Jack Black is arguably the most gifted physical comedian of our time. I can’t tell you the amount of times the man has made me laugh in a film just by running, as he takes a simple act and has a way of throwing in flourishes — a small skip, the tiniest leap — that make the entire thing work in a new, ridiculously funny way.
He also has that rare agility you occasionally see in bigger fellas (Chris Farley had it), which allows him to switch between bumbling doofus and graceful ballerina and back again, all in a moment or two.
All of which is to say that I shouldn’t have been surprised that Black would be absolutely essential on TikTok. Yet here I was, surprised. Now you can enjoy it. Watch, and be amazed:
In a minute, Black shows off every part of his arsenal. The agility, the goofiness, the faux-klutziness, and then a show-stopper move that someone of his size shouldn’t be able to pull off.
Thank you for this, Jack Black. I stand and applaud.
