This 'Saturday Night Live' Host Is the Surprise Fan-Favorite to Join the Five-Timers Club in Season 51

According to some Saturday Night Live superfans, Freakier Friday may lead to an historic Saturday.

We’re almost exactly one month away from the return of Saturday Night Live for Season 51 on October 4th, and as the revamped cast coalesces and former stars say their farewells, the focus now shifts to the rotating A-list hosts who will spend their Saturdays performing their very best (but probably still bad) impressions while promoting whatever movie/album/TV show they dropped that week. As anyone who was around when Elon Musk laid an egg on the Studio 8H stage back in 2021 can attest, the host sets the tone for the entire week leading up to the show, and a host can find themselves just as immortalized in Saturday Night Live history as any cast member, for better or worse.

For the especially entertaining SNL hosts, membership in the unofficial Five-Timers Club is the highest civilian award granted by Lorne Michaels. With so many of today’s top stars sitting at four hosting appearances, the staff of the popular SNL fan organization Saturday Night Network have chosen a front-runner for the next Five-Timers Jacket.

I guess, in a way, this means that Jamie Lee Curtis could get one, too.

Apparently, Saturday Night Network is bullish on The Parent Trap and Mean Girls star Lindsay Lohan’s burgeoning Lohanaissance following the successful premiere of the long-awaited Freaky Friday sequel Freakier Friday last month. However, movie star Saturday Night Live hosts usually perform on the show around the time of their latest film’s release, so, when SNL Season 51 premieres on October 4th, it will have missed the window for promoting Freakier Friday, and Lohan may need a new highly publicized project to tout later in the season.

Even so, Lohan, who first hosted the show when she was just 17 years old and hot off the release of the Tina Fey-written smash hit Mean Girls in 2004, is such a familiar and beloved figure to long-time SNL watchers that Michaels may yet honor Lohan with her fifth hosting gig, over 21 years after she first graced the stage of Studio 8H.

On the other hand, there are some seriously heavy-hitting perennial SNL hosts who are just one appearance away from the Five-Timers Club going into Season 51, and, considering how comically overexposed Jack Black has become in the last few years, don’t be surprised when some migraine-inducing video-game movie propels him into the hosting gig before Lohan gets her time to shine.

And, of course, stand-up comedy giant and professional provocateur Dave Chappelle is always liable to deliver a moralizing opening monologue after some big piece of political news, so, if that mysterious spot on Donald Trump's hand gets any darker, Chappelle may have two momentous occasions to celebrate on the same Saturday night.