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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

SNL Ratings Slip / Fallon Preps Wordle Pilot / Kimmel Revels in Trump Poll

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Tuesday October 07, 2025

Ratings Slip for SNL Season 51 Debut, But Demo Tops Since January

Bad Bunny SNL goodnights
First on LateNighter: SNL kicked off its 51st season this weekend with 4.4 million total viewers, a 24% decline from last year’s season premiere.

Jimmy Fallon Producing Wordle Game Show Pilot for NBC

Jimmy Fallon, Wordle
Jimmy Fallon has a five-letter word for NBC: "pilot."

Jimmy Kimmel Trolls Trump Over Popularity Poll

Jimmy Kimmel poll
Jimmy Kimmel is more popular than the President, according to a new poll—but as Kimmel pointed out in his Monday night monologue, so are “Diddy and diarrhea.”

Jimmy Fallon Staged His Own 'TAY/Kover' Monday Night

Taylor Swift, Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers may be calling Taylor Swift’s Wednesday visit a “TAY/kover,” but Jimmy Fallon arguably beat his lead-out to the punch, delivering a full 50 minutes with the pop superstar Monday night.

Inside Late Night: Jon Glaser on Missing SNL, Finding Conan, and Loving the Weird

Jon Glaser
This week on our Inside Late Night podcast, Jon Glaser joins Mark Malkoff for a funny and surprisingly tender look back at his years with Conan O’Brien—what he learned, what he risked, and why absurdity still feels like home.

Bad Bunny / Doja Cat SNL Roundtable with Punkie Johnson - S51 E1

SNL Roundtable - Bad Bunny / Doja Cat
Former SNL cast member Punkie Johnson joined the Saturday Night Network’s weekly roundtable podcast Monday night

Around the web:

Kimmel Grills Aziz Ansari Over Riyadh Comedy Festival Appearance
Ansari spent nearly half of his first late-night appearance since 2017 defending his decision to play the Saudi state-sponsored event.

Sherri Shepard Sounds Alarm on SNL Casting ‘Emergency’
“There are no Black women on SNL,” Shepard noted on her show Monday. “So, what I say to SNL, y’all got to hurry up and you got to find somebody… It is an emergency.” [via The Daily Beast]
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