'Pitch Perfect's Elizabeth Banks to Make Hosting Debut on NBC's SNL

Elizabeth Banks will make her "Saturday Night Live" hosting debut. Banks can next be seen in the highly anticipated "Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2," in theatres November 4. She is also coming off directing and starring in "Pitch Perfect 2" and a critically-acclaimed role in the film "Love and Mercy."

Disclosure will also make their SNL debut as musical guest. Their second album, "Caracal," was released in September to rave reviews. The English electronic music duo will be joined by Sam Smith and then Lorde for their first TV performance from this critically acclaimed album.

"Saturday Night Live" is produced in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels.

"Saturday Night Live," NBC's Emmy Award-winning late-night comedy showcase, enters its 40th season in September for another year of laughs, surprises and great performances.

Since its inception in 1975, "SNL" has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of their generation. As The New York Times noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy-winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999, "in DEFIANCE of both time and show business convention, 'SNL' is still the most pervasive influence on THE ART OF comedy in contemporary culture." At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.

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