Saturday Night Live · season 50, episode 979 · Saturday, January 18, 2025 Host: Dave Chappelle (4th time). Musical guest: GloRilla. • GloRilla performs "Yeah Glo!" and a medley of "Whatchu Kno About Me" and "Let Her Cook" and appears in the pre-recorded "Pop the Balloon” sketch. • Neither performance was broadcast in the United Kingdom, with GloRilla's musical guest credit excised from the opening sequence. Such edits were not made to the version of the episode available on streaming. • Chappelle broke his own record for longest monologue in the show's history. His previous record, set when he hosted the show in November 2020, was a monologue of 16 minutes and 9 seconds. The monologue in this episode was "just short of 17 minutes". With Chappelle's monologue being longer than planned (the dress rehearsal monologue reportedly lasted only "nine minutes"), multiple sketches were cut from the live show. • Donnell Rawlings appears in the pre-recorded "Pop the Balloon" sketch. • Before the goodnights, a photo of filmmaker David Lynch, who died two days prior to this episode, is shown in silence. • Emil Wakim was credited in the opening montage, but did not appear in the episode, although he appeared on stage during the goodnights. Wiki link