Saturday Night Live books Amanda Seyfried and Don Toliver for debuts

Amanda Seyfried will host NBC’s Saturday Night Live for the first time on Dec. 5, with Don Toliver making his debut as musical guest, the show announced during Saturday’s episode.

Toliver, a rapper and singer from the Houston area, arrives at SNL after OCTANE became his first chart-topping album, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in February.

Three hosts have made their debuts in the season before Seyfried: New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson, Inde Navarrette and Druski. Her appearance will bring the show’s 52nd season back from a three-week Thanksgiving break.

SNL announced the pairing on its Nov. 14 episode, when John Mulaney hosted and Phoebe Bridgers was the musical guest. Mulaney, who formerly wrote for SNL, was making his seventh appearance as host.

After the broadcast, the show’s official account posted on X, “see you on dec 5th!”

see you on dec 5th!

— Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) November 15, 2026

Lorne Michaels created and executive produces SNL, which airs live Saturdays on NBC and Peacock at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT. More episodes are expected on Dec. 12 and Dec. 19, though neither has a host or musical guest booked yet.

Toliver took OCTANE on a North American arena tour and collaborated with Drake on “Cold Shoulder” and “Solar Eclipse.” He appeared on Billboard’s cover in March and is now touring the U.K..

His next project is NITROUS, which he has been teasing, most recently through the song “Party With the Boys.” Billboard included Toliver in its early predictions for best new artist at the 2027 Grammy Awards.

Seyfried portrayed former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s 2022 limited series The Dropout. Deadline, TVLine and UPI reported that she won an Emmy for the role, while Variety described her as a nominee.

She plays Holmes again in You Can See Everything, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Seyfried also appears as herself and portrays Holmes in dramatized versions of scenes the directors did not film.

The A24 film follows Holmes through her last few weeks before prison, where she begins serving a sentence for her conviction on multiple counts of wire fraud, Variety reported.

SNL spoofed the film on Nov. 7. A pre-taped sketch imagined Holmes, played by Jane Wickline, and Evans, played by Ben Marshall, asking that week’s host, Druski, to make the documentary before Fielder and Oppenheim did. Druski impersonated Holmes while wearing whiteface, TheWrap reported.

In one of the film’s most widely discussed scenes, Seyfried confronts Holmes’ partner, Billy Evans, and the two argue. During the week of the SNL announcement, Seyfried first spoke publicly about the documentary in an interview with Fielder and Oppenheim.

Seyfried earned a supporting actress Oscar nomination for David Fincher’s 2021 drama Mank. She voices Cinderella in Netflix’s animated film Steps, which begins streaming Nov. 20.

She also returns as her Ted 2 character Sam L. Jackson in Peacock’s Ted: The Animated Series, premiering Dec. 17.