Molly Shannon and Ana de Armas to guest-host ‘SNL’
There can be sufficient woman energy to go round “Saturday Night time Dwell” with these two lately introduced hosts.
Molly Shannon and Ana de Armas had been simply revealed to be among the many hosts slated for upcoming episodes of the NBC sketch present.
The comic, 58, will emcee on April 8 with musical friends the Jonas Brothers.
The “Blonde” star, 34, is showing on April 15 alongside “TQG” singer Karol G.
“Abbott Elementary” star Quinta Brunson was beforehand unveiled because the host of the April 1 episode, with rapper Lil Yachty performing.
The internet hosting gig will mark de Armas’ debut on “SNL,” arriving on the heels of the actress’ Oscar nod for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe.
It gained’t be the primary time Shannon has stopped by Studio 8H, after all.
The “Moist Sizzling American Summer season” alum was a solid member on “SNL” from 1995 to 2001 and in addition guest-hosted in April 2007.
Shannon’s most memorable “SNL” characters embody Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher, Sally O’Malley and Terry Rialto.
Amongst Shannon’s stints as Mary Katherine was a 1996 skit that featured the late pop icon Whitney Houston — with that scene additionally in the end inspiring the 1999 movie “Celebrity.”
Occurring Howard Stern’s eponymous radio show final yr, Shannon mirrored on collaborating with Houston on the sketch.
Shannon defined that the enduring scene with the “Heartbreak Lodge” crooner nearly didn’t occur as a result of she was afraid that Houston would overlook to indicate as much as set.
Rosie O’Donnell was additionally the host of the 1996 present and Penny Marshall even made an look in the course of the episode.
“Whitney was so good. They’re like, ‘She’s not going to be within the sketch. She’s not going to do it,’” Shannon recalled to Stern, 69. “I used to be like, ‘She’ll do it. Let me go speak to her.’”
The skit featured two nuns (O’Donnell and Marshall) prepping their college students for a choir competitors. Houston performed “the proper Jennifer,” a snobby well-liked woman who Mary Katherine tries to “out-sing” with the vacation tunes “Little Drummer Boy” and “Sleigh Trip.”
“Sometimes I would see where they would approach the musical guest and they would have too many lines or it’s too confusing,” the “White Lotus” star added.
“And I thought, ‘They don’t want to have all of this pressure memorizing these lines.’ So I just told Whitney, ‘Look, I’m going to play the Catholic school girl. You’re going to be like a snotty girl. All you have to do is, just do whatever you want. You just have to be snotty, push in front me, out-sing me. You can say whatever you want,’” she said.
Shannon continued, “She was like, ‘OK, I’ll do it, I’ll do it!’ So that’s how I got her to do it. And that’s what I meant. I was like, ‘Don’t even look at these papers. Just have fun!’”