Creator: Jack Black

What happens when a Large Ham meets The Power of Rock.

He's in a suit, and he's scruffy? Well, I NEVER!!!

Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black is an actor, comedian, and musician. Best pals with Kyle Gass. Together, they formed Tenacious D!

Black appeared in an un-aired pilot episode for a show directed by Ben Stiller and written by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab called Heat Vision and Jack where he played an ex-astronaut pursued by actor Ron Silver. He was accompanied by his friend who had merged with a motorcycle, voiced by Owen Wilson. This pilot led to his friendship with Harmon and Schrab that resulted in him making many cameos for Channel 101.

In 2000, Black appeared in High Fidelity as a wild employee in John Cusack's record store, a role which Black himself considered his breakout, the film also reunited him with Tim Robbins, who had appeared with Cusack and Black in Bob Roberts eight years earlier. His career soon led to leading roles in films such as Shallow Hal, Orange County, School of Rock, Envy, Shark Tale, King Kong, Nacho Libre, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, Be Kind Rewind, Kung Fu Panda, and Tropic Thunder. (Oh, and one video game.)

Prior to his becoming known for his comedies, a lot of his early acting career involved bit parts in serious movies (he played a crazed assassin in Bob Roberts, the brother of Sean Penn's death row inmate in Dead Man Walking, and in Enemy of the State he played one of the NSA tech-support agents, to name three examples). King Kong can be considered his first serious role as a star, though he mellowed down his comedic persona a bit in The Holiday and Margot At The Wedding.

In 2009, he starred pretty much As Himself in Tim Schafer's Brütal Legend, alongside Kyle Gass, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister, and Rob Halford.

Unfortunately, as the turn of the 2010s approached, Black's career began to go down the wrong track. After a praised role in Tropic Thunder, he got cast alongside Michael Cera in the prehistoric comedy Year One, which tanked considerably at the box office and was destroyed by critics. Worse still, it finally revealed his Typecasting habit he did in previous films, resulting in the upset of many audiences. The final star destroying blow, however, came with the massive domestic flop of a film adaptation of Gulliver's Travels, which dealt an even bigger blow to his career. His subsequent filmography had been a string of flops (with the exception of Kung Fu Panda 2 and The Muppets, in which he played a key cameo appearance). Bernie seemed to be a Career Resurrection for him, but despite winning critical acclaim, it never got to a wide release. Although it, luckily, seems as though the good notices of the D's new album may have saved him, time will tell if he manages to rebuild his acting career from these disasters.

He is a member of the Frat Pack, a group of comedy actors who frequently work together. This group also includes Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, and Steve Carell.

Black's comedic style combines many key elements from both sides of the traditional double act. Black typically begins a skit in which he presents an earnest introduction to a premise or subject that quickly reveals itself to be flawed or fundamentally ludicrous. Black then switches completely to a far-extreme caricature of human emotion. His would-be straight-man Gass often functions to trigger these outbursts. When appearing in a movie that turns out to be a flop, he even manages to make it bearable through his appearances alone—his role as the villainous bully in The Neverending Story III was claimed by many to be the only good thing about it.

Not to be confused with the Victorian-era rat-catcher of the same name, Black Jack, or Jack Noir.

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