Ayo Edebiri of ‘The Bear’ Hosts ‘SNL’ Feb. 3

Ayo Edebiri in 'The Bear'
Ayo Edebiri in ‘The Bear’ (Image credit: Frank Ockenfels/FX)

Ayo Edebiri, who plays Sydney on the FX series The Bear, will host Saturday Night Live for the first time February 3. Edebiri won best actress in a comedy at the Golden Globes and best supporting actress in a comedy at the Emmy Awards this month. At the Emmys, she described The Bear as “a show about family and found family and real family.” 

Jennifer Lopez will make her fourth appearance as SNL musical guest February 3. Her album This Is Me … Now and her film This Is Me … Now: A Love Story, will be released February 16. The latter will be on Prime Video

As has previously been reported, Dakota Johnson hosts SNL January 27 and Justin Timberlake is the musical guest. 

SNL airs on NBC and streams live on Peacock. Peacock has all 49 seasons of the show. 

Saturday Night Live is produced in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels.    

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.