He then did a series of small roles — "Demolition Man," "The NeverEnding Story III," a part in "True Romance" that was cut from the final film — but when Bob Odenkirk and David Cross saw Tenacious D perform, they remembered Black from "Bob Roberts," and asked him to appear on their HBO sketch comedy series, "Mr. Show," which launched in 1995.

Actor Jack Black found the world of the Warner Bros film “A Minecraft Movie” easy to navigate because he had played the 2011 Swedish video game “Minecraft,” on which the movie is based. "I had (my) kids that were obsessed with 'Minecraft' years before I heard about this movie.