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Jake Gyllenhaal hosts and Sabrina Carpenter takes to the stage as the musical guest for Saturday Night Live tonight as the sketch comedy shows airs its season 49 finale on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT.
While Gyllenhaal has hosted before, this will be Carpenter’s SNL debut and the singer is expected to perform her smash hit “Espresso.”
Want to watch SNL online without cable? Grab a free trial to FuboTV or DirecTV Stream to stream an NBC live feed online without needing a subscription.
Keep reading to learn all the streaming options to watch SNL online without cable.
How to Stream SNL for Free
In order to watch SNL, you’ll need to have access to NBC. If you have cable, then you just need to look up what channel NBC is on, which you can find in your channel guide through your cable provider. Don’t have cable?
You can also subscribe to Peacock, which is the official NBC streamer. The Premium Plus plan ($11.99/month) will give you access to the NBC channel, which means you can watch SNL live. There is no free trial for the streaming platform, but it does comes with an ad-supported plan that’s only $5.99/month and you’ll have access to new episodes of SNL the day after it airs.
Want to watch SNL online for free? FuboTV offers a seven-day free trial when you sign up for one of its plans. You’ll gain access to 100+ live TV channels — including NBC — so you can watch the Sabrina Carpenter SNL episode for free. After your free trial is over you’ll be charged the subscription price based on the plan you choose or you can cancel at any time.
DirecTV Stream also offers a 5-day free trial and the live TV streaming service also includes NBC as part of its channel lineup. Use the free trial to stream SNL online free from your phone, tablet, computer or smart TV.
Full episodes of Saturday Night Live are also available the next day on Hulu, which offers a 30-day free trials. You can also expand your streaming library through Hulu + Live TV, which will give you access to the entire Hulu library on top of hundreds of live TV channels including NBC.
Watch a promo for the “Espresso” singer’s SNL episode below.