Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (commonly abbreviated as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. It premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975. Broadcast live from Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, the programme became one of the longest-running shows in American television history, combining sketch comedy, musical performances, and celebrity appearances in a weekly live format.

Each episode features a guest host — typically a film or television personality — who appears in sketches throughout the broadcast, alongside a musical guest who performs two songs.

Paul McCartney has been associated with Saturday Night Live across several decades, with appearances spanning from 1980 to 2026. His first appearance came in May 1980. Over the following decades, Paul returned to the programme on multiple occasions, performing both as a musical guest and in other capacities, making SNL one of the recurring American television stages of his solo career.