SNL Screen Time Report: Druski and The Strokes (S52 E5)

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Druski made Saturday Night Live history this weekend as the show’s first digital-content creator host, but his screen-time numbers looked more like those of a seasoned veteran. The first-timer led the night with 20:27, nearly matching the 20:36 logged by this coming week’s host, John Mulaney, when he last hosted in November 2024.

The cast got plenty of work, too. Collectively, its members logged 1:39:38 of screen time, the highest total since the Jon Hamm-hosted episode in April 2025 (1:41:55). Elsewhere, Jeremy Culhane set a new career high, Sarah Sherman shattered hers, and Kam Patterson slipped to the bottom of the Season 52 leaderboard.

Here’s how the numbers shook out for each of this week’s named performers:

Note: Our screen time calculation method prioritizes face time, meaning that any contiguous (off-screen but in-scene) moments and most partial body appearances do not count. Screen time in the opening credits, bumpers, and cut-for-time sketches is excluded, as are goodnights—with one exception: cameo guests who do not appear elsewhere in the episode are credited for their goodnights appearances. Those portions do not otherwise factor into our assessment of the episode’s total running time.

Inside the Numbers

Jeremy Culhane Keeps Raising His Ceiling
Second-year featured player Culhane continues to make his case as Season 52’s breakout cast member. His 11:11 this week shattered the career high of 9:35 he set in September’s Jalen Brunson-hosted premiere. Along the way, Culhane briefly reprised his JD Vance impression in the cold open (0:07) and debuted a new Elon Musk on “Weekend Update” (3:58).

That “Update” appearance and his 3:43 turn in “Proposal” now rank among the five longest individual appearances of Culhane’s SNL career. Through 25 episodes, he has averaged 4:08 of screen time per show—but over his last six, dating back to Will Ferrell’s Season 51 finale, that figure jumps to 7:17.

Andrew Dismukes Breaks Out of His Slump
Andrew Dismukes bounced back with 8:07 of screen time, his highest total in more than a year and the ninth-highest of his career. It followed a 12-episode stretch in which he averaged just 3:08 per show, down more than two minutes from the 5:20 he averaged across the first 12 episodes of Season 51.

His “Weekend Update” pairing with Ashley Padilla, “Two People Who Just Hooked Up,” returned for a third appearance, becoming Dismukes’ third character to recur at least twice.

Sarah Sherman Sets a New Career High
Sherman didn’t just return to her Season 50 form Saturday—she blew past it. Her 12:10 of screen time marked a new career high for the six-season SNLer, eclipsing the 10:38 she logged in the Charli XCX-hosted episode in November 2024. It was Sherman’s fifth career episode above 10 minutes.

She is now less than 15 minutes away from eight hours of career screen time, a mark her fellow Season 47 hire Johnson reached durin last month’s Shane Gillis-hosted episode.

Kam Patterson’s Slow Start Continues
The momentum Patterson built late in his rookie season has yet to carry over to Season 52. His appearance as a supposed Glee superfan during the supersized “Weekend Update” in the Dakota Johnson-hosted episode still accounts for more than 37% of his screen time this season. Outside of “Update,” Patterson has averaged just 31 seconds across 10 appearances.

This week he narrowly avoided the second shutout of his career by appearing in the night’s final sketch, “The Golden Age of Hip Hop,” but still finished below one minute for the ninth time in his career. On an ensemble-heavy night when every other cast member logged at least two minutes, Patterson was passed by rookie Saidah Belo-Osagie and fell to last place on the Season 52 screen-time leaderboard.

Jane Wickline Lands a Viral Showcase
Jane Wickline’s Elizabeth Holmes impression in Druski’s Nathan Fielder-inspired pretape, “Dru Can See Everything,” gave her 1:53 of screen time—her longest pretape appearance since “Tiny Baby Shoe” (2:53) in the Walton Goggins-hosted episode late in Season 50.

There was a bit of symmetry to the milestone: Goggins happened to be back in Studio 8H Saturday, making a cameo during the Strokes’ second musical performance. “Dru Can See Everything” also quickly became one of the season’s biggest online hits, surpassing five million YouTube views by Monday night, second only to the “Midterm Cold Open.”

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