Is Saturday Night Live new tonight, October 20?

Saturday Night Live has opened up season 44 with three-straight weeks of variety sketches with two first-time hosts. Will NBC make it four for four?

Season 44 of Saturday Night Live has been an up and down adventure so far. It started out with Adam Driver hosting for his second time, bringing some mediocre sketches buoyed by his outstanding performance as an oil baron on Career Day. It was also the episode where Kanye West lost his damn mind, offering up one bumbling performance, an okay one in the middle and a great song mired by a nonsense rant in the closing credits.

The next two weeks did an okay job at picking up the pace, with Awkwafina giving it her all in every sketch possible, making things as appropriately weird or even-keeled, depending on what each sketch required. Travis Scott might have done even better, however, stepping up in the dance battle sketch and throwing our two psychedelic bangers as the musical guest.

Finally, last week saw the return of former Saturday Night Live head writer Seth Meyers, who had never been on the show as a host before. He wasn’t that great a performer, but the writing team seemed to throw the wackiest sketches possible out to run Seth through the ringer. Paul Simon did what he usually does: knock it out of the park.

Unfortunately, it seems as though this year, Saturday Night Live will not air a new episode tonight, nor will they air another one next week. That’s right; the show will take the two weeks off before Halloween. NBC has given the show a brief hiatus in 23 of 44 seasons the week before the spookiest day of the year, but two weeks off before means no potential for classic characters.

Two years after the debut of David S. Pumpkins, it’s a bit disappointing to see barely any spooky or Halloween-inspired sketches from Saturday Night Live, but the show comes back with Jonah Hill on November 3, marking his fourth time on the show.