Timothée Chalamet Thanks ‘SNL’ For Letting Him Pull Double Duty

It could be Timothée Chalamet‘s third time internet hosting Saturday Night time Reside, nevertheless it’s the two-time Oscar nominee’s first stint as a musical visitor.

“This can be a historic episode as a result of it’s the primary time an actor has additionally been a musical visitor of Saturday Night time Reside, and in case you’re questioning if that’s true, it’s not,” he started throughout his opening monologue. “That’s a distinction I share with the good Gary Busey.” (That is true, by the way in which; it was a March 1979 episode.)

And in case you had been hoping for a reprisal of Timmy Tim, don’t get your hopes up. The double duty-pulling host confirmed that he could be performing songs by Bob Dylan, in tribute to his efficiency within the newly minted Academy Award-nominated biopic, which garnered eight nods.

Evaluating his newest musical function with one other one — in 2023’s Wonka — Chalamet joked, “I truly found that the 2 males have lots in widespread: They’re each eccentric, they’re each innovators they usually each captured and enslaved lots of of Oompa Loompas.”

On these Oscar nominations, which led Chalamet to develop into the youngest two-time Greatest Actor nominee since James Dean, the Dune: Half Two star mentioned, “It’s an unlimited honor going to those awards exhibits, it’s such an awesome expertise, however I simply preserve shedding. And every time it will get a bit more durable to fake it doesn’t sting.” (A commonality he shares with earlier co-star and pal Saoirse Ronan.)

The sketch present then performed a spotlight reel of the actor’s reactions at numerous ceremonies, by which he misplaced to Mahershala Ali and Gary Oldman on two events, respectively, with every subsequent look yielding a extra somber and deadpan response.

“Man, simply one other lonely evening with my Dune popcorn pocket,” Chalamet quipped with a NSFW joke.

And when Chalamet tried to reclaim his thunder through the use of his monologue as a chance to learn out the speech he’s by no means had an opportunity to offer on stage, he was usurped by Kenan Thompson. In a close-up of Chalamet’s response, the actor didn’t break as soon as, giving a very award-worthy “if seems may kill” glare.

In concluding his monologue, Chalamet thanked the Lorne Michaels-helmed present for letting him carry out as Dylan: “I’m so grateful Saturday Night time Reside continues to be doing bizarre stuff like this, 50 years in. They’re both very nice for letting me do that, or extremely imply, and that is all a giant prank. I sincerely can’t inform. We’ll discover out.”

View the monologue above.