Timothée Chalamet will likely be each the host and musical visitor on the Jan. 25 episode of “Saturday Evening Stay,” NBC introduced on Friday, placing him within the rarefied group of performers who’ve been requested to play each roles on a single episode.
Chalamet’s look, which will likely be his third stint as host, comes amid a glitzy promotional run and Oscars marketing campaign for the biopic “A Full Unknown,” wherein he performs a younger Bob Dylan. The movie, which makes use of Chalamet’s vocals, recreates the efficiency on the 1965 Newport People Competition when Dylan went electrical.
It was unclear as of Friday afternoon whether or not Chalamet would carry out any songs by Dylan. NBC didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
Essential opinion of the movie has been considerably divided, however Dylan himself appeared to provide the movie a thumb’s up when he posted on X that Chalamet was “sensible.” That didn’t spare him from some light ribbing on Sunday on the Golden Globes.
“Dude, you have been so good in ‘A Full Unknown’ as Bob Dylan,” the present’s host, Nikki Glaser, riffed in her opening monologue. “In actual fact, I truly learn that your singing voice was so correct that even Bob Dylan himself admitted that it was completely horrible.”
Chalamet’s flip as each host and musical visitors in the identical episode places him in a rarefied membership of fewer than 50 individuals who have pulled “double responsibility,” in keeping with NBC. He’ll be a part of the likes of the Rolling Stones, Olivia Newton-John, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, Billie Eilish and most just lately Charli XCX, in November. Even rarer are “S.N.L.” musical visitors who aren’t skilled singers, an inventory that features Gary Busey, Lily Tomlin and Deion Sanders.
NBC’s additionally shared that Dave Chappelle, the comic, would host the primary present of the yr on Jan. 18, with GloRilla, the rapper from Memphis, Tenn., scheduled to be the musical visitor. Chappelle hosted the post-presidential election episodes in 2016 and 2020, however final November that gig went as a substitute to a unique comic, Invoice Burr.
