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Justin Bieber Is Taking Over Saturday Night Live In February
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Jen Carlson
Published Jan 8, 2013
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Following the news that Jennifer Lawrence and Maroon 5's Adam Levine would be taking on hosting duties for the first two Saturday Night Lives of the year, comes a third hosting announcement. Justin Bieber will pull a Bruno Mars and attempt to host and be the musical guest on the show's February 9th episode. Bieber is promoting his acoustic album, and if you don't think he's got any acting chops obviously you've never seen his two episode stint on CSI:
Hopefully he's cool doing sketches involving smoking blunts, the California Hamster Association, and the plot to have him castrated.
maybe im hosting and performing on SNL...maybe. :)
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) January 7, 2013
Biebs, who hinted at the gig on Twitter yesterday, hasn't been on the show since he was just a little guy awwwwww appearing alongside Tina Fey in this 2010 sketch:
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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