Writer Tom Gammill in 2011
Joe Piscopo in 2009
Jim Belushi in 1982
Writer John Swartzwelder in 1992
Writer E. Jean Carroll in 2006
Note: Beginning with the show's forty-third season, Weekend Update writers were credited separately from the rest of the writing staff.
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