Lady Gaga served as each host and musical visitor on final evening’s episode of Saturday Night time Dwell. Sizzling on the heels of releasing her seventh studio album, MAYHEM, the pop star sang her single “Abracadabra” in a light-up mirrored field, and carried out the primary half of recent observe “Killah” within the again hallways of studio 8H earlier than becoming a member of her neon-clad band onstage and pulling off a powerful costume change. Gaga additionally appeared as a funeral home director, sang a song about overusing the phrase “slay,” and led a satanic ritual at a Pleasant’s celebration in sketches all through the night.
“The final time I hosted was in 2013, and each side of my efficiency…aged amazingly,” Woman Gaga joked in her opening monologue. “There’s no must google ‘SNL 2013 Woman Gaga that includes R. Kelly.’ All of us gained’t, and I gained’t deliver it up, trigger that may be dangerous.” She additionally shouted out her Razzie-winning efficiency alongside Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie à Deux and instructed the story of being arrange along with her fiancée by her mom. Watch Gaga’s full speech and performances, plus her SNL promo video with forged member Bowen Yang, beneath.
That is solely Woman Gaga’s second time internet hosting SNL, however her fifth showing as its musical visitor. Previous to the discharge of MAYHEM, she carried out her High Gun: Maverick authentic music “Maintain My Hand” on the 2025 Super Bowl and a canopy of the Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” with Bruno Mars on the 2025 Grammys, the place she and Mars additionally gained Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for his or her single “Die With a Smile.” At SNL’s 50th anniversary concert final month, Woman Gaga joined Andy Samberg onstage at New York’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor to sing the Lonely Island’s “Dick in a Field.”
The 50th season of Saturday Night Live premiered in September. Woman Gaga is the third artist to drag double obligation this season, following Timothée Chalamet and Charli XCX . Final week’s musical visitor was Tate McRae. To have a good time its fiftieth anniversary, SNL aired the aforementioned live performance particular, in addition to SNL50: The Anniversary Special, a three-hour reside manufacturing that included musical performances courtesy of Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter, Lil Wayne, and Paul McCartney.
Learn “6 Takeaways From Lady Gaga’s New Album MAYHEM,” and take a look at our observe critiques for “Abracadabra” and “Garden of Eden.”
