Jack Black Inducted Into SNL Five-Timers Club
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- Jack Black was inducted into the SNL Five-Timers Club, joined by cameos from Jonah Hill, Tina Fey, Candice Bergen, and Melissa McCarthy.
- Jonah Hill opened Black's monologue by joking he was working on Superbad 2 ("No, I just really like the sound of applause"), then led him to a cobweb-covered, haunted-themed Five-Timers lounge.
- Tina Fey, wearing an "SNL UK First-Timers" jacket, quipped that Black was "the first Black in the Five-Timers Club" — a double entendre noting Dwayne Johnson (of Black Nova Scotian descent) is the sole non-white member.
- SNL openly acknowledged it had "run into the ground" Tom Hanks' original lounge joke, with Fey's cameo marking her fifth Five-Timers Club sketch appearance.
- Marcello Hernández's Domingo character appeared for a fifth time before musical guest Jack White (also a Five-Timer) hit him with a frying pan.
- Black revived the haunted lounge by performing The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" with witchy background dancers and theatrical fog, singing "And when I put this jacket on I am ready to host."
Why it matters: Black's induction cements his place in a small club of SNL repeat hosts while the show leaned hard on legacy callbacks — Fey's fifth lounge cameo, Domingo's fifth appearance, and Jack White returning as both musical guest and Five-Timer. The monologue even broke the fourth wall to concede the lounge bit had been "run into the ground," a rare self-aware nod to SNL's reliance on nostalgia.
