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SNL Season 49: Top 5 Most-Watched Live & Pretaped Sketches Revealed

With the season wrapped and the numbers counted, SNL released a rundown of the Top 5 most-watched live and pretaped sketches from Season 49.

If you had a chance to check out our update earlier this week (more on that in a minute), then you know that plans are already coming together in terms of celebrating the 50th season of NBC's Saturday Night Live – and rightfully so. Think about it. How many live, late-night sketch comedy/music series can you think of that have been around for a half-century? And how many times was the show's "imminent demise" predicted by the press – with that painfully unoriginal "Saturday Night Dead" stinking up a headline? But even as the spotlight shines on what's to come beginning this fall, SNL is doing a little clean-up when it comes to the recently-wrapped Season 49. For this go-around, we're getting a look at what the top live and pretaped sketches were – and while the top live sketch may not be much of a surprise, we didn't really see the top pretaped sketch coming (and one pretaped sketch that made the cut was actually a Cut for Time sketch). Here's a look at the rundown…

SNL Season 49 Top 5 Most-Watched Live Sketches: (5) "HR Meeting" (February 24, 2024), (4) "Hooters Waitress" (March 2, 2024), (3) "Protective Mom 2" (October 21, 2023), (2) "Washington's Dream" (October 28, 2023), and (1) "Beavis and Butt-Head" (April 13, 2024):

SNL Season 49 Top 5 Most-Watched Pretaped Sketches: (5) "Limu Emu & Doug" (February 24, 2024), (4) "Old Friends" (December 9, 2023), (3) "Trump Sneakers" (February 24, 2024), (2) "Papyrus 2" (April 13, 2024), and (1) "I'm Just Pete" (October 14, 2023):

Saturday Night Live Season 50 & EP Lorne Michaels

Last month, the word went out regarding early plans to celebrate the milestone 50th season of Saturday Night Live. The network confirmed that there will be a "celebratory weekend" that wraps up on Sunday, February 16th (from 8-11 p.m. ET), with a live, primetime special. Now, thanks to an interview he had with The New York Times at the end of the most recent season, we're learning some additional details on what's ahead – as well as EP Lorne Michaels's thoughts on those rumblings about his retiring after Season 50.

Along with the primetime special on February 16th, music producer Mark Ronson and Michaels will produce a "homecoming" of sorts at Radio City Music Hall on the Friday of that weekend. In addition, it was noted that musician and producer Questlove (The Roots) is co-producing a documentary for the anniversary season spotlighting the impact that SNL had had on music and culture, and Morgan Neville (Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces, Won't You Be My Neighbor) is producing five documentaries focusing on both Michaels and the long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series. As for those rumblings that the 50th anniversary will also be his last hurrah, Michaels is basing that decision on how he's feeling and not committing to anything. "I'm going to do it as long as I feel I can do it," he shared. "But I rely on other people and always have."

NBC's Saturday Night Live Season 49 company includes Michael Che, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Marcello Hernandez, James Austin Johnson, Punkie Johnson, Colin Jost, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, Kenan Thompson, Chloe Troast, Devon Walker, and Bowen Yang. SNL is executive-produced by Lorne Michaels, with Liz Patrick directing and SNL alum Darrell Hammond announcing. Broadcasting from Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, the long-running late-night sketch comedy/music series is produced by SNL Studios in association with Universal Television and Broadway Video.

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