Saturday Night Live has been on a roll of late with its hilarious skits of Alec Baldwin as President Trump and Melissa McCarthy as White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
So it will be interesting to see whether Scarlett Johansson will play a member of Trump’s administration when she returns to host SNL for a fifth time on March 11.
The news of the 32-year-old’s casting was revealed on Thursday by Variety.
She’ll be back: Scarlett Johansson, who donned an elegant black suit for New York’s amFAR gala on February 8, is set to host Saturday Night Live for a fifth time on March 11
The actress, whose new film Ghost In The Shell from Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks bows on March 31, will be joined by musical guest Lorde.
It’s the 20-year-old Grammy Award winner’s debut on NBC’s sketch-comedy series.
The month’s appearance makes her the 17th member of the show’s Five-Timers Club – celebrities who have hosted the show five times or more.
Opening monologue: The 32-year-old last appeared on NBC’s skit show on May 2, 2015
Wigging out: The actress donned a brunette hair piece to play Daniela during the show’s Right Side Of The Bed skit, which seemed to involved a stiff drink
The list includes Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Candace Bergen, Chevy Chase, Danny DeVito, Tina Fey, John Goodman, Elliott Gould, Tom Hanks, Buck Henry, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Paul Simon, Justin Timberlake and Christopher Walken.
Alec has hosted the show the most times with 17 under his belt while Steve has hosted it 15 times.
Saturday Night Live will return with new episodes on March 4, with the first episode lead by Hidden Figures star and Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer.
First time out: Scarlett as Donna Smalls English, Kenan Thompson as D.J. Dynasty Handbag and Rachel Dratch as Tiara Zee during the Deep House Dish skit on January 14, 2005
She will be joined by musical guest Father John Misty, whose new album Pure Comedy is about to be released.
Meanwhile, Scarlett is now negotiating Hollywood as a single mother.
In January, it was announced that she and her French journalist husband Romain Dauriac, 34, had separated last summer after two years of marriage. They share two-year-old daughter Rose.
Glorious in green: Scarlett with estranged husband Romain Duriac at the Oscars in Hollywood in February 2015