Video: Meet the Beatles
posted at 7:29 pm on December 14, 2007 by Allahpundit
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From the new rock and roll parody “Walk Hard.” I’ll tell you exactly how the casting for this scene went down. Judd Apatow went and got three of his buddies — Paul Rudd, Justin Long, and Jason Schwartzman — all of whom are capable of sterling over-the-top Beatles impersonations, and then tossed Jack Black in there just to get him into the mix. Except Black is 35 lbs. heavier than Paul was on his worst day and can’t muster more than the barest trace of a Liverpudlian accent. Which becomes part of the joke. It’s Jack Black! Who looks and sounds nothing like Paul McCartney, as Paul McCartney!
The result: Very possibly the first comic scene Black’s ever been in where he’s the weak link.
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I didn’t think Jack Black was so bad. Couldn’t stand the Lennon impression.
mram on December 14, 2007 at 7:43 PM
It actually works. In a movie like that, the portrayal needs to be over the top.
Jim-Rose on December 14, 2007 at 7:43 PM
Oh I get it. The clip is funny because is bears absolutely no resemblance to The Beatles.
sonnyspats1 on December 14, 2007 at 7:47 PM
“I’m sick of you being dark, when I’m being impish and whimsical”
LOL.
mram on December 14, 2007 at 7:51 PM
Um…hate to disagree, but that was just painfully NOT funny. And I wanted to see that movie until just now. Thanks for saving me the $16.50, Guys!
tickleddragon on December 14, 2007 at 7:52 PM
I find Jack Black to be the pinnacle of NOT funny.
muyoso on December 14, 2007 at 7:56 PM
Jack Black was stinking up that scene big time. Well, as much as the whole scene stinks anyway.
Cinematicfilm on December 14, 2007 at 8:03 PM
I saw the Bob Dylan-esque preview of the movie and I’m sold. I wasn’t too sure about it before, but now I have to see it.
Nonfactor on December 14, 2007 at 8:07 PM
Jack Black slipped into a Scottish accent there for a minute, didn’t he?
Dork B. on December 14, 2007 at 8:07 PM
By sold I mean I might download it if I can find a copy.
Nonfactor on December 14, 2007 at 8:13 PM
Count me in as another who cant find Jack Black funny, ever.
firepilot on December 14, 2007 at 8:25 PM
HAH! I’m sold. I’m going for sure.
AlexB on December 14, 2007 at 8:30 PM
heh.
amend2 on December 14, 2007 at 8:32 PM
HEAT VISION AND JACK!!!
Jim Treacher on December 14, 2007 at 8:34 PM
Yes! I heard it too.
baldilocks on December 14, 2007 at 8:37 PM
I liked all the plays on the titles of Beatles songs. Especially “I just sit here while me guitar quietly whimpers.”
Mark V. on December 14, 2007 at 8:49 PM
Somehow, it seems accurate enough to be a hysterically true.
Kini on December 14, 2007 at 10:06 PM
Yup. I caught a bit of Mike Meyers’ “If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap” SNL bit. Or his So I Married An Axe Murderer curmudgeon father character.
HarryBalzac on December 14, 2007 at 11:42 PM
Game Over, Man!
Tzetzes on December 14, 2007 at 11:42 PM
Which was the closest that any of the approximately nineteen strange “accents” that he slipped in and out with no rhyme and reason at all came to any part of the British Isles, I might add.
But yes, for a moment there he almost, but not quite, vaguely resembled a very drunk Scot who’d been away from Scotland for about four decades trying to make fun of his great-grandparents that he never met.
While having a root canal done.
By four spastic monkeys high on benzedrine.
Gagged, of course.
But apart from the fact that his dialect impressions were well nigh unidentifiable as any known Terran variant of English, that he more resembles Rosie O’Donnell than he does Paul McCartney and that he was about as funny as a budget debate on C-SPAN, dubbed, in Laotian, without subtitles…
Apart from those minor details, I suppose he was pretty… What’s the word? Awful?
Misha I on December 15, 2007 at 12:11 AM
Jack Black is hysterical. Especially in Tenacious D (although I hear the movie sucked). He stole High Fidelity.
packsoldier on December 15, 2007 at 1:58 AM
Ditto. However, in King Kong he was hilarious, but in a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 kind of way.
Mallard T. Drake on December 15, 2007 at 4:19 AM
Coincidentally, the alternate title of Meet the Beatles.
saint kansas on December 15, 2007 at 5:01 AM
Painfull
liberrocky on December 15, 2007 at 9:04 AM
AP, where’s the content warning?
Why do people think something’s automatically funny if it’s got immature language?
jgapinoy on December 15, 2007 at 9:36 AM
It was cute. First clip from a movie this year that will probably get me to see it.
Mind you, as pure comedy gold it’s no “Lions For Lambs”…
Mr. Bingley on December 15, 2007 at 9:47 AM
Thanks, AP. as a lifelong beatles fan who has looked behind the curtain, that is about the funniest thing i’ve seen in a while.
Tenacious D’s Pick of Destiny is a good chuckle too. there’s just not enough stoner humor in the new millenium.
JazzBass on December 15, 2007 at 10:42 AM
Parody eh, well it ain’t no “This is Spinal Tap” or “Meet the Ruttles
doriangrey on December 15, 2007 at 12:59 PM
Was this “The Three Stooges Play The Beatles ? “
StuLongIsland on December 15, 2007 at 3:36 PM
If they were going for stupid they hit it on the head
Drtuddle on December 15, 2007 at 3:39 PM
Here, here. The Rutles rock(s).
Captain Scarlet on December 15, 2007 at 3:41 PM
Fuck if I know.
Jim Treacher on December 15, 2007 at 5:41 PM
Black is possibly the most overrated actor/comedian/rock legend in his own mind…evah!
Hening on December 15, 2007 at 6:39 PM
Haw haw Jim Treacher is so funny haw
jgapinoy on December 15, 2007 at 10:44 PM
Wow. I wonder if Yoko is gonna start shrieking about royalties?
Black Adam on December 16, 2007 at 3:34 AM
Screw Yoko…!
On second thought…, I retract that last remark.
I rather enjoyed that skit though.
Rugged Individual on December 16, 2007 at 7:13 PM
Uh, that’s every scene (comic or otherwise) that he’s ever been in.
srhoades on December 17, 2007 at 11:48 AM
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