in right now" because of presumed harassment problems. During her fifth monologue, Kristen Wiig is welcomed by multiple former hosts appearing in Five Timers jackets despite not being members, including Martin Short, Matt Damon, Fred Armisen, Jon Hamm, Will Forte, and Ryan Gosling, who presented Wiig with the jacket. Actual club member Paul Rudd also appeared alongside former SNL writer Paula Pell and producer Lorne Michaels.

Episodes

Membership


NameTotal appearances
as host		First appearanceFifth appearanceTime to reach clubMost recent hosting appearance
10January 17, 1976November 19, 19771 year, 306 daysMay 24, 1980
16October 23, 1976April 22, 19781 year, 181 daysDecember 10, 2022
6January 10, 1976February 16, 19804 years, 37 daysNovember 15, 1980
4October 18, 1975May 10, 198610 years, 204 daysDecember 19, 1987
8February 18, 1978December 6, 19868 years, 291 daysFebruary 15, 1997
5November 8, 1975May 19, 199014 years, 192 daysMay 19, 1990
10December 14, 1985December 8, 19904 years, 359 daysApril 11, 2020
6May 15, 1982January 9, 199310 years, 239 daysDecember 11, 1999
13December 2, 1989May 7, 19944 years, 156 daysDecember 14, 2013
17April 21, 1990December 10, 19944 years, 233 daysFebruary 11, 2017
5March 7, 1981February 20, 199917 years, 350 daysFebruary 20, 1999
7January 20, 1990May 19, 200111 years, 119 daysApril 5, 2008
6November 20, 1982February 3, 200724 years, 75 daysOctober 10, 2009
5October 11, 2003March 9, 20139 years, 149 daysMarch 9, 2013
5February 19, 2000May 18, 201313 years, 88 daysMay 18, 2013
6February 23, 2008December 19, 20157 years, 299 daysMay 19, 2018
7January 14, 2006March 11, 201711 years, 56 daysMay 17, 2025
6October 1, 2011May 13, 20175 years, 224 daysDecember 6, 2025
5March 18, 2000May 20, 201717 years, 63 daysMay 20, 2017
5March 15, 2008November 3, 201810 years, 233 daysNovember 3, 2018
5May 14, 2005November 23, 201914 years, 193 daysNovember 23, 2019
5November 15, 2008December 18, 202113 years, 33 daysDecember 18, 2021
6April 14, 2018February 26, 20223 years, 318 daysNovember 2, 2024
5November 18, 1989February 25, 202333 years, 99 daysFebruary 25, 2023
5October 23, 2010December 2, 202313 years, 54 daysDecember 2, 2023
5May 11, 2013April 6, 202410 years, 330 daysApril 6, 2024
5December 6, 1986December 21, 202438 years, 15 daysDecember 21, 2024