natasha lyonne he is making it big saturday night live will debut later this month, hosting the season 47 finale on May 21. The news was announced on Friday afternoon using the usual sticky notes, which has become the standard way of announcing the long-running comedy show’s upcoming hosts.
The musical guest for the final episode will be the experimental pop band Japanese Breakfast. “END OF SEASON!!!” SNL he tweeted excitedly.
Needless to say, Lyonne is a hot commodity right now, with the second season premiere of her beloved and mind-blowing Netflix series. Russian doll last month, which received an impressive 97% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes.
In season 2, Lyonne’s Nadia Vulvokov and her friend Alan (Charlie Barnett) go back in time, hoping to right family wrongs, similar to quantum leap. However, unlike NBC’s popular time-travel drama of the ’90s, in this case, Nadia and Alan find that changing the past is easier said than done.
Lyonne had experienced a career resurgence in recent years, after playing recluse Nicky Nichols for seven seasons on the Netflix series. orange is the new blackbefore moving on to co-create Russian doll with Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland.
“Thank you [SNL]!!!! Over the Moon!!” Lyonne tweeted shortly after the news was announced.
Lyonne also retweeted a fan who had previously called her to host, along with a photo of her with cast members Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant. “I love these babies and I love this place!” she added.
Writer-producer Jake Fogelnest also hyped the next episode of Lyonne, looking back on another epic. SNL episode.
“Do you remember when Francis Ford Coppola directed the episode with host George Wendt and musical guest Phillip Glass in 1986?” Fogelnest tweeted. “With [Lyonne] to the much-deserved helm of the season finale, we’re going to get a good one.”
It should be an epic episode of television, that’s for sure.
