Saturday Night Live returns at the end of January and from the look of its roster of upcoming hosts and musical guests, it’s coming back swinging.
Per Variety, the sketch comedy mainstay will return on January 30 with host John Krasinski, who was originally scheduled to take the reins last March until a very rude pandemic changed everyone’s plans. Now, he gets to fulfill his first-time hosting duties with Machine Gun Kelly as the musical guest. The following two episodes will feature fellow first-time hosts (and recent Emmy winners) Dan Levy of Schitt’s Creek and Regina King, who will stop by on February 6 and February 13, respectively. 2021 Grammys hopeful Phoebe Bridgers will provide the tunes on February 6 and singer-songwriter Nathaniel Rateliffe will drop by the following week. All the musicians are making their SNL debuts, as well. NBC will air new SNL episodes every weekend in February, but the hosts for the later two shows have not been announced just yet.
The past year has been especially kind to Levy and King. Schitt’s Creek swept the comedy category during the 2020 Emmys with each main cast member—including Levy himself—securing wins for their final season. Thanks to her stellar performance in HBO’s Watchmen, King currently ties with Alfre Woodard for most Emmy wins for a Black performer. She’s also received extensive praise for her feature directorial debut with One Night In Miami. According to Variety, Krasinski will soon resume promotions for long awaited sequel film A Quiet Place Part II, which has seen a few delays since the beginning of quarantine.
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As in Krasinki, Sweden.
Eat it, Harvey!
It’d be great to see SNL hosting alum and Dan’s on screen parents Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara show up, with their sketch comedy chops and all… As long as it’s not a tacky Schitt’s Creek reunion thing
There’s no way in hell it wouldn’t be a tacky Schitt’s Creek reunion thing, look at which TV show we’re talking about here.
Agreed, though I’d still love to see it. I only watch occasional clips of SNL these days but I would watch the hell out of that if I knew they were going to be popping up. Two of the greatest sketch comedy performers of all-time? Hell yes.Slightly related tangent: I’ve decided that O’Hara is her generation’s Madeline Kahn, and Kate McKinnon might be the current generation’s version, so it’d be great to have Catherine pop up to help pass that torch.
Related ish – I listened to podcast with O’Hara on and she comes across as so incredibly nice. I didn’t expect her to be mean or anything, she was just exceptionally sweet and pleasant.
Catherine O’Hara is so incredibly nice because of five things:
1) Canadian
2) A very successful career with nothing left to prove
3) She’s basically retired, so no need to be rude
4) Canadian
5) She’s from Canada
Kahn and O’Hara only 12 yrs apart … hardly a generation. O’Hara and McKinnon are 30 yrs apart, which is a generation.
Catherine said she felt Cecily Strong was a younger version of her, I think, but I can see Kate as well, at least if Kate brought a little more of her acting talent into sketch performances.
Haha I hear what you’re saying but I always find when they do a sketch putting the actor back in the role/show/movie they’re famous for tacky. The one with Matthew Perry playing Joey across from Colin Firth’s excessively flamboyant Chandler was pretty funny though.
Colin Quinn.
Yeah.. yeah, Colin Quinn, that’s the ticket!
Eugene Levy’s hosting stint (with John Candy) got squashed by the writer’s strike during the 84-85 season. It is finally time to give us a Schmenge Brothers sketch with just Eugene Levy that plays to absolute silence. We deserve it, dammit.
I’ll just be happy to see Catherine and Eugene at all (I imagine it would just be through a pre-tape appearance, due to COVID); it probably will be cheesy, but Catherine always has a way of adding an edge to that type of stuff, and Eugene is just so endearing, he can sell anything.
If I had influence at SNL, I’d try to book Nathaniel Rateliff and Daniel Radcliffe on the same show and then ask the writers to tee up a bunch of name joke opportunities throughout the night without following through on any of them.
And they will run a raclette restaurant.
what the fuuuuuuk is that … a real 1%er. Dunno ‘bout the rest of y’all but I’m more in the microwaved Velveeta crowd
I once saw a Martha Stewart where she was demonstrating the raclette grill wheel thing, which is huge btw. After saying how gooey and comfy the melty cheese is she then stated, these are so great to have in you mountain or ski house for those cold nights. It was hilarious because she said it with a perfectly straight face like that’s somehow a regular thing. I’ve had it once at a restaurant and I know the Xmas village in Bryant park used to have a stand.
Like that $300 laminating machine she was demonstrating to preserve recipes clipped out of magazines. Then she asked the call-in viewer if she has a laminating machine.
They could always rehash this:
Which was followed by “David Oyelowo or Chiwetel Ejiofor?”
Djimon Hounsou, not Oyelowo.
Elijah. Wood.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I was on board with Krasinki all the way, even through that garbage Jack Ryan series on Amazon, but ten seconds in on Good News and the man was dead to me.
While I’ve long been tired of him, I cannot help but judge him by his wife. There is no chance that radiant and delightful woman has bad taste.
I’ve never seen SGN but have been curious.From a distance it comes across as a rich white dude telling people “lol what’s everybody so sad about, just be happy” in the midst of a pandemic and social unrest. Am I anywhere near target with that assessment?
Hey guys, I’ve never seen this show, but I’m gonna provide an idiotic, virtue-signaling opinion about it. Can anyone validate my baseless opinion? Maybe some other fool who also knows nothing about the thing I’m here to criticize for some reason? No?
Close. You missed that it also lazily stole content from existing “good news” websites, and that it was sold for a whole lot of fucking money, because flipping it for a profit was always the goal.
I couldn’t care less about flipping it for a profit (hi, welcome to America!), but the plagiarism claims are pretty lousy. Is he being sued?
Krasinski seems like the kind of guy who gets overly excited when “Sweet Caroline” is played. Not dead to me but thin ice for sure.
so it looks like they’re sticking with ~20 cast members for the foreseeable future? I figured post-election they’d cut a bunch of people so the cast intros don’t take 5-7 minutes?
I’m just happy they seemed to have stopped with the stunt casting for the meaty roles after the election happened.
yeah I’m pretty glad Carrey won’t be back as Biden every other week like Baldwin was as Trump; Biden just isn’t that funny, and the “he’s old and dotty” jokes were going to wear thin fast; and the only way to maybe make that palatable was to have Carrey lean really hard into his Ace Ventura schtick, which would also have gotten old really fast. I wish they could have talked Sudeikis into being Biden every now and then, he did well with that.
it’s so wild how long the intro is at the moment.
especially when you remember the original cast had 7 people and the intro took ~30-40 seconds. Now it just drags on and on.
Due to other filming commitments, at least 2-3 people tend to be gone at a time. Aidy Bryan and Cecily Strong missed most of the first half of the season. Kenan Thompson and Chris Redd missed one or two episodes as well. And Kenan and Chris may miss more, along with Kate McKinnon.
I don’t mind if Kenan leaves—he’s the only consistently funny guy there but he’s been there forever and he deserves to be allowed to try something different—but don’t also take Chris Redd for the same show, that would make me very sad.
They’ve said they aren’t leaving – I guess it will depend on how Kenan’s show does in the ratings for their decision next season.
I could care less about the hosts, but I’d actually want to check out the performances from Phoebe Bridgers and Nathaniel Rateliff. That’s a couple great gets.
Ha ha. Maybe they’ll make fun of the president. That would be hilarious.
I will forever refer to Regina King as Brenda. I can’t stop and don’t want to.
I’m really surprised about Regina King, especially given the few black female hosts in SNL history (this will be the first time two black women have hosted in one season). I know she may just get “host has a funny name” type material but I’m hoping they might give proper use to her great comedic and dramatic range – their pre-tape format could easily mine those talents.