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Saturday Night Live Promos: Paul Rudd, Five-Timers, Bad Wishes & More

Formal intro video? Check! A look at how things were going with read-thru? Check! So that brings us to the Thursday before Ghostbusters: Afterlife & The Shrink Next Door star Paul Rudd hosting and musical guest Charli XCX take the stages of NBC's Saturday Night Live for the final live show of the year. No pressure. But since it is Thursday and you're already here, we thought we would share a look at the on-stage promo released earlier this evening. And this time around, we have SNL cast member Ego Nwodim on hand to join the festivities.

In the first mini-teaser, Nwodim congratulates Rudd on joining the "SNL Five-Timers Club"- but it's not what Charli XCX thinks it is. Following that, Rudd offers a very good reason why they don't want to hear what his Christmas "wish" is. And finally, Nwodim makes sure Rudd and Charli XCX have the motivation they need for a great show. So is it too much to ask that they show her some love in return?

Here's a look at Rudd as well as several members of the SNL cast checking in from this week's table read:

And here's a look back at the official intro video that was released earlier this week:

Now here's a look back to when both Rudd and Charlie XCX previously took the stages of NBC's Studio 8H. In the first video, Rudd reflects back on his previous three SNL hosting gigs during a "Best Man" speech in his May 2019 opening monologue (which saw DJ Khaled as the musical guest). Following that, a look back at the promo for the December 13, 2014, episode that saw Charli XCX serving as musical guest with Martin Freeman (Sherlock) hosting and SNL cast member Kenan Thompson joining them for the clip :

Aidy Bryant, Michael Che, Pete Davidson, Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Colin Jost, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat, Kyle Mooney, Ego Nwodim, Chris Redd, Cecily Strong, Kenan Thompson, Melissa Villaseñor, and Bowen Yang, along with returning feature players Andrew Dismukes & Punkie Johnson, and new feature players Aristotle Athari (Future Man, All Rise), James Austin Johnson (Silicon Valley) & Sarah Sherman (The Eric Andre Show) make up this season's cast.

With NBC's long-running sketch/variety series Saturday Night Live inching closer to the 50th season mark, it does so as the winner of the 2021 Emmy Award for Variety Sketch Series- its fifth straight win in that category (with the series very close to the triple-digits tally when it comes to the number of Emmys won).

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