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Timothée Chalamet will be knocking on the door of Studio 8H.
Saturday Night Live announced on Friday, Jan. 10, that the Oscar-nominated actor, 29, will be the host and the musical guest of the Jan. 25 episode. The late-night sketch comedy show also revealed that Dave Chappelle will host and GloRilla will be the musical guest on Jan. 18.
Though Chalamet does not have his own music, he will likely perform Bob Dylan hits from his latest movie, A Complete Unknown, in which he portrays the 83-year-old singer-songwriter at the start of his career.
The role has earned Chalamet nominations at the 2025 Golden Globes, where he lost to The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody, the 2025 Critics Choice Awards and the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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This will be Chalamet’s third time hosting and his first stint as musical guest. He previously hosted Saturday Night Live in November 2023 and December 2020.
Chappelle, 51, will be hosting for the fourth time when he returns on Jan. 18. The comedian picked up Emmys in 2021 and 2017 for two of his previous turns as host, the latter of which marked the first SNL episode after Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016.
“It was a perfect storm of circumstances that made me do it,” Chappelle said on CBS This Morning of why he decided to host in 2016. “Lorne Michaels is a genius. So Lorne had decided that he wanted … he was adamant that I do the slot after the election. ‘I want you to do the first show after the election.’ But the decisive factor had a lot to do with A Tribe Called Quest.”
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Chappelle ultimately said “yes” to the hosting gig because A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip told him the group would be the episode’s musical guest; the gig came months after the death of their member Phife Dawg.
“When Q-Tip decided to do the show, he said he wanted me to host,” Chappelle explained. “We had talked about it before, but he was very emphatic. And he goes, ‘Dave, this is the last Tribe album ever.’ And that was the tipping point, you know? Like … well, if you really want to honor someone’s legacy, you know?”
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GloRilla, 25, will be making her Saturday Night Live debut when she serves as the musical guest of the Jan. 18 episode. The rapper earned two Grammy nominations this year for her hit song “Yeah Glo!”
Next month, Saturday Night Live will celebrate its 50th season with a three-hour live primetime special airing on NBC and Peacock. A four-part docuseries titled SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night will also debut on Peacock on Jan. 16.
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Saturday Night Live season 50 resumes Saturday, Jan. 18, at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC.