Emma Stone has been hosting SNL since 2010, and her most recent stint marked a milestone: It was her fifth time. You know what that means: She’s now an official member of the “Five-Timers Club,” the elite group of celebs who’ve hosted that many times or more. Only about two dozen people have hit that mark, and it’s always a cause for celebration. She even made sure to slip in some jokes to the last person who was admitted: Her Zombieland costar Woody Harrelson.
Stone was welcomed to the club by two fellow Five-Timers: Tina Fey, who’s returned to the show as host six times since leaving as a cast member, and Candice Bergen, who was both the first woman to host SNL and its first to do so five times.
The Oscar-winning Poor Things actress said SNL has “always been my favorite show and since I started hosting it’s also become just a huge part of my life. I have made so many memories here and so many friends. And I even met my husband at SNL.”
Stone said her spouse, filmmaker Dave McCary, is “camera shy,” but asked the show to cut to a shot of him. They then cut to Lorne Michaels.
Fey and Bergen soon joined her, with Fey telling Stone, “At 35 years old, you are officially the youngest member. I am the second youngest at 53.”
Eventually the two handed Stone her official Five-Timers jacket, but it appeared to belong to someone else: When she reached into its pockets, she pulled out a joint.
“That must be Woody Harrelson’s jacket,” said Bergen.
Stone then pulled out a vaccine card, prompting Fey to say, “Oh, then it’s definitely not Woody’s” — an apparent reference to Harrelson’s vax-skeptic monologue from the last time he hosted the show.
You can watch Stone join the SNL Five-Timers Club in the video above.
Every single week, our TV and film experts will list the most important ten streaming selections for you to pop into your queues. We’re not strictly operating upon reviews or accrued streaming clicks (although yes, we’ve scoured the streaming site charts) but, instead, upon those selections that are really worth noticing amid the churning sea of content. There’s a lot out there, after all, and your time is valuable.
TIE: 10. Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures movie for purchase on Amazon Prime)
Cillian Murphy’s eyes truly carry the weight of the world in this film with an endless array of marvelous supporting players including Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, and Matt Damon. And don’t forget about Alden Ehrenreich, who is still the most underrated MVP-type of the year with Cocaine Bear and Fair Play netting him additional quadrants. Of course, Christopher Nolan’s cinematic return to brilliance isn’t available as part of a streaming service package yet (it will likely end up on on Peacock), but you can go the VOD route and even enjoy the Barbenheimer phenomenon at home. As one might expect in a film about the father of the atomic bomb, this is not light and frothy viewing, but Nolan hopes that it will serve an ultimate purpose.
TIE: 10. The Curse (Showtime series streaming on Paramount+)
Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie teamed up to mock HGTV-style shows (suck it, Property Brothers), and the results are not quite as awkward as Fielder’s usual fare. This genre-bending series co-stars Emma Stone, whose character isn’t thrilled when her husband (Fielder) invites a curse upon them in a way that makes Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell look slightly less stressful than it did back when Alison Lohman was coughing up flies in that 2009 horror flick. You’ll never watch House Hunters or Fixer Upper the same way again.
Adam Sandler cannot miss with the Netflix audience, so it’s no wonder that they allow him to crank out at least a few films per year on this streaming service. Are these Uncut Gems-worthy followups? Well, of course not, but Sandler also knows what the people want, and that somehow included Hubie Halloween. Here, The Sandman voices a terrarium-weary lizard who’s about had it up to here with life in a classroom with his best pal being a turtle voiced by Bill Burr. It’s a bucket-list tale and harmless fun for the whole family.
Godzilla stans are having a fantastic few months with three separate nuke-awoken-lizard projects surfacing almost in tandem. However, the other projects do not have Kurt Russell teaming up with freaking Godzilla, so that’s worth a few points. Wyatt Russell also stars with both Russells portraying Army officer Lee Shaw, and if you’d like to see more of him outside of the MCU, think about putting Hulu’s Under The Banner Of Heaven on your watchlist.
Jon Hamm and his harms on display, need we say more? Alright, we will. This season stars Hamm and his enormous belt buckle as this season’s most eccentric lawman. He’s having the time of his life, and there are nipple rings on display in addition to the hamms. Hey, it’s Fargo, so you knew it was gonna be weird. The season co-stars Juno Temple, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lamorne Morris, Joe Keery, Richa Moorjani, Jessica Pohl, Nick Gomez, David Rysdahl, and Sam Spruell — all as characters bearing names even more flowery than the actors themselves.
If you enjoy Gary Oldman farts, then this series has something for you. Beyond that highlight, this series showcases the failed spymastering of Jackson Lamb (Oldman) and his group full of British intelligence f*ck-ups. Olivia Cooke and Jack Lowden co-star, and maybe, just maybe, they’ll move past their collective “slow horse” reputation while conquering more messes. Yet mainly, it’s nice to see an espionage-focused dark comedy show that puts a fresh and bumbling spin on the profession that James Bond turned into a sexy thing, but much credit (of course) goes to Mick Herronthe’s series of novels.
Michael Fassbender, David Fincher, and The Smiths (you gotta watch to find out) make an unholy but undeniably compelling trio in this series about an assassin who not only does yoga but also ends up getting too self-involved with one of his projects. Could this be a fatal flaw? Still, this movie nails its target with a little bit of Tilda Swinton for good measure. Fincher loves to roll around in pulpy projects, and it’s good to have him back in that saddle.
4. Freelance (Relativity Film movie on VOD & Amazon Prime)
Well, this film’s critic reviews are pretty dismal, but nonetheless, people are here for John Cena’s latest foray into the acting realm. Here, he portrays an ex-special forces operative who misses his glory days, and he seizes a chance to go there again when a journalist (Alison Brie) could use a strong pair of arms to accompany her into dangerous territory to profile a dictator.
A ton of attempts at nostalgia are found on every streaming service (and network) these days, but sometimes, a swing hits the target. Paramount+ scored by streaming this return to Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell’s earliest days of making us laugh. These days, Kenan is the longest-running SNL cast member of all time, but it’s good to see him in his old stomping grounds. The twist here is that Ed (Mitchell) is the one to embrace his old pal who ends up back at Good Burger by no choice of his own. The rest of the crew is all new, as are the scrapes that the pair finds themselves juggling.
2. Lawmen: Bass Reeves: Season 1 (Paramount+ series)
And speaking of saddles: Taylor Sheridan currently has 6666 in the works on the Yellowstone side, but first, he’s taking viewers back to the real Old West. David Oyelowo portrays the legendary Black U.S. Deputy Marshal. This series harkens back to the Post-Reconstruction era, in which Bass Reeves became a notorious frontier hero by capturing thousands of the most frightening criminals in the land. Oyelowo is accompanied by Dennis Quaid, Garrett Hedlund, and Donald Sutherland, thereby proving that everyone wants a piece of what Sheridan is selling.
Despite Squid Game being a smash, global, runaway hit, something about a reality show did not sound so wise. Still, Netflix decided that they were up to The Challenge, and sure enough, some unfortunate allegations have surfaced. Viewers remain transfixed by this imitation-reality-show taking a stab at the real deal, and the recently aired “Marbles” challenge seems to be hitting an audience nerve, too.
Last week ended with a bang: George Santos, one of the more creatively truth-averse members of Congress, lost his job. The New York representative managed to spend nearly a year in office, despite reporters uncovering one creative fib after another. Santos scored the Cold Open, but he’s so infamous that he also nabbed the first couple jokes at the top of this week’s Weekend Update.
“This week we said goodbye to a former First Lady, a former secretary of state, and the Supreme Court’s first female justice,” co-host Colin Jost told the crowd, referring to Rosalynn Carter, Henry Kissinger, and Sandra Day O’Connor. Then he added, “And a guy who claims to be all three of those things,” prompting a picture of George Santos.
Jost went on to note that Santos was expelled in a landslide, “by a vote of 114 Shantay You Stays to 311 Sashay Aways.”
Rosalynn Carter, the late wife of ex-president Jimmy Carter, came up again when Michael Che noted that another former First Lady, Melania Trump, made a rare public appearance at her funeral.
“Melania said that she was deeply saddened to be reminded that your partner can live that long,” Che said, prompting one of many photos of her and husband Donald Trump looking unhappy together.
Che also took on Elon Musk, who’s not been doing a terrible job atoning for agreeing with an anti-Semitic Twitter/X post, thus driving advertisers from his floundering service. While he’s had harsh words for said companies, he has tried to make amends by visiting Israel and saying Hamas must be destroyed.
“And I think Musk could destroy Hamas almost instantly by becoming their CEO,” Che cracked.
You can watch a portion of SNL Weekend Update in the video above.
Ahead of the premiere of her upcoming movie Poor Things, Emma Stone brought the laughs on Saturday Night Live. In her fifth time hosting the show, Stone displayed naked emotion &mdash: literally — in a new bop featuring the SNL cast.
The song, “Fully Naked In New York City,” opens with Bowen Yang finding himself down on his luck. He is seen sitting on his bed before walking around his apartment. Stone is then seen in her apartment, also finding herself lamenting the day-to-day, hustle and bustle of life. But the two quickly find that they have similar coping mechanisms.
In the next frame, the two are seen nude (digitally blurred, of course), riding on the back of a garbage truck.
In unison, Stone and Yang then reel over “Riding in the back of a garbage truck / being naked in the middle of New York City.”
Shortly after, Stone is seen sitting on a large beam, enjoying a sandwich mid-air. Several of the other SNL cast members join in on the nude fun, as Chloe Fineman, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Troast, and more are seen dancing their way through construction sites, donning nothing but their birthday suits.
You can see the “Fully Naked In New York City” video above.
In his second performance of the night, Noah Kahan took to the Saturday Night Live stage, singing the title track from his Stick Season album.
While on stage, Kahan sang of his fears, in hopes that the pain will go away soon. Accompanied by an acoustic guitar and a solid backing band, Kahan emulated the miserable feeling of “stick season,” a rather cold and miserable period between fall and winter in New England — specifically within his home state of Vermont.
Though the album Stick Season was released in 2022, this year saw a lot of the album’s tracks become sleeper hits. The buzz earned him a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2024 Grammy Awards.
In an interview with New York Times, Kahan open up about his recent rise to fame, and his nerves about following Stick Season up.
“This album has been such a special and beautiful world to live in, that the idea of coming up with what’s next is kind of scary for me,” Kahan said. “It’s not even about having success. It’s about feeling the same way that I did. I’ve been waiting for that feeling to come again.”
You can see the performance of “Stick Season” above.
Bowen Yang reprised his hilarious impression of Santos, with a special farewell message in which he assumed another identity.
“You know what I say? To hell with Congress,” Yang said as Santos. “I don’t need them anyway because my new movie opened this weekend. It’s called Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé.
As Santos, Yang ran down the disgraced politician’s resume, which contained titles like “regular old professor, major, general, reverend, astronaut, Princess of Genovia.” He continued, dodging questions, and even flirting with journalists. He then declared he would go down in history as a martyr, like Marilyn Monrow.
Before he made his final exit, the Santos character paid homage to himself, delivering a rather suspect rendition of “Candle In The Wind.”
“Goodbye, Congress Queen / Though they never knew me at all ‘cuz I lied about everything in my life and I took a tragic fall / They crawled out of the woodwork. They whispered, he used my donations for Botox, and I said, it was filler, slut,” sang Yang.
You can see the hilarious cold open performance of Yang’s “Scandal In The Wind” above.
In hisSaturday Night Live debut, Noah Kahan tied up an incredible breakthrough year. His first performance of the night was an rendition of “Dial Drunk” from his critically-acclaimed third album Stick Season.
During the performance, Kahan put his vices on display, as he delivered the raw confessional tale detailing the repercussions of alcoholism. Surrounded by tree branches up above, Kahan captured the spirit of stick season, which refers to the period of time between the fall and winter “when it’s just kind of gray and cold, and there’s no snow yet and the beauty of the foliage is done,” as he previously explained in a lyrical breakdown with Genius.
On the chorus of the song, Kahan sings “I’ll dial drunk / I’ll die a drunk / I’ll die for you.”
After performing the final chorus of the song, Kahan pledged his allegiance to the audience and to the show itself
“I’ll die for you SNL. Or at least, seriously injure myself,” he said.
This past year launched Kahan into stardom, the next year looks to be even more promising. Last month, Kahan was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2024 Grammy Awards.
You can see the performance of “Dial Drunk” above.
The scenario that college football chaos-enjoyers were rooting for has at least partly come true: No. 8 Alabama has upset No. 1 Georgia to win the SEC title, giving the Tide the best win in college football this year.
Could Alabama make the College Football Playoff with a conference championship? Could Georgia make it as well, since they were clearly the College Football Playoff committee’s No. 1 team all year?
Maybe.
No. 3 Washington won the PAC-12 with its second win over No. 5 Oregon and remains undefeated. So the Huskies are comfortably in, no matter what shenanigans unfold.
There are two more undefeated Power 5 teams that have yet to conclude as of this writing: No. 4 Florida State and No. 2 Michigan. Both are favored, although Florida State is in more danger facing No. 14 Louisville with backup (and injured) quarterback Tate Rodemaker instead of its star Jordan Travis. Michigan will play No. 16 Iowa, a team that is seemingly incapable of scoring points on offense.
If Michigan wins, it is in. So the neatest possible scenario for the committee would be for Florida State to lose. Then, it likely puts Alabama in along with Texas, the latter of which it would almost certainly slot ahead of Alabama since the Longhorns beat them head-to-head. By 10 points. In Tuscaloosa.
Even as Alabama has rebounded from its rough start (by Alabama standards, of course) and rounded into form at the perfect time, the committee has not wavered. It has not put them ahead of Texas, not once. And it certainly didn’t when the Tide needed a 4th-and-31 miracle against six-win Auburn last week.
So the real question is: what happens if Florida State WINS?
A case can be made that the Seminoles aren’t one of the four best teams without Jordan Travis. It is something the committee has taken into account before, but more in terms of seeding than leaving a team out altogether.
But an undefeated Power 5 conference champion that thumped No. 13 LSU on the road to start the season doesn’t get in over multiple teams with a loss? An undefeated team that would have beaten an SEC team on the road and a top-14 team in Louisville WITHOUT Travis?
The assumption is that the committee will find any excuse to put at least one, if not multiple, SEC teams in to the College Football Playoff. And maybe that’s true.
Either way, the committee is going to be forced to make a decision that is going to make a lot of people angry. But Alabama beating Georgia does NOT automatically mean that the SEC will get a team — much less two — in.
“Believe” singer Cher wants to restore women’s hope of finding true love regardless of age. During her reluctant appearance on the show, Chicken Shop Date shared an essential piece of romantic advice she learned related to securing a life partner. As she discussed love with host Amelia Dimoldenberg, Cher recommended that women broaden their horizons.
When Dimoldenberg asked for her insight on what women should do at least once, Cher said, “Go out with a younger man.”
Dimoldenberg was shocked by Cher’s simple answer. However, Cher and her 36-year-old boyfriend, Alexander “AE” Edwards, are in romantic bliss. She’s taken to her official X (formerly Twitter) to gush over Edwards to her followers.
When users online began to call out the couple for the significant age difference, Cher replied, “I’m not defending us. Haters are gonna hate…doesn’t matter. That we’re happy and not bothering anyone.”
I’m Not Defending us.Haters are Gonna Hate…Doesn’ Matter That we’re Happy & Not Bothering Anyone
Near the end of her sit-down on Chicken Shop Date, Cher seemingly addressed the pushback as well. “Older men just do not like me,” confessed Cher. Cher’s dating pool (which is rumored to include Val Kilmer, Tom Cruise, David Geffen, Gene Simmons, Warren Beatty, and Michael Bolton) has fluctuated in age.
Since finding success, “What Was I Made For” singer Billie Eilish has tried to shield as much of her personal life from the general public as possible. While she’s shared small bits about her life in past interviews, most of Eilish’s life is a mystery, including her sexuality. Today (December 2), set the record straight during the Variety Hitmakers party.
As she made her way down the red carpet, she stopped to chat with correspondent Katcy Stephan about her November cover story. One of the things revealed in the piece, Eilish confirmed that she is a member of the LGBTQ community. “I kinda thought, ‘Wasn’t it obvious?’ I didn’t realize people didn’t know… I just don’t really believe in [coming out]. I’m just like, ‘Why can’t we just exist,’” said Eilish.
She continued, “I have deep connections with women in my life, the friends in my life, the family in my life. I’m physically attracted to them. But I’m also so intimidated by them and their beauty and their presence.”
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