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Every Host for SNL Season 49
Learn more about who's hosting Saturday Night Live in 2023-2024, including Sydney Sweeney, Adam Driver, and more.
It's official: We're just a few episodes away from the end of Saturday Night Live's 49th season, but the next two weeks will bring plenty of laughs before the season finale on May 18 with Host Jake Gyllenhaal.
The Season 49 cast largely retained its fantastic roster from Season 48 — solely adding one new cast member with featured player Chloe Troast — and now, the full line-up of SNL Season 49 Hosts has been revealed.
Season 48 brought excellent episodes hosted by the likes of Password Host Keke Palmer (who announced her pregnancy on the show) and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (who's already put in a cameo in Season 49), as well as Emmy-nominated stints from Pedro Pascal and Abbott Elementary's Quinta Brunson.
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Returning in October 2023, Season 49 kicked off with a premiere hosted by former cast member Pete Davidson, who delivered a touching cold open that connected his love of comedy and SNL with the death of his firefighter father on September 11, 2001.
Then, Latin music superstar Bad Bunny pulled double duty as Host and musical guest, Emma Stone earned her Five-Timers Club jacket, and Kate McKinnon returned to host SNL's 2023 Christmas episode, which featured surprise appearances from Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph. Who will host SNL for the first time in 2024? And which favorites will return? You'll know the second we do.
Here is every single person who hosted SNL in Season 49.
Every host of SNL Season 49 for 2023-2024
October 14: Pete Davidson
Musical guest: Ice Spice
Actor and comedian Pete Davidson was an SNL cast member for eight seasons. The October 14 season premiere was Davidson's first time as Host, alongside musical guest Ice Spice.
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October 21: Bad Bunny
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known by the stage name Bad Bunny, is a Puerto Rican singer, rapper, and actor. The Grammy-winning artist, who headlined Coachella in 2023 and closed 2022 as Spotify's most-streamed artist for the third year in a row, was SNL's October 21 Host and musical guest.
The hosting gig was technically Bad Bunny's third appearance on Saturday Night Live. He was a musical guest on February 20, 2021, and appeared in two sketches in the episode: "Sea Shanty" and the pretaped sketch "Loco." He also made a (remote) surprise cameo in a sketch of Kenan Thompson's during an April 25, 2020 "SNL at Home" episode in the Covid-19 pandemic.
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October 28: Nate Bargatze
Musical guest: Foo Fighters
Grammy-nominated stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze hosted the October 28 episode of SNL. Known for his family-friendly humor, Bargatze released his most recent comedy special, Hello World, on Amazon Prime in January 2023.
Bargatze has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon thirteen times, most recently in Jimmy Fallon's second week back on the air after a five-month absence. As Bargatze told Fallon, when Be Funny made a stop in his home state of Tennessee, his event shattered Nashville venue the Bridgestone Arena's attendance record, with 19,365 people in the audience.
The comic set another record on October 28: Nate Bargatze's SNL was the most-watched night of the season to date with 4.8 million viewers—and the most-watched episode since Steve Martin and Martin Short's in December 2022.
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November 11: Timothée Chalamet
Musical guest: boygenius
Timothée Chalamet hosted SNL for the second time on November 11. His debut was on December 12, 2020, which produced the popular "Rap Roundtable" sketch with Pete Davidson.
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The Academy Award-nominated American-French actor is known for films including Dune, Call Me By Your Name, and in 2023's Wonka, portraying a young version of the eccentric candy maker from Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
November 18: Jason Momoa
Musical guest: Tate McRae
Jason Momoa's November 18 episode was the actor's second time hosting SNL; the Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom star made his hosting debut on December 8, 2018. In 2023, Momoa also joined the Fast and Furious franchise as the unhinged villain Dante in Fast X. He also co-starred in 2021's Dune alongside November 11 Host Timothée Chalamet. Tate McRae was the musical guest.
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December 2: Emma Stone
Musical guest: Noah Kahan
Stone's December 2, 2023 episode of SNL was her fifth, officially making her a member of the Five-Timers club. She was inducted by members Tina Fey and Candace Bergen, who told Stone about the special "women's section" of the club. The Academy Award-winner also revived her Krissy Knox character for a new "Posters" sketch.
December 9: Adam Driver
Musical guest: Olivia Rodrigo
Driver's fourth SNL episode brought us a new favorite SNL Christmas sketch, introduced us to Driver's dazzling piano skills, and showed us how he can bring a menacing gravitas to any character, including a passive-aggressive Midwestern potluck dad.
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December 16: Kate McKinnon
Musical guest: Billie Eilish
After departing SNL as a cast member in 2022, McKinnon returned as a first-time Host on December 16—and she brought fellow alums and friends Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph with her. The SNL icons sang a Christmas tune in McKinnon's monologue, and appeared in a very funny ABBA Christmas album sketch as well as the Billie Eilish-assisted music video "Tampon Farm."
McKinnon was a part of the SNL family for 11 seasons, spanning a decade.
January 20: Jacob Elordi
Musical guest: Reneé Rapp
Since 2019, Australian actor Jacob Elordi has played Nate Jacobs in the series Euphoria; in 2023, he portrayed Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola's Priscilla. It was Elordi's first time hosting SNL, and he was the very first host of 2024.
Singer Reneé Rapp, who plays Regina George in the 2024 Mean Girls remake based on the Tony-nominated Broadway musical, was the musical guest. Rapp was joined by Megan Thee Stallion to perform Mean Girls single "Not My Fault," introduced by 2004 Mean Girls star Rachel McAdams.
January 27: Dakota Johnson
Musical guest: Justin Timberlake
Actress Dakota Johnson hosted SNL for the second time on January 27.
The Madame Web star's first time hosting was on February 28, 2015, when she revealed her deep family ties to the show during her monologue.
"You may not know this, but my parents are Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. In December of 1988, my mother stood in this exact spot and hosted SNL," Johnson told the audience. "Right after the show, my dad got down on one knee and proposed to my mom for the second time...and exactly nine months later, I was born. So I must have been conceived that night after the show, or maybe even during the show." It was then that the camera cut to her parents, Griffith and Johnson, shielding their faces in the audience.
February 3: Ayo Edebiri
Musical guest: Jennifer Lopez
Ayo Edebiri has played chef Sydney on the TV series The Bear since 2022, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe, and a Critics Choice Award in 2024.
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Edebiri also had a huge year in film roles in 2023, including a role in the movie Theater Camp, co-starring in the comedy BOTTOMS, voicing April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, and voicing Glory in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Edebiri's voice work also includes Missy Foreman-Greenwald on the animated series Big Mouth, and Harriet Tubman on Clone High. She's also guest-starred as April 1, 2023 SNL Host Quinta Brunson's sister on Abbott Elementary.
Prior to The Bear, Edeberi was a staff writer on the Apple series Dickinson, and even scripted an episode of vampire sitcom What We Do in the Shadows.
February 24: Shane Gillis
Musical guest: 21 Savage
Shane Gillis is a stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. His released his first comedy special, Shane Gillis: Live in Austin, on YouTube in 2021. His second stand-up special, Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogs premiered on Netflix in September 2023.
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Gillis hosts a podcast with comedian Matt McCusker, "Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast." He is also a repeat guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, Barstool Sports' KFC Radio, and Sirius XM's The Bonfire. In terms of onscreen acting roles, Gillis played "Gilly" in two episodes of Pete Davidson's semi-autobiographical Peacock series, Bupkis. You can also watch episodes of his web series and subsequent comedy special with comedian John McKeever, Gilly and Keeves, online.
March 2: Sydney Sweeney
Musical guest: Kacey Musgraves
Though the 26-year-old Madame Web actress has credits that date back to 2009, Sydney Sweeney broke out in 2018 with compelling roles in The Handmaid's Tale and Sharp Objects. She reached another stratosphere of fame the next year playing Cassie Howard in the teen drama Euphoria, for which she earned an Emmy nomination in 2022 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Sweeney flexed her comedic talent co-starring with Glen Powell in the 2023 rom-com Anyone But You.
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March 9: Josh Brolin
Musical guest: Ariana Grande
Dune: Part Two actor Josh Brolin put in his third stint as an SNL Host on March 9.
Earning a 2009 Academy Award nomination for his role in the biopic Milk, the movie star has had a decades-spanning career with notable roles such as Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, and Sicario.
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March 30: Ramy Youssef
Musical guest: Travis Scott
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Youseff co-starred in the 2023 film Poor Things with Emma Stone; he also created, wrote, and starred in the loosely autobiographical series Ramy for three seasons on Hulu. His new comedy special, Ramy Youssef: More Feelings—the follow-up to his 2019 special, Ramy Youssef: Feelings—premieres on HBO on March 23.
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April 6: Kristen Wiig
Musical guest: Raye
Kristen Wiig hosted for her fifth time on April 6.
A Saturday Night Live cast member from 2005-2012, Wiig has returned as both Host and for several cameos—most recently during Kate McKinnon's December 16 episode alongside their friend and former cast alum Maya Rudolph.
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In 2024, Wiig revives her voice role as Gru's wife, Lucy Wilde, in Despicable Me 4. She'll also topline the Apple+ mini-series Palm Royale, set in 1969 Palm Beach featuring a star-studded cast that includes Ricky Martin, Laura Dern, Allison Janney, and the legendary Carol Burnett.
April 13: Ryan Gosling
Musical guest: Chris Stapleton
Hosting for his third time, Ryan Gosling is a three-time Academy Award nominee, most recently earning a Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role nod for portraying Ken in Barbie.
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Gosling stars in the 2024 action film The Fall Guy with Oppenheimer's Emily Blunt.
May 4: Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa made her debut as SNL Host on May 4. She was also Musical Guest, performing "Illusion" and "Happy For You" from her third studio album, Radical Optimism.
Lipa is a three-time Grammy winner who's been nominated many times over, including several nods for her "Dance The Night" song from the Barbie soundtrack. The episode wasn't be the English-Albanian singer's acting debut: Lipa played sultry spy Lagrange in the 2024 film Argylle, and if you're one of the millions who flocked to see Barbie in 2023, you likely spotted the singer as a mermaid Barbie.
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May 11: Maya Rudolph
Musical guest: Vampire Weekend.
Actress, comedian, and singer Maya Rudolph will host SNL for her third time on May 11. Rudolph is a beloved former Saturday Night Live cast member who starred on the show from 2000-2007. She's returned many times in the years since, including multiple stints playing Vice President Kamala Harris.
In Season 49, Rudolph made several cameos in Kate McKinnon's December 16 episode, joining her monologue alongside Kristen Wiig and appearing in two hilarious sketches. This will be the LOOT star's third time hosting SNL, most recently on March 27, 2021.
May 18: Jake Gyllenhaal
Musical guest: Sabrina Carpenter
Jake Gyllenhaal is hosting Saturday Night Live's Season 49 finale, with first-time musical guest Sabrina Carpenter.
The star of 2024's Road House remake has hosted twice previously, in 2007 and 2022.
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Originally published Oct 15, 2023.
