Jack Black enlisted some star-studded helpers to bring Saturday Night Live’s Five-Timers Club back to life.
The School of Rock star, 56, made his historic fifth appearance as an SNL host on Saturday, April 4, which meant that he’d gained entry in the show’s historic Five-Timers Club lounge — but there was a hitch.
Fellow Five-Timers Club member Jonah Hill crashed the monologue to explain to Black that something was wrong in the Club. The duo raced to the Five-Timers Club lounge, only to find it covered with cobwebs and other spooky regalia.
“There’s evil lurking around every corner,” Black warned, before a voice replied, “No, it’s just me.”
Six-time Saturday Night Live host Tina Fey then stepped out of the shadows wearing a freshly-minted SNL UK one-timers jacket for hosting the series premiere of the British spinoff two weeks ago. (Fey joked that the SNL UK one-timers club jacket was lined with the fur of Paddington Bear.)
Jack Black and Tina Fey on “Saturday Night Live.” Courtesy NBC/YouTube
“I wanted to congratulate you on a historic night. You’re officially the first Black in the Five-Timers Club,” Fey quipped, in reference to SNL’s less-than-diverse hosting history.
(Dwayne Johnson is the only nonwhite member of the Five Timers Club yet, though Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph and Charles Barkley have all hosted multiple times.)
As the trio tried to figure out how to revive the Five-Timers Club lounge, they were joined by fellow five-time SNL host Candice Bergen and six-timer Melissa McCarthy. Jack White — the night’s musical guest — even dropped by for a quick cameo to celebrate his own fifth time performing solo on Saturday Night Live.
“The five-time musical guests only have their parking validated for 15 minutes so I have to move my hearse,” White, 50, quipped before walking off.
Black finally decided that he needed a rocking musical number to fully revive the Club, so he called on all of the former hosts, White and “a choir of marching wizards” to join him for a revamped cover of the White Stripes’ 2003 classic “Seven Nation Army.”
“I’m gonna make it right. The five-timer army gonna lift the curse,” Black sang. “We got Jack Black and White, he’s shredding his axe while I sing the next verse.”
As all of the classic SNL hosts danced around him on stage, Black declared, “I can’t believe this is really happening. Am I in heaven?”
Bergen, Steve Martin, Buck Henry, Elliott Gould and Chevy Chase were among the earliest members of the Five Timers Club but the first actual sketch occurred in 1990 when Tom Hanks joined.
Black made his SNL debut as a special guest with his Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Gass in May 1998. He hosted for the first time in January 2002.
Saturday Night Live continues on NBC April 11 at 11:30 p.m. ET with guest host Colman Domingo and music from Anitta.
