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Saturday Night Live’s historic season 50 is over and done, with an Emmy Award to prove it. Now, the show must go on. Three first-time hosts will open the year: Finn Wolfhard will be the first host of 2026, followed by Teyana Taylor and then Alexander Skarsgård. The musical guests will be A$AP Rocky, Geese, and Cardi B, respectively. It will be A$AP Rocky’s and the band Geese’s first time performing on the show.
Below, all the hosts and musical guests for season 51 of Saturday Night Live so far.
Before the show goes on break for the Winter Olympics, Skarsgård will make his hosting debut, promoting his film Pillion. He’ll be joined by SNL vet Cardi B, who is back for her first time as musical guest since 2018. Her first run is remembered for her sketch with Aidy Bryant, “Aidy B.” Which current SNL girlie could swap lives with Cardi for a day? We’d love to see Jane Wickline.
Taylor, who is heading straight for an Oscar nomination for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, parodied Waiting to Exhale for her promo video. She has technically appeared on SNL before, as part of Kanye West’s 2017 performance, singing their song “We Got Love,” which never technically came out due to sample issues. The musical guest will be the Brooklyn rock band Geese, led by front man Cameron Winter, who James Austin Johnson impersonated on the Christmas episode. Will we get dueling Winters?
Stranger Things star Wolfhard will make his SNL hosting debut on the first show back after the holiday break. He’ll be joined by Gov Ball headliner A$AP Rocky as musical guest, who will also be making his debut. This will be the first show back since Bowen Yang’s departure. Hopefully, Wolfhard has a George Santos impression in him if need be.
Ariana Grande is returning to SNL for the last ep before Christmas. In the promo for December 20’s episode, Grande goes full A Christmas Story and overdresses to check out the RockaFellaCenta (f. Bowen Yang) Christmas tree. This will be Grande’s third time hosting the show, and fourth appearance overall, as she was the musical guest for the season 40 premiere. How does that affect her five-timers club induction? Cher is doing her first musical guest spot in almost 40 years. The last time she sang on SNL was in 1987.
Oi mistah, it’s an all-Brits ep of SNL, innit? Hobbymaxxer Josh O’Conner is on his Wake Up Dead Man press tour, and it demands a stop at 30 Rock. He’s joined by Lily Allen, who seems to be strategically timing this West End Girl performance between Stranger Things volume drops. In case we ever forget who the fuck Madeine is.
Melissa McCarthy kicks off festive season at SNL. The five-timers club member casts herself as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree star in her promo vid. Joining her on December 6 is R&B singer-songwriter Dijon. And no, Dijon is not the pseudonym for Mustard’s French yé-yé alt project. He’s his own guy.
It’s crazy that Glen Powell hasn’t hosted Saturday Night Live yet, right? The human charm machine made an appearance during Sydney Sweeney’s 2024 gig but hasn’t hosted himself. That changes on the 15th, when the Top Gun: Maverick star will arrive to promote his new movie, The Running Man, out November 14. His promo video, a shot-for-shot(ish) remake of Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” video is an homage to Five Timers Club member Christopher Walken. So he’s fixing to come back real soon. Powell’s hosting debut is alongside fellow first-timer Olivia Dean, whose song “Man I Need” is currently running up the charts.
Comedian Nikki Glaser has had a remarkable few years — she destroyed the Tom Brady roast on Netflix, she killed it hosting the 2025 Golden Globes, and she premiered a fantastic stand-up special. Now, she’s taking on her first time hosting Saturday Night Live. We expect that monologue to be perfect — that’s how she rolls. She’s joined by Sombr, a Timothée Chalamet look-alike songwriter making his SNL debut.
Miles Teller will host the first show of November, promoting his new movie Eternity, out November 26. This will be Teller’s second time hosting, after hosting the season 48 premiere the summer he starred in Top Gun: Maverick. But his best appearance ever on the show was maybe when he was featured in SNL 50’s “Bronx Beat” return. Let’s hope some of Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler’s sketch savantism rubbed off on him. Teller will be joined by Brandi Carlile, marking her fourth time as musical guest on SNL and her third time solo — she had one round performing with Elton John during season 50.
Sabrina Carpenter with musical guest Sabrina Carpenter? “The woman wondered what she had gotten herself into,” the “Tears” singer types into a dead laptop like Carrie Bradshaw, now with even less self-awareness. Her commitment to a bit is scaring the cast members (and one writer). Hosting the show for the first time after performing “Nonsense” and “Feather” two seasons back, Carpenter also joined Paul Simon onstage at the SNL50 special and sang wonderfully off-key in the final “Domingo.” She’s clearly Lorne’s best friend.
Amy Poehler promises to be a good hang on October 11. Her promo video makes fun of the fact that it’s been a dang minute since she was a regular on the show. She fakes knowing new cast members Veronika Slowikowska, Kam Patterson, and Jeremy Culhane, then cops to it immediately. “I thought I was coming into this building to get a mammogram,” she says. “And it turns out I’m hosting. Oopsie.” She then gets into a closet, thinking it’s an elevator. Surely she recovered some of her bearings at the 50th-anniversary show?
The Super Bowl might be the only concert that Benito’s doing in the U.S. during this tour, but he’s still willing to come to the States to put on a show at Studio 8H. The world’s most famous bunny since Bugs is back to host SNL with musical guest Doja Cat. Call that the animal kingdom.
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