Almost 40 years after his single season at SNL, Martin Short joined the five-timers hosting club, then promptly took a break.
A year and change ago, the culture writer Dan Kois caused a stir by writing anfor Slate pre-supposing that for some people, Martin Short represents less of a comic legend than a high-energy, grandfathered-in comedian pushing our collective tolerance within inches of its breaking point for reasons that needed exploring. Many people then registered their understandable disagreement .
And lo, they did! Fallon and Stone turned up backstage during Short’s monologue. Then Melissa McCarthy delivered a hilarious topper for the first “normal” sketch of the night, helping to differentiate it from its first incarnation. A few minutes later, multiple five-timers popped up alongside Short in the recurring airport-parade sketch, the perfect vehicle for that kind of cameo, with Hanks providing another solid topper by reprising his role as Sully from the movie.
Broadly speaking, this isn’t as unusual as it seems. The idea that the sketch is front and center for most of any givenis largely a 21st-century expectation. As recently as the mid-90s, it wasn’t that uncommon for hosts to dip for several actual sketches per episode. Now they mostly just skip the cold open and Update, and Short was obviously right there at the opener, which gave him more screentime upfront.
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