Overview
- Saturday Night Live returned on Jan. 17 with Wolfhard hosting and A$AP Rocky making his performance debut.
- Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin crashed the monologue as Wolfhard joked about growing up on camera and shedding his child-star image.
- A pre-taped piece pitched tongue-in-cheek Stranger Things spinoffs and riffed on the online “mysterious ninth episode” theory, with Kenan Thompson popping up as Eleven.
- Viewers on social media praised the reunion but criticized another Trump-led cold open and a gag that played off Will Byers’ coming-out scene.
- Jimmy Fallon said he recommended Wolfhard to Lorne Michaels for hosting, and the actor continues lining up new work, including filming Crash Land and voicing the animated series New-Gen.