{"id":188531,"date":"2025-12-17T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/188531\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:44:07","slug":"jack-black-lovingly-remembers-genius-rob-reiner-there-is-no-tenacious-d-or-school-of-rock-without-spinal-tap-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/188531\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Black Lovingly Remembers \u2018Genius\u2019 Rob Reiner: \u2018There Is No Tenacious D\u2019 or \u2018School of Rock\u2019 Without \u2018Spinal Tap\u2019 | Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0085312\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Black<\/a> stopped by \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6107548\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Late Night<\/a>\u201d on Tuesday night and, as soon as he possibly could, took a moment to remember late <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001661\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Reiner<\/a>, following the director\u2019s killing on Sunday. Black called the man a genius, and readily admitted that, without <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5138534\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reiner<\/a>, \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0332379\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">School of Rock<\/a>\u201d and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0180241\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tenacious D<\/a> simply wouldn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>As Black took the stage, promoting his new film \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33244668\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaconda<\/a>,\u201d host <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1024878\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Meyers<\/a> noted that his kids love Black\u2019s work onscreen, so he thought to then show them some <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0180241\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tenacious D<\/a> songs. The <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0881232\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a> host then admitted he was very quickly reminded that <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0180241\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tenacious D<\/a> is, well, not for kids. And at that, Black took a slight detour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Black stopped by \u201cLate Night\u201d on Tuesday night and, as soon as he possibly could, took a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":["post-188531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}