‘Saturday Night Live’ Season 50 cast photos for ‘SNL’ 2024-25

The 50th anniversary season of “Saturday Night Live” premieres on NBC on September 28, 2024. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, your favorite late night sketch series is now 50 years old. It likes to kick, stretch and kick!

The regular cast members for “SNL” Season 50 are Michael Che, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Marcello Hernandez, James Austin Johnson, Colin Jost, Michael Longfellow, Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, Kenan Thompson, Devon Walker and Bowen Yang. The featured players are Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim and Jane Wickline (their photos are coming soon). Over the summer, Punkie Johnson, Molly Kearney and Chloe Troast all departed the program.

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For this 2024 Presidential Election cycle, former cast member Maya Rudolph will reportedly return to portray Vice President Kamala Harris, while former President Donald Trump is once again played by James Austin Johnson. In addition, the Please Don’t Destroy writers/actors (Martin Herlihy, Ben Marshall and John Higgins) are expected to appear again.

Scroll through our gallery above (or click here for direct access) to see the “Saturday Night Live” Season 50 cast photos for “SNL” 2024-25. Brand new episodes of NBC’s variety show will air live coast-to-coast this season on Saturday evenings at 11:30 ET / 10:30 CT / 9:30 MT / 8:30 PT. Darrell Hammond returns again as the announcer, while Lorne Michaels still serves as the showrunner and executive producer.

“Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update continues to be anchored by Colin Jost and Michael Che in Season 50, just as they have done every week together since September of 2014. As of the 47th season three years ago, Jost and Che are officially the longest-serving duo in the history of Weekend Update.

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