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Dwell from New York, it’s Saturday evening! Season 47 of Saturday Evening Dwell is properly underway, and present runner Lorne Michaels has but to disappoint along with his selection of present hosts and musical company. This week, comic Natasha Lyonne, 43, makes her internet hosting debut at Studio 8H alongside first-time musical company Japanese Breakfast, on Saturday, Could 21.

Natasha Lyonne is ready to make her ‘SNL’ internet hosting debut on Could 21. (NBC)

Owen Wilson, 52, opened the season with musical visitor Kacey Musgraves, 33, on Oct. 2. The Marriage ceremony Crashers star additionally made his internet hosting debut in season 47, chalking up the lengthy wait to nerves. “I get actually nervous with public talking. I’ve by no means performed any of these graduation addresses or Saturday Evening Dwell simply because I get too nervous,” he defined on a hike to pal Kevin Nealon in a YouTube video. Owen slayed it, and even had some assist from his brothers Andrew, 57, and Luke, 50, throughout his opening monologue.

Study extra about this week’s present under.

Natasha Lyonne Is Internet hosting ‘SNL’ For The first Time

Saturday Evening Dwell welcomes Natasha Lyonne for the primary time to the present! The 43-year-old is not any stranger to the comedy world together with her common collection Russian Doll on Netflix, in addition to her hilarious function on the present Orange Is The New Black. Past these roles, she’s also referred to as Jessica from the American Pie franchise.

She took to social media to announce the internet hosting information on Could 13. “Dwell from New York it’s yippee ki yay, motherf——-!!!,” she exclaimed on Instagram, captioning a screenshot of the present’s basic post-it picture together with her title and the musical visitor. She added loads of airplane, coronary heart and sunglass-wearing emojis, capturing her pleasure in regards to the alternative.

Natasha additionally appeared in a promo with Kate McKinnon, who can be showing in her final episode on Could 21 amid information that she is departing the present, in addition to Kenan Thompson and Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner. “Hello, I’m Natasha Lyonne and I’m internet hosting the season finale of SNL this week with musical visitor Japanese Breakfast,” she introduced, as Kate famous that her voice is “iconic” earlier than evaluating her to Marge Simpson from The Simpsons and “each secretary’ in a film. “Probably not a praise,” Natasha quipped. “You sound such as you’ve had COVID for a thousand years,” Kenan additionally quipped, as Natasha mentioned she was “sufficiently insulted.”

The ‘SNL’ Musical Visitor Tonight Is Japanese Breakfast

Japanese Breakfast, fronted by vocalist Michelle Zauner, together with bass participant Deven Craige, are set to make their SNL debut on Could 21! The group got here collectively again in 2013, and has earned accolades within the indie music business, particularly for 3 releases: 2016’s Psychopomp, Smooth Sounds From One other Planet which dropped in 2017. The group launched their third album Jubilee in 2021, which obtained rave evaluations.

Zauner, who’s Korean-American, has beforehand mentioned she got here up with the title Japanese Breakfast as a result of it sounded “curious.” She mentioned to Teen Vogue, “I believe I simply wished one thing that sounded sort of curious, like one thing that sounded actually American and well-known, like breakfast, and mixing it with one thing that I believe American folks simply affiliate with one thing unique or international.”

“I believed it might make folks curious, like, ‘What’s a Japanese breakfast?’ Japanese Breakfast is kind of like stunning, and I actually get pleasure from it. I believe I used to be simply footage of it sooner or later and was similar to, ‘Oh, I’ll simply launch this album beneath this title’,” she defined in 2017.

What Time Is ‘SNL’ On?

Saturday Evening Dwell airs at 11:35 p.m. PST/EST and 9:30 p.m. MT on native NBC associates. The collection will also be streamed reside on the Peacock app.

SNL — Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim and Bowen Yang are all returning for season 47. (Will Heath/NBC)

‘SNL’ Forged Members This Season

Saturday Evening Dwell has numerous new forged members becoming a member of the present this season, together with Andrew Dismukes, Sarah Sherman, James Austin Johnson, Punkie Johnson and Aristotle Athari.

Michael Che and Colin Jost stay of their roles as “Weekend Replace” hosts, which they took over in 2014 from Seth Meyers and Cecily Sturdy. Different returning forged members embody Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, Kenan Thompson, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Alex Moffatt, Kyle Mooney, Chris Redd, Ego Nwodim, Melissa Villaseñor, Bowen Yang and Cecily.

SNL — Pete Davidson and Colin Jost are seen on ‘Weekend Replace’ throughout Season 46. (Will Heath/NBC)

Beck Bennett and Lauren Holt introduced their departures forward of season 47. Beck, 36, took to social media with a heartfelt message about his exit. “Love you, SNL,” he wrote on Sept. 27. “Gonna miss you a lot. Thanks for 8 years of outstanding folks and unbelievable experiences that fully modified my life. I had a lot enjoyable,” he additionally penned, alongside a slew of picture highlights which you can see here.

Beck Bennett pronounces his departure from ‘SNL.’ (Instagram/Beck Bennett)

Lauren additionally shared a candy tribute to mark the tip of her one 12 months run. “What an unbelievable 12 months spent with unbelievable folks. I’ll at all times be so grateful,” the comic started. “Cheers to all of the forged members previous, current, & future…so proud to be/have been part of this wonderful household. These three letters will at all times convey pleasure to my coronary heart… SNL, I like you,” she additionally mentioned.