Timothée Chalamet Set as Saturday Night Live Host and Musical Guest in January

Timothée Chalamet is about to enter a very exclusive group: actors who pull double duty as host and musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live. The star of A Complete Unknown will bring his acclaimed impression of young Bob Dylan to the show on Jan. 25, where he’ll hopefully go face-to-face with SNL cast member James Austin Johnson’s amazing version of Old Dylan. In the process Chalamet will become only the fourth non-musician to do double-duty on the same episode.

A number of people have done both in the same night over the show’s 50 year history, but it’s almost always a musician who’s branched out into acting. The exceptions are slim: Lily Tomlin, who did it twice; and then two hosts who should probably both get an asterisk. Atlanta Falcons legend Deion Sanders performed two different songs from his rap album on the episode he hosted, but he wasn’t the official musical guest (that would be Bon Jovi). And, in a situation similar to Chalamet’s, Gary Busey, who hosted in the wake of his Oscar-nominated turn in The Buddy Holly Story, performed Bob Wills’ “Stay a Little Longer” with Rick Danko and Paul Butterfield, who were officially billed as one of two musical guests for the night. (The main musical guests were Gregory Hines and 92-year-old Eubie Blake, performing a medley of songs from Blake’s 1921 musical Shuffle Away. SNL used to do legitimately unexpected and interesting things with its musical guests.) It’d be a shock if Chalamet did anything other than perform a couple of songs from A Complete Unknown, so we can probably expect “Life a Rolling Stone” and maybe one of Dylan’s pre-electric folk tunes.

This will be Timothée Chalamet’s third time hosting SNL. His first appearance in 2020 gave the show one of its recent highlights with the absurd song and film “Tiny Horse.” He returned last season and got some viral attention for a group impersonation of Troye Sivan alongside boygenius. There was also a sequel to “Tiny Horse” that, like so many sequels, didn’t understand what made the first one was so good. His episode will air a week after Dave Chappelle returns on Jan. 18 to host for the fourth time.