It might be Timothée Chalamet‘s third time internet hosting Saturday Evening Stay, nevertheless it’s the two-time Oscar nominee’s first stint as a musical visitor.
“It is a historic episode as a result of it’s the primary time an actor has additionally been a musical visitor of Saturday Evening Stay, and when you’re questioning if that’s true, it’s not,” he started throughout his opening monologue. “That’s a distinction I share with the nice Gary Busey.” (That is true, by the way in which; it was a March 1979 episode.)
And in case you had been hoping for a reprisal of Timmy Tim, don’t get your hopes up. The double duty-pulling host confirmed that he can be performing songs by Bob Dylan, in tribute to his efficiency within the newly minted Academy Award-nominated biopic, which garnered eight nods.
Evaluating his newest musical function with one other one — in 2023’s Wonka — Chalamet joked, “I truly found that the 2 males have so much in widespread: They’re each eccentric, they’re each innovators they usually each captured and enslaved a whole bunch of Oompa Loompas.”
On these Oscar nominations, which led Chalamet to develop into the youngest two-time Greatest Actor nominee since James Dean, the Dune: Half Two star mentioned, “It’s an infinite honor going to those awards exhibits, it’s such an amazing expertise, however I simply maintain shedding. And every time it will get a bit more durable to faux it doesn’t sting.” (A commonality he shares with earlier co-star and buddy Saoirse Ronan.)
The sketch present then performed a spotlight reel of the actor’s reactions at varied ceremonies, wherein he misplaced to Mahershala Ali and Gary Oldman on two events, respectively, with every subsequent look yielding a extra somber and deadpan response.
“Man, simply one other lonely evening with my Dune popcorn pocket,” Chalamet quipped with a NSFW joke.
And when Chalamet tried to reclaim his thunder by utilizing his monologue as a possibility to learn out the speech he’s by no means had an opportunity to offer on stage, he was usurped by Kenan Thompson. In a close-up of Chalamet’s response, the actor didn’t break as soon as, giving a very award-worthy “if appears to be like might kill” glare.
In concluding his monologue, Chalamet thanked the Lorne Michaels-helmed present for letting him carry out as Dylan: “I’m so grateful Saturday Evening Stay continues to be doing bizarre stuff like this, 50 years in. They’re both very nice for letting me do that, or extremely imply, and that is all an enormous prank. I sincerely can’t inform. We’ll discover out.”
View the total monologue beneath:
