Saturday Night Live YouTube Stats

@saturdaynightlive · Comedy & Memes · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Saturday Night Live channel overview

Saturday Night Live (@saturdaynightlive) is a YouTube channel in the Comedy & Memes niche created in 2013. It has 18M subscribers and 21B total views across 11K videos, an average of 2M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 741K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.8M views. Over the last 12 months, Saturday Night Live published 101 videos (69% Shorts), and 18 of them (18%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Saturday Night Live gained 100K subscribers and 275M views, about 16M views a day.

How much does Saturday Night Live make?

Returbe estimates Saturday Night Live's YouTube ad revenue at $410K – $1.7M per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.63 to $2.62, typically $1.37, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $1.4K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Saturday Night Live publishes about 102.1 videos a month. Based on its last 100 uploads, its most common upload day is Sunday (60% of uploads), usually around 05:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Saturday Night Live's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Saturday Night Live's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• don’t do that5.5M views · Oct 28, 202611.5× typical views
• they have a lot to unpack3.7M views · Oct 11, 20267.8× typical views
• mr. wonderful, everybody3.7M views · Oct 11, 20267.7× typical views
• the drama3.1M views · Nov 1, 20266.5× typical views
• sprite cherry lime habanero2.8M views · Nov 2, 20265.9× typical views
• a new type of shoe2.7M views · Oct 11, 20265.7× typical views
• the scariest thing is the unknown2.2M views · Oct 27, 20264.6× typical views
• hegseth is aboard the uss lincoln2.2M views · Oct 11, 20264.6× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Saturday Night Live's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• they actually can do that37K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• saturday!! druski!! the strokes!!109K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• SNL Host Druski Does an Impression of The Strokes186K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• okay then104K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• don’t worry about it55K views · Nov 4, 20260.1× typical views
• A peek into a Friday at Studio 8H with cast member Jeremy Culhane! Presented by @T-Mobile240K views · Nov 4, 20260.5× typical views
• ya tú sabes553K views · Nov 4, 20261.2× typical views
• Druski Says Hosting SNL Is Even Better Than His Childhood Dream449K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• sprite cherry lime habanero2.8M views · Nov 2, 20265.9× typical views
• that went well228K views · Nov 2, 20260.5× typical views

The Comedy & Memes niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 12K videos from 796 channels in this niche. 17.9% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 46K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $1.2 to $5.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Adictos Al Trap (216K subs, best video 44.7×), Patrick Custer (32K subs, best video 404.4×), gningbo (84K subs, best video 2014.8×), EpsilonnEdit (18K subs, best video 47.9×), Theo Rogan Shorts (436K subs, best video 21.2×), MySt3Ry (22K subs, best video 33.3×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Saturday Night Live or YouTube.