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SNL Season 41: The First-Time Hosts We'd Like To See
The writers have had almost a whole week off since the Season 40 finale. Time's a-wasting to start planning Season 41!
Lorne Michaels may think he knows exactly whom he should line up to guest-host Saturday Night Live's 41st season, and he probably does have a couple of good ideas -- or, like the guest-host shots of Chris Pratt and Martin Freeman, he got those good ideas from an internet know-it-all, a.k.a. me. So in the interest of letting -- let's face it -- a rapidly aging man have a slightly more relaxed summer, I'm here again to help him out.
Amy Schumer
Plug-Ready Project Season 3 of Inside Amy Schumer; Trainwreck (both retroactive).
Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Blake Lively.
Why She Might Get Called She's already got ties to SNL: former cast members to have guested on Inside include Bill Hader, Abby Elliott, Rob Schneider, Rachel Dratch, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tina Fey, Colin Quinn, and Sasheer Zamata.
Why She Might Not Because Lorne Michaels is too scared of her.
Simon Pegg
Plug-Ready Project Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (retroactive).
Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Michael Caine.
Why He Might Get Called He's got lots of sketch comedy experience; things went well with his At World's End co-star Martin Freeman in Season 40; in addition to the M:I franchise, he's also got nerd juice from Star Trek.
Why He Might Not His brand of humour is too sophisticated?
Rachel McAdams
Plug-Ready Project Aloha; Southpaw; Season 2 of True Detective (all retroactive).
Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Elizabeth Banks.
Why She Might Get Called She's basically the last person in the Wedding Crashers cast not to have hosted; she worked with half of the SNL early '90s bench on Mean Girls; Michaels might tap her out of Canadian loyalty; she could probably get Ryan Gosling to do a walk-on.
Why She Might Not Aloha could end up being a stink bomb that sticks to her for a while.
Matt Bomer
Plug-Ready Project Magic Mike XXL (retroactive); American Horror Story Season 5.
Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Ryan Lochte? Is he still a thing? They could make him a thing if it means Bomer would take his shirt off.
Why He Might Get Called His Magic Mike co-star Channing Tatum is a past host; he's still in the Scheinhardt family post-White Collar.
Why He Might Not He's forbidden to fly because his cheekbones could cut glass?
Gina Rodriguez
Plug-Ready Project Season 2 of Jane The Virgin.
Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Recurring Jane guest star Jane Seymour.
Why She Might Get Called That show is fire and she's a Golden Globe winner for it.
Why She Might Not Has a CW star ever hosted this show?
Michael B. Jordan
Plug-Ready Project The Fantastic Four reboot (retroactive).
Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Kevin Hart (in a hole or trench).
Why He Might Get Called The Marvel connection, and beyond that...I mean, have you seen him?
Why He Might Not That Awkward Moment may not be the best possible showcase for any comedic talent he has.
Mindy Kaling
Plug-Ready Project Her voice performance in Inside Out (retroactive); Season 4 of The Mindy Project.
Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of One of the non-Beyoncé members of Destiny's Child.
Why She Might Get Called Though she was (until recently) on Fox, her NBC colours run deep: she wrote and acted on The Office throughout its run and, years before that, was a page on Late Night With Conan O'Brien; she's also played herself in a "What Up With That?" And: she has sketch experience.
Why She Might Not If her Inside Out role is too small or unrecognizable, or if...Hulu is too small-time.
Tatiana Maslany
Plug-Ready Project Orphan Black (retroactive).
Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of After watching her for two-plus seasons on Orphan Black, I'm not sure there's anyone she couldn't do.
Why She Might Get Called That Canadian connection; Amy Poehler might put in a good word for her from her guest shot on Parks & Recreation.
Why She Might Not They think her Cosima white-girl dreads are real.
Andre Braugher
Plug-Ready Project Season 3 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Terry Crews.
Why He Might Get Called SNL alumus Andy Samberg produces and stars in B99, the show on which Braugher is reliably the funniest member of a very funny cast.
Why He Might Not No one wants him to leave any puppies unattended.
