The result: Very possibly the first comic scene Black’s ever been in where he’s the weak link.

Uh, that’s every scene (comic or otherwise) that he’s ever been in.

On second thought…, I retract that last remark.

I rather enjoyed that skit though.

the first comic scene Black’s ever been in where he’s the weak link.

Black is possibly the most overrated actor/comedian/rock legend in his own mind…evah!

Why do people think something’s automatically funny if it’s got immature language?

Fuck if I know.

Parody eh, well it ain’t no “This is Spinal Tap” or “Meet the Ruttles

doriangrey on December 15, 2007 at 12:59 PM

Here, here. The Rutles rock(s).

Tenacious D’s Pick of Destiny is a good chuckle too. there’s just not enough stoner humor in the new millenium.

Mind you, as pure comedy gold it’s no “Lions For Lambs”…

four spastic monkeys high on benzedrine

Coincidentally, the alternate title of Meet the Beatles.

I find Jack Black to be the pinnacle of NOT funny.

muyoso on December 14, 2007 at 7:56 PM

Ditto. However, in King Kong he was hilarious, but in a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 kind of way.

Jack Black slipped into a Scottish accent there for a minute, didn’t he?

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?

Jack Black slipped into a Scottish accent there for a minute, didn’t he?

Dork B. on December 14, 2007 at 8:07 PM
Yes! I heard it too.

baldilocks on December 14, 2007 at 8:37 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.

Jack Black slipped into a Scottish accent there for a minute, didn’t he?

Dork B. on December 14, 2007 at 8:07 PM

Yes! I heard it too.