‘Saturday Night Live’ Brings In Tom Hanks, Tina Fey And More To Induct Martin Short Into “Five-Timers Club”
deadline.comSaturday Night Live lined up Tom Hanks, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Melissa McCarthy and others to welcome Martin Short into the “Five-Timers Club,” or those who have hosted the show at least five times. “I just want to say I am so happy to be here for this moment, so I would like to present to you the official Five Timer’s Club jacket in exactly your size — a women’s small,” said Jimmy Fallon.
Short then struggled a bit to get the jacket on. “From the bottom of my heart, I just want to say, I love most of you so much,” Short told the star-studded grouping.
The cameos were in keeping with the show’s 50th season, which has featured appearances from hosts and former cast members. Also appearing in the opener were Scarlett Johansson (shutting the door on Colin Jost), Kristen Wiig, Emma Stone, John Mulaney and Alec Baldwin (who unlike the others, with a “17” on his jacket).
Hanks noted at the outset that in December, 1990, he created the SNL Five Timers Club, “an ingeniously lazy way to avoid writing a monologue.
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