Jamie Foxx to Host NBC's SNL, 12/8

During this week's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, the NBC network announced that Academy Award winning actor Jamie Foxx will host the show on December 8th. The actor will star in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino western Django Unchained, opening in theaters Christmas Day. Ne Yo will be the musical guest on the episode.

The appearance will mark Foxx's second time as host of the long-running sketch comedy. He first hosted the show in 2000.

Singer-songwriter, rapper, stand-up comedian, and actor Jamie Foxx starred in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing three albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, Best Night of My Life and Intuition.

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