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Saturday Night Live
Harry Styles
March 14, 2026

This is Harry Styles’ second time to host Saturday Night Live, and I think we have enough information that we can just go ahead and call it: Harry Styles is not a good Saturday Night Live host, and from here on out, he should only be invited as a musical guest.

Back when he hosted in November 2019, I noted that Styles was handsome and charming, but he’s not an actor, much less a comedic actor. Since then, he starred in the mess of a film, Don’t Worry Darling, where he was called “the weak link,” “utterly and helplessly adrift,” and “cute, but a dud.” Last night’s performance suggests that he hasn’t improved in the four years since then.

Because this episode, it wasn’t as bad as his debut performance in 2019, but that’s thanks to a strong “Weekend Update” that he was not invited to, and a series of sketches that he was not tasked with carrying. Instead, in most bits, he was little more than a pretty piece of furniture. And when he was given a line or two … it was painful to watch. He has no sense of comic timing and can barely seem to read the cue cards.

Sure, the audience was losing their damn minds over everything he said and did, but that’s because he’s Harry Styles, not because he’s good at any of this. And that’s the real problem, right? Styles will bring in the eyeballs, and so he’s always going to be invited to be on SNL. But maybe once and for all, we can finally declare that the good-looking singer should stay in his lane and just perform his hit songs and wear his little gender-bending outfits and leave the comedy to the professionals.

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