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Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin to Guest Star on SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas

Steve Martin
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Steve Martin
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Stage veterans Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will guest star on NBC’s SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas, to air on Thursday, December 17, according to TVGuide.com. The show will feature Saturday Night Live‘s Kristen Wiig as her popular character, Gilly.

Martin and Baldwin have both hosted Saturday Night Live on numerous occasions. They co-star with Meryl Streep in the romantic comedy It’s Complicated, which is scheduled to hit movie theaters later this month, and they will co-host the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, which will take place on Monday, March 7 in Los Angeles and be aired live on ABC-TV.

Baldwin has appeared on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire, Loot, and Twentieth Century. He received an Academy Award nomination for The Cooler and has won two Emmy Awards for his work on NBC’s 30 Rock. Martin has starred Off-Broadway in Waiting for Godot and is the author of such plays as Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Underpants.