Though she's made several appearances as a musical guest in the past decade — and most recently dropped in for a special cameo in October 2023 to introduce Bad Bunny's performance of "Un preview" — Lady Gaga hasn't been back to Saturday Night Live officially as a host since 2013.

As Lady Gaga strutted out and shimmied in a shimmering flapper-like ensemble, complete with a magnificent lob and feather coat, the chart-topping artist — tonight pulling double-duty as musical guest and host of Saturday Night Live — had no trouble turning the joke on herself.

Released last October, Folie à Deux was a sequel to the Oscar-winning 2019 film Joker, which starred Joaquin Phoenix as the iconic Batman villain. The sequel – a jukebox musical in which Gaga played Joker’s confidante Harley Quinn – was poorly received by critics, and was a notorious box office bomb.