What Is <em>Saturday Night Live</em> Without the Shameless Self-Promotion?
Timothée Chalamet’s post-strike hosting gig was a celebration that doubled as a return to business as usual for the show.
When Saturday Night Live announced that Timothée Chalamet would be hosting on November 11, it looked like an act of optimism. Up until then, the show had dodged the Screen Actors Guild–strike rules against promotion this season by bringing on either hosts with nothing to sell (the alum Pete Davidson) or artists whose work didn’t fall under the contract in question (the musician Bad Bunny and the comedian Nate Bargatze).
But Chalamet was different. If the had gone on,prequel musical, , which is exactly the kind of film actors hit up to shill.
