Overview

• Season 51 premieres Oct. 4 with Bad Bunny hosting for the second time as Doja Cat makes her SNL musical-guest debut.
• Bad Bunny’s appearance will be his first time hosting without also serving as the episode’s main musical performer.
• On Oct. 11, alum Amy Poehler returns to host on the show’s 50th anniversary date, with Role Model making his musical-guest debut.
• Sabrina Carpenter will pull double duty on Oct. 18, marking her first time as host and second time performing on SNL.
• The new season airs live Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC and streams on Peacock, as the cast shifts with exits by Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner, Michael Longfellow, Devon Walker and Emil Wakim and the addition of featured players Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Ben Marshall, Kam Patterson and Veronika Slowikowska.