{"id":289834,"date":"2025-11-17T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289834\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:03:10","slug":"snl-books-cher-as-musical-guest-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289834\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SNL\u2019 books Cher as musical guest for the first time in nearly 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmi3ij7od000x2cp5bpt7hgg8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Soon there will be no need to turn back time, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/23\/entertainment\/cher-first-name-memoir\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cher<\/a> is set return to the \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d stage.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmi3io35900003b60d8dpautq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Oscar-, Emmy- and Grammy-winner is set to be the musical guest on the December 20 episode of the long-running NBC sketch show, according to the network, which on Monday announced the final hosts and musical guests of 2025. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/06\/entertainment\/wicked-one-wonderful-night\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked: For Good<\/a>\u201d star Ariana Grande will host the episode.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmi3ipqzl00053b60jal7i97i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Cher last appeared as the musical guest on \u201cSNL\u201d just ahead of Thanksgiving 1987, 38 years ago.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmi3izgyl00093b602x1kbywp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In the time since, she has returned to \u201cSNL\u201d in a cameo capacity on multiple occasions, most recently in 2011.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmi3jjyrh00003b6q9zs5jhuk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Earlier this year, the \u201cBelieve\u201d singer performed as part of the \u201cSNL50: The Homecoming Concert\u201d to mark the classic comedy revue\u2019s 50th anniversary.\n    <\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gettyimages-141128332.jpg\" alt=\"Musical guest Cher performs on \" snl=\"\" on=\"\" november=\"\" class=\"image_large__dam-img image_large__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image_large__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1043\" width=\"1600\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmi3j62i500053b60zpjut9iu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Other hosts helping \u201cSNL\u201d to close out the year include Melissa McCarthy, hosting on December 6 with musical guest Dijon, and \u201cChallengers\u201d actor Josh O\u2019Connor, hosting the December 13 episode. Joining O\u2019Connor as the musical guest that weekend is singer-songwriter Lily Allen, whose most recent album \u201cWest End Girl\u201d has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/28\/entertainment\/lily-allen-tmi-autumn-taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">been making headlines<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmi3ja9tn000b3b606htlprlq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d airs on NBC on Saturdays at 11:30 pm ET.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soon there will be no need to turn back time, as Cher is set return to the \u201cSaturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-289834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}