Bad Bunny receives backlash of applause during 2026 Super Bowl halftime monologue on ‘Saturday Night Live’
We’re broadcasting live from New York, and there are so many people.
Since Saturday Night Live began on October 11, 1975, more than 50 celebrities have taken the stage at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City to host Saturday Night Live. The true elite continue to collect velvet five-timer jackets. (Most recently, Martin Short joined the coveted club last December, celebrating alongside other sketch comedy regulars like Melissa McCarthy, Emma Stone, Kristen Wiig, Tina Fey and Tom Hanks.)
But getting the chance to jog through the doors of Studio 8H requires a bit of name recognition.
Just ask Travis Kelce, who had to work hard to land a hosting gig in 2023.
As proud Kansas City native and now former cast member Heidi Gardner recently revealed, the NFL star’s Super Bowl victory over older brother Jason Kelce’s Philadelphia Eagles that year was the ticket to getting the OK from SNL founder Lorne Michaels.
“I thought, ‘That’s so much pressure to hear,'” Gardner said on a December 2024 episode of the podcast “Not Skinny But Not Fat.” “Then he won the Super Bowl.”
