Colin Jost Names The Celebrity Who Was 'Especially Good' At This 'SNL' Hosting Duty

Saturday Night Live cast member Colin Jost  knows that hosting the sketch comedy series is no easy task.

In Tuesdays episode of the podcast Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi, the Weekend Update co-anchor praised actor Adam Driver, whos appeared as an SNL host four times.

Jost told Bozzi that Driver has done a particularly good job at table reads ahead of the live show something that he said doesnt always go smoothly for hosts.

The comedian added that hosts have to go through 40 sketch ideas at table reads to prepare for the show.

To be able to make a choice in all of those... and thats something like, actually, Adam Driver is especially good at, at the table read, Jost said. He makes a choice for all those pieces and an interesting choice.

Other performers have different processes. Jost said that some hosts, like comedian Melissa McCarthy, might read a sketch more straight during table reads.

He said McCarthy would have sketches mapped out in her head before she fully performed the characters on the night of the show. 

Those have been some of the sketches that killed the most and were classics for her, he said.

Driver hosted SNL in 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2023, putting him on the brink of membership in the famed Five-Timers Club .

In his monologue in December last year , he spoke about his very deep and personal relationship with Santa Claus, before sitting down at a piano and listing off some of the things hed like for Christmas.

One item on Drivers wish list was one of those giant metal Tesla trucks I think it would pair perfectly with my teeny, tiny micropenis.

Check out the full monologue below: