Ryan Gosling and Kristen Wiig are both coming back to SNL next month

Gosling, Wiig, and Ramy Youssef are all slated to host upcoming installments of Saturday Night Live, starting with Youssef's episode on March 30

By William Hughes | March 14, 2024 | 2:51am

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Ryan Gosling and Kristen Wiig are both coming back to SNL next month

Left: Ryan Gosling (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Right: Kristen Wiig (Photo: Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association)

Although Ryan Gosling didn’t win an Oscar this week, he has been granted an award of a different type: A return trip to Studio 8H, with NBC revealing today that Gosling will serve as host on the upcoming April 13 installment of Saturday Night Live. Accompanied by musical guest Chris Stapleton, this’ll mark Gosling’s third stint as host, having previously had the gig in 2015 and then 2017; as his performance in Barbie (and a bunch of other stuff) has always made clear, Gosling’s always been a pretty good fit for SNL, with a deft hand for comedy, and a willingness to look as foolish as necessary to land a joke.

Before we can get to all that, though, SNL also revealed two other sets of host/musical guest that’ll be taking over the show in back-to-back-to-back installments when it comes back at the end of March. That includes Ramy’s Ramy Youssef, who’ll be leading the show for its March 30 installment, alongside musical guest Travis Scott, who is, we guess, apparently at that point in his public rehabilitation by now.

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And then, in between Gosling and Youssef, we’ve got an April 6 return engagement with SNL legend Kristen Wiig, who’ll be securing her entrance into the fabled Five-Timers Club, having most recently hosted the show back in 2020. (Wiig will presumably be promoting her new Apple TV+ comedy Palm Royale, accompanied by musical guest Raye, who’ll be making her debut appearance on the series.) Nobody needs to tell anybody that Kristen Wiig is still very, very good at being on Saturday Night Live, a job she held down as one of the show’s biggest stars from 2005 to 2012, so the only question really becomes which of her most ridiculous characters she’ll revive for her return trip to her old stomping grounds.