The “Saturday Night Live” Five-Timers Club is an exclusive affair, consisting of some of the show’s best hosts and guests, including Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin and Tom Hanks.
Saturday night, Justin Timberlake joined the club, and those three — plus many more — were on hand to celebrate as “SNL” pulled out the celebrity guest star stops to support Timberlake in what was one of the show’s best episodes this season.
Timberlake’s opening monologue, an entrance into the exclusive club that recalled the original 1990 sketch introducing it , featured Baldwin, Martin, Hanks, Candice Bergen, Paul Simon, Martin Short and Chevy Chase, as well as original cast member Dan Aykroyd as a bartender. Talk about a star-studded start — if you’re into the legends, of course.
As a recurring host, JT has his share of characters, and he wasted no time in showing them off. “It’s a Date,” a game show with Bill Hader as host, featured Timberlake and former cast member Andy Samberg as the too-’90s-R&B-for-words friends who created musical poetry with “Dick in a Box,” “Motherlover” and more during past seasons. But wait — there’s more! The duo was flanked by Martin and Aykroyd, reprising their roles as the Festrunk Brothers, who are, of course, two wild and crazy guys in search of “big American breasts.” Props for the “DuckTales” drop, too.
One sketch later, Timberlake returned as the overly enthusiastic, walking/dancing/singing/rapping billboard for whatever ‘ville’ is in these days. This year? Veganville, going up against the fine Bobby Moynihan of Sausage Depot. Sure, there were the parodies of “Ice Ice Baby” (“Brown rice, baby”), “We Found Love” (“…in a meatless place) and more, but the “Harlem Shake” bit (“Drink a vegan shake”) takes the (egg-free!) cake.
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