Live lined up Tom Hanks, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Melissa McCarthy and others to welcome Martin Short into the “Five-Timers Club,” or those who have hosted the show at least five times. “I just want to say I am so happy to be here for this moment,

For several years, the final “Saturday Night Live” episode of the year includes a segment of “Weekend Update” in which co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che write jokes that the other must read for the first time on the air. For Jost, this typically has meant Che forces him to say a litany of jokes …

Timers, including Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Melissa McCarthy and Paul Rudd, all of whom we saw again later in the show.