Jolly outdated elf Martin Short is making it official — by becoming a member of Saturday Night time Reside’s 5-Timers Membership on December twenty first, he’s additionally cementing his standing because the present’s all-time Christmas Man. Together with the season’s opener and last present, the vacation episode is mostly reserved for SNL all-stars. That is Brief’s second shot on the Christmas present, following his first in 2012, however he additionally co-hosted the December tenth episode in 2022 with Steve Martin. That present was filled with vacation sketches, together with a twisted tackle A Christmas Carol.
Solely three different folks have hosted as many as two Christmas episodes, according to Late Nighter. First was Candice Bergen in 1975 and 1976, the present’s first two seasons. The man who ruined Christmas, Jimmy Fallon, hit the vacation double in 2011 and 2013. Technically, Eddie Murphy is the all-time champ by internet hosting the Christmas present in 1982, 1984 and 2019 though that report comes with a frosty asterisk — he was nonetheless a forged member in ‘82, a last-minute fill-in for the extraordinarily hungover Nick Nolte.
Do not Miss
However Brief earns the yuletide crown, with all 5 of his internet hosting appearances (he additionally headlined in 1986 and 1996) coming within the month of December. That’s why a lot of Brief’s memorable SNL sketches are holiday-themed. He partnered with Sir Paul McCartney in 2012 as Caleb and Monty, two aspiring musicians auditioning to headline a Christmas pageant.
He parlayed his elfin features into an out-of-character bit as Santa’s bitchiest helper.
Bonus cheer: Short was also a mainstay on SCTV holiday shows, including his classic Ed Grimley special, The Fella Who Couldn’t Wait For Christmas.
Maybe Lorne Michaels has anointed Short as the SNL Christmas Guy because that’s also who he is in real life. According to his autobiography, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, Brief has been throwing star-studded vacation events for many years. Every year, he begins the celebration with a tune that offers you an thought of the spectacular friends guzzling eggnog on the Brief home:
It’s probably the most fantastic time of the yr
Tom Hanks is a-tuning
Whereas Nancy is crooning
Arianna Huffington IS HERE!
It’s probably the most fantastic time of the yr
It’s the hap, happiest season of all
Now the social gathering’s simply startin’
’Trigger right here comes Steve Martin
He’ll juggle a ball!
It’s the hap, happiest season of all
They’ll be no hymns or pews right here
There’s simply showbiz Jews right here
My agent’s useless drunk within the john
Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell
Are doing the hustle
“Aren’t you glad that we made Captain Ron?”
He deliberate a model of this parody for his 2012 internet hosting stint, which included a backstage interlude the place he came across Michaels and Tina Fey. Brief held up mistletoe, misdirecting the viewers into pondering he’d steal a kiss from Fey. As an alternative, he gave Lorne a delicate peck — at the very least throughout costume rehearsal. Through the reside present, “I completely shocked him, dipping him in my arms and planting a moist smacker proper on his lips,” Brief bragged. “Whether or not or not there was a touch of tongue concerned shall stay completely between Lorne and me.”
