Saturday Night Live has boasted an incredible lineup of hosts over the course of its 49-season run — but there are still some legendary holdouts the creative team wish they could line up. SNL boss Lorne Michaels and writer-cast member Michael Che revealed their "white whale" celebrity hosts — that is,

The season premiere will be Jean Smart's FIRST TIME hosting SNL — and she celebrated on Instagram by noting it's something to cross off her bucket list. Smart has been an ally and a gay icon for so much of her career that the Human Rights Campaign actually honored her for it earlier this year.

Asked if he’s more concerned about being politically correct now than when the show started in 1975, Michaels reflected on The Shane Gillis Incident as an example. “We had a bad time when I added Shane Gillis to the cast [in 2019].