Overview
- Jack Black, who hosted Saturday Night Live on Saturday, April 4, received his Five-Timers jacket during a monologue staged inside a dilapidated version of the show’s famed lounge.
- Jonah Hill, Tina Fey, Candice Bergen, and Melissa McCarthy popped in to greet him, with the cobweb-covered set lampooning how often the Five-Timers sketch has been reused.
- Musical guest Jack White joined Black for a reworked Seven Nation Army that folded the induction into a performance, marking White’s fifth solo turn as SNL’s musical guest.
- Tina Fey joked on-air that Black was the “first Black in the Five-Timers club,” a pointed nod to the club’s overwhelmingly white roster, with Dwayne Johnson commonly cited as the lone nonwhite five-timer.
- The milestone capped a long arc for Black, who first appeared on SNL in 1998 and reached hosting number five after decades, tying Drew Barrymore’s lengthy path to the club.