{"id":769981,"date":"2026-05-03T07:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/769981\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:49:25","slug":"connor-storrie-pops-into-snl-to-introduce-olivia-rodrigo-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/769981\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Storrie Pops Into &#8216;SNL&#8217; To Introduce Olivia Rodrigo Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter Blondie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/blondie-debbie-harry-olivia-rodrigo-snl-song-surprise-1236879247\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Debbie Harry introduced<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/olivia-rodrigo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_olivia-rodrigo\" data-tag=\"olivia-rodrigo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2018s first Saturday Night Live performance of the night, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/connor-storrie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_connor-storrie\" data-tag=\"connor-storrie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Storrie<\/a> also appeared in a surprise cameo to intro the artist\u2019s second track \u2014 an unreleased one \u2014 during her double duty stint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRodrigo seemed to perform a new song off of her upcoming album you\u00a0seem\u00a0pretty\u00a0sad for a\u00a0girl\u00a0so in\u00a0love,\u00a0which will drop\u00a0June 12. Compared to the uproarious and scathing \u201cdrop dead,\u201d the latest single, \u201cBegged,\u201d was stripped down and more somber in tone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI could never leave \/ so I\u2019m patiently learning \/ pretend it\u2019s not hurting,\u201d the singer-songwriter crooned. Other lyrics included: \u201c\u2018Cause they say it\u2019s a virtue \/ to not let good love slip away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Heated Rivalry star was just at Studio 8H in Rodrigo\u2019s shoes earlier this year, for his inaugural hosting stint back in late February. His show also included cameos galore: the U.S. women\u2019s and men\u2019s Olympic hockey champs, as well as his co-star Hudson Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThough Rodrigo has been a musical guest twice prior, tonight marked her first time leading the Lorne Michaels-created sketch show. (She previously featured as a musical guest on the late-nighter in 2021, opposite host Keegan-Michael Key, and 2023, alongside host Adam Driver.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBut Storrie wasn\u2019t the only surprise guest tonight. As mentioned, Harry previewed the three-time Grammy winner\u2019s first track. Additionally, Aziz Ansari appeared in the Cold Open as FBI director Kash Patel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the lead-up to her third studio album, Rodrigo released lead single \u201cdrop dead\u201d alongside a stunning accompanying music video \u2014 dreamily directed by Petra Collins at the Louvre \u2014\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=78wrful9cVU\">two weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Blondie\u2019s Debbie Harry introduced Olivia Rodrigo\u2018s first Saturday Night Live performance of the night, Connor Storrie also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":769982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[191740,171,22854,1933,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-769981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-connor-storrie","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-olivia-rodrigo","11":"tag-snl","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116509551435876973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}