Who is Hosting Saturday Night Live Tonight: February 6, 2021

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Saturday Night Live is all-new this weekend as SNL is up a “Schitt’s Creek” with host, Emmy Award winner Dan Levy!

When SNL executive producer and creator Lorne Michaels schedules first-time hosts for Saturday Night Live each season, the man obviously looks for the best, the brightest, and the funniest entertainers who are currently in the zeitgeist of pop culture. Tonight’s first-time Saturday Night Live host checks all those boxes. And that’s the star and creator of “Schitt’s Creek” who became an awards show darling in 2020, Dan Levy.

Tonight’s SNL host, Dan Levy is making his Saturday Night Live debut after finishing a year most young showrunners and comedy writers could only dream about. Of course for the rest of us, 2020 was pretty much a shit show. Unlike Dan Levy, who’s 2020 was a “Schitt’s” show.

Dan Levy created the sitcom “Schitt’s Creek” with his creative partner and father, Eugene Levy who comedy fans know from his “SCTV” fame as well as many of the Christopher Guest universe of films like “Waiting for Guffman“, “Best in Show” and “A Mighty Wind.” As well as creating it, Eugene and Dan Levy also starred in “Schitt’s Creek” along with the amazing Catherine O’Hara (also from “SCTV” and Chris Guest’s films), Annie Murphy, Sarah Levy, Noah Reid and Chris Elliott.

“Schitt’s Creek” revolved around the Rose family who were beyond wealthy, quite shallow and for the most part, estranged from each other’s lives. Suddenly and because of a crooked business manager, the Roses find themselves broke and forced to go live in the one of their least appealing assets, a town called Schitt’s Creek. The series ran for 6 seasons in its native Canada on the CBC and in America on the lesser known network, Pop TV.

Despite not being on a major platform to start off, “Schitt’s Creek“, through its pure hilarity and the sweet undertones of a family rediscovering themselves and each other, the sitcom caught on with fans through virtual word of mouth. The series wrapped last year and now all 6 seasons are available for binging on Netflix.

Last season was the “Schitt’s Creek” finale and it was the one that caught the eye of the people who vote for television awards. The last episode which featured the Roses (Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara) regaining their fortune through a new venture and the wedding of their son David Rose (Dan Levy) to his boyfriend from Schitt’s Creek, Patrick (Noah Reid) gave the fans such warm feelings that it radiated all through social media when the show wrapped on April 7, 2020.

Then on September 20, 2020, “Schitt’s Creek” dominated the comedy categories at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards. The Canadian sitcom became the first television series in history to sweep all four acting categories it was nominated in, as well as a sweep of all 7 main comedy categories. Your SNL host for tonight, Dan Levy, took home four Primetime Emmy statuettes of his own with trophies for Outstanding Comedy Series, which Dan shared with his dad Eugene and other producers, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, plus Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for his work behind the camera.

And now, Dan Levy is nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Supporting Role for “Schitt’s Creek.” The Golden Globes will be awarded on Sunday, February 28, 2021 on NBC and will be hosted once again by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler with Tina in NYC on the East Coast and Amy in L.A. on the West Coast.

Keep an eye out for some of Dan Levy’s “Schitt’s Creek” co-stars on tonight’s brand new Saturday Night Live especially if the SNL writers decide to give the award winning sitcom the parody sketch treatment. At the very least, hopefully Dan Levy’s very famous and very funny father Eugene Levy will be stopping by. Eugene Levy was a cast member on “SCTV” which was a Canadian sketch comedy cousin to Saturday Night Live. It ran in the late 70’s through the mid-80’s.

Eugene Levy may want to stop by Studio 8-H at 30 Rock this evening to watch his son Dan host Saturday Night Live, only because Eugene was robbed of the same opportunity back in the 1980’s. In one of the promos for tonight’s new SNL which you can watch below, you see a clip of Eugene Levy along with another comedy star from “SCTV“, the great John Candy, making an appearance on an SNL special.

Candy and Levy were appearing on a 1985 Saturday Night Live special called the “SNL Film Festival.” The special was hosted by then-SNL cast member Billy Crystal. And it was a showcase for the short films that were appearing on Saturday Night Live around that time. The “SNL Film Festival” featured famous SNL shorts like “Synchronized Swimming” starring cast members Harry Shearer and Martin Short, “Prose & Cons” featuring maximum security prison inmate and poet Tyrone Green played by Eddie Murphy and “Lifestyles of Relatives of the Rich and Famous” with Martin Short doing his perfect Katharine Hepburn impression as the screen legend’s nephew.

Eugene Levy and John Candy appeared on the “SNL Film Festival” special to promote that they were going to host Saturday Night Live the very next weekend on March 9, 1985. But it never happened. The 1985 Writers Strike happened instead and all television series were put on indefinite hold. Eugene Levy never got to host Saturday Night Live, but tonight, his son does. So, why wouldn’t a proud (and slightly jealous) father show up on set tonight to wish his son well!?

Looking at what’s going on in the world, there seems to be two major stories that Saturday Night Live could pull from for comedy inspiration for the SNL Cold Open, SNL Shorts, sketches and / or Weekend Update.

The first is the House of Representatives voting to strip Georgia Congresswoman and QAnon prom queen Marjorie Taylor Greene of all her congressional committee assignments because of her unshakeable faith in fake conspiracy theories, her social media threats against Democratic congresswomen and her harassment of one of the kids who survived the Parkland, Florida shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School. SNL cast member Cecily Strong proved on last week’s new SNL that she can do a great impression of the disturbed Congresswoman. So, SNL should lean on this while Nutsy is still in the headlines.

Tonight’s other big story for Saturday Night Live will be Super Bowl LV (55) with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers hosting the Kansas City Chiefs in Tampa, FLA on Sunday. And just in case you haven’t heard this fun fact by now, it’s the first time an NFL team has played the Super Bowl in their own home stadium. Saturday Night Live usually does a sports sketch or SNL Short about the Super Bowl, so expect to see that this evening as well.

Then there’s also the Weeknd’s Super Bowl Halftime Show and the Super Bowl commercials including former SNL cast members Mike Myers and Dana Carvey reviving their “Wayne’s World” characters for an ad during the Big Game to discuss on Weekend Update. Plus, the 2021 Puppy Bowl airing at halftime on Animal Planet and Discovery+ along President Biden’s First Dogs (Champ & Major) doing a “Wear Your Mask” PSA during the doggy game.

Other stories that Weekend Update might poke fun at tonight include President Biden getting ready to send out the Covid19 stimulus checks, the polar vortex blizzard hitting most of the country this week or as the New York Post calls it “Snowvid ’21”, Punxsutawney Phil the Groundhog seeing his shadow for 6 more weeks of winter this year, the fallout from the GameStop stock market shenanigans and Country star and former SNL musical guest Morgan Wallen engulfed in another controversy. SNL did a sketch that focused on Morgan Wallen’s last screw-up, maybe they’ll do it again.

SNL might also cover Armie Hammer being an alleged cannibal on this evening’s show. Too bad this story didn’t break a couple of months ago when Armie’s co-star from “Call Me By Your Name“, Timothée Chalamet hosted SNL. They could have used it.

There’s also the news story about “Courtside Karen” getting thrown out of a Lakers game for heckling LeBron James, the Detroit Lions and the Los Angeles Rams trading quarterbacks along with the Philadelphia Eagles maybe doing something similar with their quarterback Carson Wentz, and the My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell still spewing his baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 Election.

And of course Saturday Night Live will need some Trump news so that the show isn’t just quitting on Trump cold turkey, so there’s the former president’s 2nd Impeachment (kind of like 2nd Breakfast) and the Donald quitting SAG-AFTRA after the actors union members asked that he be expelled from the group.

As mentioned earlier, we have the SNL promos for tonight’s new show all set below for you watch. We talked about the first one featuring a clip of the famous father of tonight’s first-time SNL host from back in 1985. Enjoy it at your leisure.

The second promo set features this evening’s host, Dan Levy, joined by tonight’s musical guest Phoebe Bridgers and SNL cast member Aidy Bryant. The trio are all masked for the NBC Covid19 safety measures. It’s odd how quickly we’ve become used to seeing people with half of their faces covered. First up, Aidy Bryant lays down the comedy law to Dan and Phoebe. Then, we find out that Phoebe Bridgers really isn’t getting any musical inspiration from Dan Levy. Good thing Aidy’s back on the show.

Multiple Primetime Emmy Award winner Dan Levy from “Schitt’s Creek” hosts an all-new Saturday Night Live with musical guest Phoebe Bridgers, tonight, live from coast-to-coast and across all time American zones at 11:30pm et on NBC!

Next week, SNL is back live with another brand-new show hosted by Academy Award winner Regina King!

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Ernie Tripper

Ernie Tripper