Entertainment | John Mulaney Two Murderers Have Hosted SNL? Behind Mulaney's Joke Most think he meant Robert Blake and OJ Simpson By John Johnson Posted Feb 17, 2025 2:00 PM CST Copied John Mulaney, left, and Olivia Munn attend the SNL50: The Homecoming Concert at Radio City Music Hall on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) As part of the opening monologue in Sunday night's anniversary show for Saturday Night Live, John Mulaney joked about how difficult some of the celebrity hosts could be: "Over the course of 50 years, 894 people have hosted Saturday Night Live, and it amazes me that only two of them have committed murder," he said. So who might he be talking about? The online chatter was leaning toward Robert Blake and OJ Simpson, though the names of Alec Baldwin and Robert Wagner also surfaced, reports People, the New York Post, and Yahoo Entertainment. Simpson hosted in 1978 and Blake in 1982. Both were acquitted in their criminal trials (Blake in the shooting death of his wife), but both were found liable in civil trials. Baldwin, who has hosted multiple times, had involuntary manslaughter charges dismissed in the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins; Wagner, who hosted in 1989, has long been the subject of rumors in the death of wife Natalie Wood, though he was never charged. Read These Next White House rolls with Trump's 'daddy' nickname. New Fox star, 23, misses first day after car troubles. Supreme Court ruling is a big blow to Planned Parenthood. Gavin Newsom has filed a massive lawsuit against Fox News. Report an error