SNL to kick off its new season with Miles Teller, Megan Thee Stallion, and Brendan Gleeson
The musical guests will be Kendrick Lamar, Willow, and Megan Thee Stallion (pulling double-duty)
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Saturday Night Live is feeling the Joker: Folie À Deux hype, and honestly? We’re here for it. The movie is still two years away, but it can’t be too early to start painting our faces and reminding everyone that the first movie had “Wall Street bros singing Sondheim” as a major plot point. That’s how we’re getting hyped, at least. SNL is doing it by bringing in Joker 2 cast member Brendan Gleeson as one of the first hosts for its upcoming 48th season. Gleeson also appears in the buzzy Martin McDonagh film The Banshees Of Inisherin, but that doesn’t exactly seem like the kind of movie somebody would go on SNL to promote. Trust us: When he goes up to do his monologue, he’s going to say “I’ll be in the Joker sequel next year.”
Anyway, Gleeson is but one of the new hosts announced today, with the others being Miles Teller (from Top Gun: Maverick!) and Megan Thee Stallion (from She-Hulk!). SNL also announced the musical guests that will accompany these hosts, with Kendrick Lamar appearing with Teller, Willow appearing with Gleeson, and Megan Thee Stallion appearing with Megan Thee Stallion (hey, wait a minute!).
The new season premieres with Teller and Lamar on October 1, followed by Gleeson and Willow on October 8, and finally Megan Thee Stallion pulling double-duty on October 15. The press release announcing this highlights that these will be three consecutive live shows, so SNL might have one of its off-weeks after Megan Thee Stallion’s episode.
Just last night, Chris Redd announced that he would not be returning to SNL for its next season, following the lead of departing cast members Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor, and Aristotle Athari. In addition to being the first SNL in a while without any of them, it will also be the first SNL in a while that won’t be available on Hulu after it airs. As of this week, you have to pay up for Peacock if you want to stream new NBC content.
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Was Lorne Michaels like, “let’s kick off the season with the least appealing, most unlikable actor in the universe as host?” Because Miles Teller is literally the least appealing, most unlikeable actor in the universe.
Have you not seen a Steven Segal movie?
Have you never been mellow? Have you ever tried?
Uhhh, what?
Oh.Kind of wonder how you got there.After Top Gun and Whiplash I like the guy. My wife has the hots for him.
C’mon now, he’s not Jared Leto
**Shia LaBeouf enters the chat
In Europe he’s known as the Royale with Cheese because they use the metric system.
Pretty sure the actual metric is akin to: what synergistic opportunity do we have to cross pollinate content promotion in a way that results in more unit shifting?
What if the cold open is Miles Teller getting punched in the face?
Miles teller? Oh you mean an odometer?
As far as I know no SNL cast member’s child has ever hosted, so I’d like to see Hannah Einbinder host.
Penn & Teller appeared on SNL in the 1980’s.
I am confused, why is Willow a musical guest instead of a host? I know he’s got a Disney+ series coming out, but I don’t remember him doing any song-and-dance numbers in the original 1988 film. I do remember he did a fire trick in front of an audience in that film, but it just seems like a strange choice for SNL to make. Oh, well, I hope Gleeson and Willow get to do at least one fantasy-tinged skit together!
Miles Teller and Brendan Gleeson. Really bringing out the big guns for those first two shows to get things started right and draw in eyeballs.