Saturday Night Live fans know you get a special smoking jacket when you join the five-timers club, but James Franco is here to tell you that hosting four times gets you nothing. "They don't even write you a monologue," he said. "They just throw you out here and make you take questions from the audience."
But he found out they do invite your collaborators to come heckle you: Enter Seth Rogen, who entered the SNL ticket lottery and luckily, this is the week he drew. "It was totally random but I'm I'm a huge SZA fan so it worked out," he shared.
Franco countered, "Funny, I asked earlier in the week to do a sketch with me and you said, 'I have a thing.' "
"Yeah, I did have a thing," Rogen said. "I had SNL tickets." (And BTW, he'd like to know why Franco's gotten to host four times and he's only been invited twice.)
Franco thought it might have something to do with "why the movies I make on my own like 127 Hours get nominated for Oscars and the movies I do with Seth get nominated for a stoner award." (That may change with their latest collaboration, The Disaster Artist.)
Rogen fired back with a correction: "They're called Stonies, which is a hilarious play on the word Tonys and that they are as prestigious as an Oscar and when you win, you get a bag of weed!"
Franco then got technical on him: "Sorry, there's a rule that only one stoner can host a season and it's me. Sorry."
Cue the arrival of Jonah Hill, who thought he was there to see Franco's brother and Disaster Artist co-star Dave.
"No, it's me," Franco the elder informed him.
"People want to see that?" Hill wondered.
As if things hadn't gotten out of hand enough, Steve Martin made it a heckling trifecta.
"I used to stand there on that very spot," he whined. "I used to host Saturday Night Live. I was the center of attention! I gotta say, I resent it just a little."
Franco tried to reassure him, "You're still a big star! You're still hot!"
No dice.
"Do I look hot?" Martin bellowed?
Wisely, Franco pivoted to the "We've got a great show tonight" speech.
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