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Steve Carell to host ‘SNL’ season premiere

‘Napoleon Dynamite’ star Heder, Lance Armstrong also will play host

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updated 10:39 p.m. ET Sept. 29, 2005

NEW YORK - Steve Carell will host the season premiere of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" on Oct. 1 with Kanye West as the late-night show's musical guest.

Also scheduled as hosts during October: "Napoleon Dynamite" star Jon Heder, Oscar-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones and seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, with his fiancee, Sheryl Crow, as musical guest, NBC announced Thursday.

"SNL" is returning for its 31st season.


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