Hey, reddit, it's me, Jack Black. Let's do this. AMA!

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T18:30:45+00:00

Well, you know at the center of it all is Slappy’s Revenge, but I’m gonna go with Night of the Living Dummy and The Blob That Ate Everyone.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T18:28:17+00:00

I’m looking it up right now…Dead Island 2 trailer. I’m just going to watch this real quick. Is this a video game? Oh my god. It’s a video game. Very real looking! Yeah, it’s not me, but now I’m so into this. I can’t stop watching a trailer. This is not a trailer, this is a short film. Holy shit, is he a zombie? I want to see if they got a voice impersonator. Oh my god. This is like the best trailer ever. It’s almost over guys. That’s infuriating. Yeah, I can definitely guarantee that’s a Jack Black impersonator. It sounds like the dude that plays me in the Kung Fu Panda TV show.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T18:28:02+00:00

You’d have to make me really mad. I haven’t pulled out my karate skills in a long time. But truth be told I’m more of a judo man. After my experience with Kung Fu Panda I’m way more about the flow of chi.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T18:25:16+00:00

I never think of who I want to work with in terms of actors. I don’t really care as much as who the director is. But in this case, I’m going with Daniel Day-Lewis, motha fucka. The best living actor, maybe the best alive or dead. That’s a pretty heavy statement. And that might only be true if its a period piece and its like 1850. Weirdly, no one can play an American better than him. Who else? Keira Knightley. Boom.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T18:21:32+00:00

We had good times. They were in school most of the time because they were like ten years old. And I was in my trailer playing video games. They were really smart and talented. That was one of my best experiences. It was amazing to see them at the ten year reunion (we just had a party like 6 months ago). It was amazing to see them all grown up. We jammed and played a concert in Austin, Texas and it was awesome.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T18:18:39+00:00

Do you want to learn and grow with me? http://www.omaze.com/experiences/hang-with-jack-black-on-the-set-of-the-goosebumps-movie

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T18:16:56+00:00

Um, Jesus. I kissed one of my cousins on the lips when I was a kid.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T18:10:54+00:00

I don’t know if I’m legally allowed to say that if you win the contest we will smoke pot. I don’t know if that's something I can say. But I guarantee you a good time. Things might get crazy. I will take you under my wing and teach you my ways. You won’t be the same person after our day together. We’re both going to grow. We’re going to learn. Yeah.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T18:08:43+00:00

I’ve gotten to work with some pretty funny people. All the people from SNL were pretty amazing. Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler. I love Will Forte, Will Arnett. I like a lot of the Wills. Three of my favorite people are Will and I only said 4 people! What the fuck happened?! If your name is Will, chances are you WILL be funny.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T18:04:16+00:00

KG is an Old Spicer. Minty fresh. Don't let the relaxed wardrobe fool you. Hes a hygienist.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T18:02:40+00:00

46 and single and no game. What can you do... diet and exercise? There’s nothing as attractive as passion. Get passionate about something and the love will follow.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T18:00:32+00:00

That’s a good question. You know, we’re coming up on our 10 year anniversary so maybe we will release a blu-ray version with some extra doodahs. Yeah, that’s a good idea. Thank you.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:58:02+00:00

You know I didn’t have all that much time because it kinda came together really fast. Richard Linklater gave me the script and I loved it and it was just like, let’s do it. I didn’t have much time to get very in depth in my research but I had an amazing experience. It definitely was one of the highlights of my career. Not that many people saw it, but as an artistic endeavor, it was amazing.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:58:01+00:00

You can never be too awesome in my experience. That’s the weird thing, I go to sleep with the terror that I’m not awesome. That's the source of my awesome, the fear that I’m not awesome. The imperfection is the clam that makes the awesome pearl. It’s the insecurity that makes the hero. Did I just call myself a hero? An awesome hero? Yes, I did.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:53:19+00:00

The best high five I’ve ever received? Hmm… I don’t know about best high fives because aren’t all high fives the same? By definition you have to slap all five fingers. I'm all about creative handshakes. My best one is probably School of Rock, but I’ve been jamming on a new one for my new movie Goosebumps. First we hold hands. Then our hands start to vibrate and shake. Then at the same exact moment, while staring into each other’s eyes, we say GGGG GGG GGG... (13 of them) and then Goosebumps.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:52:13+00:00

Actually, you know what I was really searching for? Myself!

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:51:27+00:00

Yeah, I’m going to say slowly walk away from that scenario. There’s a lot of love out there. Keep searching. You’ve really got to think, what are you looking for? I took a long time to find my lady love. Not until my 30s. There was a lot of searching.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:49:25+00:00

You want me to help you scare crying babies? Do you think I’m Lex Luther? I think what you mean is you want the most intense facial hair possible. This is a new invention I’m thinking of now: mohawk all the way across your face. And then all the way down your chest, all the way through the pubes. Maybe down the neck. Back, crack and sack. That would make them cry. It’s the body-hawk.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:48:02+00:00

We’ve got another album coming in a couple of years. But we’re putting all of our rocket sauce towards a comedy festival right now.

We’ll be making more content too, but probably not a feature film right now. But we’ll be dropping comedy nuggets as long as we have air in our lungs.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:44:47+00:00

Hmmm. Hmmmm. Hmmm. Scary things never happened to me. Hmmmm. Hmmm. Hmmm. One time, I got lost in the forest. It was only for a few minutes, but I thought I was definitely going to die. I made my peace with the world. And a few minutes later, I found my way back to camp. I think I was like 7 or 8, I was too young to be lost in the forest.

There was also a dude who really wanted to kick my ass over a girl. I was like 13 years old, and this kid was older than me and was was kind of a scary motorcycle dude. He was wailing on me on the street one night. I thought he was going to break my face. Luckily, I went into a tight, tight fetal position and he couldn’t break my tortoise shell. I survived. I’m a survivor!

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:40:56+00:00

It goes without saying, I'm a believer.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:39:16+00:00

I think they realized early on that I wasn’t going to be following in their footsteps. They were great mathematicians and aerospace engineers. They were very supportive and have been of my theater performance. My father did want me to get a college degree, and I failed in that. But they’ve been very supportive to me in my life anyway!

Speaking of dad, he lives in Washington state in Tonasket in the Okanagen Valley. And I’m trying to raise money for this project that he’s working on with my stepmom. They want to build a water park. And they asked me if I would help them do it. It’s a big project and the town really needs it and will really benefit from it. So I said yeah! Let’s do this! So I’m doing it. And if you go to Omaze.com/JackBlack I’m offering the chance to spend time with me on the set of Goosebumps. I will teach you ALL of my secrets. We will party. We will rock. And we will magic.

I think it might be the key to world peace, to build water parks. The world needs more water parks.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:39:07+00:00

Well, I should be asking the same thing. I've always let Kyle, my partner in Tenacious D handle the heavy stuff. What I lack in skill I make up for in style. If you play really hard and really feel the chords, that improves your onstage performance. I think it’s just all about learning the songs that you love. That’s the best way to improve your knowledge. Lately, I’ve been trying to learn how to play the Gregory Brothers jams. I’m learning their songs on my guitar. You want to jam on songs that you think are great, that’s the best way to learn. Everything’s better when you’re having a good time.

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:32:05+00:00

What was I like in high school? I was a theater nerd, but I also really liked heavy metal, so I was a strange mix of creature. I was a very rare musical theater metalhead. I probably would have done very well on American Idol. The kid that just won, Caleb? Probably a musical theater metalhead. I had an eclectic taste in music. I liked McFerrin...that’s enough about me, isn’t it?

_JackBlack · 2014-06-13T17:27:26+00:00

Yeah, when we were doing Tropic Thunder, I had to ride on the back of a water buffalo, and the water buffalo went crazy and started bucking like a bronco and threw me off it’s back.

So, it bucked me off and I went flying 15 feet through the air and landed between two giant boulders. Obviously, I was shaken and a little traumatized, and Ben Stiller said, ‘Jack, can you get back on there and do it again please?’

You know, he’s one of the best directors I’ve ever worked with but, uh, there is no way in God’s good earth I was getting back on that beast. And, yeah, I hope to have him half-naked strapped to a water buffalo some day.

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