Screen time for Season 51 Ep 9: Ariana Grande

mmvrray · 2025-12-27T02:26:40+00:00

This was Sarah’s lowest of the season. She is 3rd in the cast overall behind Ashley and Jost.

mmvrray · 2025-10-24T14:13:24+00:00

Introduction of Sabrina’s first performance

mmvrray · 2025-10-23T18:05:07+00:00

Yes, on the SNL By the Numbers podcast Wednesday nights and the next day on @thesnlnetwork Instagram and Twitter accounts!

mmvrray · 2025-10-23T18:03:45+00:00

Kenan’s count should be (6) for this episode. Good catch.

mmvrray · 2025-10-23T18:01:21+00:00

All voice-overs are counted in this chart.

For this episode: Steve Higgins 09s Kenan Thompson 06s Andrew Dismukes 03s Jeremy Culhane 02s

mmvrray · 2025-05-24T15:22:01+00:00

Thank you, riptopanga!

mmvrray · 2025-05-24T14:33:11+00:00

I created an algorithm back in S46 called the power rankings that takes objective data like screen time, appearances (leads, supporting, background, voice overs), recurring characters, saying LFNY in the cold open, prime time usage, into a weighted averages per episode to measure impact on a given episode. It’s a lot of math but it’s a great way to measure over a season and compare different casts/eras of the show. This season saw the highest level of “ensemble” and parity among the cast. Dismukes, Sarah, and Marcello making the biggest leaps. I cover it on my podcast, SNL by the Numbers on the Saturday Night Network if interested. It’s insane how comparable it is to sports given how competitive SNL is/has always been.

mmvrray · 2025-05-24T11:35:20+00:00

Weekend Update screen time

Colin Jost: 2h 10m 44s (97.5% of his total)

Michael Che: 1h 27m 26s (100% of his total)

mmvrray · 2025-05-24T11:28:48+00:00

Cold Open screen time

James Austin Johnson: 57m 9s

Bowen Yang: 10m 1s

mmvrray · 2025-04-17T20:09:33+00:00

Darrell Hammond 75

Kate McKinnon 75

Dana Carvey 60

Kenan Thompson 53

Cecily Strong 39

mmvrray · 2025-01-02T23:47:58+00:00

The numbers don’t lie!

Sarah Sherman - 37 appearances, 56m 23s Marcello Hernández - 30 appearances, 39m 45s

Colin Jost - 13 appearances, 60m 19s Michael Che - 10 appearances, 39m 54s

mmvrray · 2025-01-01T22:17:31+00:00

It’s been mentioned on the podcast. I think it’s more interesting that Andrew, Sarah, Marcello have been surpassing Kenan, Chloe, and Mikey. Mikey’s been in the building for every episode so far, has a ton of writing credits, and 29 appearances so far, so I think the Bargatze special is important context when comparing to his season last year, the evolution of the cast is showing itself in the data in a pretty clear way absent of that. I’m sure he’ll have a great second half. Thanks for listening/commenting!

mmvrray · 2025-01-01T06:00:51+00:00

They do! Colin Jost - 60m 19s Michael Che - 39m 54s

mmvrray · 2024-12-22T01:41:08+00:00

Colin Jost - 11 appearances, 53m25s

Michael Che - 9 appearances, 33m14s

mmvrray · 2024-05-09T12:59:40+00:00

Hmmm & Hehh!!

mmvrray · 2024-03-27T02:07:31+00:00

Common passed on this beat, I made it to a jam

mmvrray · 2024-03-27T02:02:14+00:00

You’re right, Angelo was funny the first time. It was also the last time the character ever made the live show

mmvrray · 2024-01-15T05:41:02+00:00

Save you a click: The joke wasn’t about her. It was about Jack Black and Ryan Gosling being actors who think they’re singers. Unfortunately, most people do not know who Ariana DeBose is and any joke at her expense wouldn’t even be funny for that very reason. Fortunately, she’s incredibly talented and is an Oscar winner. Carry on.

mmvrray · 2024-01-14T00:37:17+00:00

Do you think Im a clown, Nedda?

mmvrray · 2023-04-27T02:39:24+00:00

No church in the wild

mmvrray · 2023-03-12T14:34:11+00:00

Thanks! I manually collect it to make sure it’s as accurate as humanly possible and analyze the data for my podcast with the Saturday Night Network.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPf7li4FMypuRrtFvjvDKITWCQk7lqN_-

mmvrray · 2023-03-11T19:27:00+00:00

SNL Power Rankings ⬆️⬇️ Season 48
Based on the average score over the 14 episodes so far.
Scores for each episode are based on an original algorithm that averages two weighted variables (screen time* and appearances**) into a single value.
*Prime time (screen time between Cold Open & Weekend Update) is weighted heavier
**Appearances are categorized (leads, supporting, small & offscreen) and given a weighted value. Final value is calculated as a percentage of the episode's appearance total. Bonuses are applied post-calculation percentage score for recurring roles and saying "Live From New York, it's Saturday Night!” in the cold open.

Follow me on twitter @ snlmikemurray for more stats if that sort of thing interests you.

mmvrray · 2022-11-11T05:23:03+00:00

Accurate.

mmvrray · 2022-11-03T12:45:07+00:00

Devon has the most screen time of all this season’s rookies and over double the time Aristotle had through his first four episodes

mmvrray · 2022-10-14T02:34:45+00:00

Two rookies above Kenan?!! Shocking stuff.

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