The forty-eighth season of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live premiered on October 1, 2022, during the 2022–23 television season with host Miles Teller and musical guest Kendrick Lamar,[1][2] and concluded on April 15, 2023, with host Ana de Armas and musical guest Karol G. The season was originally scheduled to air 21 episodes and conclude on May 20, 2023.
[4] Prior to the start of this season, longtime cast members Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat, Kyle Mooney, Chris Redd and Melissa Villaseñor all left the show on their own terms and featured player Aristotle Athari was let go after one season.
In response to all these changes, executive producer Lorne Michaels called this season a "transition year".
[13] Returning cast member Cecily Strong took a temporary leave of absence early in the season due to her commitments to perform in the Los Angeles revival of the one-woman stage play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, returning to SNL for the October 29, 2022, episode.
[15] On September 12, 2022, Michaels announced that four new cast members would be joining the show:[16] stand-up comedians Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney (the show's first non-binary cast member[17]), Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker.