Although he did not appear on any Election Day ballots, one of the biggest losers of the 2024 election cycle was “Saturday Night Live.”

NBC’s long-running sketch comedy show has long been at the center of the cultural zeitgeist, satirizing the news of the day and poking fun at the most powerful politicians while also serving as a springboard for the careers of prominent comedians. But his ratings took a hit this year, especially compared to the 2016 and 2020 elections.

Saturday’s post-election broadcast of “SNL” averaged just 4.4 million viewers, losing more than half of the 9.2 million viewers the post-election show received in 2020, according to Nielsen Research data. It marked the least watched episode so far this season.

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“SNL” lost 25% of its audience in the 2024 election season compared to 2020. (NBC/Saturday Night Live)

In the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, “SNL” averaged 5.4 million viewers, losing 25 percent of its audience before the 2020 election and nearly a third of its 2016 audience.

The Peacock Network has relied heavily on stunts this election cycle, with “SNL” alums Maya Rudolph and Dana Carvey playing Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden, respectively, comedian Jim Gaffigan playing Harris’ running mate Tim Walz, and “SNL” alum Andy Samberg, playing second. Mr. Doug Emhoff.

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Regular cast members James Austin Johnson and Bowen Yang played President-elect Donald Trump and Vice-President-elect JD Vance, respectively.

Popular comedian Shane Gillis apparently he refused an offer from “SNL” executive producer Lorne Michaels to play Trump this season after he donned a Trump impersonation when he hosted the show earlier this year. Gillis was famously hired, then fired, by “SNL” in 2019 as a cast member after progressive critics used the old jokes.

“SNL” cast members Bowen Yang and James Austin Johnson portrayed Vice President-elect JD Vance and President-elect Donald Trump on this year’s show. (NBC/Contributor)

The most-watched episode of the season so far was the Saturday before Election Day, when Harris made a surprise appearance in the cold open alongside Rudolph, which earned 6.6 million viewers.

Trump himself has not appeared on “SNL” since hosting the show in November 2015 during his first presidential campaign. That won a horror 9.3 million viewer at the time.

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“SNL” has spent much of the past eight years playing the current president-elect. During the 2024 post-election open sketch, “SNL” cast members gave him a message, jokingly insisting they were “with (him) the whole time.”

“We have never wavered in our support for you, even when others doubted you,” Yang said.

The post-election episode of “SNL” reached just 4.4 million viewers, less than half of the 2020 post-election episode. (NBC/SNL)

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During Trump’s first term, the president was played by Alec Baldwin. And in the first two years of Biden’s presidency, “SNL” spent more time the falsification of the former president than the current one.

Some of his cast members apparently she was crying on Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016. In her first open after she lost, Clinton portrait Kate McKinnon performed a soulful rendition of “Hallelujah” on the piano and tearfully told the audience that she should not to give up