SNL Season 42: The First-Time Hosts We'd Like To See

Summer is here, and with it one of our proudest Previously.TV traditions: my decrees as to which celebrities should get the call to host Saturday Night Live! Lorne Michaels only chose one of my suggestions for Season 41, so let's see if he gets his mind right this season by letting more of the below show off their sketch chops.

Oscar Isaac

Plug-Ready Project X-Men: Apocalypse (retroactive); The Promise; the new Star Wars trilogy.

Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Mark Ruffalo.

Why He Might Get Called He's the entire internet's boyfriend thanks to dance moves like this...

...and photos like this.

Why He Might Not Filming Episode VIII is probably pretty time-consuming, and it's possible not even J.J. Abrams has the technology to allow him to be in two places at once.

Rachel Bloom

Plug-Ready Project Season 2 of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Lena Dunham.

Why She Might Get Called She's hilarious.

Plus, CrazyXGF is practically a madcap variety show already (except, unlike SNL, you don't always fast-forward the musical numbers.

Why She Might Not It's been many a moon since a CW star was judged famous enough to host SNL.

Billy Eichner

Plug-Ready Project Season 2 of Difficult People; Season 5 of Billy On The Street.

Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Conan O'Brien.

Why He Might Get Called His profile's been rising since he played Craig on Parks & Recreation; you know you want to see him do "For A Dollar" in the halls of 30 Rock.

Why He Might Not Could producers write 50+ minutes' worth of sketches built around a guy screaming?

Emily Blunt

Plug-Ready Project The Girl On The Train.

Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Anne Hathaway.

Why She Might Get Called The world still owes her for the Oscar she didn't get for Edge Of Tomorrow; it would be rad if she hosted it before her (much thirstier) husband did. And she's funny.

Why She Might Not She'll be too busy playing the first female James Bond...? (In our dreams. But maybe in reality also!)

Jonathan Banks

Plug-Ready Project Season 3 of Better Call Saul.

Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of John Boehner.

Why He Might Get Called His later-in-life career explosion makes him the male Betty White, except not annoying.

And the full breadth of his mastery of his craft should be recognized.

Why He Might Not He might actually be too cool to have a phone.

Laverne Cox

Plug-Ready Project Season 4 of Orange Is The New Black; Fox's live Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Niecy Nash.

Why She Might Get Called SNL needs to start giving more visibility to LGBTQ performers; Cox is both a trans activist and an Emmy-nominated comedy star, so this would just make sense.

Why She Might Not Some people on this historically boys'-clubby show might not be prepared for someone who's so good at telling it like it is...

...pubis-wise.

Tom Hiddleston

Plug-Ready Project Kong: Skull Island; Thor: Ragnarok.

Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Woody Allen, and Christopher Walken, apparently.

Maybe if he does get offered the gig, he can drop Allen and try to work on impersonating someone less problematic. (Prince Charles?)

Why He Might Get Called He exudes effortless charm, and though he hasn't had much opportunity to play comedic roles, it's clear every time he does a late-night talk show that he could. And should!

Why He Might Not Recording his impeccable beauty might require special cameras?

Elizabeth Warren

Plug-Ready Project Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, perhaps?

Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of You know she's got a Kay Bailey Hutchison in her back pocket.

Why She Might Get Called The show loves having politicians host, and after giving a platform to Donald Trump last fall, it owes us this.

Why She Might Not She has plenty of things to do that aren't so frivolous, and might regard a week off from defeating Trump a week wasted.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Plug-Ready Project Hamilton (retroactive).

Also Moana.

Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of The Rock.

Why He Might Get Called He's already the toast of Broadway, his show is about to get showered with Tonys, and he could be his own musical guest.

Why He Might Not Hamilton, for all the media hype, might not have had that much impact outside New York.

Beyoncé

Plug-Ready Project The Formation tour; Lemonade (retroactive...but also maybe eternal?).

Could Easily Do An Unflattering Yet Hilarious Impression Of Jay Z.

Why She Might Get Called She could also be her own musical guest, and probably also write all the sketches, design all the costumes, and provide free relationship counselling on-set.

Why She Might Not WE'RE NOT WORTHY.