SNL Is Top-Rated TV Comedy for 5th Straight Year, Audience Grows 3%

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BY MATT WEBB MITOVICH

MAY 31, 2024 10:35 AM

Saturday Night Live Season 49 was the 2023-24 TV season’s top-rated comedy series, with an average demo rating of 1.13 — down just a few percentage points from the long-running NBC sketch series’ Season 48 average.

Not only did SNL top all TV comedies in the demo for a fifth straight season, its average audience across all platforms rose 3% year-over-year, with 7.2 million total weekly viewers.

The most-watched outing of SNL Season 49 was hosted by Ryan Gosling, featured musical guest Chris Stapleton and drew 8.9 million viewers. That episode also led the season in “social video views” (with a total of 107.3 million), and its “Beavis and Butt-Head” sketch was the most-viewed video of Season 49 (with 15.8 million views on YouTube).

TVLine readers gave the Gosling/Stapleton episode an average grade of “A.” Where does it rank among all of Season 49’s episodes graded by TVLine readers? Check back here on Saturday for our annual report!

As TVLine reported earlier today, the 2023-24 TV season’s top-rated primetime comedy series was CBS’ Young Sheldon, which averaged a 0.75 demo rating (with Live+7 playback. It was followed by CBS’ Ghosts (0.74) and ABC’s Abbott Elementary (0.70).

Young Sheldon was also the most-watched primetime comedy, averaging 9.3 million total viewers. Ghosts placed second in that measure with 8.2 million viewers, distantly followed by CBS’ The Neighborhood (5.7 million).

[Mace Dolex]

I look forward more to the Weekend Update segments with Colin Jose and Michael Che those two really have great chemistry and have made the show funny, a few skits might bomb here and there but it definitely picked up it seems after the SNL at home Covid-19 episodes.

I actually prefer streaming them on Peacock where I can fast forward the garbage musical acts.