Emma Stone joins ‘SNL’ Five-Timers Club, and the show says goodbye to George Santos

Actor Emma Stone, who has a buzzy movie on deck and a buzzy TV show on the air now, seems to never not be hosting “Saturday Night Live.” This week’s episode marked her entry into the Five-Timers Club — her first time hosting was way back in 2010. After her monologue, Stone played a baffled game show contestant who wins a live animal ; a New Yorker who loves getting naked and riding on the back of a garbage truck ; one third of a musical act at the Pine River Lodge Christmas Tree Lighting show; the creator of truly awful pottery, including a replica of her mother’s vagina; a visionary musical producer for Mama Cass; an Instagram star on a student’s poster; and a spokeswoman for Diet Coke by Olay, a caffeinated cosmetic product. The two presented Stone with a plush Five-Timers jacket and told stories about the special women’s section of the club, calling it “a place to cry.” The short monologue included a joke about John Mulaney‘s resemblance to a ventriloquist’s dummy and a dig at fellow Five-Timer Woody Harrelson; when they find a joint in the jacket, they think it might be Harrelson’s, but a COVID vaccination card proves it isn’t. Also good: Mama Cass is good music for dark movie trailers This is a strange sketch that works incredibly well because of cast member Chloe Troast’s uncanny impersonation of Mama Cass Elliott singing “Make Your Own Kind of Music” and Stone’s portrayal of a hyper, forward-thinking producer who correctly predicts the song will be used in lots of movie trailers.