Saturday Night Live and a few of its all-time favorite hosts welcomed Jack Black into the show’s storied Five-Timers Club tonight, capping a journey more than two decades in the making.
The milestone came via a monologue that sent Black to the Club itself—only to find the once-exclusive lounge in shambles, covered in cobwebs and long past its prime.
“There’s something wrong with the Five-Timers Club,” Jonah Hill warned. Tina Fey soon explained why: “What started off as a one-off joke in a Tom Hanks monologue has been brought back so many times, it has literally been run into the ground.”
The rundown clubhouse was populated by fellow Five-Timers Fey, Hill, Melissa McCarthy, and Candice Bergen, with McCarthy lamenting the lack of alcohol: “All they got is warm cans of John Mulaney’s beer.”
Marcello Hernandez’s Domingo briefly crashed the party, while the night’s musical guest Jack White also appeared, noting that five-time musical guests only get “15 minutes” of parking validation.
Black ultimately took it upon himself to restore the club the only way he knows how: “With the power of rock!” Launching into a full-throttle musical number built around White’s “Seven Nation Army,” he led the group out of the decaying lounge and through Studio 8H to home base, where Fey presented him with his jacket and he declared “I can’t believe this is really happening. I think I’m in heaven.”
The moment carried added weight given Black’s long road to five. He first appeared on SNL in 1998 as a “special guest” with Tenacious D before hosting for the first time in 2002. He returned in 2003 and again in 2005—delivering a holiday episode that included “Christmastime for the Jews” and the debut of “Lazy Sunday”—before a 19-year gap led to his fourth hosting stint in April 2025.
Black’s fifth outing comes 8,841 days after his first—tying Drew Barrymore for the longest path to the milestone, behind only Woody Harrelson and Martin Short.
Since its debut in 1990 with Tom Hanks, the Five-Timers Club has become one of SNL’s most enduring in-jokes—an occasionally revived sketch that turns a hosting milestone into a full-blown piece of show mythology.
Watch Black’s complete Five-Timers monologue below:
Jack Black's Five-Timers monologue! pic.twitter.com/VYhzZlSxQa
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