• Two time Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet (A Full Unknown) returns to Studio 8H tonight for some enjoyable as each the host and musical visitor. That is Chalamet’s third time internet hosting, the final time again in 2023 proper because the WGA/SAG strikes had been ending and he was selling Wonka.
• Chalamet is the fourteenth actor to look on the present as each host and musical visitor, although he is likely one of the few who’s primarily identified for performing and doesn’t have a longtime singing profession of his personal (the one different particular person seemingly being Lily Tomlin, however do not quote me on that for positive).
• After this episode, the present goes on a brief hiatus and returns on Sunday, February 16 with a large fiftieth anniversary celebration. Within the meantime, NBC is gearing up for the discharge of a brand new documentary, Women and Gents…50 Years of SNL Music. It is co-directed by Oz Rodriguez and Questlove, and options wonderful footage and interviews from a number of hosts who pulled double responsibility on the present like Dua Lipa, Mick Jagger, Miley Cyrus, and Unhealthy Bunny. It additionally options interviews with artists like Jack White, who needed to fill in at a second’s discover in 2020, or Tom Morello of Rage In opposition to the Machine whose efficiency served as a protest in opposition to the host of their episode (then-presidential candidate Steve Forbes).
• The documentary may also contact on moments just like the Funky 4 + 1’s 1981 efficiency (the primary hip-hop efficiency on the present), Elvis Costello’s notorious “Radio Radio” stunt, Ashlee Simpson’s lip synch jig, Kanye West’s 2018 meltdown, and Sinéad O’Connor’s courageous and unfairly maligned 1992 efficiency.
hello mods, i hoped this could possibly be printed earlier than 8:30PM PST/11:30EST? thanks!
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