Here’s every member of Saturday Night Live’s Five-Timers Club
Emma Stone joins the elite group with her latest hosting gig this weekend
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Emma Stone is having a great year. Not only is the Academy Award-winning actress currently starring in one of the most interesting shows on television and one of the year’s best-received movies in The Curse and Poor Things respectively (not to mention the best bit of trolling we’ve seen in a while), but she’s also about to have another feather to add to her already impressive resume. This Saturday, Emma Stone joins Saturday Night Live’s Five-Timers Club, an exclusive group of stars and celebrities that have hosted the show five times or more. (They have jackets!)
In Stone’s honor, here’s a sketch from each member of the Five-Timers Club (including Emma Stone), who we’ve listed in alphabetical order.
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Some exquisite… whiteness. Is literally the only person who isn’t white on this list… the Rock? What an institution.
Most Recent Date Hosted would be helpful
Would also be nice if it were in order of how many times they’ve hosted or when they joined the club rather than alphabetical.
Agreed. Fairly obvious in Ms. Stone’s case (and Woody’s…though that 33+ year spread from 1st to 5th appearance is impressive in its own right), but it would have been helpful for everyone else.The article could have even linked to the most recent episode review…or whatever passes for a review now.
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5 timers club is so masturbatory. it was a joke during tom hanks 5th appearance monologue and thats all it was supposed to be. a christmas episode i think, so there was reason to have some fanfare with paul simon, steve martin, elliot gould, jon lovitz and fucking ralph nader showing up (good ol’ boy conan was the doorman “sean”). of course SNL (nbc) had to make it into an actual thing. funny to me that the sketch this “article” provided for tom hanks, was david pumpkins, instead of, again, you know, the monologue that started the whole thing.
Is it a thing? Like do they ever get together for club meetings or get any benefit from it? It seems mostly like a list of people that have hosted five times whose big reward is a sketch about it when they’re “inducted,” which is pretty much what Hanks got.
no, i doubt they get together. when i say “thing”, i mean, a recurring sketch/idea that snl/nbc can market. this “article” proves we should be anticipating emma’s hosting gig tonight because tonight she will join the “elite” (per this “article”) 5 timers club. my point was, it was just a one off joke that now gets marketed as a thing.
Yeah, it was a funny bit with Hanks that became a popular tradition (with the predictable drop in humor). But it exists exactly the length of a monologue every so often, so I’m not sure it’s worth getting all incensed over. I mean, of course the network is going to advertise something people will tune in for. It’s sort of their job.
how am i incensed?
1. Former cast and staff shouldn’t count2. At this point it should be the 10 timers club. Dwayne Johnson??
Yes, the arbitrary list needs additional arbitrary conditions.
Part of me just assumed Adam Driver had joined the club, purely by his count of stone cold classic sketches (really, can you name a great Rock sketch?).EDIT: Can someone make a list of the one-Saturday-Night stands who should have been given a second shot?
BAMBI.
really, can you name a great Rock sketch?This one kills me. It’s the way he so matter-of-factly describes his truly evil invention.There’s also one where he’s Superman, but very badly pulling off the whole “Clark Kent” thing. Even the presence of Jimmy Fallon didn’t derail the sketch (sorry I couldn’t find video).
https://archive.org/details/saturday-night-live-s-25-e-15-the-rock-ac-dcStarts just after the 45 minute mark.
One of the funniest sketches ever.Bonus for “I can’t believe he did it!”.
As soon as I heard Dwayne Johnson say the words “I invented a child-molesting robot”, I knew I was wrong. Thank you for this.
Bring Back Adrien Brody!
I love the sketch with The Rock doing wrestling promos that get entirely too personal and too real
I still laugh at The Rock Obama. I can’t remember if he was hosting or just dropped by though.
I liked Emma Stone’s walk-on during Ryan Gosling’s monologue about saving jazz.
No one who was a former cast member should be on this list. They never truly leave.
So was Buck Henry the fastest to reach five? Impressive.
Congratulations on your laziest listicle yet! I was expecting at least a small quip about each host but you managed to slither even under a bar this low.
Based on these numbers, Buck Henry hosted 5 times in two seasons with a total of 10 come 1980. Are you here for an affair, sir?
Elliott Gould still might be the most unlikely 5 time host, to me
Elliott Gould has been the most unlikely a lot of things.
he was a very cool guy in the 70s when he was on SNL. Just look at him in The Long Goodbye.
The Long Goodbye is a terrific movie, one of Robert Altman’s best
So, Did Buck Henry basically host most of the first season?
He used to host the last episode of each season (and often one during the season as well) because everyone was so burnt out by then that they would hit the slag pile for sketches and he was game for anything.
Tina Fey said that Emma Stone, at 35, was the youngest woman to host five times. But if Scarlett Johansson was born in 1984, and hosted for the fifth time in 2017, wouldn’t that make her the youngest? (I also remembered that she never got an “induction” moment, but actually cameoed in the episode where they made such a big deal about Dwayne Johnson, and she was ignored.)
There was a time when I daydreamed about writing for the AV Club.
Paul Rudd should have an asterisk since his 5th episode was essentially canceled