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Woman goes to the hospital for kidney stones, leaves with a surprise baby boy.

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One Georgia couple is going to have a great story to tell their son about how he came into the world: as a complete and utter surprise.

Michael Jaegers rushed his wife Stephanie to Piedmont Henry Hospital in Stockbridge, Ga., the moment she told him of her abdominal pains. A kidney stone seemed the most likely culprit, but Michael's Facebook post early on the morning of Oct. 19 suggested something else was afoot.

Please pray for Stephanie. I'll take as many as I can possibly get. More details when I've got time to explain.

Please pray for Stephanie. I'll take as many as I can possibly get. More details when I've got time to explain.

Posted by Michael Jaegers on Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Hours later, he revealed the true cause of Stephanie's discomfort. Although she'd gained no weight or experienced common pregnancy symptoms like morning sickness over the past nine months, she was about to give birth to a baby boy.

Well, what Stephanie and I thought was going to be a kidney stone, turned out to be a beautiful baby boy. Shaun Jude Jaegers was born at 3:50AM this morning weighing 7 lbs. 3 oz. We are both still in complete shock over the events of the last few hours and appreciate the prayers and well wishes. Now to fit 9 months of pre-planning into 2 days!

Well, what Stephanie and I thought was going to be a kidney stone, turned out to be a beautiful baby boy. Shaun Jude...

Posted by Michael Jaegers on Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Getting 38 weeks along unawares is rare, but it happens. After talking to doctors, Stephanie and Michael had a decent guess as to how they'd wound up with a little miracle like Shaun when they thought their third child would be their last.

Steph was diagnosed with pre-menopause awhile back which would justify the hormone imbalance also associated with a pregnancy. Shaun was also breech throughout the entire pregnancy which prevented him from moving around to indicate to Steph that he was in there and his position made it to where Steph didn't "show". The most bizarre part is she continued to have a menstrual cycle, which the hospital tells us is rare, but can happen. Lastly, Steph broke her ankle a couple of weeks ago and was laid up for the last couple of weeks limiting her movements. All of this together ruled out in our minds even the remote possibility of a pregnancy.

So the question posed multiple times this morning is "How did you NOT know you were pregnant for 8 months??" Please...

Posted by Michael Jaegers on Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Shaun, for his part, seems just as surprised as anyone.

Posted by Michael Jaegers on Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Stephanie and Shaun have since been discharged from the hospital...

Discharged :)

Posted by Michael Jaegers on Friday, October 21, 2016

...and it seems Shaun is ready to move on from his viral fame.

Shaun says "No more photographs, please!"

Posted by Michael Jaegers on Saturday, October 22, 2016

Trouble is, once you make an entrance like that, everyone wants to see what you'll do next.


Silky the hairless hamster gets a tiny sweater to keep warm in this autumn chill.

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Silky the hairless hamster has your autumn wardrobe beat.

Of all the things to love about fall—the brightly colored leaves, the hot cider and cinnamon donuts, the World Series and the end of this dumb election—cozying into a comfy sweater has to be the best. No one knows this better than Silky, a sweet little critter currently cared for by the Oregon Humane Society.

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Selene Mejia, an animal care technician at OHS, noticed 1-year-old Silky, who is hairless because of a genetic mutation but no less cuddly for it, "huddled in the corner of her cage," evidently from cold. The obvious solution: crochet a hamster-sized sweater. Now Silky is serving up looks.

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The sweater is really just for "special occasions," though. The rest of the time, Silky luxuriates in the nude, in a specially heated habitat. She also receives "a higher protein diet to keep her warm."

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But the best news of all? As of Oct. 24, Silky will be available for adoption into a new loving home. And if you're too far away to come snatch her up—or just overrun with adorable hairless hamsters already—you can always donate to OHS to help them take care of other animals like her.

90-year-old Cubs fan says she'll celebrate pennant win with some Jäger.

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Last time the Chicago Cubs went to the World Series, it was 1945, and Dorothy was just 19 years old. Now the diehard Cubbies fan is 90, her team has gone all the way again, and she's in the mood to party. Asked how she'd celebrate the Cubs' victory over the LA Dodgers in Game 6 of the National League Championship on Saturday night, she demurred, offering only a mischievously raised eyebrow and saying, "Who knows?" Then she confessed she'd "probably have a Jägermeister," much to the delight of the Fox Sports anchors.

So that's the secret to a long and healthy life? Never would have figured those frat bros were onto something.

'A Girl's Halloween' is SNL's terrifyingly accurate parody of how every Oct. 31 night out goes wrong.

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The October 22 episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Tom Hanks, was one of the best in years, from the cold open, to Black Jeopardy!, to David S. Pumpkins, and this Halloween digital short with Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant and Vanessa Bayer was no exception. It actually managed to be frightening... in how well it depicted how the best laid plans of mice and BFFs go awry once they come into contact with booze and sexy costumes. A Girl's Halloween is like a campfire ghost story, but for 20-somethings fresh out of college in the big city.

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Missing head of baby Jesus statue returned after artist's clay replacement becomes a meme.

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Sudbury, Ontario's Sainte-Anne-des-Pins Catholic Church is no stranger to vandalism, and their statue of baby Jesus has had its head knocked off more than once. About a year ago, however, the head went missing altogether, according to Father Gérard Lajeunesse. "I'm hoping it wasn't done out of malice," he told Sudbury.com. It might be somebody took on a challenge or whatever and the head fell off, and what do you do with this? A lot of things happen around here."

Whatever the case, local artist Heather Wise soon noticed the incomplete sculpture and offered to fashion a replacement. Her attempt, rendered in clay, was... well, let's say "non-traditional."

Intended to be a placeholder until Wise could carve a head out of stone (a material she said she'd never worked with before), the temporary restoration drew some rather blistering reviews.

Some critics compared the spiked creation to the infamously botched 2012 restoration of Ecce Homo, a Spanish fresco depicting Jesus with the crown of thorns, by an elderly amateur artist. That, too, went viral when unveiled.

The temporary head even garnered a mocking Instagram account.

I'll be right here, temporarily. #temporaryjesushead

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Temporarily very very interesting. #temporaryjesushead

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Temporarily Trump again, by popular demand. More to come tomorrow.

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Temporarily terrifying. #temporaryjesushead

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Temporarily running through the 6. #temporaryjesushead

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Although Father Gérard was amused that the head had become a global phenomenon—and graciously defended Wise's contribution to the church—he ultimately elected to remove it.

Probably for the best, since the viral buzz led to someone returning baby Jesus' original head, which was reattached and presented to parishioners at mass on Sunday, Oct. 23. Replacing the statue altogether could have cost up to $10,000, so yeah, Father Gérard is pretty stoked here.

"It's a happy ending to pretty crazy week, it just goes to show that sometimes the internet works in your favor," the relieved priest said. Or, to put it more religiously: the internet works in mysterious ways.

Leslie Jones opens up about her nudes being hacked in the most Leslie Jones way possible on SNL's 'Weekend Update.'

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On the October 22 episode of Saturday Night Live, Leslie Jones opened up to her not-so-secret crush Colin Jost about being the target of trolls. Jones has had a hell of a year—she starred in the controversial Ghostbusters reboot, got harassed and hacked, had her nudes leaked, quit Twitter, rejoined, and became America's Olympic cheerleader. Jones doesn't let any of that get to her, or change her outspoken brand of comedy. "You can't possibly embarrass me more than I have already embarrassed myself." If that isn't the defining credo of comedians everywhere, I don't know what is.

National Geographic explains why this cheetah cub and his puppy best friend get along so well.

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The internet is fueled by adorably unexpected mixed-species friendships. But have you ever wondered why animals we assume would be natural enemies—like dogs and cats, for instance—can be such great companions in the right conditions? As National Geographic explains in this overwhelmingly cute video about Kumbali the cheetah cub and Kago the yellow Labrador Retriever puppy, it all comes down to what they need as they develop. In Kumbali's case, Kago is at once a calming influence and a patient playmate who can focus the cat's considerable energy, meanwhile teaching him social cues. As for the pooch, well, he probably just likes everyone and everything. So there you have it: the scientific principle behind the four-legged BFFs who give us reason to log on every day.


Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon won't let divorce stop their charming Halloween co-costume with their kids.

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The only thing that can make Halloween scarier is having to spend it with an ex, but divorced couple Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey are leaning into the fright-fest by celebrating together.

Good costume idea.

Carey threw an early Halloween party in Los Angeles on Saturday, and made the event a family affair by including her ex-husband Nick Cannon as well as their 5-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe. Cannon and his son Moroccan dressed up as the Super Mario Brothers, while Monroe channeled Rapunzel from Disney's Tangled. Mimi dressed as the devil, and opted for a tight red latex number.

Early Halloween Family Flow! #Ncredible

A photo posted by Nick Cannon (@nickcannon) on

Cannon and Carey were married for six years before calling it quits with an amicable divorce. They co-parent their children and judging on how many appearances they make on each other's Instagrams, it looks like a pretty chill situation.

A little dinner after Karate Class!!

A photo posted by Nick Cannon (@nickcannon) on

Carey is now engaged to billionaire James Packer. You know you are really rich when the word used before your name to describe you is "billionaire" and not your actual profession. Cannon has recently been connected to Chilli from 90's girl band TLC. If there is any dysfunctional celebrity family who deserves a reality show, this is it.

Get on it, E!

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John Oliver offers Donald Trump the Emmy he wants so bad on one condition.

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Sunday night on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver covered Donald Trump's horrific performance at last week's Alfred E. Smith Memorial Charity dinner, which saw him get booed by the mostly-Catholic audience for using his speech at the formal event to roast Hillary Clinton. Traditionally, both presidential candidates' speeches are light-hearted and self-deprecating in tone. Not this year, though!

Oliver contends that Trump might be completely incapable of recognizing his own failures, so, in return for the concession speech that Trump is saying he may or may not give America if he loses in November, Oliver is offering something he knows Trump wants: an Emmy. Well, his Emmy, to be exact—the one John Oliver's show won, while Trump's never has.

He explained, "Of course Trump wants an Emmy. It's a woman, it's gold, and it's proportional to his tiny hands."

The 21 funniest reactions to the robot terrors of 'Westworld' episode 4: 'Dissonance Theory.'

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It's way too soon to say Westworld is HBO's new Game of Thrones. That said, Westworld is HBO's new Game of Thrones. Get on this train early, because it's chugging all the way to a robot theme park where the only attractions are sex and murder. You really think that's not a hit show?

Here are 19 of the funniest reactions to Westworld episode four, "Dissonance Theory." Read them this week, and read them next week, because your life is an endless, looping storyline and there is truly no escape (until the season finale.)

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Tyler Oakley and Hannah Hart try and fail to be chill while going through a haunted house.

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YouTubers Tyler Oakley and Hannah Hart got the crap scared out of them for our viewing pleasure by videotaping themselves going through a haunted house.

The two visited a Freddy vs. Jason themed maze at Universal Studios Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights, where they failed at having any chill whatsoever as they endured multiple actors dressed as Freddy Krueger jumping out and scaring them. Watching celebrities lose their sh*t in haunted houses is probably the best part of Halloween besides stealing your kid's candy.

Nothing proves that something is not fine more than repeating, "this is fine!" ad nauseam.

Oakley and Hart managed to make it through alive, even though it seemed like they were both on the verge of having a heart attack the entire time they were in the haunt. Oh, the things people will endure in the name of creating content!

Taylor Swift describes feeling 'frantic' during her alleged groping.

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Pop star Taylor Swift accused former country radio DJ David Mueller of groping her at a performance at Denver's Pepsi Center in June 2013. He claims those allegations got him fired, and in September 2015, he sued Swift. In October 2015, she sued him right back, for assault and battery. On Friday, a judge granted Swift's request that a photo from that night be sealed, but on Saturday Billboard released the transcript from a video deposition given by Taylor Swift, in which she describes feeling "frantic" and "violated." The transcript reads:

Right as the moment came for us to pose for the photo, he took his hand and put it up my dress and grabbed onto my ass cheek and no matter how much I scooted over it was still there. It was completely intentional, I’ve never been so sure of anything in my life. . . I remember being frantic, distressed, feeling violated in a way I had never experienced before. A meet-and-greet is supposed to be a situation where you’re thanking people for coming, you’re supposed to be welcoming people into your home, which is the arena for that day, and for someone to violate that hospitality in that way, I was completely stunned.

A little backstory: according to Swift, she, Mueller, and his girlfriend Shannon Melcher were posing for a photo at a meet-and-greet at Denver's Pepsi Center in June 2013 when Mueller put his hand up her skirt and groped her. Later that night Mueller was accused by someone on Swift's staff of touching her inappropriately, and he was fired from his job at radio station KYGO two days later. Swift's team claims that they provided the photo to his employers, who then made their own decision to terminate his employment.

See you this weekend! @cota_official @f1 #USGP

A video posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on

In September 2015 Mueller filed a lawsuit against Swift, claiming that he lost his job over false allegations. Swift, in turn, countersued Mueller for assault and battery in October 2015.

Both sides claim that the photo in question proves their case. This is the photo that Swift has requested be sealed from being seen by the public, because her lawyers claim, "it is all but assured that the photograph will be shared for scandalous and prurient interests."

5 people having a worse Monday than you.

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5. Justin Bieber, because an audience hurt his feelings again.

Now who's Sorry?

Justin Bieber has always had a real love-hate relationship with his fans—they love him, and he hates them (and himself). Which leads to awkward situations like the one at his concert in Manchester, UK, on Sunday. Between songs, Biebs tried to engage the crowd in his trademark sexy, vaguely hostile banter, but they wouldn't hear it. Literally. The audience kept drowning him out with simultaneous cheering and booing. Eventually he couldn't take it anymore, and walked off the stage with an unceremonious mic drop.

Poor Justin. Those screaming fans are what made him famous, and now he's been buried alive under the pressure of their love. Incidents like this have become familiar at his recent shows. At a concert in Birmingham last week, he pleaded with the Beliebers to please shut up:

Can you guys do me a favor? Can you guys just relax for about two seconds? I get it, I get it, but I’m like two feet away from you. And I can hear you. I appreciate all the love, it’s amazing. But can you show it in a different way? Screaming is just so obnoxious.

Let it be known: the guy who once peed in a janitor's bucket backstage thinks screaming is "obnoxious." So next time you pay hundreds of dollars to see him whine out his YouTube songs, try and control yourself.


4. Chris Hemsworth, because he had to prove he and his wife are still together.

Who could divorce those eyes?

Being a celebrity means having the whole world in your private business, even if you've never peed in a bucket in your life. So when Woman's Day Magazine Australia and other outlets started reporting that Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and his wife Elsa Pataky (not Thor) were on the outs, based on information from "inside sources," he was forced to set the record straight in the traditional celebrity way: a snarky Instagram.

The caption reads:

Looking for a new wife according to @womansdayaus and other misleading outlets! Honey you still love me right?! @elsapatakyconfidential#thanksfortheheadsup

Pataky, a Spanish model/actress, posted her own pic to back up her hubby. And she upped the ante by including an adorable dog.

Ahora y siempre ! Always and forever!! 😉 @chrishemsworth

A photo posted by Elsa Pataky (@elsapatakyconfidential) on

That dog could keep any couple together.


3. Britney Spears, because she accidentally went from half-naked to mostly naked onstage.

She has even less luck with clothes than she has with men.

Britney Spears is deep into her Las Vegas residency, and the show is running like a well-oiled machine. But her wardrobe is another story. During Saturday's show, her Mad Max-style studded bra came unclasped partway through her rendition of Joan Jett's I Love Rock and Roll. Luckily, her ab-toting boy toy dancers were there to prevent her from flashing the whole crowd. It was eerily similar to another malfunction a year ago.

You've got to give it to Brit—she's a pro. She didn't even stop lip-syncing while she was struggling to keep her nipples covered.


2. A guy who was arrested because cops mistook his donut icing for meth.

You'd think cops would know donuts when they saw them.

Last December, Orlando man Daniel Rushing was pulled over for speeding. Cops found a few flakes of a "rock-like substance" on the floor of his car, and because it's Florida, they asked him if it was crystal meth. No, he insisted, it was from Krispy Kreme donuts he had just eaten. Still, the officer used a road test to analyze the crumbs, and it tested positive for methamphetamine—twice. Rushing was arrested for possession and spent 10 hours in jail.

Weeks later, the substance was tested in a proper lab, and it turned out it was donuts after all. Rushing's name was cleared, but he's still not happy. He's suing the city of Orlando and the company that makes the drug-testing kits for more than $15,000 (or 13,761 original glazed donuts) in damages.

Rushing claims the officer who arrested him wasn't properly trained in how to use the kit (a safe bet), and that the ordeal humiliated him. His mug shot is permanently available on the internet now, sealing his fate as the donut meth guy.

It wouldn't be ethical to post his head shot, so here's a stock photo of a man enjoying a donut. Man, he loves that donut.

Maybe Rushing should be suing Krispy Kreme. Those donuts are as addictive as meth, am I right? And about as healthy.


1. A drunk driver who got into a fender bender with a helicopter.

Now here's an arrest that would make more sense if the driver was on meth. 26-year-old Glenn Livingston of New Mexico (the Southwest's Florida) was driving drunk on the highway early Sunday morning when he plowed right into a medical helicopter and a fire truck that were parked on the side of the road to assist in a separate accident. Nobody was injured, but this chopper has clearly seen better days.

Livingston was arrested for DWI and resisting arrest. Why he would try to resist arrest after totaling a damn helicopter isn't clear, but it probably has to do with being wasted.

We don't have a problem posting this guy's mug shot. He wasn't arrested for donuts.

Although he's clearly having a rough Monday, Livingston should be happy he wasn't seriously injured in the crash. What are the changes they would have sent a second helicopter to pick him up?


Eric Trump had no idea he got trolled by this t-shirt.

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Eric Trump has no basic understanding of Spanish, even when words are similar to English. Sad!

Annie and Ceci Ardelle, two sisters in Salisbury, North Carolina, masterfully trolled Eric Trump at a rally in their hometown. The Ardelles are second-generation Americans of Cuban descent, and went to protest the most vampire-y Trump's campaign stop in a subtle and smooth way.

Annie took a Sharpie to a white shirt and wrote "Latinas contra Trump," which translates to "Latinas against Trump."

Eric's obliviousness is particularly hilarious because contra is a word that's used in English too, and anyone who reads the Latin alphabet could maybe infer that "con" is bad, as in "pros and cons."

Annie explained the motivation for the fashion statement to BuzzFeed News:

We weren’t protesting the fact that he’s a conservative or a Republican. We were protesting their particular treatment of Hispanics and Latino immigrants in this country. It’s been almost two years of Trump continuously putting down Latinos, making us feel like we don’t belong. So, my whole thing was to go there and say, ‘I’m Latina and we’re against you because of what you say about our race.'

This isn't the first time this election cycle that political figures have been caught not reading big letters on t-shirts. Last September, Jeb! Bush ('member him?!) smiled with a group of kids in "Republicans for Sanders" shirts.

There's no excuse for that one, Jebbie.

Taylor Swift performed a cover of Calvin Harris' 'This Is What You Came For' because she DGAF.

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Taylor Swift has never been shy about taking jabs at her exes, but this might be the best yet. At her performance at the U.S. Grand Prix on Saturday (her first and only concert of 2016), Swift surprised the audience with a cover of ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris' hit single, "This Is What You Came For." Oh, the shade is so real.

Obviously Tay totally crushed it. It's not surprising, given that she co-wrote the song, a detail which was only revealed to the world after she and Harris very publicly ended their relationship over the summer.

“I’ve never played this song live before,” she told the crowd before starting the song. “But if you know it, maybe you could sing along, and then I could get to know what that feels like to hear it sung back to me.”

You know what Taylor always says: "If you're going to throw shade at your ex, throw it from behind a sparkly piano." (Okay, so maybe she doesn't actually say that. But she does love sparkly pianos.)

This is the face of someone who DGAF.

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This terrifying story of a baby 'born twice' has a happy ending.

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23 weeks and five days into her pregnancy, Texas mom Margaret Boemer underwent surgery to save her baby's life. This was the first literal birthday for her child, Lynlee Boemer, who doctors removed from her mother's womb for emergency fetal surgery.

It's a harrowing story. The baby had a tumor nearly the same size as her body. But after a nearly five hour surgery, surgeons removed it.

When they finished, they put Lynlee back in her mother's womb, closed the incision they had made in the uterus, and everyone waited for the second birth.

After 12 weeks of bed rest for her mother, Lynee Boemer was born again on June 6.

Obviously, the surgery to remove the tumor from the baby's coccyx was risky, both for baby and mother. But Margaret Boemer said she "knew it was what had to be done to give her life."

"I was willing to endure all those risks to give her a chance at life," Boemer told People.

Thankfully, the condition that led to this harrowing ordeal, sacrococcygeal teratoma, only occurs in one out of each 35,000 births.

Even more thankfully, Lynlee was born at 5 lbs 5 oz, and after yet another surgery at eight days, she's healthy, normal, and perhaps most encouragingly, "eating a ton."

'Write a message on your member' and other tips to really make your d*ck pics shine.

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When Alexander Graham Bell invited the telephone, he probably never dreamed that his creation would be used to send naughty pictures back and forth. But it is 2016 and here we are.

Esquire and sex vlogger Shan Boody came up with some best practices to take your dick pics to the next level. But before you whip it out and start taking pictures of your peen, please remember that there is absolutely nothing appealing about an unsolicited dick pic. Ever. Once you have consent from the person who will receive your penis portraitures, sure, knock yourself out.

Well, that was some interesting advice to say the least. While we cannot condone writing on your penis or really sending dick pics at all, these unconventional methods will definitely get someone's attention! Perhaps not the kind of attention you would want, but definitely attention.

Tom Hanks fulfilled his destiny of telling corny Halloween dad jokes in this cut 'SNL' sketch.

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Tom Hanks was an absolute delight hosting SNL on Saturday night, with a show that was equal parts clever election coverage and a comforting hug from dad. In this cut Weekend Update bit that fortunately lives on in a dress rehearsal clip, Hanks milks his ability to sell corny material (like Forrest Gump!Buuuuuurn!) as a comedian friend Kyle Mooney's Bruce Chandling character.

The only person who rivals Hanks' Paul Cannon in spreading Halloween cheer is David S. Pumpkins himself.

Plus, Papa Hanks has played a Jerry Seinfeld-y character on SNL before, making cheesy observations about French toast and French bread and French fries with Jon Lovitz and Damon Wayans way back in 1985.

In an alternate universe where Hanks wasn't also a remarkably talented dramatic actor, he could have been a great lame standup comedian.

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