'Saturday Night Live' Pattern Burr-eaks With Bill Burr & Charli XCX As Next November Hosts
'Saturday Night Live' Pattern Burr-eaks With Bill Burr & Charli XCX As Next November Hosts
Live from New York it'll be a post-election world!
Saturday Night Live has averted a personal crisis. After four episodes to open its milestone 50th season, the NBC sketch comedy series took last week off and are now headed into this week’s episode hosted by former writer John Mulaney in his sixth stint, with first-time musical guest Chappell Roan, one of the biggest rising artists of 2024. Seeing as it’s just coming back from break, it’s the start of another cycle, this one being all three weeks before Thanksgiving, leaving two more host/musical guest teams to announce for the November 9 and 16 episodes.
Mulaney’s position of hosting the last episode before the presidential election mimicked that of the previous election cycle in 2020, which would be followed by comedian Dave Chappelle’s second consecutive time hosting the post-election episode. Knowing that the show had brought Chappelle back in 2022 following the midterm elections despite his increasingly prominent transphobia, it left a lot of fans on edge that they would “keep up the tradition” by booking him again. Luckily those fears have been quelled with stand-up comic Bill Burr, who hosts for the second time as he promotes his current tour, Bill Burr Live. He first hosted in season 46, the second episode back from COVID lockdown that forced the season to end at home. His musical guest then was Jack White, and this time it’s Mk.gee, who makes his debut having recently released his debut album, Two Star & The Dream Police. His musical genres have been described as indie, alternative, lo-fi, experimental indie, R&B, and soft-psychedelia, with musical influences that include Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, The Black Keys, and Sly Stone.
The November 16 episode has Charli XCX booked as musical guest for the fourth time, and will be hosting for the first time, the first double duty guest of the season. Lately, she was the bringer of Brat Summer thanks to her sixth album Brat featuring songs like the social media-popular “Apple”, and released the remix album, Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat, earlier in October. She was played by cast member Bowen Yang in a sketch from this season’s premiere hosted by Jean Smart, a talk show called The Talk Talk Show with Charli XCX. She commented that the tribute was “great”.
Indeed, Charli’s been booked as musical guest four times, but the second was the December 18, 2021 Paul Rudd episode that was completely reformatted as the Delta COVID variant tore through, notably infecting cast member and writer Colin Jost and guest Jimmy Fallon. Her musical performances of "Good Ones" and "New Shapes" were canceled but she did manage to make it onto the show with an appearance in the “Christmas Socks” pretape. It would be made up with the March 5, 2022 episode hosted by Oscar Isaac, where she performed “Beg For You” and “Baby”. Like October hosts Michael Keaton and Ariana Grande, she also appeared in season 40, making her debut as musical guest for the December 13, 2014 episode hosted by Martin Freeman, where she performed “Boom Clap” and “Break the Rules”.
With Thanksgiving being the following week, expect November 30 to be the start of another round of three episodes to close out the year. Saturday Night Live’s 50th season stars Yang, Jost, Michael Che, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Marcello Hernandez, James Austin Johnson, Michael Longfellow, Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, Kenan Thompson, Devon Walker, and newly-hired featured players Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim and Jane Wickline. Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris portrayal was joined by Andy Samberg as husband Doug Emhoff, comedian Jim Gaffigan as Vice President nominee Tim Walz, and Dana Carvey as President Joe Biden instead of Day, as unveiled in the season premiere. Election results permitting it seems Rudolph is likeliest to be kept around more than the others, but we’ll see how it goes.
Source: Deadline