Take a tour through the ‘SNL’ Five-Timers Club

SNL is off this weekend, but next week’s show will be Jack Black’s fifth time hosting. You know what that means, right?

A new member of the Five-Timers Club.

Black will be the 28th member of the prestigious group, hosting in back-to-back seasons after a drought that ran from 2005 to 2025.

With Black joining the Five-Timers Club, it’s almost a foregone conclusion that we’ll see an official Five-Timers Club sketch. Maybe it’ll be a sketch in the Five-Timers Lounge itself. Maybe it’ll be the presentation of the prestigious Five-Timers Club jacket. (Which you might remember from Ryan Gosling’s recent attempt to acquire one despite only hosting the show four times.) But the odds are in favor of a sketch happening.

In the modern era of the Five-Timers Club, only a few folks didn’t get the recognition of an actual sketch. Surprisingly, SNL vets Tina Fey (who herself has become one of the main ambassadors of the Five-Timers Club) and Will Ferrell join Ben Affleck in that group.

Before Black gets his own Five-Timers jacket next weekend, let’s take a tour through the club ...

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Tom Hanks introduced the world to the Five-Timers Club, bringing us inside the lounge for the first time. Right from the beginning, Steve Martin was already there and Conan O’Brien was working the door.

The lounge didn’t return for over a decade until Justin Timberlake’s fifth hosting gig brought it into SNL’s modern era. Alec Baldwin was now there, and we got a rare SNL appearance from Chevy Chase.