Saturday Night Live

1975– · 52 seasons · 1013 episodes · Comedy, Music

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

8.0IMDb · 58k votes

Best season: 7.3; Season 3. Weakest is season 52, at 5.1
Top episode: 8.9; S35 E21 · Betty White/Jay-Z
Lowest episode: 3.1; S41 E4 · Donald Trump/Sia
Latest episode: 4.5; −2.1 against the show's 6.6 average

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IMDb rating of every Saturday Night Live episode, by season and episode number
	Episode 1	Episode 2	Episode 3	Episode 4	Episode 5	Episode 6	Episode 7	Episode 8	Episode 9	Episode 10	Episode 11	Episode 12	Episode 13	Episode 14	Episode 15	Episode 16	Episode 17	Episode 18

Season 1	7.3	6.2	6.8	7.0	6.5	6.9	8.3	6.9	6.9	7.5	7.2	6.4	6.9	7.1	7.2	7.0	7.1	6.9	7.7	6.4	7.2	7.5	5.2	6.7
Season 2	6.9	6.9	7.7	6.2	7.4	7.4	6.5	7.4
Season 3	7.6	6.5	6.2	7.2	7.7	7.1	7.2	7.4
Season 4	7.4	7.2	6.4	7.8	6.8	8.0	7.1	7.7
Season 5	7.6	7.4	6.1	6.8	6.2	6.3	7.3	5.8
Season 6	5.9	5.1	6.1	6.1	5.9	5.5	6.0
Season 7	6.4	6.0	6.8	6.5	6.1	6.5	6.5	6.5
Season 8	7.7	7.1	7.5	7.1	6.6	6.2	7.0	6.7
Season 9	6.1	6.2	6.3	6.1	6.0	6.0	5.6	6.2
Season 10	6.2	6.2	5.9	6.8	7.2	6.9	5.6	6.4
Season 11	6.0	6.0	6.0	6.5	6.4	5.7	5.9	5.7
Season 12	7.8	6.0	6.2	6.3	7.6	7.6	6.4	7.7
Season 13	7.1	5.8	6.9	5.8	5.9	5.8	5.8	6.1
Season 14	7.0	6.1	6.3	6.2	6.0	6.3	6.1	6.5
Season 15	6.4	6.0	6.0	6.0	6.5	6.2	6.4	6.5
Season 16	7.4	6.5	6.2	7.9	5.9	6.2	7.1	7.2
Season 17	7.5	7.0	6.6	7.4	7.2	7.6	7.3	5.1
Season 18	6.5	6.7	6.4	7.5	6.6	7.1	5.4	6.1
Season 19	7.4	6.6	6.5	6.5	6.8	4.9	6.7	6.3
Season 20	7.3	6.7	7.5	6.8	5.9	6.4	6.6	7.2
Season 21	6.9	6.6	6.2	6.7	6.8	5.9	6.6	6.6
Season 22	5.1	5.7	5.5	6.4	5.0	6.5	6.3	6.3
Season 23	7.2	6.5	5.8	7.0	6.1	5.5	6.0	6.3
Season 24	6.9	5.8	7.4	6.3	5.8	5.6	5.9	5.8
Season 25	7.4	6.4	7.5	6.1	6.1	6.6	6.2	6.1
Season 26	6.4	6.9	5.8	4.6	4.9	5.0	6.4	5.7
Season 27	6.7	6.9	5.6	5.5	5.9	5.0	6.4	6.8
Season 28	6.1	6.3	5.5	4.9	4.7	5.6	5.5	6.2
Season 29	5.8	7.4	5.3	5.1	5.0	5.9	3.7	6.4
Season 30	6.8	5.0	6.3	5.9	5.9	5.8	6.1	6.0
Season 31	6.7	5.4	6.4	5.0	6.3	6.3	5.2	6.2
Season 32	5.7	5.5	6.5	7.3	7.4	5.8	7.1	6.5
Season 33	6.7	7.2	7.0	7.3	7.7	7.0	7.2	6.7
Season 34	5.7	6.8	6.5	7.6	7.4	7.4	6.8	7.7
Season 35	6.3	7.1	6.3	6.9	7.1	4.9	7.2	6.6
Season 36	7.4	6.9	6.5	7.3	6.9	6.5	7.0	6.2
Season 37	7.4	7.5	7.1	6.2	7.1	7.5	7.4	6.8
Season 38	7.8	7.0	6.2	6.7	7.4	7.3	7.4	6.7
Season 39	7.5	6.6	6.5	7.1	7.4	7.5	7.3	7.3
Season 40	6.7	6.8	8.1	7.6	6.4	7.3	6.2	6.5
Season 41	6.3	6.8	7.5	3.1	6.9	7.3	7.9	6.6
Season 42	7.6	7.5	6.5	8.0	6.6	8.3	6.7	7.1
Season 43	7.1	6.8	7.1	6.7	6.5	6.9	6.7	7.0
Season 44	6.6	5.4	6.3	6.4	6.8	6.6	6.4	6.6
Season 45	6.8	7.2	7.0	7.2	5.9	6.9	7.5	6.0
Season 46	6.4	6.8	5.8	7.2	6.9	7.2	6.5	7.1
Season 47	6.5	5.4	7.2	7.5	6.9	6.4	6.7	7.2
Season 48	5.9	6.1	5.0	6.2	5.7	6.8	6.5	7.7
Season 49	6.4	5.3	7.6	6.9	6.3	6.5	7.1	7.5
Season 50	6.3	7.3	7.6	6.9	7.4	6.0	6.5	6.7
Season 51	5.1	6.2	6.3	6.9	6.5	7.3	6.6	5.9
Season 52	5.4	5.3	4.5

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