Keke Palmer to make Saturday Night Live debut with SZA

Fan-favorite multi-hyphenate Palmer was one of the stars of Jordan Peele’s Nope, which will be available on NBC’s own Peacock streaming service soon (which is also the exclusive streaming home of SNL now, so this is some elegant cross-promotion), and this will be her SNL debut. SZA, meanwhile, recently released a new single and a teaser video for something called “PSA,” so she has some stuff in the works. Maybe we’ll know more by the time this episode airs, because it’s not happening until December 3—in keeping with SNL’s semi-regular schedule of doing a lot of episodes, then a short break, then a lot of episodes (including a post-election episode hosted by the same person), and then a long break.

The previous hosts this year were Miles Teller, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Thee Stallion, Jack Harlow, and Amy Schumer, some of whom also served as their own musical guests (but not all of them, unfortunately, because we would’ve loved to hear what kind of tracks Brendan Gleeson has been kicking around).