January 25, 2025 Season 50 episode
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| Episode | 980 |
| Season Episode | 12 |
| Host | Timothée Chalamet |
| Musical Guest(s) | Timothée Chalamet |
| Song(s) performed by Musical Guest(s) |
First performance; A Medley of: "Outlaw Blues" and "Three Angels" Second performance: "Tomorrow is a Long Time" |
| Previous Episode January 18, 2025 |
Next Episode Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special |
The 980th episode and 12th episode of Saturday Night Live's 50th season premiered on January 18, 2025, hosted by American and French actor Timothée Chalamet, who also served as the episode's musical guest and the star of the hit films One & Two, Miss Stevens, Call Me by Your Name, Hot Summer Nights, Lady Bird, Beautiful Boy, A Rainy Day in New York, The King, Little Women, The French Dispatch, the epic science fiction film Dune, and the sequel Dune: Part Two, Don't Look Up, Bones and All, Wonka and A Complete Unknown and the adult animated music television special Entergalactic. This is Timothée Chalamet's 3rd time as the host and first and only time as the musical guest on SNL.
Timothée Chalamet previously hosted SNL on the following dates: On December 12, 2020, the eighth and Holidays episode of SNL's 46th season, with musical guest Bruce Springsteen and The E-Street Band, and on November 11, 2023, the fourth episode of SNL's 49th season, with musical guests Boygenius.
The goodnights speech for Timothée Chalamet is "Man Thank You So Much, Thank You Everyone, (Cheers and applause), Hey My Big Thank You to Lin-Manuel Miranda, Big Thank You to the Legend James Blake, Thank You to Adam Sandler, the Cast of Saturday Night Live, Thank You, Thank You Lorne Michaels, Thank You, Happy Birthday Pauline, Happy Birthday Pauline". (Cheers and applause)
Cast[]
Repertory Players[]
- Michael Che
- Mikey Day
- Andrew Dismukes
- Chloe Fineman
- Heidi Gardner
- Marcello Hernandez
- James Austin Johnson
- Colin Jost
- Michael Longfellow
- Ego Nwodim
- Sarah Sherman
- Kenan Thompson
- Devon Walker
- Bowen Yang
Featured Players[]
- Cameos by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Adam Sandler. Musical appearance by James Blake
Sketches and Musical Performances[]
Cold Open Sketch Pre-recorded Weekend Update Music Performance Other
| Title | Image | Summary | |
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| Founding Fathers Cold Opening | The Founding Fathers (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Sarah Sherman, Michael Longfellow, Ashley Padilla, and Emil Wakim) get interrupted by former President Trump (James Austin Johnson) while signing the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| Opening Montage | The colors of the rectangles of the opening montage were changed to blue again (for host and musical guest Timothée Chalamet). | ||
| Monologue by Timothée Chalamet | Back to host SNL for the third time and first time as musical guest, actor Timothée Chalamet discusses playing Willy Wonka and Bob Dylan before giving an awards acceptance speech he never had the chance to read, and about how he keeps losing awards, and a fake award going to Kenan Thompson. Also features Chloe Fineman. | ||
| Exercise | A man (Michael Longfellow) takes a weird exercise class alongside his girlfriend (Heidi Gardner) and others (Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, and Ashley Padilla), taught by an eccentric coach (Timothée Chalamet). | ||
| Medcast | A commercial for a new, innovative way to get men to go to the doctor. With Heidi Gardner, Kenan Thompson, Andrew Dismukes, Marcello Hernandez, Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim, and James Austin Johnson. | ||
| Next Episode Commercial Bumper | In lieu of a new episode, the 50th anniversary special on Feb. 16 was promoted instead, as the next actual SNL episode did not air until March 1. | ||
| Big Benny's Cafe | New trainees (Timothée Chalamet, Devon Walker, Ashley Padilla) do new barista training by pitching some light jokes, but one (Chalamet) keeps making jokes about overweight women. With Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner, Emil Wakim and Kenan Thompson. | ||
| Oedipal Arangements | Oedipal Arangements shows a commercial about a son (Michael Longfellow) and mother (Heidi Gardner) sleeping together. With Mikey Day as the father and Chloe Fineman as Michael's girlfriend. | ||
| A.I. | A teacher (Ego Nwodim) plays videos of two A.I. bots (Timothée Chalamet, Bowen Yang) for her students (Marcello Hernandez, Sarah Sherman, Andrew Dismukes, Michael Longfellow, and Jane Wickline) to learn and pay attention. | ||
| Timothée Chalamet performed a medley "Outlaw Blues" and "Three Angels" with James Blake. Adam Sandler introduces Chalamet's first performance. | |||
| Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che | Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week's biggest news like Trump not having his hand on the bible (as well as Trump using the same bible as Lincoln), pardoning Stewart Rhodes (who was previously serving 18 years for the Jan. 6 capitol riots), Trump's "Inspirational Letter" from Biden, ICE agents being permitted to make arrests in churches, Elon Musk's "straight-arm gesture controversy", which was compared to a Nazi salute, and Trump making an anti-DEI order. With guests, Giselle, a concerned businesswoman (Ego Nwodim) stops by Weekend Update to discuss Trump signing executive orders and acting tariffs on imports and Andrew Dismukes, with his puppet dad arrives to discuss how crazy families can be. | ||
| If Dogs Acted and Talked Like People | A sketch featuring what happened if dogs were people. Chaos ensues as dogs (Timothée Chalamet, Mikey Day, Marcello Hernandez, Heidi Gardner, Kenan Thompson, Andrew Dismukes, James Austin Johnson, Bowen Yang, Sarah Sherman, and Chloe Fineman) interact with each other at the dog park. | ||
| Timothée Chalamet performed "Tomorrow is a Long Time". Kenan Thompson introduced Chalamet's second performance. | |||
| Grandma | Things go off the rails when a woman's boyfriend (Timothée Chalamet) administers a new CPR technique to her grandmother (Sarah Sherman). With Kenan Thompson, Heidi Gardner, Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, Bowen Yang, James Austin Johnson and Ashley Padilla. | ||
| An SNL Animated Short: God | In this animated short, angels (Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner, Michael Longfellow) talk to God (voiced by Timothée Chalamet) about things to create on Earth. | ||
| Goodbyes and Closing Credits | Timothée Chalamet thanked everyone, Lin-Manuel Miranda, James Blake, Adam Sandler, the cast of Saturday Night Live and Lorne Michaels for having him back and he wishes his sister Pauilne Chalamet, who turned 33 the same as the episode a "Happy Birthday". |
Trivia[]
- Timothée Chalamet is one of the few actors to perform Double Duty on SNL.
- Timothée Chalamet also becomes a third-time SNL host this season.
- Timothée Chalamet is also one of the youngest people to host SNL 3 times and he's going back-to-back, becoming the 7th person to host SNL in consecutive seasons in the last 10 years.
- Timothée Chalamet also even joined the group of performers who have performed Double Duty stints throughout SNL history.
- Chalamet's performance of "Outlaw Blues" was excised from broadcast in the United Kingdom.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda says "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night" for the 2nd time.
- James Austin Johnson also said "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night" for the 31st time, moves into a tie for 10th place all-time.
- Colin Jost has now passed Fred Armisen for 4th place all-time in SNL episodes as a cast member.
- Tonight's Timothée Chalamet episode is the final one before Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special.
- During the goodnights, Timothée Chalamet wishes his sister Pauilne Chalamet, who turned 33 the same night as the episode, a happy birthday.
- With this episode, Chalamet is the first credited non-musician host to pull double duty since Gary Busey in 1979. Coincidentally, both Chalamet and Busey were nominated for an Academy Award for the musical biopics they starred in (Chalamet for A Complete Unknown, Busey for The Buddy Holly Story).
| Preceded by: January 18, 2025 |
Saturday Night Live episode | Followed by: Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special |