Harry Stylesstopped by "Saturday Night Live" a week early.
The "As It Was" singer made a surprise appearance on the sketch show's March 7 episode, hosted byRyan Gosling. Styles, who will host "SNL" on March 14, was seated in the audience during Gosling's opening monologue, a fact the "Barbie" star noted early on.
The premise of the rest of the sketch was that Gosling was so thrown off by Styles being in attendance, and potentially upstaging him, that he had trouble proceeding with his original monologue plans involving an elaborate space-themed musical number.
"Is that Harry Styles?" Gosling asked, before the camera cut to the Grammy winner casually sitting in the crowd as the audience erupted into cheers. "What are you doing here, man?"
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"Well, I'm hosting next week, and it's been a while, so I just wanted to watch, get a feel for it," Styles explained.
Gosling, acting like he was stressed about this development, said he wished "someone would have told me" and then tried to get back on track, unsuccessfully.
"I have a new movie coming out," Gosling said. "It's called Project Harry Styles − nope. It'd be a good movie, though. It's called 'Project Hail Mary.' "
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When Gosling started to move into a song, the camera cut to Styles, as if the show was more interested in him than the night's host. "Your coolness is becoming a bit of an issue," Gosling told him.
The show soon put up a split screen of the two, but when Gosling asked to "get rid of the split screen," the show cut to a solo shot of Styles. Eventually, it was revealed that the crew member operating the camera was a Styles superfan.
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The Academy Award winning actor Ryan Gosling first catapulted to fame after appearing in the 2004 romantic drama "The Notebook" alongside Rachel McAdams. The star continues to act in iconic roles and films and will soon star in "Project Hail Mary" and "Star Wars: Starfighter."Here, Gosling attends the premiere of "The Fall Guy" at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on April 30, 2024.
Gosling ultimately attempted to proceed with a song while begging for an inset shot of Styles to be taken off the screen, and he concluded with a "Barbie" throwback, singing, "I'm just Ken!"
"I promised myself I wouldn't do that," he said. "Do you guys remember whenI did that at the Oscars? It was pretty cool."
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The monologue concluded with other "SNL" cast members coming on stage, seemingly to lift Gosling's spirits, only for Kenan Thompson to reveal, "We just came to get a better look at Harry."
Styles, fresh off the release of his latest album "Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally," is set to host and serve as musical guest next weekend. Styles last appeared as host and musical guest on "SNL" in 2019.
Gosling's "SNL" episode opened with a sketch that spoofedPresident Donald Trump'sfiring of Department of Homeland Security SecretaryKristi Noem.Ashley Padillaplayed Noem, who declared in the cold open, "I just want to make it clear that I didn't get fired. I self-deported."
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