Saturday Night Live was so close to breaking its own Emmy nominations record.The long-running NBC comedy series scored 21 nominations this morning, just under its own single-year record of 22 nominations in 2017.
That too was a season dominated by an election involved Donald Trump. This is a jump on the 15 nominations that it received in 2020, the 18 it scored in 2019, and ties the 21 that it secured in 2018.It takes the total number of nominations for SNL to 306 with 78 previous wins.Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong were all nominated for Best Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series, while Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang were nominated for Best Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series.
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