Saturday Night Live host Jack Black earned his Five-Timers jacket on Saturday, but not before he and musical guest Jack White reinvigorated the club that he has now joined.
Black, who was most recently on SNL last April after a twenty-year gap, was welcomed into the club by several other five-time hosts, as is custom: Jonah Hill, Melissa McCarthy, Candice Bergen and Tina Fey, who sported her SNL UK 1-timers jacket, made from Paddington, the teddy bear.
As the group hung out in the cobweb-filled lounge, there was an acknowledgment that the Five-Timers Club process has been overdone.
“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,” said Fey. “This is my fifth Five-Timers Club sketch.”
And so White, who was also making his fifth solo musical guest appearance on Saturday, lent a hand, playing guitar on “Seven Nation Army” while Black sang.
“Everything about this lounge is so broken and wrong, but I’m gonna fix it by singing the world’s most rockin’ song,” Black began.
The 2003 White Stripes song, which Rolling Stone puts number 36 on our list of the 500 greatest songs, is ubiquitous at sporting events all over.
“We’ve got Melissa, Candace Bergen, Jonah Hill and British Tina Fey / It’s my nightmare blunt rotation and I think it’s gonna save the day,” Black, in his flame shirt and pants, continued. “And when I put this jacket on, I feel like I am ready to host!”
