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Jack Black became the 27th member of the Five-Timers Club in an episode rife with rock n’ roll synergy via musical guest Jack White. Scroll down to see how the pair of Jacks stacked up with the cast and Five-Timer cameos.
Note: Our screen time calculation method prioritizes face time, meaning that any contiguous off-screen-but-in-scene moments and most partial-body appearances do not count. Screen time in the opening credits, bumpers, Goodnights, and cut-for-time sketches is not included, nor do those portions factor into our assessment of an episode’s total running time.
Jack Black – 23:39 (37.2%)
Black’s road to The Five-Timers Club was a winding one, tied with Drew Barrymore for third longest span from first to fifth episode (8,841 days). In another extraordinary statistical coincidence, Black had identical screen time when he hosted last season on the same weekend (23:39, April 5, 2025). He racked up over ten minutes of time in his first two segments (05:04 in an over seven-minute monologue, and 05:12 in the night’s first sketch, “Kathy”). Black ranks seventh among Season 51 hosts behind Melissa McCarthy (25:03), with whom he co-starred in the night’s final sketch.
Kenan Thompson – 11:08 (17.5%)
Thompson, whose very first episode was hosted by Black in 2003, led the cast for the second time this season (10:02, Miles Teller) and reached his highest weekly total since early Season 50 (11:17, Bill Burr). He opened the episode playing Charles Barkley for the 23rd time (his most prolific impression) and scored his first solo “Live from New York!” in nearly two years. Thompson’s 04:32 appearance next to Black in “Kathy” was his longest since 2021 (the most recent edition of “What Up With That” when Jason Sudeikis hosted in Season 47). He was present in the next three segments as well: “Words to Live By,” “Self Defense,” and “Husbands.” Thompson’s night was capped by a brief appearance as Law Roach in “Weekend Update,” an impression he reprised from Charli XCX’s Season 50 episode.
Jack White – 09:25 (14.8%)
White leads all Season 51 musical guests in screen time; A$AP Rocky was previous leader with 09:12. He received his own Five-Timers jacket alongside Woody Harrelson in 2023, bringing his total to six this week. He was the first musical guest since Bad Bunny in Season 50’s finale to make two appearances outside the usual music performances. White dropped by the Five-Timers Club Lounge, accompanying Jack Black on “Seven Nation Army” (The White Stripes’ first hit single), and made a brief appearance in the “Words to Live By” pretape before performing “Derecho Demonico” and “G.O.D. and The Broken Rib”.
Sarah Sherman – 08:31 (13.4%)
Sherman is poised to hit seven hours of career screen time in this week’s Colman Domingo episode. She has spent 18.2% of her SNL career on “Update,” adding to that total this week with her 22nd guest appearance. Usually a regular on Colin Jost’s side of the desk, she rolled up to Che this time as Kristi Noem’s husband. Sherman totaled just over five minutes across three live sketches—“Kathy,” “Husbands,” and “Airbnb Superhost”—which was good enough for her seventh-highest total of her 94-episode career. After having one of the lowest three-episode runs (01:57 average with Ariana Grande, Finn Wolfhard, Teyana Taylor), Sherman is in the midst of a career-best streak (08:27 over the previous five episodes).
Ashley Padilla – 06:58 (11.0%)
Padilla is inching closer to two significant SNL milestones, with a little less than three minutes to go to hit two hours on the season, and about six minutes to hit three career hours of screen time. She reprised the impressions of Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem, and starred in the lead-off sketch as “Kathy,” the coworker no one wants to talk to. Padilla previously was featured in the post-monologue sketch in “Mom Confession” with Alexander Skarsgård, “Let’s Find Love” with Josh O’Connor, and “AI Photos” with Glen Powell. She increased her cast-leading Season 51 screen time total over Colin Jost, to seven minutes.
James Austin Johnson – 06:33 (10.3%)
In just the fourth Trump-less episode of Season 51, JAJ still anchored the Cold Open as Ernie Johnson covering the NCAA Basketball Final Four. He’s now appeared in 14 of this season’s 16 Cold Opens, leading the cast in screen time for that segment by over 21 minutes. He showed off some singing chops in the episode, leading the “Words to Live By” music video with Black and Andrew Dismukes, and as a member of the impromptu a cappella rock group in “Husbands,” which covered Kansas’ “Carry on Wayward Son.” Johnson has had five or more minutes of time in an impressive 48% of his career episodes.
Marcello Hernández – 06:18 (9.9%)
Colman Domingo may be taking the stage this week, but Hernández’s famed “Domingo” became the first SNL character to appear in the Five-Timers Club Lounge. Hernández had his 15th-best career screen time, playing Dojo duo with Jack Black in “Self Defense” and with supporting roles in the final two sketches (“The 301 Spartans” and “Airbnb Superhost”).
Colin Jost – 05:31 (8.7%)
After three straight weeks of playing Pete Hegseth in the Cold Open, Jost returned to a sole appearance in his usual role at the “Weekend Update” desk. He hosted Kam Patterson as “Professor Snape” rather than his usual foil, Sarah Sherman (who still enjoyed some interaction with the 13-season vet). It was Jost’s fourth-lowest screen time of the season.
Andrew Dismukes – 05:30 (8.7%)
Dismukes was able to bust a slump this week with a lead in “Words to Live By” and “The 301 Spartans,” as well as the chorus of wannabe rock singers in “Husbands.” (He was averaging just 01:14 the previous three episodes, his worst three-week stretch since Spring of 2023.) In his sixth season in the cast, Dismukes looks to meet or beat his Season 50 average of 05:35 with some big episodes in the upcoming final run. He sits at a 04:34 average thus far.
Tommy Brennan – 05:07 (8.1%)
Brennan reached the five-minute mark for the first time since Glen Powell hosted in November, with three appearances all in live sketch ensembles. With 01:57 in “Husbands,” 00:54 in “The 301 Spartans,” and 02:16 in “Airbnb Superhost,” Brennan now has totaled ten appearances over three episodes. Currently ranking fourth out of the season’s five rookies, he’s just 36 seconds away from catching Ben Marshall after delivering his second-best career screen time.
Michael Che – 04:41 (7.4%)
Che scored a minute above his season average this week splitting “Update” duties with Colin Jost. Sarah Sherman as Kristi Noem’s husband made a rare visit to his side of the desk. It’s now been 55 episodes since Che has made an appearance elsewhere in the show.
Jeremy Culhane – 04:11 (6.6%)
Culhane looks to be a safe bet to reach one total hour of screen time in his rookie year, sitting at an even 49 minutes after three appearances this week. He bookended the night as Coach Bruce Pearl in the NCAA Basketball Cold Open (0:57) and playing a spring-breaker in the final sketch, “Airbnb Superhost” (02:10). Culhane got another shot at working with six-time host Melissa McCarthy, with whom he made his longest appearance to date in her November episode.
Kam Patterson – 03:58 (6.2%)
Patterson returned to Jost’s side of the “Update” desk for the first time since his debut, playing Professor Snape from HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series. He’s now made four trips to the desk (only Sarah Sherman and Marcello Hernández have had more), accounting for over 35% of his rookie screen time. It came at a good time as Patterson’s been averaging under 90 seconds per episode in the new year thus far. He also made his third Cold Open appearance, this time as Kenny “The Jet” Smith, an impression previously handled by Chris Redd and Devon Walker. This was his second-highest screen time of the season (05:08, Ariana Grande).
Jane Wickline – 03:38 (5.7%)
Wickline enters this Saturday’s episode on her most consistent three-episode stretch of her career (averaging 3:58). She received a big round of applause with her late entrance in “Self Defense” and had two ensemble appearances in “Husbands” and “Airbnb Superhost.” She has now reached three minutes or more in 42% of her episodes. Wickline needs seven more appearances this season to reach 100 career total.
Melissa McCarthy – 03:21 (5.3%)
The 17th member of the Five-Timers Club dropped by the abandoned lounge searching for booze. She also co-starred with Jack Black in the night’s final sketch, “Airbnb Superhost,” as his late sister’s wife and current lover. There, she once again got physical with rookie Jeremy Culhane, just as she did in the “Free Samples” sketch when she hosted for the sixth time in November.
Tina Fey – 02:21 (3.7%)
Fresh off hosting the premiere of SNL UK, the 15th member of the Five-Timers Club welcomed the newest member as its “first Black.” The claim that it was her fifth time in a Five-Timers Club lounge sketch was not entirely true; Fey has appeared in four out of six of the sketches, as well as the Cold Open of the infamous Paul Rudd/COVID Christmas episode where she appeared alongside Tom Hanks to give Rudd his jacket in front of an empty Studio 8H. She also appeared with Candice Bergen to give Emma Stone her jacket in 2023.
Jonah Hill – 02:20 (3.7%)
Hill was the first cameo of the evening, ushering Jack Black to the abandoned and spooky Five-Timers Club Lounge. Hill became the 19th member of the club in November of 2018, his most recent appearance. He is one of just nine SNL hosts to reach the coveted milestone before turning 40 years old.
Chloe Fineman – 02:13 (3.5%)
Fineman has not been able to reach the highs she achieved at the beginning of Season 51, averaging over six-and-a-half minutes per week. She had her second-lowest total of the season (behind 02:02 with Ryan Gosling in March), appearing for 00:49 in “Self-Defense” and 01:24 in “Husbands.” Fineman nearly made her season debut on “Weekend Update” as a “Girlfriend Who’s Always Cold” in a pairing with Mikey Day, but it was cut for time and posted to YouTube Monday night. Fineman is poised to hit seven-and-a-half hours of career screen time this weekend with host Colman Domingo.
Ben Marshall – 02:10 (3.4%)
In his 50th career episode (16th as a cast member), Marshall made two appearances—in “Self-Defense” (where he was able to crack Jack Black) and “301 Spartans.” Half of Marshall’s Season 51 episodes have come with under two-and-a-half minutes of screen time. He’s spent 20% of his screen time in pretapes, and that seems to be the sink-or-swim factor. In six episodes without a pretape appearance, Marshall’s average is 02:13; in the other ten episodes, it’s an even 03:00. His longest appearance of the season remains the “I Miss My Ex’s Dad” music video from Glen Powell’s episode in November.
Mikey Day – 01:54 (3.0%)
Day had more screen time than any cast member in the previous two episodes (totaling 23:44), but this week saw his lowest since Mikey Madison’s March 2025 episode (01:48). He made fewer than three appearances for just the second time this season, playing a coworker in “Kathy” and quietly ailing as “Pappy” in “Words to Live By.” Day nearly made two consecutive “Weekend Update” appearances for the first time since 2022, but alas it was cut for time.
Veronika Slowikowska – 01:16 (2.0%)
After averaging over eight minutes per episode during the Storrie-Gosling-Styles run, Slowikowska posted her lowest screen time since her second episode (01:04, Amy Poehler). Her sole appearance came in “Husbands,” where she joined all her female castmates as the corresponding wives. She had a leading sketch cut for time, “Chili’s Waitress,” that is available on SNL’s YouTube page.
Candice Bergen – 01:13 (1.9%)
The fifth member and first woman to join the Five-Timers Club, Bergen made her first SNL appearance since presenting Emma Stone with her jacket in 2023. Bergen is no stranger to the “Five-Timers Lounge” sketch, appearing in four out six, like Fey. She holds the distinction of being the first returning host in SNL history, with her first and second turns coming just 42 days apart in Season 1.
