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Ariana Grande is heading back to Saturday Night Live. The Wicked: For Good star will close out the first half of season 51 as host for the third time this weekend on December 20. The special Christmas show will also have another iconic musical guest on the booking, Cher, whose last SNL musical performance was in 1987. SNL airs on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT.
In more unexpected turn of events, Grande’s Wicked co-star, Bowen Yang, is leaving the sketch comedy show after seven years. Yang’s SNL career started in 2018 as a writer for Season 44, became a featured player in Season 45, and was promoted to the main cast in Season 47. This upcoming Christmas show will be his last hurrah at Studio 8H for now.
Want to watch SNL online without cable and for free? Your easiest bet is to grab a free trial to DirecTV or FuboTV to stream an NBC live feed online without needing a subscription.
Keep reading to learn all the other streaming options to watch SNL online without cable.
How to Stream ‘Saturday Night Live’ for Free
In order to watch SNL, you’ll need to have access to NBC. If you have cable, then you just need to look up what channel NBC is on, which you can find it in your channel guide through your cable provider. Don’t have cable? There are a few ways to watch Saturday Night Live online for free.
DirecTV
Want to watch SNL online for free? DirecTV offers a five-day free trial and the live TV streaming service also includes NBC as part of its channel lineup. Use the free trial to stream SNL online free from your phone, tablet, computer or smart TV.
FuboTV
FuboTV also offers a seven-day free trial when you sign up for one of its plans. You’ll gain access to more than 200 live TV channels — including NBC — so you can watch SNL for free. After your free trial is over you’ll be charged the subscription price based on the plan you choose or you can cancel at anytime.
Peacock
Another great option is to subscribe to Peacock, which is the official NBC streamer. The Peacock Premium Plus plan ($16.99 per month) gives you access to the NBC channel, which means you can watch SNL live. There is no free trial for the streaming platform, but if you want to watch the episode on-demand, Peacock does comes with an ad-supported plan that’s only $10.99 per month month and you’ll have access to new episodes of SNL the day after it airs.
You can also expand your streaming library through Hulu + Live TV, which gives you access to the entire Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN Unlimited libraries on top of hundreds of live TV channels, like NBC.
In the meantime, watch a promo reel for tonight’s episode below:
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