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Sabrina Carpenter pulled double duty and then some in her Saturday Night Live hosting debut this week, logging the most screen time since Jason Sudeikis hosted in Season 47.
Though new to hosting duties, she had appeared on the show three times before: as musical guest for the Season 49 finale, in a cameo during Season 50’s Quinta Brunson-hosted episode, and in SNL‘s 50th Anniversary Special in February, in which she performed alongside Paul Simon. (As it happens, her episode this week fell exactly 50 years to the day Paul Simon became the show’s first-ever double-duty host on October 18, 1975.)
Scroll down to see how Carpenter stacked up against each of the show’s named performers in a week that featured no celebrity cameos for the first time since May 2024.
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, goodnights, and cut-for-time sketches are not included, nor do those portions factor into our assessment of the episode’s total running time.
Sabrina Carpenter – 31:44 (50.3%)
The “Short n’ Sweet” singer dominated the night, appearing in the cold open, all five live sketches, two of three pre-tapes, and performed “Man Child” and “Nobody’s Son.” Her longest appearance (4:39) came in the “Boys Podcast” sketch following her monologue.
Ashley Padilla – 13:45 (21.8%)
Ashley Padilla is on a hot streak at SNL. Last week she turned in a career-high eight appearances, and this week she hit a new high in screen time. Padilla, only a second-year featured player, currently leads the entire cast in screen time (22:45) and appearances (16). She appeared in the recurring “Shop TV” sketch with Mikey Day in a role previously played by Heidi Gardner and Cecily Strong, joined Domingo’s “Kelsquad,” and was the star of the “Surprise” sketch.
Chloe Fineman – 07:38 (12.1%)
Fineman had her fifth-highest career screen time this week—her most since Sydney Sweeney hosted in Season 49. The seventh-year cast member has 75% more screen time than she did at this point last season.
Veronika Slowikowska – 07:27 (11.8%)
First-year featured player Slowikowska had her first breakout sketch playing one half of the singing washer/dryer duo with Carpenter. Her nearly seven and a half minutes of screen time was the most by a rookie since Emil Wakim in last season’s Jon Hamm episode. She currently leads the rookie class in screen time and is even beating out 23-season vet Kenan Thompson.
Colin Jost – 06:22 (10.1%)
Jost saw both “Update” correspondents roll their chairs to his side of the desk this week. When it comes to SNL screen time, he remains Mr. Consistency—now on an eleven-episode streak with five or more minutes in each.
Sarah Sherman – 06:14 (9.9%)
Sarah Sherman returned as the only remaining member of Domingo’s “Kelsquad” in the cold open, played it straight in the “Girl Boss Seminar” and “Surprise” sketches, and the terrifying cousin in the “Plans” pre-tape with Mikey Day. She hasn’t had an episode with under two minutes of screen time since the Jean Smart premiere of Season 50.
Andrew Dismukes – 06:02 (9.6%)
Dismukes continues to lead the men of the cast in live sketch screen time (13:50). He made a small appearance in the “Plans” pre-tape, voiced a caller in “Shop TV,” appeared alongside Ashley Padilla in “Appliance Store” and “Surprise,” and reprised his role as Matthew in the Domingo cold open.
Marcello Hernández – 05:22 (8.5%)
Hernández brought back two of his original characters that debuted and recurred in Season 50. His most famous character, Domingo, crashed the cold open, while The Movie Guy returned to “Weekend Update.” During his 15th appearance on “Update,” Marcello achieved a big milestone: four hours of career SNL screen time.
Mikey Day – 05:20 (8.4%)
Day appeared as the character Rhett for the fourth time in “Shop TV,” this time advertising Carpenter’s neck pillow. Each time Mikey Day has appeared as this character, he’s racked up at least four and a half minutes of screen time, accounting for some of his longest career appearances.
Jane Wickline – 04:29 (7.1%)
Wickline logged her third-longest SNL appearance (3:33) as one of the four teenage boy podcast hosts in the night’s first sketch. The second-year featured player continued to pick up momentum outside the “Update” desk this week, also appearing in “Grind Song” and “Social Experiment.”
Tommy Brennan – 03:55 (6.2%)
First-year featured player Brennan formally introduced himself to Studio 8H this week, making his “Weekend Update” debut. Devon Walker and Will Forte also made their “Update” debuts in their third episodes. He joked about growing up as one of eight kids in Minnesota in his tenth appearance of the season.
Ben Marshall – 03:46 (6.0%)
No stranger to SNL pre-tapes, Ben Marshall has now appeared in four out of six this season, playing Carpenter’s boyfriend in the thriller trailer “Plans.”
Michael Che – 03:07 (4.9%)
Che saw his lowest screen time in the past ten episodes, with both guests visiting Jost’s side of the desk. He’s averaged 4:15 over the past 150 episodes.
Kenan Thompson – 03:06 (4.9%)
In his 446th episode as an SNL cast member, Thompson turned in some solid supporting appearances, like Principal Atkins in “Grind Song” and the salesman in “Appliance Store.” He also had a walk-on appearance as himself, trying to get a Cameo from Sabrina Carpenter in her monologue.
Martin Herlihy – 02:34 (4.1%)
Please Don’t Destroy vet Herlihy returned to the screen chart this week in his own short film, “Social Experiment.” It was his 40th SNL appearance overall, and his first this season.
James Austin Johnson – 02:28 (3.9%)
JAJ had a quieter night than usual, with Domingo taking over the cold open. He did, however, appear as Donald Trump in the “Boys Podcast” sketch and followed that up with a 14-second appearance in “Shop TV,” the very next sketch—a 2-minute, 33-second quick change.
Bowen Yang – 01:35 (2.5%)
Yang may have spent his Saturday night on the opposite coast (only the second missed live episode of his SNL career), but he still made the stat sheet, leading the season’s first music video, “Grind Song,” with Sabrina Carpenter.
Jeremy Culhane – 01:25 (2.3%)
Culhane is still awaiting his breakout moment but is averaging four appearances per episode so far in his rookie campaign. His longest appearance of the night came as a backup dancer in Carpenter’s “Girl Boss Seminar” sketch.
Kam Patterson – 01:04 (1.7%)
Patterson finished at the bottom of the screen time report in Week 3, appearing for 39 seconds in “Grind Song” and 25 seconds in the ten-to-one pre-tape “Social Experiment.”
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