{"id":428539,"date":"2026-05-15T06:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428539\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T06:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:35:12","slug":"paul-mccartney-reveals-hes-a-dragonslayer-and-sings-despacito-in-snl-promos-with-will-ferrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428539\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney Reveals He’s A Dragonslayer And Sings “Despacito” In ‘SNL’ Promos With Will Ferrell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul McCartney turned down being in the hot seat for the Netflix roast<\/a>, but he’ll serve as a musical guest on SNL this weekend for the season finale. It’ll be Sir Paul’s fifth time as musical guest, but he is a longtime friend of creator\/showrunner Lorne Michaels and has made several additional cameos over the years. It’ll be former cast member Ferrell’s sixth time hosting. The promo clip is here now.<\/p>\n

McCartney, Ferrell, and cast member Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez joke that people will only be tuning in to see McCartney’s performance. The Beatle also quips that he’s a big fan of Hern\u00e1ndez’s mom \u2014 a callback to last week’s Matt Damon monologue<\/a> for Mother’s Day.\u00a0Hern\u00e1ndez asked McCartney what it’s like being a knight (he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997 for his “services to music”), and McCartney nonchalantly mentions that he once slayed a dragon. The clip ends with the trio singing “Despacito” (the Justin Bieber remix, to be clear). Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Paul McCartney sang “Despacito”? Well, he really only mouths it a little bit. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile the host-only promo<\/a> earlier this week called back to Ferrell’s Get Off The Shed sketch from the ’90s and featured a joke about McCartney that involved Ferrell hitting him with a belt.<\/p>\n

McCartney’s 21st solo album The Boys Of Dungeon Lane arrives at the end of the month, and today he previewed a new track called “Salesman Saint” on The Rest Is History<\/a> podcast. Watch the promo clips below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney turned down being in the hot seat for the Netflix roast, but he’ll serve as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-428539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}