Timothée Chalamet Will Be Both Host and Musical Guest on ‘S.N.L.’

Timothée Chalamet will be both the host and musical guest on the Jan. 25 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” NBC announced on Friday, putting him in the rarefied group of performers who have been asked to play both roles on a single episode.

Chalamet’s appearance, which will be his third stint as host, comes amid a glitzy promotional run and Oscars campaign for the biopic “A Complete Unknown,” in which he plays a young Bob Dylan. The film, which uses Chalamet’s vocals, recreates the performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when Dylan went electric.

It was unclear as of Friday afternoon whether Chalamet would perform any songs by Dylan. NBC did not immediately return a request for comment.

Critical opinion of the film has been somewhat divided, but Dylan himself seemed to give the film a thumb’s up when he posted on X that Chalamet was “brilliant.” That did not spare him from some gentle ribbing on Sunday at the Golden Globes.

“Dude, you were so good in ‘A Complete Unknown’ as Bob Dylan,” the show’s host, Nikki Glaser, riffed in her opening monologue. “In fact, I actually read that your singing voice was so accurate that even Bob Dylan himself admitted that it was absolutely horrible.”

Chalamet’s turn as both host and musical guests in the same episode puts him in a rarefied club of fewer than 50 people who have pulled “double duty,” according to NBC. He will join the likes of the Rolling Stones, Olivia Newton-John, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, Billie Eilish and most recently Charli XCX, in November. Even rarer are “S.N.L.” musical guests who aren’t professional singers, a list that includes Gary Busey, Lily Tomlin and Deion Sanders.

NBC’s also shared that Dave Chappelle, the comedian, would host the first show of the year on Jan. 18, with GloRilla, the rapper from Memphis, Tenn., scheduled to be the musical guest. Chappelle hosted the post-presidential election episodes in 2016 and 2020, but last November that gig went instead to a different comedian, Bill Burr.