Not sure how exciting Charles Barkley and freakin' Alicia Keys is going to be. I will definitely watch Sigourney Weaver though. Love her. From CNN:

"Saturday Night Live" has announced its first two celebrity hosts and musical guests for next year.

On January 9, basketball great Charles Barkley will host with Alicia Keys performing. This will be Barkley's second time hosting.

The following week, "Avatar's" Sigourney Weaver will take over, with musical guest The Ting Tings.

It's been a rough season so far for "SNL." In September, the show announced it was canning cast members Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson.

With no breakout skits (and no Sarah Palin), it's been a parade of young starlets clearly uncomfortable with the hosting gig over the past several months. The one bright spot was Taylor Swift, with her sweet "Monologue Song" and spot-on Shakira impression.

Hopefully Barkley can turn things around for the sketch show in 2010 since athletes usually make great hosts. Isn't that right, Wayne Gretzky?

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Here is Michaela Watkins' characters on SNL: Ann Coulter
Arianna Huffington
Barbara Walters
Elphaba (from Wicked on Broadway)
Glenn Close (as Alex Forrest from Fatal Attraction)
Hoda Kotb
Janice (from The Muppets, replacing Maya Rudolph)
Joan Rivers
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Marcie (from Peanuts)
Angie Tempura: A geeky, iced coffee-drinking computer nerd who snarks on celebrities and movies and is the creator of the snarky website "Bitch Pleeze"

Here are Casey Wilson's characters:
Rachael Ray
Kristy Joe Muller
Mariam Budia (as one of the "Dakota Fanning Show" writers)
Scarlett Johansson (as Mary Boleyn from The Other Boleyn Girl)
Snow White (from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
Chelsea Clinton (dress rehearsal cold opening sketch on April, 5 2008)
Debralee Scott (as a loosely-based caricature of her, in a Match Game parody)
One of the Deal or No Deal models
Daughter from the "Hot Friends" T-Mobile commercial
Judge Jackie Glass
Marion Sandler
Karen Dotrice (as Jane Banks from Mary Poppins)
Katy Perry
Sara Quin (as a Tegan and Sara parody)
Christina Hendricks (as Joan Holloway from Mad Men)
Jennifer Aniston
Carolyn Maloney
Elizabeth Dole
Roxie Hart (from Chicago on Broadway)
Elizabeth Taylor
Ginnifer Goodwin (as Margene Heffman from Big Love)
Helga the Horrible
Alyson Reed (as Ms. Darbus from High School Musical)
Dusty Velvet, a paralyzed strip club dancer who is only able to perform her "erotic moves" with the assistance of Donnie (played by Ashton Kutcher) the strip club emcee. Nora Merryll, part of the singing sisterly quartet The Merryll Sisters who are regularly featured on The Lawrence Welk Show. Their otherwise flawless performances are always ruined by 4th sister Dooneese, (played by Kristen Wiig) because of her off-key singing and freakish appearance.
Toni Ward, one of the cougars who co-hosts The Cougar Den talk-show sketches.