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Pick of the Day: Heat Vision and Jack Reunion 10/18
September 28, 2020
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Heat Vision and Jack is perhaps one of the most renowned TV pilots that never got made into series (The Hollywood Reporter named their entire comic books/sci-fi column after it, FYI). Created by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab with Ben Stiller directing and Jack Black starring, Heat Vision and Jack was one of those cult favorites that definitely signaled something special for everyone involved. Those in the know got their first glimpse of the meta and irreverent humor that would become a sort of signature of Harmon and Schrab in the years to come with this pilot.

So, in support of World Central Kitchen, an org dedicated to feeding folks who have fallen victim to natural disasters, Harmon, Schrab, and Black are doing an exclusive, virtual Heat Vision and Jack Reunion to reminisce and doing a live table read.

This very special reuniting of Heat Vision and Jack is set for Sun. Oct. 18th at 5PM PT/8PM ET. Tickets are $12.50 and you ought to snag them up quick here.

Heat Vision and Jack – The Reunion!

Pick of the Day: COVID Is No Joke Americares Fundraiser
April 24, 2020
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It was our hope that the biggest and brightest names in comedy would be coming out to do big fundraiser in the fight against COVID-19. Indeed, they have and continued to do so.

The latest star-studded comedy fundraiser is Americares’ COVID Is No Joke that will air LIVE on covidisnojoke.org and Americares YouTube channel at 5PM PT/8PM ET on Fri. May 1st.

COVID Is No Joke will be a jam-packed hour of a comedy variety live-stream spanning stand-up, stories, sketches, etc. from the likes of:

Elizabeth Banks, Ike Barinholtz, Jack Black and Tenacious D, Wayne Brady, D’Arcy Carden, Kristin Chenoweth, Tom Cotter, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Duplass, Will Ferrell, Gal Gadot, Kyle Gass, Linda Hamilton, Chelsea Handler, Mindy Kaling, Kerri Louise, Jonathan Mangum, Patton Oswalt, Natalia Reyes, Adam Scott, Finn Straley, Paige Weldon, Jenny Yang and more with actor/director/producer and Americares own Tony Goldwyn set to host.

That line-up really spans so many different corners of comedy and even includes names of comedians that we really dig that you ought to know going forward.

The funds raised will go to providing essential equipment and support (including mental health) for frontline health workers here in the U.S. and across the globe. $100K worth of donations has already been guaranteed FYI.

You can support Americares now or during the event by making a donation on americares.org or by texting “JOKE” to 20222 to make a $25 donation.
February 14, 2020
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For years now, Eric Andre’s birthday party has been the sort of a legend that you’d hear whispers about and see glimpses of on Instagram. 

Now, Andre is upping the ante, potentially throwing his biggest birthday shindig ever, complete with the insanity that comedy’s premier enfant terrible is beloved for as well as a pretty damn great line-up of comedy/music at the Hollywood Palladium (Kweli, Reggie Watts, and Jack Black on the same line-up? Come on now.)

Tickets for Eric Andre’s Bad Trip Birthday Bu’kkake are on sale now, going for $59.50-$160, and don’t be surprised if they sell out real quick (i.e. go get them now)

Tenacious D to Return to the Stage and (Possibly) Release Latest Album “Post-Apocalypto” This Year
May 16, 2018
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It has been six years since we last got a record for Jack Black and Kyle Gass, the comedic rock duo better known as Tenacious D.

The wait for said record might just be over as a tour will definitely and a new record might possibly happen later this year.

The tour has 10 dates thus far ranging from San Bernardino to Washington D.C. and tickets will go on sale this Friday morning. Watch the animated announcement here.

Perhaps, if all goes well, another Festival Supreme will happen 2019 or 2020?

Jack Black Confirms That a Tenacious D Post-Apocalyptic Rock Opera Is in the Works
December 16, 2017
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Jack Black Confirms That a Tenacious D Post-Apocalyptic Rock Opera Is in the Works

While on Conan, Jack Black confirmed that Jables and KG will return in the not so distant future with a Tenacious D comedy rock opera. After some considerable time off and a foray into jazz, it’s about time for a new hour or so of Tenacious D.

Black didn’t give up too many details, but just the notion that it’s underway should be exciting enough.

As it is “post-apocalyptic rock opera”, it should also be the perfect soundtrack for our time.

Jack Black Returns to Role of Scheming Musician in “The Polka King”
December 15, 2017
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Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky’s adaptation The Polka King follows the true story of how a beloved local music legend dubbed The Polka King got caught up in a ponzi scheme and the inevitable chaotic aftermath that follows.

Playing the titular Polka King will be none other than Jack Black, which makes us want to believe that this character is somehow a distant relative to Dewey Finn, Black’s seminal character in 2003′s School of Rock. 

Also, Jenny Slate, Vanessa Bayer, Jason Schwartzman, JB Smoove, and Jackie Weaver make what look to be a pretty fantastic supporting cast.

See for yourself in the trailer here.

The Polka King will begin streaming on Netflix on Friday, Jan. 12th.

The Polka King, the True Crime Biopic Comedy Starring Jack Black, Will Be Coming to Netflix
June 28, 2017
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The Polka King, the True Crime Biopic Comedy Starring Jack Black, Will Be Coming to Netflix

A documentary called The Man Who Would Be Polka King by Joshua Brown and John Mikulak followed a Ponzi scheme gone awry with an actual polka legend, Jan Lewan. 

Jack Black stars as Lewan in the biopic adaptation of the documentary entitled The Polka King and will be coming to Netflix later this year.

Based on the premise and Black starring, we’re automatically thinking this could be a very dark spiritual sequel to School of Rock.

The Festival Supreme 2016 Line-Up Just Announced
August 9, 2016
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(via @dansnierson)

Poster by Luke McGarry

Tenacious D is bringing their awesome one-day comedy and music festival extravaganza back to The Shine Expo Hall & Grounds with yet another stacked line-up as you can see above.

Tickets will go on sale Friday and we’ll be sure to remind you.

The First Episode of “Great Minds with Dan Harmon” Meets With a Jack Black-ish Beethoven
February 27, 2016
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The History channel’s Night Class looks like it’s off to a pretty great start. 

One of the series within the show is Great Minds with Dan Harmon and the first episode takes wondrous comedic license with an actualized Ludwig van Beethoven as played by Jack Black being brought to the present day. Though probably not the way that many imagine Beethoven might be in real life, it’s still a pretty sweet version the classical legend.

Watch the first Great Minds with Dan Harmon here.

The History Channel to Launch Collection of Short Form Series Including One from Dan Harmon
February 18, 2016
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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Looks like that Adult Swim model is more popular than ever.

Looking to expand into more comedy-centric or comedy-adjacent programming, The History channel is adding more programming on top of Join or Die with Craig Ferguson. 

Night Class will be a late night block, not unlike Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. The block will include Great Minds with Dan Harmon (Dan travels in a time machine to visit history’s greatest minds as played by Jack Black, Aubrey Plaza, Paul F. Tompkins, Thomas Middleditch, Sarah Silverman, and more), Crossroads of History (Elizabeth Shapiro highlights some of the more unbelievable, less talked about moments in history featuring Jack McBrayer, Wayne Knight, Lloyd Ahlquist, and more), and How to Lose the Presidency (a panel revisits how certain candidates committed campaign suicide).

We’ll all actually get to see how Night Class feels next week when it premieres Feb. 25th at 11:30PM.

Mark Hamill, Neil Patrick Harris, Jack Black, Bill Hader, Joel McHale, and Jerry Seinfeld Might Guest Star in New MST3K
December 11, 2015
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The likeliness that this will happen beyond MST3K creator Joel Hodgson getting interest from the names above probably will be greater if you donate in the final 30 hours of their Kickstarter campaign.

On top of the amazing cast and guest writers that Hodgson has announced, Joel has played what will is, we’re guessing, his final card before the Kickstarter campaign to revive Mystery Science Theater 3000 finishes.

Indeed, Jack Black, Mark Hamill, Neil Patrick Harris, Bill Hader, Joel McHale, and Jerry Seinfeld have expressed interest and Joel has even called out to the likes of Amy Poehler, Amy Schumer, Lily Tomlin, and Tina Fey to come on the show if they’d like.

We’ll all have a better picture of what the status of the guest star list will be for MST3K when the Kickstarter ends. By the way, they have reached their 9 episode goal and are shooting for their final stretch goal of $5.5 million. As of this post, they’re at $4,524,412 with less than a day and half to go.

Help them reach 12 full episodes here.

Nathan Fielder’s Summit Ice Jacket Is Being Sported by Celebrities and Has Raised Over $45K for Holocaust Awareness
November 4, 2015
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(via EW)

Is there anything Nathan Fielder can’t pull off?

What started off as an elaborate Nathan For You prank brought about of Nathan Fielder’s disdain for an outdoor wear company Taiga’s tribute to a Holocaust denier has raised a significant chunk of change for the Vancouver Holocaust Education Center to the tune of $45,000 and counting. 

On top of that, A-listers like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jack Black, Jimmy Kimmel, Ellie Kemper, and more have bought and worn Fielder’s Summit Ice Jacket.

With folks like Nathan Fielder as well as Jon Stewart, John Oliver, and Kurt Braunohler around, one can see just how much good comedy, even at its most absurd, can do in the world.

Jack Black Is Back Developing a Comedy Following a Struggling Musician with Dwight Yoakam at Fox
October 8, 2015
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(via Deadline)

In case you don’t remember, Tenacious D was once a great series about a struggling rock duo. 

Jack Black seems to be at his best when comedy and music are intertwined in whatever he’s working on like Tenacious D or Festival Supreme. 

That’s why we’re glad to hear his latest project is a single camera comedy at Fox that he’s working on with Dwight Yoakam, an accomplished country musician who had a pretty great turn as a doctor in Crank.

Written by Alex McAulay and called Belles and Whistles, it’ll follow a dad moving to Nashville to be a country star. 

We’re definitely excited about the possibilities here as something that’s plenty of parts Tenacious D the series with a tad of Nashville could be what’s happening here.

Watch a Fun, Animated “Road” to Festival Supreme Before Going to the Real Thing
October 8, 2015
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Festival Supreme is this Saturday, which means Jack Black and Kyle Gass, AKA Tenacious D, have to go round up their stacked line-up for the gig. 

Luckily, he has the talented Luke McGarry and Joe McGarry on board to animate a cross country trip to do just that.

Watch…

…Jables and Kage… 

…pick up some of their funniest friends…

…as well as some of their most badass musical compatriots…

…in order to make it to The Shrine on time.

Also, if you want to go in real life, get tickets here.

Season 2 of Nat Geo’s “Years of Living Dangerously” To Feature David Letterman, Cecily Strong, Jack Black, and More
September 17, 2015
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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Leave it to a show on a niche cable network having celebrities, many who are comedians, to fight for climate change awareness.

Years of Living Dangerously, a show covering the reality of climate change, on the National Geographic Channel just got picked up for a second season and is really going for it in terms of their guests this time around.

So far, they’ve got David Letterman, Ty Burrell, Jack Black, Cecily Strong, Don Cheadle, Olivia Munn, Ian Somerhalder, James Cameron, and Arnold Schwarzenegger on board for the show in some aspect or another.

Letterman will specifically be interviewing the Prime Minister of India.

Hopefully, this show will present climate change in an entertaining way that isn’t just laughing at certain presidential candidates that seem like they’re spouting off nonsense.

HBO Renews “The Brink” on The Brink of Contract Expirations
July 22, 2015
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(via Deadline)

It probably isn’t the whole reason, but it almost seems like HBO might have partially waited to order season 2 for wordplay.

HBO has opted to go for a second season of the geopolitical crisis comedy “The Brink” with Jack Black and Tim Robbins. Unfortunately, one of the series’ executive producer Jerry Weintraub passed away recently and was unable to share in the good news.

The order comes just in the nick of time before the attached stars had the option to go for other projects. 

Perhaps, Jack Black’s plea while on Conan worked?

“The Brink” and “The Peabody Awards” Premiere Tonight
June 22, 2015
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There are other things on TV besides the return of True Detective tonight and one of them doesn’t require you to change the channel.

Tim Robbins and Jack Black delve into the absurdities of geopolitical snafus on HBO’s latest comedy series The Brink starting at 10:30PM on HBO.

The televised special for this year’s Peabody Awards premieres at 9PM on Pivot and you can see what hijinks host Fred Armisen got himself into as well as that kiss between Tina Fey and Amy Schumer and more.

Get a Taste of What’s To Come in CollegeHumor’s First “Comedy Music Hall of Fame”
June 16, 2015
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2015 will be the year that we saw the creation of both a Comedy Hall of Fame as well a Comedy Music Hall of Fame. While we know that you can see hologram performances at the Comedy Hall of Fame, the premiere of the Comedy Music Hall of Fame special leaves the imagination to run wild especially with Paul F. Tompkins hosting, Weird Al Yankovic, Jack Black, Rachel Bloom, Trevor Moore, and more involved in the inaugural edition of this event.

Watch a trailer for it here and see what we’re talking about then tune in Fri. Jun. 19th at either CollegeHumor.com at 8PM or on TV on IFC at 10PM.

Jack Black and Jared Hess Are Back Together Again For a Comedy About People Who Make Up Their Own Countries “Micronations”
May 18, 2015
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(via Deadline)

If Jack Black had his way, Tenacious D would probably rule a country run entirely on rock n’ roll.

After Nacho Libre, Jared Hess and Jack Black are joining creative forces once again for their latest comedy feature “Micronations” following the lives of people who claim their backyards as a sovereign nations and, as sovereign nations are wont to do, get into fights with each other. 

We’ll definitely enjoy seeing Black as the “Head of Defense” of one of these backyard countries.

NBC’s Charity Variety Special “Red Nose Day” Will Have Will Ferrell, Jack Black, More
May 15, 2015
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(via Deadline)

Pardcast-a-thon helps cleft palates, Night of Too Many Stars helps autism programs, and NBC’s Red Nose Day will help fight child poverty.

Next Thurs., NBC’s primetime block will be dedicated to a star-studded live charity events which will feature appearances by Will Ferrell, Neil Patrick Harris, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Jack Black, Julia Roberts, and Jennifer Aniston just to name a few as well as segments from Funny or Die.

Several charity organizations focused on giving aid to children living in poverty throughout the world will be benefitted from this night. 

We wonder if they’ll have a celebrity filled phone bank like Night of Too Many Stars. Catch Red Nose Day on NBC, Thurs. May 21st 8PM EST.

Seth Meyers Does an Iffy Bit on “Late Night” and Jack Black Sings Commentary
May 6, 2015
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If only we knew how many jokes we had to go in so many more sketches.

Seth Meyers had a sketch within a sketch last night as he put forth a typical late night desk piece, but then had Jack Black offer up sing-along commentary on how the bit is really going.

The idea may be a little confusing right now, but it’s pretty great.

Watch it here.

This Is The “No, You Shut Up” Theme Song as Song by Both Paul F. Tompkins and Jack Black
May 3, 2015
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Though they’re three seasons in, this is the theme song you’ve been waiting for.

While Jack Black was a guest on this week’s No, You Shut Up! with Paul F. Tompkins, a new theme to the show was unveiled that really embodies the spirit of the show and is definitely not at all improvised or made up right before they taped the episode. 

Watch it here.

Also, you can watch every single episode of No, You Shut Up! now on Hulu.

Comedy Central Developing Female Basketball Comedy From Amanda Lund, Maria Blasucci, and Angela Trimbur
April 28, 2015
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(via Deadline)

So, a Pistol Shrimps sitcom?

Comedy Central has just bought a project centered on an underdog all-female basketball team from Amanda Lund, Maria Blasucci, and Angela Trimbur who will also star.

It wouldn’t surprise us at all if the series would basically follow the real life events of the LA female rec basketball team known as The Pistol Shrimps, which has a roster including Lund, Blasucci, Aubrey Plaza and Stephanie Allynne as well as a dance team led by Trimbur.

Drunk History’s Jeremy Konner and Jack Black are also involved with the project that has the potential to line-up quite nicely with Broad City and Inside Amy Schumer.

Here’s The First Teaser For HBO’s “The Brink”
April 11, 2015
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With Armando Iannucci’s exit announced today, the release of this teaser seems perfectly timed.

HBO’s new comedy series geopolitical crisis comedy The Brink starring Jack Black and Tim Robbins has just gotten its first teaser today. As it deals with politics on an international level, it might pair nicely to Veep.

We’ll see exactly how that plays out on the Brink’s premiere on Jun. 21st at 10:30PM on HBO.

Jack Black and The Lonely Island Will Be Performing at The Oscars
February 7, 2015
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There will be “a special sequence” at this year’s Oscars ceremony where Jack Black performs. There are no further details about what makes the sequence special or what the sequence entails or why it even necessitates a press release all by itself, but perhaps Jack will do a “Tribute” to the greatest movie of all time? 

Adding more fun to the telecast will be The Lonely Island who will join Tegan and Sara for a live performance of Everything Is Awesome from The Lego Movie (via HitFix). 

Potentially, there could be more good rambunctiousness at this year’s Oscars than the time Three 6 Mafia took home one of the coveted statues. Look for all of this when The Oscars go down on Sun. Feb. 22nd.

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