NBC announced today that Ryan Gosling will be hosting Saturday Night Live for the fourth time on March 7th.
This will be the first time that he has been back on the show since he played Beavis and Butt-head with Mikey Day, and made Heidi Gardner break. If they don’t find a way to have them reprise those characters during the episode, then they are missing a huge opportunity. It was the best SNL sketch in years, and remained that way until Ariana Grande played Kevin McAllister in a Home Alone the Horror Movie in December!
Gosling, who is promoting Project Hail Mary, will be joined by Gorillaz as musical Guests. Can you believe it is the first time they have ever appeared on the variety series?
Today, Saturday Night Live released a cut segment from Weekend Update, and I don’t know why they cut it.
Newcomer Tommy Brennan, a Minnesota native, did a segment about ICE being unwanted in his home state. And it is hysterical.
It is not only because we got to rewatch that ICE agent slip on the ice and land on his ass. It was what he wrote, and how he delivered it.
Because of that, I bet if Michael Che and Colin Jost ever step down from the news update, he could take over for them. Don’t you think he would be great for the job?
Seriously, I don’t know why they kept Jane Wickline’s unfunny button bit over this. This was brilliant. That was stupid.
If you thought that the biggest news coming from tomorrow’s Saturday Night Live was going to be from musical performer Cher, host Ariana Grande, or Michael Che and Colin Jost swapping jokes, you were wrong.
Today, Variety is reporting that tomorrow will be Bowen Yang’s final bow as a Not-Ready-For-Primetime-Player.
After 7 years and 150 episodes, he is off to see the Wizard.
Yang joined the sketch comedy series in 2018 as a writer, and a year later, he was promoted to on-air.
Along with starring on SNL, he also appeared in Wicked and Wicked: For Good with Grande, and he co-hosts the podcast Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers. So he will be OK with whatever he does next. But he will be missed.
The beloved SNL star joins Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner, Michael Longfellow, Devon Walker, Emil Wakim, and John Higgins, who also departed the variety show this season.
UPDATE: Bowen Yang confirmed the news on social media.
Marcello Hernández is Saturday Night Live’s biggest breakout in the last few years, and Netflix saw that. So they offered the fan favorite a comedy special.
Marcello Hernández: American Boy marks his first-ever stand-up special after his rise to fame on Saturday Night Live. In front of a hometown crowd in Miami, Marcello shares laugh-out-loud experiences of growing up as a first-generation American.
I am excited for this because he is so gosh darn likable. Personally, he is the only SNL hire in the last few seasons who is funny. Prove me wrong.
Christmas is coming early on Saturday Night Live because Ariana Grande is hosting the final 2025 episode with CHER as the musical guest on December 20th. This has been the best combo since. I don’t know since! Kudos for making it happen. I just hope it doesn’t disappoint. Plus, you know they will do at least one skit together, and maybe another where Ariana does an impression of Cher. Maybe they can do a Freaky Friday thingy!
In other SNL news, Melissa McCarthy hosts as Dijon sings on December 6th. The following week, Josh O’Connor and Lily Allen do the same.
Fun fact: This is only the second time Cher has been a musical guest on SNL. The last time she belted out her songs on the variety show was 1987. And she hasn’t aged in nearly 40 years.
Oh, and not-so-fun fact for Cher: Grande wasn’t even alive in ’87; she made her debut in 1993. How Wicked is that?
