--- title: Seth Rogen Hosts SNL: James Franco, Zooey Deschanel Join Monologue description: Returning Saturday Night Live guest host Seth Rogen shared excerpts from his diary at the beginning of the program, but he was interrupted by celebrity friends James Franco, Zooey Deschanel and Taylor Swift canonical: https://time.com/60668/seth-rogen-snl-monologue/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-13T13:48:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:45.195Z og:title: Seth Rogen Hosts SNL: James Franco, Zooey Deschanel Join Monologue og:description: Returning Saturday Night Live guest host Seth Rogen shared excerpts from his diary at the beginning of the program, but he was interrupted by celebrity friends James Franco, Zooey Deschanel and Taylor Swift og:url: https://time.com/60668/seth-rogen-snl-monologue/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a53f502cc87b8f9/69868a77d0b6f2bd21303c56/screen-shot-2014-04-13-at-9-25-47-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-04-13 at 9.25.47 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Rogen Hosts SNL: James Franco, Zooey Deschanel Join Monologue twitter:description: Returning Saturday Night Live guest host Seth Rogen shared excerpts from his diary at the beginning of the program, but he was interrupted by celebrity friends James Franco, Zooey Deschanel and Taylor Swift twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a53f502cc87b8f9/69868a77d0b6f2bd21303c56/screen-shot-2014-04-13-at-9-25-47-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Seth Rogen's Very Famous Friends Crash His _SNL_ Monologue by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 13, 2014 1:48 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 13, 2014 1:48 PM UTC Seth Rogen stopped by Studio 8H to host _Saturday Night Live_ for the third time this week, sharing excerpts from the diary he’s been keeping to document the process. This made it very easy for the actor to poke fun at his friend James Franco, who recently apologized for trying to [woo a teenage girl ](http://time.com/50058/james-franco-instagram-stunt/)on Instagram. Turns out it was all just an elaborate prank Rogen pulled to make himself feel better about his lackluster performance during rehearsals. But before Rogen continued, he was interrupted by a few of his celebrity pals. James Franco stops by, of course, along with a ukelele-toting Zooey Deschanel. But then, CURVEBALL: Taylor Swift showed up. “Why are you here? Why did you come?” Rogen demanded. “You were getting really upset,” the singer explains, “and every time a man shows emotion, I appear.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/60668/seth-rogen-snl-monologue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/60668/seth-rogen-snl-monologue/"},"headline":"Watch Seth Rogen's Very Famous Friends Crash His SNL Monologue","datePublished":"2014-04-13T13:48:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:45.195Z","description":"Returning Saturday Night Live guest host Seth Rogen shared excerpts from his diary at the beginning of the program, but he was interrupted by celebrity friends James Franco, Zooey Deschanel and Taylor Swift","url":"https://time.com/60668/seth-rogen-snl-monologue/","keywords":["Newsfeed","SNL","Saturday Night Live","Arts","james franco","Seth Rogen"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a53f502cc87b8f9/69868a77d0b6f2bd21303c56/screen-shot-2014-04-13-at-9-25-47-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a53f502cc87b8f9/69868a77d0b6f2bd21303c56/screen-shot-2014-04-13-at-9-25-47-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-04-13 at 9.25.47 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/60668/seth-rogen-snl-monologue/","name":"Watch Seth Rogen's Very Famous Friends Crash His SNL Monologue"}}]}] ```