About
Saturday Night Find exists for one situation: you half remember a sketch, you cannot remember what it was called, and searching for the words you do remember gets you nowhere. It holds16,144 sketches across 52 seasons, 1975–2026, with 3,789 credited performers and 6,608 official uploads.
How the search works
A short phrase runs as a keyword search over names, titles, aliases, cast, characters and descriptions, with a tolerance for misspelling. A sentence runs as a meaning search: every sketch in the catalog carries a vector built from its title and description, and your query is compared against all of them.
Filters combine, and everything you choose is written into the address bar, so any search can be bookmarked or sent to someone.
Where it is thin
The catalog is assembled from three community archives, and it inherits their gaps. The earliest seasons have the least metadata: a title, a date, a cast list, and often nothing else, which means both the keyword search and the meaning search have less to work with there than they do for the 2000s. Video coverage is uneven, because only what the official SNL channel has uploaded is linked, and that is only a fraction of what has aired.
SNL Archives lists a full cast for every segment it covers, but it stops at the end of 2013; from there on, the tail of season 39 and everything since, the only record of who was in a sketch is the sentence or two the Fandom wiki writes about it. Where that description names people, the catalog has those names, and the sketch page says underneath them that they were read from a description and need not be everyone who appeared. Where it names nobody, the cast is simply absent, and the page says that instead. So a short cast list on a recent sketch is usually the catalog rather than the sketch.
Tags and summaries are generated by a language model. They are good enough to search by and they are wrong sometimes, more often for obscure sketches than for famous ones. Any summary the model wrote is labeled as such wherever it appears. Descriptions written by people, on the Fandom wiki or Wikipedia, are shown as they wrote them, with attribution — the credits page sets out which is which and why.
What it is not
It is not affiliated with NBC Universal or with Saturday Night Live, it hosts no video. Where an official upload exists, the page embeds it and the view goes to NBC. Where one does not, the page says so.