Chappelle has hosted “SNL” three times to date and will soon be a four-time host. That will leave him one hosting gig shy of the elite Five-Timers-Club, a group that includes stars like Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, and Tina Fey.

I hadn’t thought of Mr. Bill — the little clay man subject to all forms of comical physical abuse in Walter Williams’s long-running series of short films for “Saturday Night Live” — in decades. The first-ever Mr.