"He was just warning me not to go too hard. Because if I went full hard as a motherf---er, that I could die," Black explained ...

Live’s legendary producer Lorne Michaels has seen it all in his five decades at the sketch comedy show. But even he has his ...

Lorne Michaels had some legitimate fears when Jack Black hosted Saturday Night Live in April 2025. During a recent guest spot ...

Black, 55, appeared on the May 7 episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast, hosted by Dana Carvey and David Spade, and spoke to ...

Rosalind O'Connor/NBC via Getty; Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Jack Black’s recent Saturday ... But the show’s producer Lorne Michaels shared an odd anecdote with him after ...

"He was just warning me not to go too hard. Because if I went full hard as a motherf---er, that I could die," Black explained.

Jack Black on a 2025 episode of 'SNL' (left); Desi Arnaz in 1976 (right) ...

After Black worked himself up while rehearsing, Michaels told him that when Arnaz hosted, he was afraid he was going to die on-screen Black said Michaels was a “little worried” for him, too ...

I would love to have Jack Black’s energy when I hit 55. Hell, I’d take it now. While I’m not so old that I can’t still hang, I almost had to call out of a show last week because I hurt my back.