Ryan Gosling, Matt Damon and even Lorne Michaels initiate Kristen Wiig into ‘SNL’ five-timers club

Kristen Wiig got inducted into the coveted “Saturday Night Live” five-timers club in style this weekend when she hosted the long-running NBC sketch show for the fifth time, and she had a little bit of help from some huge stars.

Kristen Wiig got inducted into the coveted “Saturday Night Live” five-timers club in style this weekend when she hosted the long-running NBC sketch show for the fifth time, and she had a little bit of help from some huge stars. Matt Damon, Ryan Gosling, Jon Hamm, Martin Short, Paul Rudd, Will Forte, Fred Armisen and legendary “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels – who rarely makes on-screen appearances – all appeared during this week’s episode to award Wiig with her dark blue velvet members-only jacket. While Wiig was getting excited to receive the honor, she was soon interrupted by Rudd, donning one of the jackets himself, to say he “heard a rumor” that she might be doing “one of those five-timer sketches featuring awesome celebrity cameos,” and asked if there’s “like, a script or something I could look at for that?” Wiig sheepishly replied, “Oh, no. I’m sorry, I don’t think we’re doing one of those…” Paula Pell, a longtime former “SNL” writer, also made an appearance and joked that she thinks it’s cute Wiig is so excited about her jacket, because “they basically hand those out to everybody like free maxi pads.” Damon then appeared wearing a five-timer jacket, which confused Wiig because he’s only hosted twice. But, he said, “Lorne said the first time that I hosted it was so good, it counted for three” – and that his second time wasn’t as good but it still counted as two – and that by his math, “that’s five, baby.”