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Michael Phelps is continuing his dominance out of the water — he’ll host the season premiere of Saturday Night Live on September 13, NBC announced Wednesday.Rapper Lil Wayne will join the Olympic swimmer — who won eight gold medals in Beijing — as musical guest.

Phelps, 23, will also be a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on… Read the full story at USmagazine.com

After winning a record 8 Gold Medals in a single Olympics, swimmer Michael Phelps gets an opportunity to host SNL’s season premiere. Certainly not the first athlete to host, nor the goofest… yet I have a hard time picturing Phelps doing comedy.

If nothing else, I will be looking to watch the musical act, Lil’ Wayne, whose newest CD (Carter III) is off the hook. Sure, he’s not the type of artist that many viewers will want to see, but anyone 12-35 (mostly male) is going to want to watch (TIVO it!).

I’ll give Phelps a brief chance and watch the show, but I’ll probably switch the TV to MadTV pretty quickly. Neither show is as good as it has been in the past, but there’s not much else on TV or cable at that time.

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