Saturday Night Live celebrates Christmas by inducting host and recurring favorite guest star Martin Short into the vaunted five-timers club (kind of surprising that it took this long). In a self-admitted “cheap ratings boost”, they load the cold open with big name cameos of fellow five timers Tom Hanks, Paul Rudd, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Emma Stone, John Mulaney and as the official jacket boy, Jimmy Fallon.
Drinks are had, secrets are confessed – Short, Wiig and Stone all hooked up (and voted for Trump), Rudd admits “Ant Man’s powers aren’t good”, Hanks never had Covid, and Baldwin has too many children – McCarthy pratfalls, insults are hurled, and everyone gets sloshed, before they gift a visibly touched Short with his much earned Five Timer’s jacket (in “exactly [his] size, a woman’s small”).
