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 within the show’s historic Five-Timers Club lounge — but there was a hitch.
Fellow Five-Timers Club member Jonah Hill crashed the monologue to clarify to Black that something was fallacious within the Club. The duo raced to the Five-Timers Club lounge, only to seek out 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 desired to congratulate you on a historic night. You’re officially the primary Black within the Five-Timers Club,” Fey quipped, in reference to SNL’s less-than-diverse hosting history.
(Dwayne Johnson is the one nonwhite member of the Five Timers Club yet, though Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph and Charles Barkley have all hosted multiple times.)
Because the trio tried to work out find 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 fast cameo to have fun his own fifth time performing solo on Saturday Night Live.
“The five-time musical guests only have their parking validated for quarter-hour so I actually have to maneuver my hearse,” White, 50, quipped before walking off.
Black finally decided that he needed a rocking musical number to totally revive the Club, so he called on the entire former hosts, White and “a choir of marching wizards” to hitch 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 subsequent verse.”
As the entire classic SNL hosts danced around him on stage, Black declared, “I can’t imagine this is absolutely happening. Am I in heaven?”
Bergen, Steve Martin, Buck Henry, Elliott Gould and Chevy Chase were among the many earliest members of the Five Timers Club but the very first sketch occurred in 1990 when Tom Hanks joined.
Black made his SNL debut as a special guest together with his Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Gass in May 1998. He hosted for the primary 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.