{"id":572232,"date":"2026-04-08T17:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572232\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:53:08","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-matt-damon-will-ferrell-to-host-snl-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/572232\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo, Matt Damon &#038; Will Ferrell To Host &#8216;SNL&#8217; In May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nbc\" data-tag=\"nbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a> has scheduled three back-to-back shows in May to close out its 51st season, starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/olivia-rodrigo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_olivia-rodrigo\" data-tag=\"olivia-rodrigo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a> doing double duty as host and musical guest on May 2. This will be Rodrigo\u2019s first time as host and third time as musical guest. The Grammy winner\u2019s new album, you\u00a0seem\u00a0pretty\u00a0sad for a\u00a0girl\u00a0so in\u00a0love,\u00a0will drop\u00a0June 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matt-damon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-damon\" data-tag=\"matt-damon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Damon<\/a> returns for his third time as host on May 9 with musical guest Noah Kahan for his second go-round. Oscar winner Damon next will be seen in Christopher Nolan\u2019s highly anticipated The Odyssey, which hits theaters July 17. Grammy nominee Kahan\u2019s fourth album, The Great Divide, will be released April 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/will-ferrell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_will-ferrell\" data-tag=\"will-ferrell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Ferrell<\/a>, in his sixth time as host, will close out the month on May 16, the season 51 finale, with Paul McCartney, returning for his fifth time as musical guest. Emmy winner Ferrell exec produces and stars in the new comedy series The Hawk, which premieres this summer on Netflix. McCartney\u2019s new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, is set for release May 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNew episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNL<\/a> continue this Saturday, April 11 with host Colman Domingo and musical guest Anitta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSNL airs live on NBC (11:30 p.m. ET\/ 8:30 p.m. PT) and streams live on Peacock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> is produced in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBC has scheduled three back-to-back shows in May to close out its 51st season, starting with Olivia Rodrigo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,15281,1254,8246,12015,12016,92,14072],"class_list":{"0":"post-572232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-matt-damon","10":"tag-nbc","11":"tag-olivia-rodrigo","12":"tag-saturday-night-live","13":"tag-snl","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-will-ferrell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}