--- description: James Franco and Nicki Minaj star in a brief promo for this weekend's episode of "Saturday Night Live." title: Watch James Franco and Nicki Minaj Declare Their Best-Friendship in SNL Promo image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt412823a5f21b9dec/69876cf33c16392c5f450745/screen-shot-2014-12-05-at-10-08-32-am.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch James Franco and Nicki Minaj Declare Their Best-Friendship in _SNL_ Promo  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 5, 2014 3:09 PM CUT   by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 5, 2014 3:09 PM CUT In case you forgot in the last ten hours that [NBC’s _Peter Pan Live!_](http://time.com/3619490/peter-pan-nbc-live-recap/ "undefined") was the television event of the year (it was, at least, the most plugged), James Franco and Nicki Minaj are here to remind you. Franco and Minaj, who are host and musical guest, respectively, of this weekend’s _Saturday Night Live_, teamed up for a promo in which a little tribute to Allison Williams’ Pan goes off with a bit of a hitch. The pair also attempts to prove, to anyone who’s ever doubted the depths of their bond, that they’re actual real-life besties. By the looks of it, she’s forgiven him for the [derrière-obsessed interview](http://www.vulture.com/2014/08/franco-plays-offensive-interviewer-in-vmas-bit.html "undefined") he conducted with her back in August. (Although to be fair, he was in character at the time.) Franco will host the show for a third time, promoting his upcoming comedy _The Interview_. Minaj will presumably perform tracks off her new album _The Pinkprint_, which drops Dec. 15. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3620051/james-franco-nicki-minaj-snl-promo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3620051/james-franco-nicki-minaj-snl-promo/"},"headline":"Watch James Franco and Nicki Minaj Declare Their Best-Friendship in SNL Promo","datePublished":"2014-12-05T15:09:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:02.994Z","description":"Also, dash our dreams about flying","url":"https://time.com/3620051/james-franco-nicki-minaj-snl-promo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","SNL","Saturday Night Live","Nicki Minaj","james franco","the interview"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt412823a5f21b9dec/69876cf33c16392c5f450745/screen-shot-2014-12-05-at-10-08-32-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt412823a5f21b9dec/69876cf33c16392c5f450745/screen-shot-2014-12-05-at-10-08-32-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-12-05 at 10.08.32 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/3620051/james-franco-nicki-minaj-snl-promo/","name":"Watch James Franco and Nicki Minaj Declare Their Best-Friendship in SNL Promo"}}]}] ```