This is when “SNL ”is again with “Stranger Issues”’ Finn Wolfhard as host

Recent off his last battle towards Vecna, Stranger Issues star Finn Wolfhard is heading to New York to host Saturday Night Live's first new episode of 2026. However the Mike Wheeler actor — and the SNL solid — want a little bit break first.

Nonetheless on winter hiatus, the NBC sketch comedy present will return to proceed season 51 on Saturday, Jan. 17, with the Stranger Things star making his internet hosting debut alongside first-time musical visitor A$AP Rocky.

The 23-year-old Wolfhard spent the previous decade making the hit Netflix collection, which premiered in 2016 and aired its finale on Wednesday, revealing the fates of the whole Hawkins gang. Other than his efforts to break down the Upside Down on Stranger Issues, his work has been very SNL-adjacent.

Most instantly, he appeared in Jason Reitman's 2024 SNL biopic, Saturday Night, taking part in an NBC web page struggling to assist fill seats in Studio 8H for its 1975 premiere episode. He beforehand performed Richie Tozier within the 2017 horror movie It and its sequel, It Chapter Two, during which SNL legend Invoice Hader portrayed the older model of the identical character.

He additionally starred in Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, sequel movies to the unique Ghostbusters franchise, which was co-created within the Eighties by authentic SNL solid member Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and starred Aykroyd and fellow SNL alum Invoice Murray. Each appeared in each Wolfhard motion pictures.

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When SNL returns for Wolfhard's episode it will likely be with out one acquainted face. Forged member Bowen Yang exited the present final month midway via his seventh season. The Emmy nominee was given a tearful goodbye on the Dec. 20 episode, hosted by his Depraved and Depraved: For Good costar Ariana Grande with musical visitor Cher.

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Season 51 of SNL kicked off on Oct. 4 with host Unhealthy Bunny and musical visitor Doja Cat. The premiere was additionally the primary episode with the present's 5 new featured gamers —Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Ben Marshall, Kam Patterson, and Veronika Slowikowska — after the departure of solid members Heidi Gardner, Michael Longfellow, Ego Nwodim, Emil Wakim, and Devon Walker.

Different earlier episodes this season had been fronted by SNL alum Amy Poehler with musical visitor 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.

A rerun of the Teller-fronted episode will air tonight on NBC within the present's standard time slot, adopted by a repeat of Glaser's internet hosting debut subsequent Saturday.

After the sketch present returns with new episodes this month, it’s anticipated to go on one other break whereas NBC airs the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics from Feb. 6 to Feb. 22, which incorporates three Saturdays.

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

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