Margo Robbie to Host 42nd Season Premiere of NBC's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE will kick off its upcoming 42nd season on Oct. 1 with guest host Margot Robbie and musical guest The Weeknd. Robbie can currently be seen starring as Harley Quinn in the hugely successful blockbuster hit "Suicide Squad."

Two-time Grammy Award winner and Oscar nominee The Weeknd will return as musical guest. His upcoming album, "Starboy" is due out November 25.

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

"Saturday Night Live," NBC's Emmy Award-winning late-night comedy showcase, enters its 40th season in September for another year of laughs, surprises and great performances.

Since its inception in 1975, "SNL" has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of their generation. As The New York Times noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy-winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999, "in DEFIANCE of both time and show business convention, 'SNL' is still the most pervasive influence on THE ART OF comedy in contemporary culture." At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.

The program has won 45 Emmy Awards and now holds the title for the most nominated television show in Emmy history with 187 nominations. "SNL" has been honored twice, in 1990 and 2009, with the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and cited as "truly a national institution." "Saturday Night Live" was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame by the National Association of Broadcasters, and the show continues to garner the highest ratings of any late-night television program, entertaining millions each week.

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