Woman Gaga served as each host and musical visitor on final night time’s episode of Saturday Evening Dwell. Sizzling on the heels of releasing her seventh studio album, MAYHEM, the pop star sang her single “Abracadabra” in a light-up mirrored field, and carried out the primary half of recent observe “Killah” within the again hallways of studio 8H earlier than becoming a member of her neon-clad band onstage and pulling off a formidable costume change. Gaga additionally appeared as a funeral dwelling director, sang a track about overusing the phrase “slay,” and led a satanic ritual at a Pleasant’s party in sketches all through the night.
“The final time I hosted was in 2013, and each facet of my efficiency…aged amazingly,” Woman Gaga joked in her opening monologue. “There’s no must google ‘SNL 2013 Woman Gaga that includes R. Kelly.’ All of us gained’t, and I gained’t carry it up, trigger that might be unhealthy.” She additionally shouted out her Razzie-winning efficiency alongside Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie à Deux and informed the story of being arrange together with her fiancée by her mom. Watch Gaga’s full speech and performances, plus her SNL promo video with forged member Bowen Yang, beneath.
That is solely Woman Gaga’s second time internet hosting SNL, however her fifth showing as its musical visitor. Previous to the discharge of MAYHEM, she carried out her High Gun: Maverick authentic track “Maintain My Hand” on the 2025 Tremendous Bowl and a canopy of the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” with Bruno Mars on the 2025 Grammys, the place she and Mars additionally gained Greatest Pop Duo/Group Efficiency for his or her single “Die With a Smile.” At SNL’s fiftieth anniversary live performance final month, Woman Gaga joined Andy Samberg onstage at New York’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor to sing the Lonely Island’s “Dick in a Field.”
The fiftieth season of Saturday Evening Dwell premiered in September. Woman Gaga is the third artist to drag double obligation this season, following Timothée Chalamet and Charli XCX . Final week’s musical visitor was Tate McRae. To have a good time its fiftieth anniversary, SNL aired the aforementioned live performance particular, in addition to SNL50: The Anniversary Particular, a three-hour reside manufacturing that included musical performances courtesy of Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter, Lil Wayne, and Paul McCartney.
Learn “6 Takeaways From Woman Gaga’s New Album MAYHEM,” and take a look at our observe opinions for “Abracadabra” and “Backyard of Eden.”
