Monday, May 25, 2026

Ratings: “SNL” Rises Again with Jake Gyllenhaal, Camila Cabello Combo

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Having big stars paid off for “Saturday Night Live” this weekend.

Ratings rose again, this time up to 4.847 million, up from 4.6 million the prior week. It’s not great, but it’s better, and a continuing improvement.

You see? “SNL” gave us a legit movie star and music star in guest host Jake Gyllenhaal and Camila Cabello, not fringe people who you never heard of.

Jake was promoting “Ambulance,” a movie that more or less flopped. But Camila Cabello had two terrific performances that sent her new album and two singles to the top 10 on respective charts. Her song, “Bam Bam” really went over, but the second one, “Psychofreak,” was even a bigger success. In a weird turn of events, Willow Smith — daughter of Will and Jada — joined her on stage. This was directly after “Weekend Update” made fun of Will’s Oscar slap and Oscar suspension.

So now “SNL” moves on to Lizzo this week as host and performer. There’s a lot of her to go around.

 

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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