‘Snl’ host Timothée Chalamet tackles Bob Dylan -Songs that are almost completely unknown

Popular musical artists made surprising performances on the latest episode of “Saturday Night Live” – ​​but they were not the one fans might have expected.

The fact that host Timothée Chalamet just earned an Oscar nomination for his role when Bob Dylan in “A Completely Unknown” raised the opportunity, but slim that Minnesota’s most famous artist had to perform on the late evening show for only the second time in his 50-year history. Or maybe Joan Baez? After all, Chalamet’s Co-Star Monica Barbaro got her own nomination for having played the folk singer in the movie.

However, Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared in the cold opening and repriseed his role as Alexander Hamilton. The basic father has stopped in the middle of the rap of a pleasing Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson).

Chalamet paid tribute to Dylan while performing three songs as a musical guest, one of the few times an actor did double service (Gary Busey pulled it out in 1979 while promoting “The Buddy Holly Story”).

“I am so grateful” Saturday Night Live “still does weird things like this 50 years in,” said Chalamet under the opening monologue. “They are either really good at letting me do this or incredibly bad, and it’s all a big prank. I sincerely can’t tell it. “

Chalamet could have chosen popular songs shown in the movie, such as “Blowin ‘in the Wind” or “Like a Rolling Stone.” Or he could have chosen to tilt the hat to the album “Blood on the Tracks”, which, like “SNL”, celebrates his 50 -year anniversary this year.

But the actor chose to be as unpredictable as the legend he portrayed.