Morgan Wallen, Elton John with Brandi Carlile, and Lizzo will serve as musical guests
Saturday Night Live has booked Mikey Madison, Jack Black, and Jon Hamm to host the next three episodes of the show. They’ll be joined by musical guests Morgan Wallen, Elton John with Brandi Carlile, and Lizzo.
Madison recently won a Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in Anora, which left critics stunned. “As one of the best things about Pamela Adlon’s FX show Better Things and a death-by-flamethrower standout in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Mikey Madison has already made her mark,” wrote Rolling Stone‘s David Fear in a review of Anora. “This role ups said impact level on viewers to seismic.”
She’ll be hosting SNL on March 29 alongside musical guest Morgan Wallen. He was first booked on the sketch show in October 2020, at the height of Covid. They dumped him days before the broadcast when video surfaced of him breaking Covid quarantine protocols at a party. Jack White came onto the show with little advanced notice, and Wallen was invited back for the Dec. 5 show, where he poked fun at the party incident in a sketch.
Jack Black hasn’t hosted the show in 20 years. He’s returning April 5 to promote A Minecraft Movie. (If he hosts just once more after this, he’ll join the Five-Times Club.) Elton John and Brandi Carlile will be playing songs that evening from their collaborative album Who Believes in Angels?, which lands just one day prior to the broadcast.
Jon Hamm will also be hosting the show for the first time in quite a while when he helms the April 12 episode. He last did the honors during his Mad Men days in October 2010. (Like Black, this will be his fourth stint.) Hamm is promoting his new Apple TV+ series Your Friends and Neighbors, which has already been renewed for a second season. Lizzo is his musical guest. She performed double duty as the host and musical guest on April 16, 2022, and was the musical guest on two other occasions.
SNL and NBC have spent the past few months celebrating the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live (which won’t actually take place until Oct. 11), culminating in a mega-concert at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, and a television special packed with guests from throughout the entire history of the show.