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Clear out junk files and repair common Windows errorsFree Scan →Fix the driver behind crashes, sound loss and screen glitchesFind Drivers →Drew Barrymore is the youngest person recorded as hosting Saturday Night Live: she was 7 years and 271 days old when she hosted on November 20, 1982. Macaulay Culkin and Fred Savage are the other notable child-host comparisons supported by the available episode records.
Who was the youngest SNL host?
Guinness World Records identifies Drew Barrymore as the youngest person to host a television sketch comedy show. She hosted Saturday Night Live at 7 years and 271 days old on November 20, 1982. Guinness also notes that by 2025 she had hosted the show six times. Guinness World Records’ entry is the source for the record and Barrymore’s age.
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How young were the other notable child hosts?
These three names provide the central child-host comparisons supported by the cited record and episode sources. The order below is by age at hosting, not by broadcast date.
| Host | Age at hosting | Episode date |
|---|---|---|
| Drew Barrymore | 7 years, 271 days | November 20, 1982 |
| Macaulay Culkin | 11 years, 2 months, 28 days | November 23, 1991 |
| Fred Savage | 13 years, 7 months, 15 days | February 24, 1990 |
Macaulay Culkin
Culkin hosted at 11 years, 2 months and 28 days, on November 23, 1991. The archived SNL historical FAQ gives his exact age; UPI retrospectively describes him as the second-youngest host. The episode archive lists the show with Tin Machine. UPI’s retrospective and the episode archive support the comparison and episode details.
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Fred Savage
Savage hosted at 13 years, 7 months and 15 days, on February 24, 1990. The historical FAQ gives the exact age, while UPI reports that he hosted at 13. The episode archive lists Technotronic as the musical guest. The 1990 appearance came before Culkin’s 1991 episode, even though Culkin was younger.
Is this a complete ranking of SNL’s youngest hosts?
No comprehensive official NBC age-ranked list of every young host is established by these sources. The three entries above are the child-host comparisons supported here, not a claim that they exhaust the full history. The FAQ supplies exact ages for Culkin and Savage; the record source establishes Barrymore’s youngest-host claim. Episode dates are corroborated by the archive.
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