'Saturday Night Live' Gets A Gladiator Tipsy With Paul Mescal And Shaboozey In December
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It’s the end of another round of hosts and musical guests on NBC’s sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. It turns out that they’re taking the rest of November off. In the midst of their episode with Charli XCX as host and musical guest, which featured a Domingo sequel with Kelsey’s baby shower, another impression carousel for Wicked auditions and a Thanksgiving Baking Championship full of lewd creations, it was revealed that the show will return December 7 with host Paul Mescal and musical guest Shaboozey.
Both of them will be first-timers, so there’s no history to go over, but both are quickly rising stars. Mescal was introduced to American audiences with his role in the critically-acclaimed television series Normal People, which aired on Hulu. He breaks out starring in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, his first big budget film role, which opens next week. The sequel to the 2000 film that won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Mescal plays Hanno, the former heir to the Roman empire now forced to return to his home and fight as a gladiator. The film also stars Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Connie Nielsen, Fred Hechinger, and Denzel Washington.
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Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”, which combines country and hip-hop using a J-Kwon interpolation, has been #1 on the Hot 100 singles chart for a record-breaking 17th week. His third studio album, Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going, was released in May. He is nominated for five Grammys, Best New Artist and Best Melodic Rap Performance for “Spaghetti” by Beyoncé with him and Linda Martell off Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album, with three nominations for “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” itself: Song of the Year, Best Country Song, and Best Country Solo Performance. He posted the show’s corkboard pic to his Instagram, calling it “MORE GOOD NEWS!”, very much referencing his latest single, “Good News” which released this past Friday.. Grabbing him makes sense after Charli and Chappell Roan, as they are the three biggest names in music over the past several months.
Checking in on what the election results have brought, Dana Carvey has stuck around for both episodes thus far, playing Elon Musk last week and playing President Joe Biden once again this week. As Trump fills out his cabinet for the new administration, viewers were introduced to Sarah Sherman’s Matt Gaetz, as well as former Trump portrayer Alec Baldwin’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his second cold open cameo of the season. Carvey has appeared in all seven episodes this season. And no I don’t understand why every trade decided to recap who the hosts and musical guests were this season instead of summarizing who Shaboozey is the same way they did for Mescal. It was not helpful.
Saturday Night Live’s 50th season stars Sherman, Michael Che, Mikey Day, who was shut out for the first time in Charli’s episode, his 167th, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Marcello Hernandez, James Austin Johnson, Colin Jost, Michael Longfellow, Ego Nwodim, Kenan Thompson, Devon Walker, Bowen Yang, and newly-hired featured players Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim and Jane Wickline. There will be two more episodes in December which will finish out the year, with its hosts and musical guests likely announced together in the next few weeks.
Source: LateNighter
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