Katy Perry to Host 'Saturday Night Live'

Katy Perry arrives at the American Music Awards show in Los Angeles.

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Katy Perry has been announced as the host of the December 10th episode of Saturday Night Live. The singer, who has spent the year racking up hit singles from her album Teenage Dream and touring around the world with her California Dreams tour, will be focusing entirely on comedy in the episode. Swedish pop star Robyn, who opened up for many of California Dreams' arena gigs, will be the episode's musical guest.

Perry has some previous experience in comedy. She starred in an episode of How I Met Your Mother earlier this year and provided the voice for the Smurfs animated feature. She's also married to British funnyman Russell Brand, who hosted the show back in February and is very likely to turn up in this episode.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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