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Woody Harrelson – 5 Times
Image Credit: Getty Images Kenan Thompson, Woody Harrelson and Kate McKinnon during the ‘Last Call with Woody Harrelson’ skit.
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Will Ferrell, 5 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection Ferrell (with Ana Gasteyer) is one of a few former cast members to join the Five-Timers Club.
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Melissa McCarthy, 5 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection McCarthy with Taran Killam and Bobby Moynihan in the ‘Honey Baked Ham Bake-Off’
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Tina Fey, 5 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection Fey (as Governor Sarah Palin) has won 2 Emmys, including one shared with Amy Poehler (as Senator Hillary Clinton), for her guest-hosting stints on the show.
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Ben Affleck, 5 Times
Affleck as Keith Olbermann in 2008
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Justin Timberlake, 5 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection Timberlake has won 4 Emmys in the course of five hosting stints on the show, including Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for the iconic “D*ck in a Box” sketch with Andy Samberg in 2006.
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Bill Murray, 5 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection Murray, who replaced Chevy Chase on the show in 1977, returned to host in 1987.
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Danny DeVito, 5 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection DeVito gets pumped with Dana Carvey, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kevin Nealon in 1988
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Candice Bergen, 5 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection Bergen and then-castmember Chevy Chase in 1976
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Elliot Gould, 6 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection Gould spaces out with Laraine Newman, Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd
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Chevy Chase, 8 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection Chase returned to the ‘Weekend Update’ desk in 2007
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Tom Hanks, 8 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection Hanks (as himself) plays games with Will Ferrell (as Alec Trebek), Kristen Wiig (as Kathie Lee Gifford) and Darrell Hammond (as Sean Connery) on ‘Celebrity Jeopardy.’
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Buck Henry, 10 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection Stalwart early-days host Buck Henry is counseled by John Belushi in ‘Samurai Psychiatrist’
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John Goodman, 13 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection Goodman (as Linda Tripp) with Molly Shannon (as Monica Lewinsky) and Tim Meadows (as Presidental Advisor Vernon Jordan) in 1998
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Steve Martin, 15 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection Martin gets wild and crazy with then-castmember Dan Aykroyd
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Alec Baldwin, 17 Times
Image Credit: NBC / Courtesy: Everett Collection Baldwin has hosted the show more than anyone, but it was his guest stints over 5 seasons as President-Elect Donald J. Trump that won him an Emmy in 2017.
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