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We Bet You $1,000 That Simone Biles Will Host SNL’s Premiere


Or maybe it will be one of these other people. If so, the bet is off.

He was kind of promoting season one of Loki, which premiered in early June, and The French Dispatch, which hit theaters a few weeks after his SNL episode, but neither made it feel like a big deal that he was hosting. Lady Gaga has hosted SNL once and performed as musical guest five times, so doing double duty to promote Joker: Folie à Deux, out on October 4, would feel like an appropriately big deal. Eight of the hosts since 2000 were first-timers coming off a big summer movie: Steve Carell for The 40-Year-Old Virgin in 2005, Chris Pratt for Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014, Margot Robbie for Suicide Squad in 2016, and most recently Miles Teller for Top Gun: Maverick in 2022.

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