'SNL' announces April hosts, welcomes back Julia Louis Dreyfus

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These days, presidential hopefuls are always stopping by Saturday Night Live. Hillary Clinton did it, Donald Trump did it, and now Selina Meyer -- er, Julia Louis Dreyfus -- will return to the show on April 16 with musical guest Nick Jonas.

The April 9 broadcast, meanwhile, will be hosted by Russell Crowe with Margo Price.

Dreyfus, whose career began when she spent three years on SNL starting in 1982, hasn't hosted the show in almost 10 years. Her Veep character did stop by a fictional version of the show in its own third season, though, in an episode that found Selina and her team mostly tearing down the sketch program ("I don't watch the show, it's completely juvenile").


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April 9 will mark Crowe's first time hosting the program, though he has appeared before as a character played by Taran Killam. Price will be making her SNL debut as well; Jonas played the show before with his brothers in 2009.


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