Saturday Night Live adds 100,000 subscribers

Two uploads also passed a million views, alongside a Weekend Update featuring James Austin Johnson and Ashley Padilla.

Channel: Saturday Night Live Story of October 17, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel is adding 100,003 subscribers a day, 67 times a normal day (1,500).

A mother whose babysitter canceled and a visit from "Mr. Wonderful" are among the characters on Saturday Night Live's channel as it registers an unusually large subscriber jump.

The channel added about 100,000 subscribers in a day, far beyond its usual daily gain. Views across the channel were also running above their usual pace, though the subscriber increase was the more striking change.

Among the recent uploads is "Weekend Update ft. James Austin Johnson and Ashley Padilla - SNL." Colin Jost and Michael Che handle the news, with Johnson appearing as Kevin O'Leary's "Mr. Wonderful" and Padilla playing the mother left without a babysitter. That puts a business-personality impersonation beside a more everyday domestic predicament.

Separately, "it's a tough call to make" and "they're upfront," both posted earlier in the week, each crossed a million views. No single upload clearly accounts for the subscriber jump.

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The numbers

The subscriber gain stands out much more sharply than the channel's increase in daily views.

new subscribers per day

typical day

1,500

now

100,003

subscribers

17,400,000

▲ 100,000 in the last 7 days

total views

20,690,482,350

views per day

20,777,898

typical day: 14,406,364

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

The Tonight Show Starring…

34,200,000

Jimmy Kimmel Live

22,300,000

Saturday Night Live

17,400,000

The Daily Show

14,000,000

The Late Show with Stephe…

10,700,000

LastWeekTonight

10,200,000

As of October 17, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.