Saturday Night Live will also kick off season 46 with five live shows in a row, a first in the show's history.
With Joe Biden running for US president, NBC's live sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live needs a celebrity to play him. Actor-comedian Jim Carrey has gotten the role, Saturday Night Live announced on Wednesday. .
SNL will also start the new season with five consecutive shows on Oct.
that we would do something we hadn't done before, which was five shows in a row," Michaels said3
And sadly, if the election gets extended, then we'll be doing six or seven shows in a row.".
The show also announced that three new comedians -- Lauren Holt, Punkie Johnson and Andrew Dismukes -- have been added to the cast for the new season