Will Forte and Willem Dafoe are next up to host SNL
Italian band Måneskin and Katy Perry will serve as musical guests
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The newest batch of Saturday Night Live hosts and musical guests have been announced. On January 22, SNL alum Will Forte will host with musical guest Måneskin. Then, on January 29, Willem Dafoe will host, with musical guest Katy Perry.
SNL released a promo video for Forte’s appearance with clips of some of his most iconic sketches and desk bits, including (this writer’s personal favorite), Jon Bovi, the reverse cover band, and MacGruber. The MacGruber sequel series premiered on Peacock in December. Forte joined SNL in 2002 and left the show in 2010. He has never hosted before.
This week’s musical guest, Måneskin, rose to fame when they won the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, representing Italy. The band was briefly embroiled in controversy when it looked like they might have been doing drugs on camera during the show, but their names were ultimately cleared. After the song contest, their 2017 track“Beggin’” became a hit in America. They won the contest with their song “Zitti e buoni.”
Meanwhile, Dafoe is coming off his extremely fun turn in the blockbuster hit Spider-man: No Way Home, where he reprised his role as Norman Osborn, a.k.a. the Green Goblin. Dafoe will also be hosting SNL for the very first time. Hopefully some of the SNL writers saw The Lighthouse and can give us the the nightmarish mermaid sex sketch we deserve.
Katy Perry has been busy with her new Las Vegas residency, Play, which began at the end of December. The show immediately made a buzz online when footage of Perry singing with poop that rose out of a giant toilet hit the internet. Hopefully she brings some of her extremely chaotic set with her to the SNL stage. Perry was the SNL musical guest once before, in a 2010 episode hosted by Amy Poehler.
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Singing with a poop?
Hidey-hi!
Sometimes it’s nutty, sometimes it’s firm, sometimes it’s practically water!
It can be brown or greenish-brown!
Gonna miss Perkins covering these. Fuck Spanfeller.
For sure. Wonder if they are even gonna bother to cover the show now
You know, I’m something of a poster saying “Get fucked, G/O Media” myself.
Man, this is just gonna be like Deadspin all over again with permanently locked commenting, isn’t it :,(
Not before I make it out of the greys for years, goddamnit!
Forte is also in one of the greatest 10-to-1 sketches ever. Cemented my love for Blake Lively, for sure.
Best part is depicting NASA headquarters as the dispatch office of a small trucking company.
Everybody’s acting in this is Oscar-worthy. Seriously.
Katy Perry was also the musical guest on May 20, 2017 with host Dwayne Johnson.
I will never understand why that horrid cover of “Beggin’” became so popular. It’s like if Frankie Valli was a shitty singer. Just fucking trash.
I can’t stand that song. The singer sounds like Cartman going on a tirade.
Bobby Peru on the SNL stage? Does he dare live out the American Dream!?!?
Gillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly!
“L to R: Will Forte and Willem Dafoe”
Uh, yeah, we know.
Forte: “I never thought I’d host SNL side by side with Willem Dafoe.”Dafoe: “What about side to side with Willem Dafriend?”Forte: “Aye. I could do that.”