Live from New York, it’s, well, a whole slew of people, really.
Some 500-plus famous faces have taken the stage in NYC’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza to host Saturday Night Live in the series’ 50 seasons with the truly elite going on to collect their velvet five-timers jacket. (Most recently, Martin Short joined the coveted club in December, celebrating alongside the sketch comedy show‘s other frequent fliers like Melissa McCarthy, Emma Stone, Kristen Wiig, Tina Fey and Tom Hanks.)
But it takes more than a little notoriety to earn the chance to jog out of those Studio 8H doors.
Just ask Travis Kelce who had to hustle hard to score his 2023 hosting gig.
As proud Kansas City native and longtime castmember Heidi Gardner recently revealed, the NFL star’s victory against his brother Jason Kelce‘s Philadelphia Eagles in that year’s Super Bowl was his winning ticket to getting the okay from SNL creator Lorne Michaels.
“I was like, ‘That is so much pressure to ask,'” Gardner recounted on a December episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast. “Then he won the Super Bowl.”
