The new season of SNL premieres this Saturday, September 15 on NBC, and with that date soon approaching, it is time once again for Jmunney’s SNL host and musical guest predictions.  Once again, I have made 30 choices (including guests that have already been announced) in both categories; there have been 22 episodes of SNL the past few seasons, but 30 is the chosen number because that is the number for an SNL guest prediction contest that I enter on an SNL fan website forum. Picks are listed (vaguely) in order of confidence, most confident picks first. (Guests that have already been announced are first-timers Seth MacFarlane and Frank Ocean for the season premiere, second-timer Joseph Gordon-Levitt and first-timers Mumford & Sons for the second episode on September 22, and first-timer Daniel and second-timers Muse for show #3 on October 6.)

Hosts
I have organized my host selections in the same categories as last year.

Coming Off a Hot Summer
Seth MacFarlane – already announced

Current Hit Movie
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – already announced
Daniel Craig – already announced
Paul Rudd
Ben Affleck
Seth Rogen
James Franco
Jennifer Lawrence
Anne Hathaway
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
Mila Kunis
Robert Downey, Jr.
Amy Adams
Hugh Jackman
Leslie Mann

TV Stars
Joel McHale
Tina Fey
Amy Poehler
Lena Dunham
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Peter Dinklage
Alison Brie
Nick Offerman
Stephen Colbert

The Regulars
Jon Hamm
Zach Galifianakis
Alec Baldwin
Christopher Walken
John Goodman

Other (Big Name Not Plugging Anything, Athletes, Musical Guests Pulling Double Duty, etc.)
Justin Bieber

Musical Guests
Frank Ocean – already announced
Mumford & Sons – already announced
Muse – already announced
Taylor Swift
Green Day
No Doubt
Justin Bieber
Carly Rae Jepsen
fun.
Alicia Keys
Beck
Ke$ha
P!nk
Lady GaGa
The Killers
Kanye West
Grouplove
Ellie Goulding
Nicki Minaj
Of Monsters and Men
Imagine Dragons
Rihanna
Aerosmith
Linkin Park
Rick Ross
Animal Collective
Cat Power
St. Vincent
Bruce Springsteen
Childish Gambino