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Saturday Night Live: Simu Liu & SNL Cast All Smiles at Read-Thru

Welcome to the last Wednesday night before NBC's Saturday Night Live heads into its holiday break, and what a way to go into the holidays. We have Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Kim's Convenience) serving as host, with Saweetie serving as the musical guest. Ahead of tomorrow's on-stage promos for this weekend, we have a look at the read-thru of what viewers can expect, beginning with the cast and then wrapping up with a look at Liu, who is definitely looking all smiles.

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Saturday Night Live: Simu Liu & SNL Cast All Smiles at Read-Thru
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saturday night live
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Here's an official look at who will be hitting the stages of Studio 8H this weekend, followed by a look back at Liu's trip to SNL during this past weekend's show:

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Saturday Night Live: Simu Liu & SNL Cast All Smiles at Read-Thru
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saturday night live
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And here's that all-important moment that can best be described as the passing of the hosting torch between Majors and Liu (though SNL Producer Lindsay Shookus probably had it better with the "baton" analogy):

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"Shortly after this photo was taken, Simu was promptly tackled by security and ejected from the premises. He is currently in his hotel room eating nachos and rediscovering Taylor Swift," Liu joked in his Instagram post along with the hashtag #WrongSaturday- here's a look:

Aidy Bryant, Michael Che, Pete Davidson, Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Colin Jost, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat, Kyle Mooney, Ego Nwodim, Chris Redd, Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson, Melissa Villaseñor, and Bowen Yang, along with returning feature players Andrew Dismukes & Punkie Johnson, and new feature players Aristotle Athari (Future Man, All Rise), James Austin Johnson (Silicon Valley) & Sarah Sherman (The Eric Andre Show) make up this season's cast. With NBC's long-running sketch/variety series inching closer to the 50th season mark, it does so as the winner of the 2021 Emmy Award for Variety Sketch Series- its fifth straight win in that category (with the series very close to the triple-digits tally when it comes to the number of Emmys won).


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Ray FlookAbout Ray Flook

Serving as Television Editor since 2018, Ray began five years earlier as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought onto the core BC team in 2017.
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