Bad Bunny cheers in response to Super Bowl 2026. Halftime reaction during the Saturday Night Live monologue.
Live from New York, there are actually a lot of people there.
Some 500-plus famous faces took to the stage at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City to celebrate Saturday Night Live for more than 50 seasons since its debut on October 11, 1975, and the true elite have been collecting their velvet five-timer jacket. (More recently, Martin Short joined the coveted club in December last year, celebration with a comedy showother frequent flyers such as Melissa McCarthy, Emma Stone, Christian wig, Tina Fey And Tom Hanks.)
But it takes more than just fame to get a chance to walk out the doors of Studio 8H.
Just ask Travis Kelsey who had to fuss hard to win your hosting gig in 2023.
As a proud Kansas City native and now a former actor Heidi Gardner Recently it became known about the victory of the NFL star over his brother Jason KelseyThe Philadelphia Eagles team in that year's Super Bowl was his winning ticket to getting the nod from SNL creator Lorne Michaels.
“I was like, 'This is so much pressure to ask,'” Gardner said on the show's December 2024 episode. Not thin, but not fat either podcast. “Then he won the Super Bowl.”
