‘Saturday Night Live’ Stars Who Landed A-List Romances: Photos

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'Saturday Night Live' Stars Who Landed A-List Romances: Photos

Comedy couples! Saturday Night Live may be known for bringing laughs to viewers, but it’s also brought tons of stars together. From old-school SNL veterans like Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray, to more recent stars such as Colin Jost and Pete Davidson, a ton of the late-night staple’s cast has met their significant others while working on the NBC show. Akroyd fell in love with Carrie Fisher on the set of the Blues Brothers after initially meeting on the sketch comedy series. The pair later got engaged but called off the romance in 1980. Following the Stars Wars actress’ death in December 2016, the Ghostbusters actor penned a heartfelt tribute to Fisher. “One of the most brilliant and hilarious minds of our eon, Carrie would say things like: ‘I love tiny babies. When they cry, they turn red and look like screaming tomatoes.’ OR ‘This romance is finished the second you let out even a threep. I’ll be sick for a year,’” he wrote in an essay for Empire magazine in January 2017. “AND ‘You have a jawline, hold your chin up otherwise you look like a tuna.’ From then on I would identify myself on the phone as Tuna Neck.” [jwplayer DyQRxTGR-l3ahXupL] Jost, for his part, was first linked to Scarlett Johansson in May 2017 after they were spotted at an SNL afterparty following the show’s season 42 finale. After getting engaged in May 2019, the Black Widow actress hosted the hit comedy series seven months later and gushed over her then-fiancé. “This place means so much to me,” Johansson said at the time. “I have so many friends here, and I met the love of my life here.” Nearly a year later, the lovebirds tied the knot in an intimate ceremony amid the coronavirus pandemic. Meals on Wheels announced the couple’s marriage in October 2020, via Instagram. “We’re thrilled to break the news that Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost were married over the weekend in an intimate ceremony with their immediate family and love ones,” the organization wrote. While some SNL-born relationships have crashed and burned — including Fred Armisen and Elisabeth Moss and Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde — others have remained unbreakable. Scroll through to see which stars found love while starring on the sketch comedy series.

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Bill Murray and Gilda Radner

Radner, who was the first cast member to ever be hired for Saturday Night Live, starred as Lisa Loopner alongside Murray’s Todd DiLaMuca for their hilarious “The Nerds” sketches in the ‘70s. The comedians also dated during their time on the show, but eventually went their separate ways. According to Vanity Fair, after Radner died in 1989 from cancer, Murray credited his ex-girlfriend for influencing his ability to be confident in Hollywood. “She was someone who had incredible confidence whenever she walked into any kind of job interview because she grew up with money. So it just came across that she didn’t care whether she got the job or not. It would dazzle people and they’d go like, ‘We must have you,’” the Caddyshack star told Jimmy Kimmel in 2016. “I saw her do that and I thought not that I could act rich, but I just acted like I was not going to make a big thing and people will give you a job. You have to be a little confident when you walk into a room.”  

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Dan Aykroyd and Carrie Fisher

Following the Star Wars star’s death in 2016, the actor penned a touching tribute to his former fiancee, who he met at Saturday Night Live and fell in love with while filming Blues Brothers. "Carrie embraced my friends and I was embraced in warmly human and Hollywood-glamorous emotional comfort, elegance and excitement,” he wrote in an op-ed for Empire Magazine. He also touched upon Fisher ultimately choosing to be with Paul Simon — whom she wed in 1989 but later divorced — instead of him, saying, “She married him but I hope she kept my ring.”

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Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson

The "Weekend Update" host and Johansson first sparked romance rumors in May 2017, when they were spotted getting cozy at an SNL afterparty. They were later spotted kissing in November of that year after leaving an NYC restaurant. In April 2018, the pair made their red carpet debut as a couple at the Los Angeles premiere of her movie, Avengers: Infinity War. Jost admitted he was in a relationship with the Lucy actress during a May 2018 "Weekend Update" segment where Leslie Jones joked that he was gay, to which he responded, “I’m not gay! I told you I have a girlfriend!” The couple announced their engagement in May 2019.

The duo secretly tied the knot in October 2020. Jost revealed in August 2021 that his wife was expecting their first child together, Johansson’s second. Later that month, the actress’ rep confirmed that she recently gave birth to their son, Cosmo. It was later revealed that Johansson went into labor in late July 2021.

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Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande

Us Weekly confirmed in May 2018 that the comedian was dating the “No More Tears Left to Cry” singer following their respective splits from Cazzie David and Mac Miller. Davidson later confirmed the pair were dating by sharing a photo of them wearing Harry Potter outfits on Instagram, which he captioned, “the chamber of secrets has been opened…” Shortly after, the pair began sharing sweet messages to each other on social media and the Saturday Night Live star even got two new tattoos inspired by Grande. On June 11, Us Weekly exclusively revealed that the new couple were engaged — after dating for a few weeks. They split four months later. 

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Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde

The former couple first met at SNL’s finale in 2011, but they didn’t date until six months later because the Horrible Bosses actor went MIA. Wilde later told Howard Stern that she had asked friends whether or not Sudeikis had died because he had disappeared after they first met. The SNL star later told Stephen Colbert that he unintentionally “came off looking a little cooler” than he actually was, saying, “I had heard through the grapevine, through mutual friends who weren’t exactly her best girlfriends who would report back, ‘Oh you know, I think she’s dating someone,’… So I didn’t make any moves. I was just very, very busy with other things. And next thing you know, I stopped being busy, she stopped dating someone, and then it was off to the races.”

Despite the slow start, the duo got engaged in January 2013. They welcomed son Otis in April 2014 and daughter Daisy in October 2016. Us Weekly confirmed in November 2020 that the pair had split after nine years together. The Booksmart director has since started dating Harry Styles.

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Fred Armisen and Elisabeth Moss

The Portlandia actor and Moss met in 2009 when the Mad Men alum’s costar Jon Hamm was hosting the show. They married shortly after, only to divorce after eight months together in 2010. Armisen once admitted to Howard Stern in 2013 that he had been a "terrible husband" to Moss, who called their relationship “traumatic and awful and horrible.”

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Lindsay Shookus and Ben Affleck

SNL doesn’t play the role of a matchmaker for just those in front of the camera! Lindsay Shookus, a producer on the show, started dating the Batman star in April 2017. A source told Us Weekly that the Emmy winner — who was married to NBC colleague Kevin Miller at the time — and Affleck had been secretly seeing each other since 2014, when the actor was still married to Jennifer Garner, with whom he shares children Violet, Seraphina and Samuel. Shookus and Affleck’s relationship continued to grow, with the TV producer visiting the actor in Hawaii while he filmed Triple Frontier in March 2018. They were also spotted looking at apartments together. The couple split in February 2019 only to briefly reconcile before calling it quits again in April.

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Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian

The comedian shared a kiss with the KKW Beauty founder during an Aladdin-themed sketch as she made her Saturday Night Live hosting debut in October 2021. Later that month, the duo sparked romance speculation when they were spotted hanging out over Halloween weekend. The pair confirmed the relationship the following month after they celebrated Davidson’s birthday together along with Kris Jenner and Flavor Flav.

“Things have definitely escalated quickly but in a healthy, fun way,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly in January 2022. “Right now, they are just enjoying their time together and seeing where things go.”

Us confirmed the pair split in August 2022.

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Bill Hader and Anna Kendrick

After Hader’s 2020 breakup from Rachel Bilson, he moved on with the Pitch Perfect star. “They’re really into each other and make each other laugh — a lot,” a source told Us in January 2022, noting that Kendrick has already bonded with his three daughters: Hannah, Harper and Hayley. “They’re keeping their relationship private, but friends close to them know.” The twosome reportedly called it quits in June 2022.