Pedro Pascal to host Saturday Night Live

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The Mandalorian and Grogu, announced as The Mandalorian & Grogu, is a Star Wars movie that started production in 2024. Directed by Jon Favreau and produced by Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, and Dave Filoni, it takes place between the events of Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and Episode VII: The Force Awakens, focuses on the adventures of Din Djarin and Din Grogu, and will be a spinoff to the TV series Star Wars: The Mandalorian. The film was announced on January 9 that year on StarWars.com with a conceptual sketch by veteran illustrator Ryan Church, along with an announcement of a second season of the television series Star Wars: Ahsoka. A fourth season of The Mandalorian is also still in development.

On May 7, 2019, Disney revealed their future movie release schedule, including a set of three untitled new Star Wars films, one of which had a scheduled release date of December 20, 2024. The Star Wars Show also reported on the news on May 15. On July 23, 2020, after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was delayed to December 19, 2025. After the start of the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, Disney shifted their theatrical film release slate, with the film being pushed to its current release date of May 22, 2026. A film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy occupied this release slot until The Mandalorian & Grogu was announced.

Star Wars Insider 224 revealed the initial film logo was the same as the one for The Mandalorian Season Three. In August 2024, during D23 2024, it was revealed that the film had entered production, and a new logo was revealed, in addition to a teaser that was shown to the audience. In August 2024, Sigourney Weaver revealed that she had joined the cast of The Mandalorian & Grogu.

Alongside the release of the movie, Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run will be updated to include a new mission featuring Djarin, Grogu, Tatooine, Endor and Cloud City, which takes place off camera from the film.

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May 22, 2026 12:01 AM - 11:59 PM(GMT+01:00)

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Exciting news broke a little while ago, announced by none other than The Mandalorian himself Mr Pedro Pascal, that he’ll be taking on hosting duties on the long running American comedy institution that is Saturday Night Live. I’d be astounded if we weren’t in store for a Star Wars sketch at some point.

He’ll be joining a long list of Star Wars alumni who have put their comedy chops to the test over the show’s astonishing 48-year run including Natalie Portman, Donald Glover, Carrie Fisher, Liam Neeson and Adam Driver.

Pascal is riding high on his critically acclaimed HBO series ‘The Last of Us’ and will once again return with Grogu to a galaxy far, far away in the highly anticipated third season of ‘The Mandalorian‘ on 1st March.

Saturday Night Live has a long history of a well-written Star Wars skits and some have amassed millions of views on YouTube including Adam Driver’s Undercover Boss sketches as Kylo Ren and even Mark Hamill appeared way back in 1997 in a ‘Shopping At Home’ skit selling Star Wars merch.

Pedro Pascal’s episode will air, along with musical guests Coldplay, in the states on Saturday 4th February 4th and viewers in the UK can catch all the laughs on Sunday 5th February at 9pm on Sky Comedy.

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Jonathan Hipkiss https://www.comedycv.co.uk/jonathanhipkiss/index.html

Jonathan wasn't born until 1991 so missed out on all the fun but in 1995 when a family member gave him three old VHS tapes from a galaxy far, far away his life was transformed forever. In 1999, aged 8, he fell in love all over again with the Prequels and the rest, as they say, is history. By day (and night) Jonathan is an author/ writer and stand-up comedian and now spends most of his time thinking about how he can work more Star Wars jokes into his show. Jonathan is also the curator of 'The Jedi Palladium'.

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