{"id":165794,"date":"2026-05-03T09:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=165794"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:51:57","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-hosts-saturday-night-live-with-songs-sketches-and-a-bts-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/olivia-rodrigo-hosts-saturday-night-live-with-songs-sketches-and-a-bts-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo hosts Saturday Night Live with songs, sketches, and a BTS nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Olivia Rodrigo opens the episode with music and memories<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Olivia Rodrigo<\/strong> returned to <strong>Saturday Night Live<\/strong> on May 2, 2026, as both host and musical guest for one of the final episodes of season 51. The \u201cVampire\u201d singer had previously appeared on the show twice as a musical guest, but this time marked her hosting debut. During her monologue, the songwriter talked about growing up with the show, acting in Old Navy commercials, working on Disney Channel, and falling off stage during a concert. She also performed a playful follow-up to \u201cDrivers License\u201d about going to the DMV.<\/p>\n<p>Watch her monologue below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Olivia Rodrigo Monologue - SNL\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pp7KO8bfKH0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>The sketches use drama, music, and strange surprises<\/h2>\n<p>One sketch, \u201cEdge of Destiny,\u201d placed Olivia in a dramatic television-style scene where family members kept falling down the stairs after a heated argument. Chloe Fineman, Kenan Thompson, and other cast members helped push the physical comedy. In another short called \u201cMy Room,\u201d the \u201cSo American\u201d hitmaker sang about a perfect teenage bedroom with glow-in-the-dark stars, posters, and personal memories. This particular skit featured a playful BTS nod, as one of the posters showed the boy band in the background wall. The twist was that the room existed on a strange alien planet, where she was being watched like part of an exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>See the BTS poster below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A BTS poster was included in the background of Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s skit on SNL. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cFQ1UtpYgi\">pic.twitter.com\/cFQ1UtpYgi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/2050787297272971743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>The singer performs a new hit and an upcoming track<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Olivia Rodrigo: begged - SNL\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZ2CeJ_DvUA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Olivia Rodrigo also took her role seriously as a musical guest, performing \u201cDrop Dead,\u201d with Debbie Harry introducing the first musical set for live viewers. The song is connected to her upcoming third studio album, \u201cYou Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,\u201d which is scheduled for release on June 12, 2026. Later, Connor Storrie introduced her second performance, \u201cBegged,\u201d an unreleased track expected to be included on her upcoming project.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Olivia Rodrigo: drop dead - SNL\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pnlOfG213Dg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Rodrigo opens the episode with music and memories Olivia Rodrigo returned to Saturday Night Live on May 2, 2026, as both host and musical guest for one of the final episodes of season 51. The \u201cVampire\u201d singer had previously appeared on the show twice as a musical guest, but this time marked her hosting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":165806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,7,4],"tags":[1230],"tmauthors":[3734],"class_list":{"0":"post-165794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-news","9":"category-pop","10":"tag-olivia-rodrigo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165811,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165794\/revisions\/165811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165794"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=165794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}