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I keep telling you, ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Harry Styles is not good at this.
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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Ryan Gosling breaks ‘Saturday Night Live’ for the fourth time
Saturday Night Live
Ryan Gosling & Gorillaz
March 7, 2026
BIG NEWS, GUYS: Lorne Michaels reads my blog! Because how else can you explain that the last time Gosling hosted in 2024, I wrote this:
I’m pretty sure the entire world agrees that Ryan Gosling is not just a pretty face, he’s genuinely hilarious, and clearly delights in being funny. But maybe he delights a little too much in being funny, especially if you’re one of those people who hates when the host and/or cast begins breaking mid-scene. Because Ryan Gosling Can. Not. Keep. It. Together.
Hating it when the cast breaks is a legitimate complaint that many people have — I’m old enough to remember Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz making each other crack up which felt like a cheap way to make the audience laugh with them when the sketch wasn’t otherwise working. That said, Gosling’s giggles seem genuine, and they are, like it or not, highly contagious.
Bring him back sooner THAN SEVEN YEARS FROM NOW, Lorne.
And then not only did Lorne not wait another seven years to bring Gosling back, they also made THE ENTIRE EPISODE about Gosling breaking! Which, OK, now that I know Lorne Michaels is reading this — and he definitely is — a couple of notes:
- Great job on bringing Ryan Gosling back quickly.
- Making the cast break is like cumin: a little goes a looooooong way.
Turns out, when everyone in every Goddamn sketch is struggling to keep it together, it’s distracting, and sometimes even irritating. It’s not that it’s not fun, at least at first– it is very contagious — but when every sketch is an exercise in breakage, when you explicitly tell us you are trying to make the cast break, the gimmick becomes obvious: it becomes cheap, and the magic dies a little.
Some gentle suggestions, Lorne Michaels:
- Let’s get Ryan Gosling in that Five-Timers smoking robe sooner rather than later.
- But less breaking. At the very least, pretend it’s organic.
Great talk, Lorne! Let me know if you want my thoughts on who should replace you!
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BREAKING: Ryan Gosling and everyone else on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
Ryan Gosling & Chris Stapleton
April 13, 2024
Somehow this is only Ryan Gosling’s third time to host Saturday Night Live which … just doesn’t feel right. But according to my sources, the first time he hosted was in late 2015, and then in 2017, and now this week. Which begs the question — HOW DID WE GO SEVEN YEARS WITHOUT RYAN GOSLING HOSTING SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AGAIN? LORNE?
Because here’s the thing: especially following Barbie, I’m pretty sure the entire world agrees that Ryan Gosling is not just a pretty face, he’s genuinely hilarious, and clearly delights in being funny. But maybe he delights a little too much in being funny, especially if you’re one of those people who hates when the host and/or cast begins breaking mid-scene. Because Ryan Gosling Can. Not. Keep. It. Together.
Hating it when the cast breaks is a legitimate complaint that many people have — I’m old enough to remember Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz making each other crack up which felt like a cheap way to make the audience laugh with them when the sketch wasn’t otherwise working. That said, Gosling’s giggles seem genuine, and they are, like it or not, highly contagious.
Bring him back sooner THAN SEVEN YEARS FROM NOW, Lorne.
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