{"id":580563,"date":"2026-04-02T10:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580563\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:41:10","slug":"jack-black-performs-the-ballad-of-super-mario-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580563\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Black Performs ‘The Ballad of Super Mario’ on Fallon"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Jack Black<\/a> brought a little Mushroom Kingdom mischief to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a> Wednesday night, performing an original tune dubbed \u201cThe Ballad of Super Mario\u201d timed to Super Mario Galaxy\u2019s theatrical debut.<\/p>\n

The pretaped segment featured Black fully embracing his villainous Bowser persona, delivering a theatrical, tongue-in-cheek recap of Mario lore in song. As he worked his way through the franchise\u2019s familiar characters\u2014Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and Toad\u2014members of the film\u2019s voice cast popped in one by one to whisper their character names, adding a playful, almost storybook rhythm to the performance.<\/p>\n

Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Keegan-Michael Key, Brie Larson, Benny Safdie, and Donald Glover all made brief appearances during the number.<\/p>\n

The song itself plays like a comedic villain\u2019s lament, with Black\u2019s Bowser recounting past defeats while plotting his next move alongside Bowser Jr. The performance escalates as the setting shifts to outer space\u2014a nod to the new film\u2019s premise\u2014before culminating in a bombastic declaration that Mario and his allies will ultimately \u201cbow to me in the galaxy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The appearance marks a return to familiar territory for Fallon, who previously staged a viral Mario-themed musical moment in 2023. In that segment, Fallon and The Roots teamed up with much of the original Super Mario Bros. Movie voice cast for an a cappella rendition of the franchise\u2019s iconic theme music<\/a> in celebration of MAR10 Day. <\/p>\n

Fallon\u2014whose affection for Super Mario is well documented\u2014welcomed Super Mario Galaxy stars Chris Pratt and Charlie Day to his couch last week, and is set to sit down with Jack Black Thursday night ahead of Black\u2019s Saturday Night Live return<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n

Watch Black\u2019s full \u201cBallad of Super Mario\u201d Tonight Show performance at the top of this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Black brought a little Mushroom Kingdom mischief to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night, performing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64523,64,63,19758,54259,10690,15295,147782,134,45335,6517,284536,344,115425],"class_list":{"0":"post-580563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-anya-taylor-joy","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-benny-safdie","12":"tag-brie-larson","13":"tag-charlie-day","14":"tag-chris-pratt","15":"tag-donald-glover","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-jack-black","18":"tag-jimmy-fallon","19":"tag-keegan-michael-key","20":"tag-movies","21":"tag-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}