'SNL' announces Jean Smart, Ariana Grande, Michael Keaton and more as Season 50 hosts

‘SNL’ announces Jean Smart, Ariana Grande, Michael Keaton and more as Season 50 hosts

“Saturday Night time Stay” has set its first batch of hosts for Season 50, together with Ariana Grande, John Mulaney, Michael Keaton and extra.

Internet hosting for her first time, Jean Sensible will open the season on Sept. 28 with musical visitor Jelly Roll, adopted by an Oct. 5 episode hosted by Nate Bargatze that includes songs from Coldplay.

Grande will host “SNL” for the second time on Oct. 12 with musical visitor Stevie Nicks. Keaton will go to Studio 8H on Oct. 19 with Billie Eilish, and Mulaney will host on Nov. 2 with “SNL” first-timer Chappell Roan.

Sensible is recent off her third Emmy win for the Max comedy “Hacks,” whereas the Grammy-nominated Jelly Roll, who carried out on the Emmys, will probably be performing in anticipation of his new album, “Superbly Damaged,” out Oct. 11.

Comic Bargatze, who continues his “Be Humorous Tour” via the autumn, returns to the “SNL” stage after internet hosting in 2023. Coldplay will be part of him within the band’s eighth look as musical visitor. The Chris Martin-led outfit will launch its tenth album, “Moon Music,” on Oct. 4.

Grande will lead “Saturday Night time Stay” forward of “Depraved,” coming to theaters Nov. 22, as Fleetwood Mac icon Nicks returns after her first “SNL” efficiency in 1983.

Keaton was final seen in “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” reverse Jenna Ortega and Winona Ryder, and his subsequent movie “Goodrich” will debut in theaters Oct. 18. He’ll be joined by Eilish in her fourth stint as “SNL” musical visitor, this time in help of her 2024 album “Hit Me Laborious and Smooth.”

Mulaney, who was a author on “Saturday Night time Stay” from 2008 to 2013, will host for the sixth time. The Emmy winner and slapstick comedian stars within the new Broadway play “All In: Comedy About Love,” opening Dec. 11. Roan, who blew up this yr with songs like “Good Luck, Babe!” and “Scorching to Go!,” will convey her energetic pop hits to Studio 8H for the primary time.

“Saturday Night time Stay” will rejoice its fiftieth season with a reside primetime particular on Feb. 16. The sequence airs on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET and streams on Peacock. NBC is owned by NBCUniversal, the mother or father firm of NBC Information.

“SNL” is produced in affiliation with Broadway Video. Lorne Michaels is the creator and government producer.