‘Saturday Night Live’ casts Margot Robbie to host season 42 premiere; The Weeknd to perform

There’s going to be a little bit of “Suicide Squad” in the air for the upcoming season 42 premiere of “Saturday Night Live.”

Today, NBC finally confirmed that Margot Robbie will be the host for the upcoming October 1 episode, marking the latest that a hosting announcement has come out in the past few years. Meanwhile, The Weeknd will be the musical guest.

We suppose that Robbie’s hosting stint is probably rightly-timed given the success of her movie at the box office, and also the fact that you probably have at least two friends who are going to be dressing up as Harley Quinn for Halloween this year. (We literally counted more than 40 Harley Quinn costumes during two days of San Diego Comic-Con.) For us, she’ll always be best remembered for appearing in “Pan Am” a short-lived ABC series we really enjoyed but didn’t have the ratings to stay off the ground longer than a short season.

This has been a summer of change as a whole for “SNL,” who has lost Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah, and Jon Rudnitsky as cast members while in turn writer Mikey Day, Alex Moffat, and former “America’s Got Talent” contestant Melissa Villaseñor are coming on board as featured players. We imagine that this will be a fun season despite some of the changes, largely because we do at least have some anchors there such as Kenan Thompson (who seems to get better with age) or Kate McKinnon, who is coming off of an Emmy win for the wide array of characters she plays on the show.

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