Jack Black joins 'SNL' Five-Timers Club with help from Jonah Hill and Melissa McCarthy

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Almost a year ago to the day, Jack Black hosted “Saturday Night Live” for the first time in 20 years, fresh off the success of “A Minecraft Movie.” Now, the star of another freshly minted videogame-to-movie hit, “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” has returned after crushing it last time with a high-energy performance.Having reached the Five-Timers Club, as addressed in an obligatory monologue sketch featuring Jonah Hill, Tina Fey, Candice Bergen and others, Black was a returning hero.He’s frequently cited as one of the favorite hosts among the cast.

And while this time may not have reached the frenetic highs of last year’s manic and musical outing, it had some memorable moments.Most notable was a video for a country-style song about gaining wisdom and then completely forgetting what that wisdom was.Black sang in that sketch along with musical guest Jack White.

Black also appeared as a frustrated office worker trying to get a coworker (Ashley Padilla) to stop talking to him and others annoyed by the woman.Black paired up with Marcello Hernández to play martial arts instructors who teach unorthodox self-defense methods.It played to Black’s physical comedy chops, but something felt off about the execution, especially because of the hard-to-understand dialogue.

Black played the last Spartan to be considered for inclusion in the group of 300 Greek fighters against Persia (spoiler: he doesn’t make it in).He played an intrusive Airbnb host with Melissa McCarthy, who was also on board for the Five-Timers sketch.And, finally, he played one of a set of awkward husbands who come to life singing “Carry On Wayward Son” together.While the monologue was a blast of fresh chaos (or at least the sense of chaos) with Black jamming out with White, the rest of the show didn’t have the same kind of verve, falling back on familiar sketch formulas.

That said, Black committed t...