Jake Gyllenhaal Sings Céline Dion as He Returns to Host SNL 15 Years After His Debut
The 41-year-old actor returns to Saturday Night Live as host over the weekend, after last leading the late-night NBC comedy sketch series in 2007
The hosting gig came on the heels of the premiere of Ambulance, his latest film.
In his opening monologue, Gyllenhaal joked about how long it had been since he last hosted the show, teasing, "That was like 400 Marvel movies ago."
"To give you an idea of what it was like in 2007, in the show I hosted, there was a George W. Bush sketch, there were jokes about the first iPhone, and this is a photo of me from my monologue,"
"There I am in full drag, singing a song from Dreamgirls, to promote a movie where I played a gay cowboy," Gyllenhaal added.
"That was actually the least problematic thing in that episode, but looking back, I feel like I was a totally different person."
Gyllenhaal admitted, however, that he never thought SNL "would come calling" and ask him to host once more due to the fact that he hosted the show so long ago