'Saturday Night Live' To Close Out 50th Season With Walton Goggins, Scarlett Johansson

The end of a landmark season has arrived, and it’s bringing some friends and family

We’re actually here. NBC has announced the final two headliner sets for Saturday Night Live’s milestone 50th season, with Walton Goggins hosting on May 10 with musical guest Arcade Fire and Scarlett Johansson hosting the season finale on May 17 with musical guest Bad Bunny. This comes off having already announced host Quinta Brunson and musical guest Benson Boone for its May 3 episode.

Goggins is making his debut as host, not only coming off of a successful stint on the third season of HBO’s The White Lotus, but four seasons of The Righteous Gemstones, which airs its series finale on May 4. On top of those, he was Emmy-nominated for his role as Cooper Howard aka The Ghoul on Prime Video’s Fallout, so he’s racking up quite the success. Previously a star of The Shield, Justified, Vice Principals, and The Unicorn, he currently voices Cecil Stedman on Invincible as well. Arcade Fire will be musical guest for the seventh time first doing so on February 24, 2007 with host Rainn Wilson, performing “Intervention” and “Keep the Car Running”. They were Johansson’s musical guest on November 13, 2010 performing “We Used To Wait” and "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)". They joined Mick Jagger, who was doing double duty as host and musical guest on the season 37 finale on May 19, 2012 to support his performance of “The Last Time”. They returned as musical guest for the season 39 premiere hosted by Tina Fey, performing “Reflektor” and “Afterlife”. Members William and Win Butler and Régine Chassagne cameoed in the “New Cast Member or Arcade Fire?” sketch, while Butler would introduce Miley Cyrus’s performance of “50 Ways To Lose Your Lover” at the 40th anniversary special. The whole band returned for the March 17, 2018 episode hosted by Bill Hader, where they performed “Creature Comfort” and “Put Your Money On Me”. Their most recent episode appearance was the Benedict Cumberbatch-hosted May 7, 2022 episode, with "Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)", "The Lightning I, II" and performing "End Of The Empire II" during the goodnights. At the SNL50 homecoming concert, they joined David Byrne, St. Vincent, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band for David Bowie’s “Heroes” and their own “Wake Up”. Their new album, Pink Elephant, will be released on May 9.

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Johansson has hosted five other times: January 14, 2006 with musical guest Death Cab for Cutie, April 21, 2007 with musical guest Bjork, May 2, 2015 with musical guest Wiz Khalifa, March 11, 2017 with musical guest Lorde, and December 14, 2019 with musical guest Niall Horan. This seventh hosting appearance will be the most for any woman in the show’s history, breaking a tie with Drew Barrymore and Fey. All indications say she first started dating 12-season castmember and 20-year writer Colin Jost following the May 20, 2017 Dwayne Johnson/Katy Perry-headlining season 42 finale, where she played Ivanka Trump for the third time. Her sixth and most recent time was in the “The White POTUS” sketch in the most recent Jon Hamm/Lizzo episode from April 12. This hosting gig will be her fourth appearance this season, being part of Martin Short’s Five-Timers Club festivities in December and playing The Lawrence Welk Show singer Janice and Little Shop of Horrors’s Audrey in the New York Mulaney Musical in the 50th anniversary special in February. While she’s basically promoting Jurassic World: Rebirth, it being the season finale heats up speculation that it might be Jost’s final episode.

Bad Bunny returns as musical guest for the third time, after the February 20, 2021 Regé-Jean Page episode, performing "La Noche de Anoche" and "Te Deseo lo Mejor" and doing double duty on October 21, 2023, performing “Un Preview” and “Monaco”. At the homecoming concert, he performed "Baile Inolvidable" and "DTMF" in his own segment and did an operatic twist on “I Just Had Sex” during the Lonely Island medley. At the 50th anniversary special, he played Domingo’s brother Santiago at Matt and Kelsey’s vow renewal. Will they go for a fourth with this convenience?

Since the announcement takes us to season’s end and the lineup will likely never sound exactly as this again, Saturday Night Live’s 50th season has starred Jost, Michael Che, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Marcello Hernandez, James Austin Johnson, Michael Longfellow, Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, Kenan Thompson, Bowen Yang, Devon Walker, Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim and Jane Wickline.

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Source: Deadline