The SNL cast has had the week off following Kristen Stewart’s appearance as the sketch comedy show’s host on November 2. Coldplay also appeared in the episode, serving as the night’s musical guests.
While the SNL team has taken a break to regroup and prepare for the upcoming holiday special and final episodes of the first half of Season 45, NBC has planned to simply broadcast a rerun of the show featuring former cast member Kristen Wiig.
The network has given fans the chance to catch Wiig’s last appearance on SNL in an episode she hosted live on November 19, 2019. The xx performed as the musical guest that night. The rerun is slated to air on NBC on Saturday at 10 p.m. ET.
The episode marked Wiig’s second time hosting SNL—she first took the reins in May 2013—since departing from the cast. A former student at The Groundlings Theater, from which many of SNL’s elite comedians hail, Wiig first arrived on SNL during its 31st season in 2005 as a featured player. Her first sketch on the show was alongside Jason Sudeikis. The pair portrayed a good-natured couple whose blind kindness led them to pick up a hitchhiker who was actually a murderer on the run, played by Jason Lee.
Wiig was promoted to regular player status in 2006 and remained as a main cast member SNL until 2012.
While fans loved Wiig’s Kathy Lee Gifford impersonations, the hilarious characters she created made her one of SNL’s most celebrated comics during her tenure on the show. She was the mastermind of plenty of SNL’s most beloved characters like Target Lady, the red-vest-wearing employee who is overly excited to work at the mass retailer; the “sexy new girl” at the office, Shana; and Mindy Grayson, a frequent visitor on the game show sketch “Secret Word.” Wiig’s most beloved character may have been Penelope, the unfiltered over-exaggerator whose best quality was one-upping everyone she encountered.
NBC has announced that SNL will return with a brand new episode on November 16, with Harry Styles booked to pull double duty, filling both host and musical guest roles. Styles is expected to perform tracks from his forthcoming album, Fine Line, which is set for a December release. Styles dropped the first single off the album, “Lights Up,” in October.
Although it will mark Styles’ first time as SNL host, the musician has certainly appeared on the show before. He previously performed as the musical guest in 2017 during an episode hosted by Jimmy Fallon. Before that, Styles performed on SNL alongside his former One Direction bandmates.
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The show won’t return with new Season 44 hosts and performers until next month, with Jennifer Lopez scheduled to take the reins first on December 7. It will mark her third time in Studio 8H—the Rockefeller Center location where SNL is produced in New York—after having hosted in 2001 and 2010. Lopez will be accompanied by musical guest DaBaby, who will hit the SNL stage for the first time ever.
Scarlett Johansson will follow in Lopez’s footsteps and take over as host for the December 14 episode . She will be joined by Niall Horan, whose appearance marks his first as a solo artist. Horan has performed on SNL in the past with his former British boy band, One Direction.
SNL alum Eddie Murphy will close out the first half of the season as host along with musical guest Lizzo on December 21.
Although viewers will have to wait a week before they get to see new sketches and skits on SNL, they can still tune into the show on Saturday. SNL will run during it’s usual NBC time slot at 11:30 p.m. ET, however, the network will air an earlier Season 45 episode hosted by David Harbour.
The actor made his hosting debut on SNL in an episode that aired on October 12. He was joined by singer Camilla Cabello, who also was a first-timer to the SNL stage.
Although Harbour is most known for playing more dramatic roles—he stars as Jim Hopper in Netflix’s highly acclaimed science fiction thriller series Stranger Things—the 44-year-old still managed to bring the funny with his SNL appearance. In fact, one of his leading parodies is already being dubbed one of the best sketches of the season.
Harbour appears as Oscar the Grouch in the three-minute-long “Grouch,” a humorously dark and spot-on parody of the Joker movie trailer based on the beloved grumpy Sesame Street character. Working as a garbage man alongside SNL regulatory player Chris Redd, Harbour as the gritty antihero Oscar essentially loses his mind—much like Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker—from witnessing the crime and corruption on Sesame Street.
“If everyone calls you trash, and everyone treats you like trash, why don’t you just become trash?” Harbour says in the sketch.
Since a rerun of SNL is airing on Saturday, viewers won’t be able to live stream it on NBC’s website, but Harbour’s episode and every other one from Season 45 so far are available for viewing on-demand via the NBC app. Folks with Hulu can catch old episodes of the show there too.
