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Thomas Jacob Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for his roles in family and comedy films and his voice work in animated films. His awards include a Children's and Family Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Award nominations. After portraying supporting roles in films including Dead Man Walking (1995), The Cable Guy (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998), Black had his breakout role in the musical film High Fidelity (2000). This led to larger roles in films like Shallow Hal (2001) and Orange County (2002) before he solidified his leading-man status with his starring role in School of Rock (2003). Black has since starred in King Kong (2005), The Holiday (2006), Nacho Libre (2006), Tropic Thunder (2008), Bernie (2011), Goosebumps (2016), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), its sequel Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) and A Minecraft Movie (2025). He has also voiced Po in the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–present) and Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie franchise (2023-present). Black is the lead vocalist of the duo Tenacious D, which he formed in 1994 with long-time friend Kyle Gass. In 2015, they won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for "The Last in Line." Since 2018, Black has run a YouTube channel called Jablinski Games. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

After the success of their Grammy winning album, Fizzy Brains launch a massive tour: USA, London, Paris, Prague, Bern, Munich, Milano, Barcelona, Tokyo, Seoul, Manila, Singapore, Saigon, Shanghai, Brisbane. Every show is sold out. Every city loves them, but it is bittersweet. The tour is successful, but Luke Smith, the recording studio manager and their friend died. They decided to dedicate this tour to him and also because it was actually a world tour where their band broke up years ago. They receive offer from Recording Academy, and Texas Music Office, backed by the State of Texas, to represent Texas at the first-ever AMEVISION a Eurovisionstyle competition where all 50 states compete with original songs written exclusively for the event. They came back to Texas and work on new song. They met George Strait and teams up with him. Their new song "Still Here" was picked to represent Texas and they go to Amevision. The Amevision stage is massive, glowing, patriotic, glittering. It is not easy and very stressful. There is great rivalry and competition. One by one, states perform flawless entries. Then Texas. The whole world is completely shocked, moved and cheering. After we reveal the biggest US music icons, we'll go to the polls. With votes from all 50 state committees, George Strait and Fizzy Brains are in second place, and it all depends on how the people vote. With the votes added up, Fizzy Brains, George Strait and their song Still Here become the first Amevision winners!
