SNL: Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce, Jenna Ortega to Host in March
Hot off his team’s Super Bowl LVII victory, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has been invited to tackle Saturday Night Live hosting duties next month.
Kelce will then pass the ball (sports puns are the easiest!) to Wednesday star Jenna Ortega the following week.
As previously reported, Woody Harrelson is set to host SNL next, on Feb. 25, and in doing so join the long-running sketchy comedy series’ exclusive Five-Timers Club. That night, Jack White will make his fourth solo appearance as musical guest (and fifth overall).
Kelce will call the plays as host on Saturday, March 4, with Kelsea Ballerini taking the stage as musical guest for the first time.
Ortega will then make her own SNL hosting debut on Saturday, March 11 — the same weekend that Scream VI, in which she co-stars, hits theaters. Serving as musical guest that night will be The 1975, taking the stage at SNL for the second time ever.
Who are you most curious to see lord over Studio 8H in the coming weeks?
Ugh not looking forward to Travis Kelce
Just curious, why?
Athletes are either surprisingly good (The Rock, Peyton Manning) or (more often) quite bad, even when they’re just a warm body in a skit (Wayne Gretzky, Ronda Rousey, Michael Jordan…).
Kelce has some charisma, so I’m hoping for the former. But chances are it will be the latter.
Athletes have been wildly inconsistent as SNL hosts in years past. For every Peyton Manning, you get a Michael Phelps. So we’ll see.
I hope we don’t have to hear him whine about people writing off the Chiefs in 2023 in his opening monologue.
Lost opportunity if the rest of the Kalcee family doesn’t join for a sketch.
*Kelce, not Kalcee – and I’m not even a football fan
Jenna was so good in her Season of You