{"id":644646,"date":"2026-05-15T12:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644646\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:19:13","slug":"paul-mccartney-will-ferrell-in-snl-promos-paul-sings-despacito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644646\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney &#038; Will Ferrell in &#8216;SNL&#8217; Promos: Paul Sings &#8216;Despacito&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEven though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/paul-mccartney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul McCartney<\/a> has been making music for nearly 70 years and has a legendary catalog to pull from, Will Ferrell and Marcello Hernandez make an unusual prediction for what the Beatles singer\/songwriter might perform when he appears as the musical guest on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn new promos, this weekend\u2019s host, SNL alum Ferrell, and current cast member Hernandez appear alongside McCartney, who\u2019s promoting his upcoming 21st solo studio album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/paul-mccartney-every-track-the-boys-of-dungeon-lane\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Boys of Dungeon Lane<\/a>, which arrives on May 29. But it\u2019s not a song from his new album that Ferrell and Hernandez are expecting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSir Paul, everyone\u2019s wondering what songs you\u2019re going to play on Saturday,\u201d Hernandez says in the promos, but McCartney responds: \u201cI won\u2019t tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFerrell has an idea: \u201cWhat if we guess? If me and Marcello say it at the say time, will you tell us if that\u2019s what you\u2019ll be singing?,\u201d to which McCartney relents, \u201cSure, why not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn the count of three, Ferrell and Hernandez make their prediction in unison: \u201c\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/latin\/despacito-lyrics-translation-english-meaning-7873132\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Despacito<\/a>\u2018 remix featuring Justin Bieber!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cDamn, how\u2019d you know?\u201d McCartney says in shock when they guess the Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee hit, which topped the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a> for a then-record-tying 16 weeks back in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the promos below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSaturday will mark McCartney\u2019s fifth time as a musical guest on the show, and it will be almost 46 years to the day since his performance debut on the show, on May 17, 1980. McCartney also performed on both the 40th and 50th anniversary Saturday Night Live specials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFerrell spent seven seasons on SNL as a cast member, from 1995 to 2002. This will mark his sixth time returning as the host.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSaturday Night Live\u00a0airs at 11:30 p.m. ET\/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and streams on Peacock. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/culture\/product-recommendations\/how-to-watch-saturday-night-live-online-free-9546472\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See all the options to watch\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/snl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNL<\/a>\u00a0here.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even though Paul McCartney has been making music for nearly 70 years and has a legendary catalog to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1036,278226,88,9262,498,12015,12016,92,49142],"class_list":["post-644646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-comedy","tag-comedy-news","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-rock","tag-music-news","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl","tag-tv","tag-tv-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644646","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=644646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}