Mumford & Sons, Muse Tapped for New ‘SNL’ Season
Saturday Night Live has unveiled the hosts and musical guests for three episodes of its upcoming 38th season. Family Guy creator and Ted mastermind Seth MacFarlane will host the season premiere on September 15th with Frank Ocean as the musical guest. Joseph Gordon-Levitt will host the September 22nd episode with Mumford & Sons as musical guests, and the show will take a British turn on October 6th with Daniel Craig as host and Muse as musical guests. The episodes will be MacFarlane’s first as host and Craig’s debut on the show. Gordon-Levitt hosted SNL in 2009.
Abby Elliott, Andy Samberg and Kristen Wiig left SNL after last season, and Jason Sudeikis has expressed interest in new creative opportunities if he is to stay with the show.