Three hosts have been announced that will complete Season 51 of the show. Nick Kroll and Olivia Rodrigo will host for the first time, and John Mulaney will make his seventh appearance as host in the season finale on May 9.
Rodrigo has twice appeared as musical guest, once in Season 46, and again in Season 49. She will pull double-duty on May 2 when she is both host and musical performer.
On April 18, Kroll makes his first hosting appearance, with musical guest Beck. He is a standup comedian who has become an accomplished voice actor and producer. His most notable credits are as co-creator of the Netflix series Big Mouth, and The League, which appeared on FX.
Mulaney is a former SNL writer and standup comedian. He is famous form writing the Stefon appearances performed by Bill Hader on SNL’s Weekend Update. Mulaney has also penned a few of the most popular sketches of the 21st century, including Airport Sushi. He hosted most recently in Season 50. This will mark his seventh hosting gig in nine seasons.
In his previous six hosting appearances, Mulaney’s episodes never scored lower than a C+ according to the grades here at SNL Rankings.
Mulaney’s musical guest will be The Cure, an iconic British band entering its sixth decade of performing.
Rodrigo is set to release her third album, titled “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.” The pop star got her start as a teen actor in several series on Disney, including High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. She’s been heavily lauded for her music: earning three Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, and two Billboard 200 number-one albums in the United States. Rodrigo has won three Grammy Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, and seven Billboard Music Awards.
Rodrigo will be the third person to serve as both host and musical guest this season, following Sabrina Carpenter and Harry Styles.
