Steve Martin will host and Jason Mraz is the musical guest. This will be Steve Martin’s fifteenth (yes, 15!) and Jason Mraz’s first appearance.

Tags: 2009, Episode 650, January 31, Jason Mraz, Season 34, Steve Martin

Rosario Dawson, best known for her roles in the films Sin City, Rent, and Death Proof, hosted this episode of Saturday Night Live. Fleet Foxes were the musical guest. Fleet Foxes performed “Mykonos” and “Blue Ridge Mountains.”

Other movies Rosario Dawson has been in
Clerks II (2006)
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
Grindhouse: Death Proof (2007)
Descent (2007)
Explicit Ills (2008)
Eagle Eye (2008)
Seven Pounds (2008)

and is scheduled to be in these upcoming movies:

The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2008)
Killshot (2009)
Wonder Woman (2009)
Sin City 2 (2010)

Fleet Foxes is a five-piece Seattle based band. The Fleet Foxes’ first release was a self-titled EP in 2006. The band released a second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes in 2008. The quintet describe their music as “baroque harmonic pop jams”.

Singles include “White Winter Hymnal” and “He Doesn’t Know Why”.

Tags: 2009, Episode 649, Fleet Foxes, Rosario Dawson, Season 34

Neil Patrick Harris was the host of this first show of 2009. Taylor Swift was the musical guest. She performed “Love Story” and “Forever and Always”.

Buy Love Story from iTunes

Buy other Taylor Swift songs from iTunes
A Perfectly Good Heart

A Place In This World

Cold As You

Tags: 2009, Episode 648, Forever and Always, January 10, Love Story, Neil Patrick Harris, Season 34, Taylor Swift