Carrie to be on SNL

Country music star Carrie Underwood will make her second appearance on “Saturday Night Live” this Saturday on the late-night sketch program’s first new episode since the writers’ strike ended last week.

The Checotah product will be the episode’s musical guest, while former “SNL” writer and “Weekend Update” co-anchor Tina Fey will be the show’s host. Fey is now the writer, executive producer, creator and star of the NBC sitcom “30 Rock.”

Underwood last appeared on “SNL” on March 24, 2007, as musical guest in an episode hosted by NFL star quarterback Peyton Manning. At the time, she was only the fifth country performer to appear on the show in its more than three decade history. (Underwood’s idol and fellow Oklahoman Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban were her country music predecessors on the show.)

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