Molly Shannon to Return as "SNL" Host, Ana De Armas also Announced as Host

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Molly Shannon, Ana De Armas Announced as "SNL" Hosts, Karol G Slated to Make Musical Guest Debut
by BreAnna Bell
March 27, 2023


Molly Shannon will return to Studio 8H to host “SNL” for the second time on April 8, NBC announced on Monday.

She’ll be joined by the Jonas Brothers as the musical guest. This marks the third time the brothers have taken the “SNL” stage.



Academy Award nominee Ana de Armas will host “SNL” for the first time on April 15.

Karol G will make her first appearance as musical guest. Her newest album, “Mañana Será Bonito,” is the first all-Spanish album by a female artist to hit #1 the Billboard 200 chart.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/mol...ts-1235565422/

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SO MUCH YES!!!

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i just love Molly!!!!!

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Molly Shannon brought SNL back to its freaky glory days

Thank goodness for Molly Shannon.

By Amanda Wicks

APRIL 9, 2023, 1:02 PM ET

When Molly Shannon auditioned for Saturday Night Live in the mid-’90s, she received some appallingly bad advice. A scout warned her against doing the character Mary Katherine Gallagher—a geeky teenager who stuck her hands in her armpits and smelled them when she got nervous—because the show’s executive producer, Lorne Michaels, wouldn’t like it. “He’ll think it’s weird, that dirty little character,” Shannon recalled being told. Despite listening to that guidance for her first round, Shannon surfaced Mary Katherine during her second, and Michaels saw the potential. Which is why last night, more than 20 years after her last appearance on SNL, we got to see Shannon as host teaching the Jonas Brothers how to smell their armpits. And though Mary Katherine didn’t make a full appearance, Shannon’s episode was a striking reminder that character work was once essential to SNL’s success.

When Shannon joined the cast in 1995, the show was attempting to correct the previous year’s slump. Characters were a way forward, and Shannon became a major player. In many ways, she was the character queen. There was Mary Katherine, of course, but she also introduced viewers to a wealth of other weirdos who paved the way for the likes of Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon to chase their ideas down more outrageous paths. Along with her fellow cast members Cheri Oteri and Anna Gasteyer, and the writers Paula Pell and Tina Fey, Shannon began to shift the notion of SNL as a boys’ club and reveal new possibilities. Her often extremely physical comedy reveled in excess, challenging cultural expectations of what women in the industry should and shouldn’t do. She created characters who were, more often than not, too much: too strange, too brash, too subdued.

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So good that it deserves to be posted twice!!!!!

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SNL had the worst episode of the season, but it was not all Ana de Armas' fault

Ana de Armas hosted the worst episode of Season 48 of Saturday Night Live, full of half-written sketches and unnecessary recurring bits.

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i thought it was awful. Certainly not funny