How to watch the Olympics hosted by your favorite entertainers
Here’s how to watch the Olympics in summer 2024, hosted by everyone from Snoop Dogg to Elmo to Hoda as the games commence in Paris.
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Want to know how and where to watch the Olympics? Prefer familiar hosts from all corners of the entertainment industry? We’ve got you covered. Below you’ll find the schedule of major events of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 featuring comedians, musicians, daytime talk-show hosts, and even Muppets, sourced from an NBCUniversal press release and Olympics website.
How to watch the Olympics opening ceremonies for Paris 2024
The opening ceremonies will broadcast and stream Friday, July 26, at 1:30 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. If you’re extra excited, you can tune in to preview coverage beginning at noon. The opening ceremonies will rerun July 26 at 7:30 p.m. on NBC.
Film director Steven Spielberg will introduce an Olympics-focused short film at the top of the show.
The opening ceremonies will be hosted by:
- Mike Tirico, “Sunday Night Football” commentator
- Kelly Clarkson, musician and “The Kelly Clarkson Show” host
- Peyton Manning, professional football hall-of-famer
- Savannah Guthrie, “Today” anchor
- Hoda Kotb, “Today” anchor
- Maria Taylor, NBC sportscaster
- Melissa Stark, “Sunday Night Football” reporter
- Andrea Joyce, NBC sportscaster
LeBron James will be Team USA’s flag bearer in the opening ceremonies.
The opening ceremonies will also include appearances by:
- cast members from “Saturday Night Live“
- “Sesame Street” Muppets: Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, and Tango (who will also appear throughout the Games in social media coverage)
‘Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson’
A series of specials under the title of “Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson” hosted by the comedian duo will stream on Peacock and NBCOlympics.com. Hart and Thompson’s show follows in the footsteps of a similar program from previous Olympic Games hosted by Hart and Snoop Dogg, and comes off the success of an annual year-in-review special on Peacock hosted by Hart and Thompson.
NBC says “Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson” will consist of eight episodes. You can watch “Olympics Highlights” episodes as they drop two or three times each week between July 26 and Aug. 11.
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‘Primetime in Paris’
Each night of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, NBC Sports’ longtime Olympics broadcaster Mike Tirico will host “Primetime in Paris” on NBC and Peacock, airing/streaming at 7 or 8 p.m. ET, depending on the night.
In addition to a roster of longtime sports analysts, Tirico will be joined for commentary by musician Snoop Dogg and former Olympic athlete Michael Phelps.
Comedian Leslie Jones and election commentator Steve Kornacki will also serve as NBC correspondents throughout the Olympic Games, but NBC has not specified where or when to watch them.
Watch the ‘Today’ show from the Olympics
Four anchors from “Today” (aka “The Today Show”) — Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Craig Melvin, and Al Roker — will be in Paris for the summer games, blitzing their venerable morning show with Olympics updates during its usual slot of 7-9 a.m. on NBC. (The show also has a hefty YouTube presence, likely to be populated with each day’s Olympics playback coverage during the show’s Parisian trip.)
Kotb and Melvin will be on the ground in Paris throughout the games, according to Variety — complete with a “Hoda cam” — while Guthrie and Roker will return to their New York City studio after the games’ first few days to cover Team USA reunions with athletes’ families, to air during “Today.”
‘Two Guys, Five Rings’ Olympics podcast
Leading up to and during the Olympic Games, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang — hosts of the “Las Culturistas” podcast — are pulling double-duty with a limited-time, 15-episode podcast spin-off. Entitled “Two Guys, Five Rings: Matt, Bowen, & the Olympics,” the podcast is an official production of NBC Sports in partnership with iHeartRadio.
Blending Olympics history and present-day stories with pop culture, Rogers and Yang describe “Two Guys, Five Rings” as being perfect “if you saw ‘Challengers’ and said, ‘Hmm, that’s enough sports for me.'” Their commentary touches on everything from “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels to the nighttime show “Fantasmic!” at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
“Two Guys, Five Rings” has been streaming since June 2024, with new episodes increasing in frequency as the Olympics draw closer.
‘Watch with Alex Cooper’
Alex Cooper, host of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, will star in “Watch with Alex Cooper,” a Peacock series serving as a live watch party of Olympics events with Cooper.
“Watch with Alex Cooper” will debut as a watch party for the opening ceremonies on July 26 at 1:30 p.m. ET. Beyond that, Peacock has not announced when or for which athletic events “Watch with Alex Cooper” will stream specifically.
How to watch the Olympics closing ceremonies for Paris 2024
The Olympics closing ceremonies will broadcast and stream Sunday, Aug. 11, at 3 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock, respectively. The summer games will come to a close in Paris, and the torch will be passed to Team USA for the 2028 Olympic Games, headed to Los Angeles, Calif.
The Closing Ceremonies will be hosted by:
- Mike Tirico, “Sunday Night Football” commentator
- Jimmy Fallon, “The Tonight Show” host
- Terry Gannon, Tara Lipinski, and Johnny Weir, NBC Sports figure skating and gymnastics commentators
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