Paul Rudd prepares to join the Five-Timers Club in this week’s SNL promo
But People's Sexiest Man says it's not the five-timers club you think
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Paul Rudd is having himself quite the year for meaningless, easily goofed-upon accolades. People’s Sexiest Man Alive and Saturday’s SNL host is also about to join Saturday Night Live’s prestigious Five-Timers Club, a one-off sketch idea from 1990 that’s somehow become a whole thing. Rudd will become the 21st entrant, although, he’s got a long way to go until he joins Steve Martin, John Goodman, and Alec Baldwin in what Martin insists is called the Platinum Lounge.
That said, it’s almost certain that, once Rudd also hosts for the twelfth time, he will still look a lot younger than those guys did.
Appearing alongside cast member Ego Nwodim and musical guest Charli XCX for the week-of commercial promos, Rudd warned his companions that his entry into the so-called “Five-Timers Club” means something entirely different than what they think.
Well, Paul Rudd always seemed to good to be true. What with his eternal boyishness, and his aw-shucks midwestern charm, his ability to scarf down extremely hot chicken wings with a smile, and and the way he occasionally dances like a G.I. Joe action figure with a particularly loose pelvis. Still, we can only speculate what horrors lurk beneath that smiling, hilariously improvisational, now MCU-jacked facade….
That’s all just speculation at this point, however. What we do know is that Rudd will, indeed, be entering the exclusive Five-Timers Club on Saturday, having hosted for the first time back in 2008. (Musical guest Beyoncé was still singing “Single Ladies” and going by Beyoncé Knowles back then, for crying out loud.)
As for what Rudd will get up to this time, well, it almost certainly won’t be another outing of the disturbingly affectionate Vogelcheck family, what with COVID and onstage deep tongue kissing being an unwise mix these days.
Still, Rudd usually attracts the famous guest stars, co-stars, and fellow funny (if conventionally aging) pals, so who knows whether Fred Armisen’s lurking around, warming up his lips.
Plus, since Rudd is currently winning actual accolades for his creepy turn alongside Will Ferrell in The Shrink Next Door, another Bill Brasky sketch isn’t entirely out of the question.
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Charli looks very unenthused and/or stoned.
she looks like she was ridden hard and put away wet.
why not both?
I’m checking with the judges but I’m not sure it counts if you don’t post the corresponding meme.
Ugh fine!!!
I’ve seen people on Ambien before but none who weather leather bras and fur to bed.
You wear them to bed. But you don’t sleep in them.
I’m glad somebody clarified that!
Charli looks like John Belushi.
I believe that’s her default setting.
Are we sure this new Charli XCX is the same one from the Martin Freeman episode 7 years ago?
In fairness to us all, a whole shitton of nonsense has gone down since then.
In UK it would be a shittonne.
Her eyes are missing a light from then. Or she’s just stoned.
Or she’s not looking at the fucking camera?
Maybe she took the Billie Eilish Acting Clinic.
Yes just with some sever coke bloat?!
You guys are so nice
JFC, no wonder I didn’t recognize her in the header image.
The real question is what the heck happened to Ego Nwodim between those two pictures? I guess she realized who she really was, damn!
Bill Brasky gave me three beautiful children!(definitely time to dust this one off)
I found five errors in this article:Five-Timer’s Club —> Five-Timers Club (2 instances) Rudd will become the 21st entrant, although, he’s got a long way to go —> Rudd will become the 21st entrant, although he’s got a long way to go his eternal boyishness, and his aw-shucks midwestern charm —> his eternal boyishness, his aw-shucks midwestern charm and and the way —> and the way
Isn’t “Five-Timers’ Club”? Because there’s more than one member, and “Five-Timers” belongs to “Club”….I R Copy Editor!
Not saying I don’t believe you but why wouldn’t there be an apostrophe in Timer’s? The Five-Timer’s possess the Club, it’s theirs.
In which case, isn’t it the Five-Timers’ club, plural possessive?(I think it is anyway, I have a copyeditor friend I usually run this stuff by when I’m in doubt.)
You’re right.
Nah, Volunteer Proofreader’s shtick irks me even more than those insufferable people who point and laugh at sandwich board misspellings, but they’re correct here. It’s the same way you’d say “Elks Lodge,” not “Elks’ Lodge.”Also, it’s “copy editor.” Two words. Sorta kills FelixYYZ’s authority on grammar there.
The Five-Timer’s Club belongs to a single Five-Timer. The Five-Timers Club is a club for all Five-Timers, but it doesn’t belong to them. The Five-Timers’ Club is a club that belongs to all Five-Timers.
It’s pronounced “The People’s Front of Judea”.
“Five-Timers” is how it’s represented in the show itself.It could mean a club consisting of Five-Timers, rather than owned by them. Also, it would “Five-Timers’ Club” in that case anyway. It’s not owned by one Five-Timer.
I love this, please, keep going, everyone.
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But that would be The Five Timer IS Club
“The Five-Timer’s possess the Club, it’s theirs.”Learn English, THEN talk back.
Now this is the kind of shit I come to the comments for.Keep it up.
No, it’s “his eternal boyishness and aw-shucks Midwestern charm. . . .”You’re ignoring tone and retaining a redundant list item that should be folded into the previous one that also describes Rudd’s demeanor.
Everything I’ve seen says you should only capitalize things like Midwest when you’re talking about actual geography.And I can’t full-on critique these monstrosities for tone and style etc. It would be too much work to do for free
“Midwestern” is a style issue. I prefer AP out of habit and the flexibility it affords a writer, so “Midwestern.”
I went to see Bleachers and Charli XCX together several years ago. She was promoting the album Sucker on that tour and closed the show/went last.I like what music I’ve heard of her, although at the time I just knew her from Boom Pow and guesting on the Icona Pop song and her verse on Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy”. She came out on stage dressed up not unlike how she is in the SNL video, basically more like a lingerie model than anything else. She looked good and all, but I started thinking that she seemed to be running around the stage while signing without losing her breath at all. Which is either very impressive cardio or a sign that she’s lip-syncing. Which, you know, can be fine if you went to a concert for more of a “show” like the Backstreet Boys or N’Sync instead of seeing a band perform live. She also had a band on stage that was three young, attractive women, also in skimpy clothes. And I don’t want to discredit any hard working drummers or bass players that just happen to be hot, young women, but after about 3-4 songs, I was starting to question if any of the instruments were being played live or if the whole show was just a performance.In conclusion, I still like listening to Charli XCX, I don’t know that I’ve ever seen her sing live and probably wouldn’t go back to another concert based on that and I may just be a sexist ass-hat who doesn’t know shit about live music.
I wonder how many loot boxes Charlie Ex cah Ex had to pay to open before she found the big titty upgrade skin on her Warcraft character.
It’s really fun to be watching the video and then a big screen-gorging pop up ad randomly fills the whole screen and obscuring the comedy of Ego.