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Druski becomes the first online creator to host Saturday Night Live (4 min), with captions The story Druski hosted Saturday Night Live on November 7th, 202...

Druski becomes the first online creator to host Saturday Night Live (4 min), with captions The story Druski hosted Saturday Night Live on November 7th, 2026, becoming the first person in the show's fifty-two seasons whose fame was built online to deliver its monologue. The Strokes were the musical guest. Before him, every host had come from acting, music, sport or stand-up. Druski is Drew Desbordes, a comedian from Maryland who built his audience through sketch characters and parody series rather than a studio or the club circuit. He arrived with 15.6 million TikTok followers, 13.7 million on Instagram and 6 million YouTube subscribers. A single sketch, the first episode of Coulda Been Love, has 24 million views. The booking reflects where the show's audience now lives. Saturday Night Live's television numbers this season were 4.61 million for the premiere, 4.42 million on October 10th and a season-best 5.16 million on Halloween. Its YouTube channel, by contrast, reached 38.6 million unique people in the first half of 2025, the largest reach of any American YouTube channel, ahead of ABC News at 33.3 million and Netflix at 27.8 million. The show still originates from Studio 8H inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where it has been since 1975, with Lorne Michaels producing almost every season. Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock appeared at the goodnights. Reviews were mixed: The AV Club graded the episode a C-plus, with its critic calling Druski consistently impressive in front of a live camera while finding the likability gave way to a certain thinness. Nielsen viewership for the November 7th episode had not been published at the time of reporting. The show's YouTube channel has 17.5 million subscribers and drew 462 million views in the four weeks to November 8th, with 21.04 billion lifetime views. Highlights Highlight In pictures Listen The episode as audio