Gillis was hired as a featured player in 2019 and fired days later after videos resurfaced of him making racial slurs on his podcast

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.