![]() For Season 48, he returned to the SNL stage to perform double duty as host and musical guest - and soared up the rankings, all the way to 17th (out of 18), due to a writers strike that lopped three episodes off the season. Two years ago, Jack Harlow's drab, listless SNL debut propelled him to a 19th-place performance (out of 20) on this very list. Jacob Collier and the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers)" (2/4/23) Coldplay, "The Astronaut" and "Human Heart"/"Fix You (feat. So, for the sixth year in a row, let's get to it!ġ8. (See previous rankings: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018.)Īs always, we've linked to every performance that's still (legally) posted on YouTube, but every one of these sets is also available for streaming via Peacock in case you wish to check my work. So it's once again time to cruelly rank them all: the magnificent, the flawed-but-forceful, the forgettable and the truly, epically misbegotten. ![]() ![]() Naturally, the vagaries of live performance - and of SNL's notoriously unforgiving Studio 8H, not to mention late-night TV's eternal issues with sound mixing - meant that some musical guests were bound to outshine the rest. The results were a typically mixed bag, with occasionally transcendent results. ![]() For the second straight season, SNL leaned away from the safe spaces of guitar-driven rock, opting instead to focus more heavily than ever on R&B and (especially) hip-hop. But at least the musical guests offered some major highlights. It was a rough season for Saturday Night Live, which endured painful cast attrition (Aidy Bryant, Cecily Strong, et al.), mixed reviews and a writers strike that knocked out Season 48's final three episodes. For his "Rich Spirit" / "N95" medley on SNL, Kendrick Lamar performed with minimal visual accompaniment, perfectly geared for the raw intimacy of his newest material. ![]()
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