Zohran Mamdani (Ramy Youssef), Andrew Cuomo (Miles Teller) and Curtis Sliwa (Shane Gillis) debate against each other in the race to become New York City's next mayor.That's an all-star cast of candidates and they plus the writers certainly captured the spirit of the contest. I don't agree with Sliwa on much, but he and I have the same bagel order, minus the garbage can. On the other hand, who do the writers think Sliwa is, a luckier Jimmy Hoffa? On the gripping hand, I watched parts of the actual debates and Mamdani impressed me as being most on top of the issues. That's something one would expect about Cuomo, but he's coasting on name recognition. Of course, it wouldn't be an SNL political skit without Donald "Hoover Cleveland" Trump crashing the party. At least it gave James Austin Johnson a chance to sing and add some Halloween content with his Phantom of the Opera impression on top of his Trump impression.
Hoover Cleveland returns as the subject of Weekend Update: Trump's Tone-Deaf Bathroom Remodel, S.N.A.P. Benefits.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like Trump rating his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping a "12 out of 10".At least he provided more Halloween content, even if it showed, as Colin Jost said, evidence that he never trick-or-treated in his life. He also demonstrated how innumerate he is. No wonder his businesses filed for bankruptcy six times.
The news portion took a break for interviews with Weekend Update: Two People Who Just Hooked Up Discuss the Government Shutdown.
Two People Who Just Hooked Up (Andrew Dismukes, Ashley Padilla) stop by Weekend Update to discuss the government shutdown.The comments are all about their chemistry and I agree. Too bad that won't work for the actual members of Congress. Speaking of whom, Bowen Yang returned as George Santos on the New York City Marathon.
George Santos (Bowen Yang) stops by Weekend Update to discuss the New York City Marathon and how prison changed him.As I last wrote in A closer look at Suozzi winning Santos's former seat and Mayorkas impeachment, "George Santos — that's a name I was hoping never to write about again," but Hoover Cleveland commuted his sentence. That put him back in the news, making another prediction of mine continue to come true: "George Santos will be a great inspiration for comedy as long as he stays in the news."
The news portion of Weekend Update returned and concluded with Prince Andrew Loses Royal Titles, Special Olympics Slam Kid Rock for Using Slur.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news, like a study finding that childhood peanut allergies are on the decline due to early exposure to peanuts.The items about Kid Rock and Wicked alone qualified this as the Sunday entertainment feature, but follow over the jump for the rest of last night's show plus the rest of SNL's Emmy Awards, which will cement that status.
SNL continued making fun of the news in Newsroom.
News anchors (Chloe Fineman, Kenan Thompson) keep getting interrupted while on air.Yes, the economy is concerning, and Che and Colin didn't cover it. That written, they can't have all the fun!
Miles Teller and James Austin Johnson both returned in White House Makeover.
The Property Brothers (Miles Teller) help Donald and Melania Trump (James Austin Johnson, Chloe Fineman) renovate the White House.Yep, Hoover Cleveland would stiff the Property Brothers by deporting them.
Last night's show was a great one with more funny clips, but it's time for me to finish some leftover business from last month, SNL50: The Anniversary Special's eight Emmy awards to cover.
By the time of the awards ceremony, all the experts, 90.9% of editors, and 92.3% of users consolidated around SNL50: The Anniversary Special. The remaining 9.1% of editors stuck with last year's winner, The Oscars. The crowd turned out to be correct. Watch Variety Special (Live): 77th Emmy Awards.Outstanding Variety Special (Live)SNL50: The Anniversary Special leads with 13 nominations, followed by its companion special SNL50: The Homecoming Concert and last year's winner The Oscars tied at six, then The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé Bowl tied at four. The prognosticators at Gold Derby agree that SNL50: The Anniversary Special has the lead, as 93.3% of experts, 83.3% of editors, and 89.8% of users have picked it to win. The 6.7% of users along with the same percentage of experts are enough to push Beyoncé Bowl into second, while 1.8% of users is holding The Oscars down despite 16.7% of editors expecting the movie awards ceremony to repeat. I'd go with the editors myself. The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar and SNL50: The Homecoming Concert trail with 1.0% and 0.6% respectively.
- The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar (Fox)
- Beyoncé Bowl (Netflix)
- The Oscars (ABC)
- SNL50: The Anniversary Special (NBC)
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert (Peacock)
Lorne Michaels accepts the Emmy for Variety Special (Live) for SNL50: The Anniversary Special at the 77th Emmy Awards.Congratulations to Lorne Michaels and the cast, crew, and guests of SNL!
The announcer listed all of the awards SNL50: The Anniversary Special had already won, so I'm going through those, too.
I called it. Watch Emerging Media Program: 2025 Creative Arts.Outstanding Emerging Media ProgramI'm picking SNL 50th The Anniversary Special: Immersive Experience simply because the other nominees will have a hard time overcoming a celebration of television. Electorates matter.
- Impulse: Playing with Reality (Meta)
- Shawn Mendes: Red Rocks Live in VR (Meta Quest)
- SNL 50th The Anniversary Special: Immersive Experience (Meta Quest)
The team from SNL 50th The Anniversary Special: Immersive Experience accepts the Emmy for Emerging Media Program at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.Congratulations on winning a second program award, especially one that demonstrates that we live in science fiction times. As my friend Nebris says, "SciFi is now!"
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert remained in first with 66.7% of both experts and editors, and 67.7% of users picking it overSNL50: The Anniversary Special, which had 33.3% of experts and 19.2% of users supporting it. The remaining 33.3% of editors along with 2.1% of users chose The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar. Gold Derby's second choice won. Watch Directing For A Variety Special: 2025 Creative Arts.Outstanding Directing for a Variety SpecialGold Derby's odds for the Creative Arts Emmy Awards have SNL50: The Homecoming Concert in first with 57.1% of experts, 75.0% of editors, and 65.3% of users picking it overSNL50: The Anniversary Special, which has the support of 28.6% of experts and 18.8% of users. The professionals and users are split over the next two, with 9.9% of users choosing Beyoncé Bowl, while 14.3% of experts and 25.0% of editors, but only 2.8% of users, voting for The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar. The Oscars, last year's winner, trails with 2.3% of users and 77th Annual Tony Awards brings up the rear with only 0.9% of users.
- The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Starring Kendrick Lamar – Hamish Hamilton (Fox)
- Beyoncé Bowl – Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Alex Rudzinski (Netflix)
- The Oscars – Hamish Hamilton (ABC)
- SNL50: The Anniversary Special – Liz Patrick (NBC)
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert – Beth McCarthy Miller (Peacock)
- 77th Annual Tony Awards – Glenn Weiss (CBS)
Liz Patrick from SNL50: The Anniversary Special accepts the Emmy for Directing For A Variety Special at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.Congratulations to Liz Patrick and at least some of the prognosticators at Gold Derby.
Patrick thanked the writers, so it's only appropriate that they're next.
By the time of the awards, every expert, 66.7% of the editors, and 88.9% of users were picking SNL50: The Anniversary Special. The remaining editors split between Conan O'Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and Your Friend, Nate Bargatze with 16.7% each. The experts called it. Watch Writing For A Variety Special: 2025 Creative Arts.At least one more expert has picked SNL50: The Anniversary Special over Conan O'Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to as the former is now the choice of 85.7% of experts compared to 14.3% for the latter, which is benefiting from users shifting their votes from lower ranking nominees, as it now has 7.9% of users picking it. In contrast, user support for Cunk on Life, Your Friend, Nate Bargatze, and Sarah Silverman: PostMortem has declined to 4.9%, 2.5%, and 0.5%, respectively.Outstanding Writing for a Variety SpecialSNL50: The Anniversary Special would definitely win a game of "one of these things is not like the others" in this field, as it's the only live variety special and non-Netflix show nominated. The prognosticators at Gold Derby think it will win the award, too, as 83.3% of experts, 75% of editors, and 84.1% of users have picked it. Conan O'Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor sits in second with the support of 16.7% of experts, 25% of editors, and 6.0% of users, followed by Cunk on Life with 5.6% of users, Your Friend, Nate Bargatze with 2.8%, and Sarah Silverman: PostMortem with 1.6%. Note that the writing teams rank higher than the solo writer-performers.
- Conan O'Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor – Jon Macks, Chris Convy, Lauren Greenberg, Skyler Higley, Ian Karmel and Sean O'Connor (Netflix)
- Cunk on Life – Charlie Brooker, Ben Caudell, Erika Ehler, Charlie George, Eli Goldstone, Jason Hazeley, Lucia Keskin, Diane Morgan, Joel Morris and Michael Odewale (Netflix)
- Sarah Silverman: PostMortem – Sarah Silverman (Netflix)
- SNL50: The Anniversary Special – James Anderson, Dan Bulla, Megan Callahan-Shah, Michael Che, Mikey Day, Mike DiCenzo, James Downey, Tina Fey, Jimmy Fowlie, Alison Gates, Sudi Green, Jack Handey, Steve Higgins, Colin Jost, Erik Kenward, Dennis McNicholas, Seth Meyers, Lorne Michaels, John Mulaney, Jake Nordwind, Ceara O'Sullivan, Josh Patten, Paula Pell, Simon Rich, Pete Schultz, Streeter Seidell, Emily Spivey, Kent Sublette, Bryan Tucker and Auguste White (NBC)
- Your Friend, Nate Bargatze – Nate Bargatze (Netflix)
The team from SNL50: The Anniversary Special accepts the Emmy for Writing For A Variety Special at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.The writers are just as funny sharing their own material as when someone else speaks it.
As predicted, it won: Hairstyling For A Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program: 2025 Creative Arts.Outstanding Hairstyling for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program (Juried)This was the category I left out of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' leads nominations for Outstanding Reality Competition Program, but 'The Traitors' will likely win again when I examined competition show nominees, which is why I'm illustrating it with a promotional Twitter/X image for Dancing with the Stars. That written, SNL is last year's winner, so I think SNL50: The Anniversary Special is the favorite.
- American Idol: "Finale" – Dean Banowetz, Amber Maher, Cory Rotenberg, Ryan Randall, Kathleen Leonard, Theresa K. Casillas, Lorenzo Martin, and Jayson Stacy (ABC)
- The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: "Welcome to Hell" – Marco Gabellini (Shudder)
- Dancing with the Stars: "Halloween Nightmares" – Kimi Messina, Joe Matke, Marion Rogers, Amber Maher, Florence Witherspoon, Brittany Spaulding, and Melanie Ervin (ABC)
- Fantasmas: "The Void" – Amber Jasmin Morrow, Allison Imoto-Suh, and Naomi Indira (HBO)
- SNL50: The Anniversary Special – Jodi Mancuso, Cara Hannah, Inga Thrasher, Amanda Duffy Evans, Chad Harlow, Gina Ferrucci, Brittany Hartman, and Katie Beatty (NBC)
- The Voice: "Live Semi-Final Performances" – Jerilynn Stephens, Darbie Wieczorek, Marion Rogers, Kathleen Leonard, Dominique Diaz, and Conrad Hilton (NBC)
The team from SNL50: The Anniversary Special accepts the Emmy for Hairstyling For A Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.I can tell this was on cable.
And it did. Watch Technical Direction And Camerawork For A Special: 2025 Creative Arts.Outstanding Technical Direction and Camerawork for a SpecialSNL proper won the series award last year, so that might transfer over to SNL50: The Anniversary Special.
- Bono: Stories of Surrender – Erik Messerschmidt, Mark Goellnicht, Brian S. Osmond, Vince Vennitti, Charles Libin, Christine Kapo Ng, Richard Rutkowski, and Luke McCoubrey (Apple TV+)
- An Evening with Dua Lipa – Nick Kauffman, Lincoln Abraham, Gareth Beeson, John Clarke, Alex Dodd, Curtis Dunne, Dave Emery, Dave Evans, Ben Frewin, Lisha Gilbert, Matt Gladstone, Dom Jackson, Rob Mansfield, Ali Miller, James Neal, Sophie Penwill, Mark Sayers, Alan Wells, and Shaun Willis (CBS)
- An Evening with Elton John & Brandi Carlile – Dan Winterburn, Bill Ashworth, Curtis Dunne, Alex Dodd, Ben Frewin, Sam Keogh, Marcus Leon Soon, Lewis Mutongwizo, Mark Sayers, Andre Seraille, Carl Veckranges, Shaun Willis, and Alan Wells (CBS)
- The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl – Brandon Smith, Tim Farmer, Jofre Rosero, David Rudd, George Prince, Karin Pelloni, Rob Palmer, Bobby Delrusso, Rob Vuona, Austin Rock, John Perry, Adam Margolis, Danny Bonilla, and Danny Webb (Disney+)
- 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony – Eric Becker, Danny Bonilla, Kary D'Alessandro, Dave Driscoll, Curtis Eastwood, David Eastwood, Nathanial Havholm, Jeff Johnson, Zachariah Jones, Jay Kulick, Dave Levisohn, Adam Margolis, Rob Palmer, Tim Quigley, Jofre Rosero, David Rudd, Chad Smith, Matt Trujillo, Easter Xua, Tom Zaleski, and Jeremy Freeman (ABC)
- SNL50: The Anniversary Special – Bill DiGiovanni, John Pinto, Paul Cangialosi, Anthony Tarantino, Dave Driscoll, Brian Phraner, Daniel Erbeck, Michael Knarre, Anthony Lenzo, Ansel Nunez, and Rick Fox (NBC)
The team from SNL50: The Anniversary Special accepts the Emmy for Outstanding Technical Direction And Camerawork For A Special at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.I completely missed that Bono: Stories of Surrender was also an Emmy nominee in Music film nominees at the 2025 Critics Choice Documentary Awards. I don't know if that changes my assessment of the likely winner for Best Music Documentary, but I should have caught it. Also, congratulations!
And it did. Watch Picture Editing For Variety Programming (Segment): 2025 Creative Arts.Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming (Segment)The Daily Show won this award last year and would normally be my pick to repeat. The fly in the ointment is that both The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver have two nominations each, so they run the risk of vote splitting, and the sentiment is likely to be with SNL's 50th anniversary specials, which I think will win this award.
- The Daily Show: "The Dailyshowography of Kamala Harris: Just Normal" – Lauren Beckett Jackson (Comedy Central)
- The Daily Show: "The Dailyshowography of Stephen Miller: What He Does in the Shadows" – Storm Choi (Comedy Central)
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: "Facebook Content Moderation" – Anthony Miale (HBO)
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: "That Stuff's American" – Ryan Barger (HBO)
- SNL50: The Anniversary Special: "Physical Comedy" – Ryan Spears, Paul Del Gesso, Christopher Salerno, Daniel Garcia, Sean McIlraith, and Ryan McIlraith (NBC)
The team from SNL50: The Anniversary Special accepts the Emmy for Picture Editing For Variety Programming at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.I can think of two more recent credits for Mikey Day than Angel, EMA, Emmy, and TCA winner Abbott Elementary and Emmy nominee and Razzie winner Unfrosted. File that under facts I learned because of blogging. At least he got to announce his college's in the editing room winning.
I examined the final category in 'RuPaul's Drag Race' leads nominations for Outstanding Reality Competition Program, but 'The Traitors' will likely win again.I was wrong. Watch Sound Mixing For A Variety Series Or Special: 2025 Creative Arts.Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or SpecialMy standard take on sound categories is that music nominees have the advantage, so it's between The 67th Annual Grammy Awards and SNL50: The Homecoming Concert with the latter favored because it's a celebration of television. Electorates matter.
- The Daily Show: "Jon Stewart and the News Team Live at the Chicago DNC" – John Neroulas and Patrick Weaver (Comedy Central)
- The 67th Annual Grammy Awards – Thomas Holmes, John Harris, Eric Schilling, Jamie Pollock, Jeffrey Michael Peterson, Michael Parker, Andres Arango, Juan Pablo Velasco, Aaron Walk, Christian Schrader, Eric Johnston, and Doug Wingert (CBS)
- The Oscars – Paul Sandweiss, Tommy Vicari, Steve Genewick, Tom Pesa, Biff Dawes, Pablo Munguia, Kristian Pedregon, Patrick Baltzell, Michael Parker, Christian Schrader, and John Perez (ABC)
- SNL50: The Anniversary Special – Robert Palladino, Ezra Matychak, Frank Duca, Doug Nightwine, Christopher Costello, Caroline Sanchez, Josiah Gluck, Jay Vicari, Tyler McDiarmid, Geoff Countryman, Devin Emke, and Teng Chen (NBC)
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert – Thomas Holmes, Christian Schrader, Eric Schilling, Lawrence Manchester, Dan Gerhard, Jason Crystal, Jamie Pollock, Juan Pablo Velasco, Anthony Lalumia, Mike Bové, Cesar Benitez, Talia Krause, and Al Theurer (Peacock)
The team from SNL50: The Anniversary Special accepts the Emmy for Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Variety Series Or Special at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.The sound mixers and engineers were better prepared and organized than some of the other winners. They certainly were better prepared for their win that I was!
I called this category. Watch Makeup For A Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program: 2025 Creative Arts.Outstanding Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality ProgramSNL is the last year's winner, but SNL50: The Anniversary Special earned the nomination instead, so it's my pick to win. RuPaul's Drag Race, also a previous winner, will have a hard time overcoming a celebration of television. Electorates matter.
- The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: "Welcome to Hell" – The Boulet Brothers (Shudder)
- Dancing with the Stars: "Halloween Nightmares" – Zena S. Green, Julie Socash, Donna Bard, Lois Harriman, Brian Sipe, James MacKinnon, Tyson Fountaine, and Angela Moos (ABC)
- The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl – Bruce Grayson, Jill Cady, Brielle McKenna, James MacKinnon, Rochelle Uribe, Tyson Fountaine, and Angela Wells (Disney)
- A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter – Diana Oh, Vanessa Dionne, Alicia Carbajal, Ashley Joy Beck, and Carolina Gonzalez (Netflix)
- RuPaul's Drag Race: "Bitch, I'm a Drag Queen!" – Natasha Marcelina, David Petruschin, Jen Fregozo, and Nicole Faulkner (MTV)
- SNL50: The Anniversary Special – Louie Zakarian, Jason Milani, Amy Tagliamonti, Rachel Pagani, Young Bek, Stephen Kelley, and Joanna Pisani (NBC)
The team from SNL50: The Anniversary Special accepts the Emmy for Makeup For A Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.Congratulations!
That's a wrap for today. I might cover the rest of the variety special Emmy awards in the next installment. Stay tuned.
Previous posts about the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards
- No PSAs among nominees for Outstanding Commercial plus winners for Outstanding Promotional Announcement at the Emmy Awards
- 'I Am: Celine Dion,' 'Patrice: The Movie,' and 'The Remarkable Life of Ibelin,' Emmy nominees for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
- 'Asia' and 'The Americas' lead nature documentaries at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards
- 'Pee-wee as Himself' vs. 'Will & Harper' for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special on Tequila Day
- '100 Foot Wave' leads Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series in nominations, but could lose to 'SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night'
- 'The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: MAGA: The Next Generation' plus the Emmy nominees for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special
- Emmy nominee 'Desi Lydic Foxsplains the Epstein Files' plus the rest of the short form nominees at the Emmy Awards
- John Oliver examines 'Gang Databases' plus 'Last Week Tonight's six Emmy nominations
- Colbert, Lydic, and Meyers take closer looks at the EPA and Epstein and Kimmel goes down the rabbit hole on 'windmills'
- 'Jeopardy!' favored to win Game Show categories at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards
- 'Welcome to Wrexham' vs. 'Love on the Spectrum' for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program at the Emmy Awards
- 'Shark Tank' vs. 'Queer Eye' for Outstanding Structured Reality Program at the Emmy Awards
- 'RuPaul's Drag Race' leads nominations for Outstanding Reality Competition Program, but 'The Traitors' will likely win again
- 'Arcane' leads Gold Derby odds to win Outstanding Animated Program at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards
- 'Rebel Ridge' leads Gold Derby odds to win Outstanding Television Movie at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards
- Nate Bargatze vs. Conan O'Brien for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) at the Emmys
- 'Saturday Night Live' earned seven Emmy nominations for its 50th season
- 'SNL50: The Anniversary Special' leads nominees for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) at the Emmys
- 'Arcane,' 'Love, Death + Robots,' and 'Octopus!' already Emmy Award winners
- Gold Derby's predictions for guest actors and actresses at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards
- Gold Derby's predictions for title design and music at the Emmy Awards
- Gold Derby's predictions for casting at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards
- 'The Penguin' has already won 8 Emmys, but could lose to 'Adolescence'
- 'The Studio' wins 9 Emmy Awards and could win up to 6 more
- 'Severance' already won six Emmy Awards and could win up to five more
- 'Jeopardy!' and Jimmy Kimmel win Game Show categories at the Emmy Awards
- 'Adolescence' sweeps its categories at the Emmy Awards with one win for 'The Penguin'
- 'Arcane' and 'Love, Death & Robots' both earn four Emmy Awards
- 'The Studio' wins four more Emmy Awards for a total of thirteen
- Colbert and Meyers take closer looks at ABC suspending Kimmel
- 'The Daily Show' reacts to ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel
- John Oliver examines Jimmy Kimmel & the FCC after winning two Emmy Awards
- 'The Pitt' edges 'Severance' for Outstanding Drama Series at the Emmy Awards
- Three shows with Conan O'Brien win Emmys
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting receives Governors Award at Creative Arts Emmys
- 'SNL' mocks Hegseth addressing generals and government shutdown upon its return
- 'Brian Cox Goes to College - Uber One for Students' wins Emmy for Outstanding Commercial
- Emmy Awards for 'The Traitors' and 'Queer Eye' for a late Coming Out Day
- 'Love on the Spectrum' and 'Welcome to Wrexham' both Emmy winners for a late National Sports Day
- Celebrating 'Patrice: The Movie' winning an Emmy for a late Sweetest Day
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