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On ‘S.N.L.,’ Tom Hanks Inducts Martin Short Into the Five-Timers Club
Short, the host, was accompanied by Paul Rudd, Tina Fey, John Mulaney and others, while the Weekend Update hosts riffed on Luigi Mangione and the drone sightings.
When you see Tom Hanks on your TV screen sitting in a comfortable seat, you know that either you’re about to get an education on America’s national parks or a new member is going to be inducted into the Five-Timers Club at “Saturday Night Live.”
This weekend, it was the host Martin Short’s turn to join the elite legion of performers who have hosted “S.N.L.” five times, welcomed by a pantheon of celebrities that included Paul Rudd, Tina Fey, John Mulaney, Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy.
The segment began with a short introduction from Hanks, who explained that he started the club in a December 1990 “S.N.L.” episode as an “ingeniously lazy way to avoid writing a monologue.”
He was joined by Rudd, who asked Hanks who he was talking to. Hanks apologized, saying, “I’ve done so many documentaries, whenever I sit in a leather chair, I just naturally assume I’m in one.”
An exuberant Short entered the room, followed by Fey, whom he described as “one of the rarest things in Hollywood: a writer who’s attractive enough to be on camera.”
