• Saturday Evening Stay returns from winter hiatus on Jan. 17.
• Stranger Issues star Finn Wolfhard will kick off the primary new episode of the 12 months.
• Season 51 might be lacking a longtime solid member after Bowen Yang's exit in December.

Saturday Night Live is popping season 51 Upside Down when it returns from its winter hiatus in January with a Stranger Issues star because the 12 months's first host.

The legendary NBC sketch comedy present introduced throughout tonight's present that season 51 will resume on Saturday, Jan. 17 with host Finn Wolfhard and musical visitor A$AP Rocky.

Apart from combating Vecna on the ultimate season of the Netflix hit, Wolfhard just lately appeared in Jason Reitman's SNL biopic Saturday Night, taking part in an NBC web page.

Whereas the episode might be stacked with star energy, the season might be down one acquainted face as longtime solid member Bowen Yang might be lacking from Studio 8H. The Emmy-nominated comic exited the present in the course of his seventh season on the solid, saying goodbye on the Dec. 20 episode hosted by his good buddy and Depraved costar Ariana Grande alongside the legendary Cher in her first return since her 1987 SNL debut.

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Yang's exit follows the departures of 5 of his previous costars forward of the season 51 premiere in October. Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, Devon Walker, Michael Longfellow, and Emil Wakim have been all absent from the brand new season. Of their place, the present added 5 new featured gamers: Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Kam Patterson, Veronika Slowikowska, and Please Don't Destroy member Ben Marshall.

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Earlier episodes this season featured Unhealthy Bunny with Doja Cat, Amy Poehler with Function Mannequin, Sabrina Carpenter doing double obligation as host and musical visitor, Miles Teller with Brandi Carlile, Nikki Glaser with Sombr, Glen Powell with Olivia Dean, Melissa McCarthy with Dijon, and Josh O’Connor with Lily Allen.

After the primary spherical of upcoming episodes, the present will go on one other break as NBC would be the broadcast residence of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, which kick off on Friday, Feb. 6, and run by way of Sunday, Feb. 22.

Saturday Evening Stay airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and Peacock.

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