Each “SNL” season 51 host and musical visitor: Dangerous Bunny, Amy Poehler, extra

Saturday Night Live is lastly again for season 51, with a brand new lineup of celeb hosts, musical friends, and a solid that appears a bit totally different.

NBC's legendary sketch comedy present returns Saturday, Oct. 4, with pal of the present Dangerous Bunny on internet hosting obligation, whereas Amy Poehler and Sabrina Carpenter have additionally been introduced as upcoming hosts.

Notably, the Oct. 4 premiere marks Kenan Thompson's twenty second anniversary within the solid after debuting on Oct. 4, 2003. Different returning solid members for season 51 embody Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Marcello Hernández, James Austin Johnson, Sarah Sherman, Bowen Yang, and featured gamers Ashley Padilla and Jane Wickline. Longtime "Weekend Replace" anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost can even be again.

However a number of performers won’t be returning. During the last two months, we've realized Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, Devon Walker, Michael Longfellow, and featured participant Emil Wakim have all exited SNL. Please Don't Destroy member John Higgins additionally introduced his departure, that means we gained't be seeing any digital sketches from the comedy trio this season.

However count on to see much more of one other member of Please Don't Destroy as Ben Marshall has formally joined the solid, alongside 4 different new featured gamers: Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Kam Patterson, and Veronika Slowikowska.

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Learn on as we observe each new episode date, host, and musical visitor for Saturday Night time Reside season 51. Make certain to test again every week for episode recaps and new host bulletins, and inform us within the feedback which episode you're most excited for.

Oct. 4, 2025: Host Dangerous Bunny with musical visitor Doja Cat

Scorching off the information that he will probably be headlining the 2026 Tremendous Bowl halftime present, Dangerous Bunny will host the season opener.

The Grammy winner beforehand hosted in October 2023, additionally performing because the episode's musical visitor. He additionally simply served as musical visitor within the Scarlett Johansson-fronted season 50 finale in Could, making SNL historical past as the primary host or musical visitor to be formally billed on two consecutive episodes.

Doja Cat will make her musical visitor debut on the premiere.

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Oct. 11, 2025: Host Amy Poehler with musical visitor Position Mannequin

SNL nice Amy Poehler returns house to Studio 8H on Oct. 11, which can be the true fiftieth anniversary of the present's premiere episode on Oct. 11, 1975. This would be the Parks and Recreation star's third time internet hosting, together with cohosting with Tina Fey in 2015. Poehler was an SNL solid member from 2001-2008, together with anchoring "Weekend Replace" with Fey and later Seth Meyers.

The musical visitor for the Oct. 11 episode is Position Mannequin. That is the "Sally, When the Wine Runs Out" singer's SNL debut.

Oct. 18, 2025: Host Sabrina Carpenter with musical visitor Sabrina Carpenter

That's proper, Sabrina Carpenter is again and doing double obligation on Oct. 18. This marks the Coachella 2026 headliner's first time as host and second look as musical visitor. Carpenter additionally performed a giant half within the Emmy-winning SNL50: The Anniversary Special earlier this 12 months, together with duetting with Paul Simon and collaborating in a "Domingo" sketch after her hit tune "Espresso" helped launch the now-recurring character.

Saturday Night time Reside airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and Peacock.

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