The Five launched in 2011 with a rotating cast of five co-hosts and has regularly featured sexist and Islamophobic commentary. The current primary hosts are Greg Gutfeld, Dana Perino, Jesse Watters, Jedediah Bila, and Juan Williams.

Roger Stone is a longtime conservative political operative with a history of violent and incendiary rhetoric who has been banned during the 2016 election from Twitter, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. He unofficially aided President Donald Trump's presidential campaign during that election.

Tim Walz serves as the 41st governor of Minnesota and was previously a congressman. Walz was the Democratic Party’s nominee for vice president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Dick Morris was an adviser to President Bill Clinton but later became a critic of the Clintons in his career in conservative media. He worked at Fox News for many years until 2013 and was dropped as a columnist from The Hill after he joined National Enquirer. He has such a long record of faulty political and election predictions, grifts, and ethical problems that he is widely considered a laughingstock among political media.

Tom Fitton is a shill for President Trump and runs the conservative legal organization Judicial Watch, which regularly pushed misinformation about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. Fitton regularly appears on Fox shows where bashes Trump’s political opponents.

Frank Luntz is a polling expert and consultant who often works for Republicans. He has also worked as an analyst for Fox News and CBS News and frequently failed to disclose that he had worked for politicians he discussed.

Albow holds extreme views about transgender people. In February 2019, Ablow was sued by former patients who said he sexually exploited them.

Candace Owens was the communications director for Turning Point USA, a conservative youth political organization that organizes stunts for attention on college campuses. She was also a Daily Wire host.

Mark Williams was the public face of the Tea Party Express, one of the top organizations of the conservative tea party movement which began during the Obama administration. The organization was repeatedly promoted by Fox News. He was eventually expelled from the National Tea Party Federation for his racist rhetoric against President Obama and Black people.

North served on the National Security Council during the Reagan administration. He was a central figure in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal and was later criminally convicted for his actions, although his convictions were overturned on appeal. He also hosted a show on Fox News between 2001 and 2016.

Gavin McInnes is a bigot who works for right-wing Canadian outlet Rebel Media, hosts a podcast called Get Off My Lawn, and has been kicked off of Fox News and CRTV. He also founded the violent far-right gang the Proud Boys.

Judicial Watch was founded in 1994 by the anti-Clinton conspiracy theorist and prolific litigator Larry Klayman and during the 2016 election, it regularly pushed misinformation about Hillary Clinton. The organization and its president, Tom Fitton, have become shills of President Trump since he took office, and Fitton regularly appears on Fox to defend Trump.