Nine Five-Timers Club members (and Jimmy Fallon) welcome Martin Short into the ‘SNL’ club
The show unleashed a wave of celebrity cameos — and the infamous ‘Weekend Update’ joke swap — as the ‘Only Murders’ star hosted for the fifth time.
Right before this episode of SNL began, I jumped on Bluesky to ask if we should predict a celebrity cameo for Martin Short’s episode. He was joining the Five-Timers Club, so a cameo or two could be expected.
SNL gave us ten cameos. Ten.
To celebrate Short joining the Five-Timers Club, nine other members of the club showed up during this episode’s cold open. And Jimmy Fallon was there too.
There are 27 members in the Five-Timers Club now. The 2020s are currently tied as the second most prolific decade for new members of the iconic SNL group, with six new members (Paul Rudd, John Mulaney, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Kristen Wiig and now Short) being added since 2020. With more than half the decade still to go, the 2020s have a real shot at passing the record eight new Five-Timers Club members (Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck, Tina Fey, Scarlett Johansson, Melissa McCarthy, Dwayne Johnson, Jonah Hill and Will Ferrell) that we saw earn that honor during the 2010s.
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