How Are Gorillaz Feeling About Their ‘SNL’ Debut This Weekend? According to Host Ryan Gosling: ‘It’s a Secret’

Looks like we’ll have to wait until Saturday to find out just how Gorillaz are feeling about making their Saturday Night Live debut this weekend.

In promos for the new episode starring Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett from Gorillaz alongside host Ryan Gosling, SNL castmember Ashley Padilla marvels at the fact that the cartoon rock band has never graced the stage before.

“Gorillaz! You’re one of the best bands ever, and you’ve never been the musical guest?” Padilla asks in disbelief. “How are you feeling?”

In response, Albarn and Hewlett wordlessly paint big smiles on their faces, crouch down and start wiggling their fingers.

“What are they doing?” Padilla asks Gosling. “It’s a secret,” he whispers back, to which Padilla pouts, “No one tells me anything!”

Elsewhere in the video, Padilla admits to watching scenes from The Notebook on her phone during Gosling’s new movie Project Hail Mary and also confesses to placing illegal bets on what she’ll say and do in the promos.

Watch the promos below:

For their debut as musical guest, Gorillaz are promoting their just-released ninth album The Mountain. They’ve also just announced a tour around the project — their first North American trek in four years — which kicks off Sept. 17 in Orlando, Florida, and wraps on Halloween in Seattle.

Gosling returns to SNL for his fourth time hosting — not his fifth time, like he mistakenly believes in a previously released promo for the new episode — to promote his new film Project Hail Mary, a sci-fi film based on the 2021 novel of the same name.

Saturday Night Live airs at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and streams on Peacock. (See all the options to watch SNL here.)