The forty-fourth season of the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live premiered on September 29, 2018, during the 2018–19 television season with host Adam Driver and musical guest Kanye West[1][2] and concluded on May 18, 2019, with host Paul Rudd and musical guest DJ Khaled.
[1] Upright Citizens Brigade alum Ego Nwodim joined the cast as a featured player, replacing Null.
Aside from Null, all other cast members from the previous season returned to the show, including guest star Alec Baldwin in his role as President Donald Trump.
bold denotes "Weekend Update" anchor Prior to the start of the season, the show added Alison Gates, Alan Linic, Eli Mandel, and Bowen Yang to the writing staff,[4] while co-head writer Bryan Tucker was designated a senior writer, leaving Colin Jost, Michael Che, and Kent Sublette as the show's remaining head writers.
[10] In March 2019, writer Anna Drezen (who had joined the writing staff in 2016) was named as co-writing supervisor, alongside Streeter Seidell, Fran Gillespie, and Sudi Green.