By the nature of it being live, it's immediate and it's probably riskier,” Gasteyer says of SNL. “There's not a lot of time spent hand-wringing and wondering if someone's going to be offended.”

Live from New York, it wasn’t Martha Stewart. The domestic doyenne said her parole officer wouldn’t let her host “ Saturday Night Live ” after she got out of federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia, in 2005 after serving five months for lying about a stock trade.

Season 50 of “ Saturday Night Live ” premiered on September 28, 2024, with several returning cast members (and 3 unexpected departures), and SNL is set to conclude on May 17, 2025. So, who will be hosting the momentous season’s remaining episodes?