Black is planned to perform at the Power to the People Festival along with Roman Morello, Revel Ian, Yoyoka Soma & Hugo Weiss at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD
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Jack Black
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black is an American actor, comedian, singer, songwriter, and musician. He has played leading roles in family and comedy films, in addition to his voice work in animated features. His accolades include an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and nominations for two Critics' Choice Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. In 2018, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Born 28 August 1969 · Q483907
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2026· 15 entries
“inspire you to do push-ups and sit-ups and run around like Rocky.”
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“If you were anyone in Hollywood then, you hung around with Shirley MacLaine .”
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“t really separate singing and acting because it was only when he started doing the two together that both careers took off. Tenacious D is about to release its next record (”
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“always lurking in the background.”
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Published video “omg 🌈”.
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Published video “🐓”.
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Published video “🐔”.
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Published video “yes”.
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Published video “i ripped my costeeumme”.
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Published video “MOIST”.
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Published video “May 15, 2026”.
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Published video “we're back baby”.
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Published video “Racing Kevin Hart for PINK SLIPS!!!!”.
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TheWrap: Jack Black Admits He Had Professional Jealousy When ‘I’m Just Ken’ Got an Oscar Nom: ‘This Gosling, Always Snackin’ on My Potatoes’
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2025· 8 entries
Yahoo: Jack Black on What’s Left After Having ‘Done It All’
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Forbes: Jack Black Has A New Biggest Hit Single
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New York Post: How Jack Black just made history with the 34-second ‘Minecraft’ song ‘Steve’s Lava Chicken’
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Forbes: Jack Black Charts His First Solo Hit Song, Thanks To ‘A Minecraft Movie’
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Yahoo: The 10 Best Jack Black Movies
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Uproxx: Jack Black And Dave Grohl Team Up On Spirited Track ‘I Feel Alive,’ From The ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Soundtrack
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collider: Jack Black Celebrates the Cast of 'Anaconda' in the Most Jack Black Way Possible
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"Steve's Lava Chicken", Black's song in A Minecraft Movie, became the shortest song in history to land on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
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2024· 8 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Comedian Jack Black vowed to leave the U.S. permanently, saying: “I just can’t take it anymore.”” Labeled Satire.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Breaking: Academy of Country Music Issues Lifetime Ban on Jack Black, “He Showed His True Colors”” No Ban Enacted.
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Snopes rated the claim “Tenacious D frontman Jack Black lost nearly $15 million in concert tours "after he went woke" in the summer of 2024.” Labeled Satire.
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Snopes rated the claim “Jack Black begged to be on stage with Kid Rock at the 2024 Republican National Convention but was thrown out for being "woke."” Labeled Satire.
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Snopes rated the claim “Jack Black's bandmate Kyle Gass made the following wish on stage: "Don't miss Trump next time."” Correct Attribution.
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Tenacious D celebrated Gass' birthday during their performance at the ICC Sydney Theater
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Snopes rated the claim “Jack Black's mom was Judith Love Cohen, a NASA engineer who helped create the abort-guidance system that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts.” True.
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Published video “Tenacious B! 🐼”.
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2023· 1 entry
Black voiced Bowser in Illumination's animated feature film The Super Mario Bros
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2022· 3 entries
Awarded MTV Comedic Genius Award (2022).
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Lent his voice to the Richard Linklater animated coming-of-age film Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
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Before the 2022 election, Black hosted a letter and text writing party to rally VoteRiders volunteers engaged in educating eligible voters about voter ID requirements in their states.
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2019· 1 entry
Black took part in a Minecraft stream with popular YouTuber PewDiePie to raise money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), in the wake of the suicide of Etika in June 2019
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2018· 4 entries
Black created a YouTube channel called Jablinski Games
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Black was inducted into Hollywood's Walk of Fame
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Was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Black appeared in the music video for Gorillaz song "Humility"
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2017· 1 entry
Portrayed a teenage girl inhabiting the body of Professor Sheldon "Shelly" Oberon in the action/adventure comedy film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
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2016· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Actor Jack Black passed away in June 2016.” False.
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Black joined the climate change documentary show Years of Living Dangerously as one of its celebrity correspondents
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2015· 2 entries
Black played a fictional version of real-life author R
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Visited Kampala as part of Comic Relief USA's Red Nose Day
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2013· 1 entry
The company notably produced TV series Ghost Ghirls for the now-defunct Yahoo
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2012· 1 entry
Jack Black joined up with other celebrities to record "Book People Unite", a song sponsored by the Library of Congress and RIF
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2011· 1 entry
The company would produce two TV-movies, My Life As an Experiment and Shredd
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2010· 2 entries
A convention hosted by the game designers, Blizzard Entertainment
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Black made a guest appearance on Community and also guest-starred on Nickelodeon's iCarly in an episode titled, "iStart a Fan War"
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2009· 1 entry
Appeared in the post-Super Bowl episode of The Office along with Cloris Leachman and Jessica Alba in a fake movie within the show
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2008· 2 entries
Starred in the buddy comedy Be Kind Rewind, opposite Mos Def, and the war satire Tropic Thunder, alongside Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr
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Began voicing Po in the Kung Fu Panda franchise
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2007· 1 entry
Took a supporting role in the Noah Baumbach directed comedy-drama film Margot at the Wedding starring Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh
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2006· 2 entries
Starred in the comedy film Nacho Libre, which he also produced, and Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, which he also wrote and produced
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Played the role of King Herod in a one night benefit concert of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre
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2004· 1 entry
Black guest-starred in the first episode of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim show Tom Goes to the Mayor
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2001· 1 entry
And in San Diego, California on June 16, 2007
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2000· 2 entries
Black co-starred in the film High Fidelity as a wild employee in a record store run by John Cusack
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Black (along with Gass) provided backing vocals to punk rock band The Vandals' song "Fourteen", which appears on their album Look What I Almost Stepped In
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1995· 1 entry
And 1996, he gained recurring roles in the HBO sketch comedy series Mr
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1987· 1 entry
Black joined the Actors' Gang, a theater troupe founded by UCLA students including Tim Robbins, and appeared in a variety of stage productions
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1982· 1 entry
Black's first acting job at was in a television commercial for the video game Pitfall
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1969· 2 entries
Born 1969-08-28.
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The son of satellite engineers Thomas William Black and Judith Love Cohen
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