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Glen Powell’s charm offensive is overshadowed by the return of ‘MacGruber’ on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
Glen Powell & Olivia Dean
November 15, 2025
Confession: I don’t get Glen Powell. I understand that he’s conventionally handsome and that he’s a huge movie star and that he has a “boyish charm” or whatever. But I also find his face kinda punchable? Not my thing, I guess, is what I’m saying; his name on the marquee is not going to draw me in.
So color me shocked at how charmed I was by Powell’s freshman outing as host of Saturday Night Live. He was funny and clearly having a great time in every sketch, and, dare I say it, endearing, thanks in large part to a winning monologue that helped explain why this is his first time on the 8H stage. I don’t know that you’d count me as a “fan” of Glen Powell now, but I definitely walked away from this episode liking him more than I did coming into it.
Oh, and yeah, they also gave us new “MacGruber,” as a little treat. And though it’s only the 6th episode of the season, it’s the best so far.
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Kristen Wiig receives a star-studded induction into ‘Saturday Night Live’s’ Five-Timer’s Club
Saturday Night Live
Kristen Wiig & Raye
April 6, 2024
Kristen Wiig is arguably one of Saturday Night Live‘s greatest former cast members — which is why it is no surprise that she is one of only five cast members who has hosted enough times to be inducted into the Five-Timers Club. (Can you name the other four?)
But despite her greatness as a cast member and her success off the show, Wiig has not had the most successful run with hosting the show. In 2016, I said the episode “was the equivalent of putting on an old sweatshirt: comfortable, familiar and warm, but not something you’ll remember even two days from now”; in May 2020 — which was in the middle of the pandemic and one of those difficult at-home episodes — Wiig only appeared in two bits, one of which was a “weird-and-not-weird-in-a-funny-way-just-weird monologue”; and in December 2020, I found the material to be “mediocre” and gave it a B-. (I don’t have her first episode from 2013 here in the Foolish archives, unfortunately.)
So I am happy to report that for this momentous occasion, the writers gave Wiig some good material to work with and supported her with a bevy of superstars, and as a result, Wiig finally hosted the Saturday Night Live episode that her talents deserved.
Happy Leap Day! When nothing is impossible!
