Saturday Night Live Guests January 31, 2026
Guests
The January 31, 2026 episode of Saturday Night Live featured Alexander Skarsgård and Cardi B.
Episode clips
Alexander Skarsgård
Alexander Skarsgård hosts Saturday Night Live’s 1,000th episode, spotlighting the house band in his monologue and appearing in sketches about Viking camaraderie, a fictional Scandinavian family film, an ICE training meeting, immigrant-family dynamics, the Winter Olympics, a children’s play date, and an overconfident boyfriend. The episode’s sketches repeatedly place him in exaggerated characters and absurd social situations.
Alexander Skarsgård opens Saturday Night Live’s 1,000th episode by reflecting on watching the show from Stockholm and then turning the spotlight on the house band. He interviews the musicians, encourages a burst of free-form jazz, tries a saxophone, and previews a show featuring Cardi B.
Alexander Skarsgård directs an intentionally grim Scandinavian family movie in which actors repeatedly break character, forget lines, and turn a morbid bathtub scene into a blooper-filled prank. The fake film’s melodramatic family trauma keeps colliding with the cast’s laughter and improvisation.
On the ‘Immigrant Dad Talk Show,’ Joaquin welcomes a Finnish neighbor and another father for exaggerated conversations about parenting, discipline, marriage, and affection. The segment escalates from deadpan family stories to a chaotic argument at Joaquin’s house before he signs off with advice to dads.
A mock Winter Olympics promo introduces athletes who describe their dreams of competing in Milan, while one terrified luger dreads the speed. The montage turns inspirational sports language into a series of escalating jokes about endurance, fear, and the 16 events.
At a play date, a group of girls welcomes Agnes, a new arrival from Iowa, but their questions about Bluey, Harry Styles, Olivia Rodrigo, and TikTok quickly overwhelm her. After several eruptions, pizza and a dance help Agnes find her place while the girls turn on the meanest friend.
A new boyfriend wins over a ski-trip group with a stream of outrageous jokes, but his girlfriend discovers he is reading them from Cards Against Humanity cards. He admits he carries multiple decks to manufacture a comic persona and insists he is really just a ‘normie.’
After a Viking raid, Ivar tells his comrades he feels excluded from their tight-knit group. The Vikings apologize, confess that they idolize him, and restore his confidence—only to politely pretend his new hairstyle looks good.
A mother tells her grown children she may have changed her mind about Trump, demanding that they remain calm while the family erupts over politics, religion, trans rights, drag queens, and her birthday dinner.
A behind-the-scenes look at ‘The Viking Raid’ follows Alexander Skarsgård and the cast through elaborate Viking and monk costumes, heavy makeup, fake blood, and early-morning filming. Skarsgård plays the swaggering Einer Nopenis and embraces the sketch’s absurd wardrobe and character work.
Other episode clips
Epstein–Barr - SNL.
Two people who have just hooked up appear on Weekend Update to discuss the Super Bowl, mixing football analysis with awkward flirting and jokes about their sudden intimacy.
Weekend Update covers Luigi Mangione’s death-penalty ruling, a public apology tied to an old car crash, an NBA scoring record, and other news through sharp one-liners and dark reversals.
Em português, o Weekend Update satiriza a mudança de Trump na liderança da Patrulha de Fronteira e comenta política, imigração e notícias recentes com humor de atualidade.
In an ICE training meeting, Tom Homan tries to coach officers through Minneapolis operations, public relations, profiling, force, and the administration’s fear of being filmed.
Sarah Sherman reports from a freezing New York as Weekend Update’s new weather correspondent, but her forecast quickly becomes a comic argument about the cold, Colin Jost, and her increasingly uncomfortable winter clothes.
FAQ
- Who were the guests on Saturday Night Live on Jan 31, 2026?
- Alexander Skarsgård and Cardi B were the guests on this episode.
- When did this episode air?
- Jan 31, 2026.