Saturday Night Live
Timothee Chalamet
January 25, 2024
Our host Timothee Chalamet is nearly 30 years old, you guys, and it feels like he has grown up before our eyes because he has. This is his third time to host, the last two times being in 2023 and 2020. And I have to admit, the little guy is growing on me! Chalamet has always been a game host, though not always the most comfortable with comedic material. But in the past five years, Chalamet has matured a great deal and become a lot more comfortable both in his own skin and with comedy. This episode was without question his best SNL outing, both because he had fun material to work with it and he was just having such a good time with it.
Additionally, Chalamet was the musical guest last night, performing his “favorite” Bob Dylan songs in honor of his Oscar-nominated performance in the Oscar-nominated film, A Complete Unknown. It was a risky choice: while there have been a number of hosts who have also served as the musical guest (49, to be exact, including Chalamet) most of those were by performers who are best known as musicians before actors. Depending on how you count Donald Glover, the number of hosts who were not known as musicians, excluding Chalamet, are exactly three: Lily Tomlin, Deion Sanders, and one Gary Busey. It should be noted Sanders and Busey each hosted exactly one time. But it was a risk that paid out for SNL and Chalamet: his performances were remarkably strong, and well-received overall.
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