‘Saturday Night Live’ Hits 2-Year Viewership High With Host Druski

Cue in more digital creators hosting Saturday Night Live after Druski, the first online personality to emcee NBC’s venerable sketch comedy series, delivered the most watched episode in two years.

The Nov. 4 show, hosted by Druski with musical guest The Strokes, drew 5.6 million Live+Same Day viewers across NBC and Peacock, up from the then-season high 5.2 million mark set the previous week by Inde Navarrette with musical guest Gracie Abrams. That’s the largest audience since the Nov. 2, 2024 SNL episode — the last before the Presidential Election — hosted by John Mulaney with musical guest Chappell Roan, which delivered 6.8 million L+SD viewers.

Coincidentally, SNL alum Mulaney is back as host this Saturday with musical guest Phoebe Bridgers.

Druski brought his young fan base and social media prowess to SNL. In adults 18-49 demo, this was the highest rated episode in two years, going back to the same Nov. 2, 2024 show. But in adults 18-34, this was SNL‘s best delivery in over four years, dating back to May 8, 2021 with host Elon Musk and musical guest Miley Cyrus.

On social, the episode generated 424 million views as of Tuesday morning across YouTube, Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram and TikTok, the most since last December’s Ariana Grande-hosted episode. Additionally, the Druski-hosted SNL episode was the most watched ever on Peacock.

Saturday Night Live is produced in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels.