Ring out 2025 and cue up 2026 with LateNighter’s guide to every major New Year’s Eve broadcast—from Seacrest to Cooper, Cher, and more—plus when and where to watch them all.

Just about halfway through its 51st season, SNL's YouTube leaderboard tells a familiar story: Trump, Trump, and more Trump.

What are the top 10 SNL sketches of 2025? Join us as we reveal them!

When it comes to buzz-worthy late-night guests, few names can compete with Taylor Swift. Except, apparently, one: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Netflix is coming clean: 'Star Search' can’t claim Conan O’Brien.

Thirty-three years later, “The World News Polka” still closes most Fridays on 'ABC World News Now.' The song’s creator, Barry Mitchell, revisits 2025’s standout performances in a guest post for LateNighter.

Holiday break means report card time: Dennis Perkins revisits his Season 51 SNL reviews, ranking the season

Late night’s final competitive week of 2025 delivered another photo finish at 11:35 p.m., with ABC and CBS once again splitting top honors.

As Bill Carter writes, late-night TV spent 2025 under political fire, cultural pressure, and industry upheaval—and still proved it’s one of the nation’s most vital barometers.

“Tyranny is booming over here,” Jimmy Kimmel explained near the open of his four-minute Alternative Christmas Message on the UK’s Channel 4, warning of accelerating authoritarianism in the United States and recounting his own recent clash with the Trump administration over free speech.

The late night legend's frustration with the annual tradition formed a running gag over his eleven year run at NBC.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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 writer Jimmy Fowlie is asking the public for help in locating his sister, Christina, who has been reported missing in Los Angeles.

Our roundtable podcast discussing the most important SNL moments of the week is available now!

Holy hangover, Batman! Newly released video shows Sabrina Carpenter and Seth Meyers taking 'Day Drinking' several steps further than what aired on TV.

Late-night hosts told more than ten times as many jokes about Donald Trump than any other political figure in 2025—adding up to a whopping 7,045 jokes total throughout the year.

Chevy Chase says he was “hurt” enough by his exclusion from SNL’s 50th anniversary special to raise the issue directly with Lorne Michaels—a moment he recounts in a new CNN documentary.

As Bill Carter writes, CNN’s 'I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not effectively' reckons with a legendary career shaped as much by conflict as by comedy.

Colin Jost and Michael Che have spent the last 10 years forcing each other to deliver jokes they have no business telling.

Britain's Channel 4 has tapped Jimmy Kimmel to deliver its annual Alternative Christmas Message, capping a turbulent year that put the late-night host at the center of America’s free-speech debate.

First on LateNighter: Ahead of his SNL swan song, Bowen Yang gifted staffers with a mini plush toy resembling Moo Deng, the viral baby pygmy hippo he portrayed last season on "Weekend Update."

Join us as we discuss tonight's new episode of Saturday Night Live in our live SNL aftershow.

SNL took time out in the closing moments of this week's show to remember Rob Reiner, whose legacy includes a formative place in the history of the legendary sketch show.

Colin Jost was genuinely unprepared for this week’s “Weekend Update” joke swap, insiders tell LateNighter, marking a break from how the bit has typically been handled.

As LateNighter's Dennis Perkins says, "A lot of residual goodwill (for Bowen, for the holidays) buoying a raft of mediocre Christmas material."

Colin Jost was genuinely unprepared for this week’s “Weekend Update” joke swap, insiders tell LateNighter, marking a break from how the bit has typically been handled.

#StrangerThings will be happening when #SNL returns from the holiday break.

SNL took time out in the closing moments of this week's show to remember Rob Reiner, whose legacy includes a formative place in the history of the legendary sketch show.

SNL bid a sentimental farewell to Bowen Yang Saturday night, sending off the departing cast member with a musical moment that paired him with host Ariana Grande and musical guest Cher.

Join us as we discuss tonight's new episode of Saturday Night Live in our live SNL aftershow.

Aidy Bryant was "in!" again at SNL as Bowen Yang headed "out!" the door.

It’s been a big season for James Austin Johnson, who passed a new 'Saturday Night Live' milestone this week.

For a second time this week, President Donald Trump addressed the nation—by way of the 'Saturday Night Live' cold open. latenighter.com/news/snl-tru...

Bowen Yang makes his first appearance on his final SNL

SNL's Trump shows off the Epstein files.

Skating rink goodnights are a hallmark of SNL's Christmas episodes going all the way back to Season 2, but it may surprise some to learn they've only been staged eight times. We've got the rundown.

As Bowen Yang bids 'Saturday Night Live' adieu, revisit his debut, his first recurring character, and other milestone moments.

Macaulay Culkin brought a familiar holiday touchstone back to late night Thursday, with a spoof that leaned hard into his Home Alone legacy.

Ariana Grande’s new 'Saturday Night Live' promo features a nod to one of the most influential women in comedy.

An SNL gag that digitally inserted Colin Jost into archival footage of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has turned up in real-world Epstein files coverage—thanks to a widely circulated news story that initially ran with the screen grab as its featured image.

The morning of his 'Saturday Night Live' swan song, Bowen Yang shared some heartfelt words about his seven-plus years on the iconic sketch comedy series.

Ariana Grande hosts SNL’s holiday episode this weekend—here are five storylines to watch, from possible cameos to long-standing traditions.

As Bill Carter writes, Bowen Yang expanded SNL’s comic vocabulary—and its sense of who could lead it.

From must-own books to deeply nerdy DIY ideas, these last-minute gifts are tailor-made for the late-night TV obsessed.

As Bill Carter writes, Bowen Yang expanded SNL’s comic vocabulary—and its sense of who could lead it.