Since the Emmy Awards began their journey back in 1949, there have been many favorites. From great classics like ‘Frasier’ (which won 37 awards) to new ones sponsored by the ceremony like ‘Game of Thrones’ (with 59), none comes close to 90 figurines that they have won on ‘Saturday Night Live’.
The feat may not seem so impressive at first when you consider its 50 years of history (and their respective 50 seasons), but the comedy show does not only draw on its history. In 2024 alone he won six Emmysand in recent years it has achieved an average of 4 or 5 per season, numbers that even some of the most successful series have a hard time reaching.
Fitter than ever
Although it has gone through stages where it seemed to have lost relevance, ‘SNL’ remains one of the most important programs on North American television. The key to its success has been to always remain young, with a cast that adds new members every few years, and the weekly presence of Hollywood’s current stars, who are predictably a magnet for the audience.
In fact their success in these awards is greater in recent years than it ever was. The show won its first Emmy in 1978, and During its first decade it did not have a great presence. It was from 2010 onwards that he began to win something every season and his most successful year was in 2017where he reached 9 statuettes. This is the time when Kate McKinnon was in the cast, for many the best period of the program.
If we talk about victory ratio, in that case we must give the award to ‘Game of Thrones’, fantasy fiction won fewer awards (59 compared to 90) but proportionally there are many more awards per season (about 7 on average per year compared to 2 for ‘SNL’). In any case, SNL’s numbers are still impressive, and especially in a television ecosystem as ephemeral as the one we have now, where series come and go, it is surprising that a grandfather of television is still going so strong decades later.
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