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Jack Black

JACK BLACK
 
 
Jack Black  (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and singer.  His acting career has been extensive, starring primarily in comedy films.  He is best known for his roles in Shallow Hal (2001), School of Rock (2003), King Kong (2005), The Holiday (2006), the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–2016), Tropic Thunder (2008), and Bernie (2011).  He has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards.  Black is the lead vocalist of the comedic rock group Tenacious D which he formed in 1994 with friend Kyle Gass.  They have released the albums Tenacious D, The Pick of Destiny and Rize of the Fenix.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

As reported on Wikipedia:  “On August 16, 2008, Queens of the Stone Age performed a concert in celebration of Natasha Shneider’s life at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles.  They were joined on stage by Alain Johannes, Tenacious D’s Jack Black and Kyle Gass, Matt Cameron, Brody Dalle, Jesse Hughes, Chris Goss, and PJ Harvey, playing a variety of QOTSA and non-QOTSA songs.  Proceeds from the concert went to defray the costs associated with Natasha’s illness.” 

 

(April 2015/2)

 

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Just because a hip hop musical made this big a splash doesn’t mean that rock musicals have gone away.  Broadway titan Andrew Lloyd Webber returned to his roots with his current show, School of Rock that opened on Broadway four months after Hamilton, on December 6, 2015.  The musical is based on the delightful Jack Black film from 2003, School of Rock that follows a washed-up rock musician who conceives the idea of masquerading as a substitute teacher and pressing a group of fourth graders into backing him at the local Battle of the Bands in order to get his career back on track.
 
(September 2016)