 | Wednesday December 24, 2025 | | | | |
| |  | | If The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was aiming to provoke Donald Trump by rerunning a monologue focused on his hosting of The Kennedy Center Honors shortly after the ceremony finished airing on CBS, the strategy paid off early Wednesday, with the president—apparently watching—lashing out at the host on social media in real time. | | | | | | | |
| |  | | First on LateNighter: Saturday's one-two punch of Ariana Grande's return and Bowen Yang's farewell notched SNL its best ratings numbers since Kamala Harris cameoed on the show three days before the 2020 election—and its highest-rated Christmas episode in five years. | | | | | | | |
| |  | | The numbers are in, and when it comes to YouTube success, it was hard to compete with Jon Stewart in 2025. | | | | | | | |
| |  | | SNL's alternate ending to Home Alone was apparently violent enough for NBC to add an additional flag to this weekend's episode for “intense violence”—and to age-restrict the video on YouTube. | | | | | | | |
| |  | | The late night legend's frustration with the annual tradition formed a running gag over his eleven-year run at NBC. | | | | | |
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| |  | | Who got the most and least screen time on last weekend's Ariana Grande-hosted SNL? LateNighter's Mike Murray and his trusty stopwatch have all the answers. | | | | | |
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| |  | | SNL writer Jimmy Fowlie is asking the public for help in locating his sister, Christina, who has been reported missing in Los Angeles. | | | | | |
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| |  | | Holy hangover, Batman! Newly released video shows Sabrina Carpenter and Seth Meyers taking 'Day Drinking' several steps further than what aired on TV. | | | | | | | |
| |  | | Punkie Johnson joins LateNighter's podcast partner the Saturday Night Network to discuss Bowen Yang's SNL departure and what it was like to work with him on the show. | | | | | |
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