Overview
- Season 51, Episode 7 aired live Dec. 6 on NBC and Peacock with McCarthy hosting and Dijon performing.
- McCarthy marked her sixth stint with a holiday-leaning monologue featuring a faux snow deluge and her comic “mouth horn.”
- Critics highlighted the “UPS delivery driver” sketch and praised McCarthy’s character work as one of Season 51’s strongest outings.
- The cold open brought back Colin Jost as Pete Hegseth in a White House press conference, with James Austin Johnson as a dozing President Trump.
- Dijon delivered his first SNL performances, and NBC set the remaining December lineup: Josh O’Connor/Lily Allen on Dec. 13 and Ariana Grande/Cher on Dec. 20.