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Jack Black is back on Saturday Night Live — and he has officially joined the Five-Timers club.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie star kicked off his hosting monologue by noting that it was his fifth time hosting the sketch comedy series, before he was joined by a starry lineup of guests who, too, have hosted the show (at least) five times.
“I am so thrilled to be back hosting SNL for the fifth time. It’s a huge honor to join the Five-Timers club,” he said. “I’m a five-timer!”
Black was first joined by his Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot co-star Jonah Hill, who sported a Five-Timers robe. “It is so good to see you. What have you been up to, man?” Black said, to which Hill joked, “Well, I’ve actually been working on Superbad 2!”
The two walked through a door to the Five-Timers lounge, which prompted Hill to tell Black, “Jack, we need your help. There’s something wrong with the Five-Timers Club. You see what I mean?”
“Yes, you’re right, it feels like there’s evil lurking around every corner,” Black said, before Tina Fey popped up. “Oh no, it’s just me! It’s just regular Tina Fey,” the 30 Rock star said.
“I wanted to congratulate you on a historic night,” she said, before joking, “You’re officially the first Black in the Five-Timers club.” Black questioned what had become of the club, which Fey explained that “it’s seen better days.”
“What started off as a one-off joke in a Tom Hanks monologue has been brought back so many times that it has literally been run into the ground,” Fey said. “For example, and this is true, this is my fifth Five-Timers club stint.”
“A double five-timer — is that why you’re wearing that special jacket?” the Minecraft Movie actor asked.
“No, this is actually my First-Timer’s jacket from SNL UK,” Fey replied, referencing her becoming the first person to host the British iteration. “I think it’s made out of Paddington,” she added, which led to Candice Bergen, who is notably the first woman to join SNL‘s Five-Timers club, joining in on the fun.
“You know, I spent a night with Paddington back in 1700. Let’s just say we found something that he likes way more than marmalade,” Bergen said. “What? A bitch can party!”
Behind the bar was Melissa McCarthy, who replied, “Speaking of party, does anyone know where I can just get a drink? I can’t find one. All they got is warm cans of John Mulaney’s beer.”
“Those are non-alcoholic, right?” Fey added, to which the Bridesmaids star offered, “Not if you fill them with vodka!”
Jack White, who served as the night’s musical guest, also appeared in Black’s monologue. Hill jokingly referred to him as “my hero, Professor Snape,” to which the Anaconda actor corrected him: “It’s five-time musical guest and my partner tonight, Jack White!”
White himself joined a different Five-Timers club on Saturday night, with his April 4 appearance marking his fifth time as a solo SNL musical guest. “Thank you, but, unfortunately, I have to be going,” he told Black, who jokingly added, “Well, the five-time musical guests only get their parking validated for 15 minutes. So, I have to move my hearse.”
“Enough is enough,” Black proclaimed. “It’s time to fix this place the only way I know how: With the power of rock.” He then launched into a rendition of “Seven Nation Army,” the White Stripes (which is made up of Jack and Meg White) track.
“We’ve got Melissa, Candice Bergen, Jonah Hill and Mrs. Tina Fey, it’s my nightmare blunt rotation, and I think it’s gonna save the day,” Black sang, before being given his own Five-Timers club jacket. “And when I put this jacket on, you know, I feel like I am ready to host!”
Saturday marked the Super Mario Galaxy Movie star’s landmark fifth time hosting the sketch comedy series. He appeared on the show one year prior, almost exactly to the date on April 5, 2025, which was his first time hosting SNL in two decades.
In the cold open, Kenan Thompson portrayed Charles Barkley commentating on March Madness basketball, except he didn’t really comment on basketball at all.
“Now, this might get me fired, so I’m gonna choose my words real careful right now,” he started. “Look, there’s a war going on between us and Iran. War is terrible. Innocent people are getting killed. I don’t care who started it, but we need to end it, OK?”
Later on, Ashley Padilla joined as Pam Bondi, the former Attorney General who was fired by Trump this week. “So great to be here at the Final Four years… of this country,” she said. “I’m sorry, Charles, but I can’t let the lies you said about me go unanswered. The truth is, I was amazing at my job, and I am proud to say I made history as the first woman ever to be fired as Attorney General. I shattered that glass exit door.”
“I miss it already, and they threw my headshot in the trash like it was the Epstein files,” Padilla’s Bondi added. “Come on, what am I gonna do?”
The Weekend Update segment later saw Kam Patterson join as Professor Snape from the upcoming HBO Harry Potter television series to address backlash to his casting. (Paapa Essiedu, who stars as Snape in the new show, recently revealed he’s faced racist death threats for being a Black actor stepping into the role.)
“Good evening, Mr. Jost,” he began, continuing, “Nah, I’m playing. I don’t talk like that, bro. It’s called code-switching. Codio switchio!” Colin Jost then asked Patterson’s Snape how his year at Hogwarts went, to which he replied, “Not great. We got this new kid, his name is Harry potter, and he’s racist as hell. Harry Potter, or the Proud Boy Who Lived, spent the whole year telling everybody that the school’s only Black teacher was secretly evil.”
“I think he’s just worried because he knows someone’s trying to steal the Sorcerer’s Stone,” Jost replied.
“So somebody stole something, and the number one suspect is Black Snape?” Patterson’s Snape said. “They didn’t even look at the white guy in the turban. So offensive.”
“I’m really sorry that he just jumped to conclusions like that,” Jost replied. “All good. It happens all the time,” Patterson replied, continuing, “I showed up to Hogwarts, and the first day, they looked at me and said, ‘You’re the professor of the dark arts.’ I never even studied that, I majored in African Muggle Studies.”
“The whole wizarding world is racist. There’s one other Black guy, Kingsley Shacklebolt, a name I’m guessing they got out of the Wu-Tang name generator,” Patterson’s Snape said. “Everyone’s in these dignified robes. They dressed him up like he was selling cocoa butter incense out of a barbershop.”
“That’s, that’s kind of a cool outfit, right?” Jost asked, and he replied, “Yeah, for a Haitian cab driver. And why they got to put shackle in his name? That’s crazy, man.”
“Alright, yes, well, for the very first time I’m starting to think that J.K. Rowling might be problematic,” Jost added.
Bad Bunny, Amy Poehler, Sabrina Carpenter, Miles Teller, Nikki Glaser, Glen Powell, Melissa McCarthy, Josh O’Connor, Ariana Grande, Finn Wolfhard, Teyana Taylor, Alexander Skarsgard, Connor Storrie and Harry Styles have also hosted season 51 of SNL.
Colman Domingo will lead next week’s episode, alongside Anitta.