1. He had his gall bladder removed.
2. He is good friends with Tim Robbins.
3. He starred in a management training film "Manager of the Year - Effective Listening (1987)" as a teenager who tells his father that the family car has been stolen.
5. He auditioned for the role of "Cubby Barnes" in Ransom (1996).
6. He often competes for the same parts with Philip Seymour Hoffman. On the "The School of Rock" (2003) DVD audio commentary, he jokingly calls Hoffman "my nemesis."
8. His parents, who were both rocket scientists, went their separate ways when Black was 10. His mother worked on the Hubble spacecraft.
10. His wife, Tanya Haden, is a cellist. She is the daughter of jazz great Charlie Haden.
12. He is a member of, what the media refers to as the "Frat Pack" along with Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Steve Carell and Luke Wilson. The "Frat Pack" name is a reference to the film "Old School" (2003), which features Vaughn, Ferrell, and Wilson, due to the wide number of films featuring the seven actors. Black's "Frat Pack" films include "The Cable Guy" (1996), "Envy" (2004), and "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" (2004).
14. He discovered he could act when he played a game of Freeze after a Passover seder.
15. He sang backup vocals for the songs in Bob Roberts (1992).
16. He originally met his wife in high school. They both attended Crossroads, a private school. They met again 15 years after they graduated high school at a friend's birthday party.
18. He and his wife eloped after dating less than a year. They were married in Big Sur, California by the same minister who performed Shane Stanley and Val Barri's ceremony in 2005.
19. He filmed a television pilot called "Heat Vision and Jack" (1999) (TV) co-starring Ron Silver, and Christine Taylor, and directed by Ben Stiller. The show was a parody of "Knight Rider" (1982), as well as other action/ adventure shows, and featured a talking motorcycle voiced by Owen Wilson.
21. He attended Poseidon School in Santa Monica, California.
22. He is a member of the band Tenacious D.
23. He was born on the same day as Jason Priestley.
24. He is good friends with Will Smith.
25. He and his wife Tanya had their second child in 2008.
27. He was mentioned in the song "High School Never Ends" by Bowling for Soup, as "the clown".
28. He attended Crossroads High School for the Arts and Sciences.
30. His secret passion is snowboarding.
31. What makes him nervous is the big talk shows: the Lenos and Lettermans.
33. His zodiac sign is Virgo.
34. He appeared in an Atari video-game commercial at the age of 13.
35. He was a member of the L.A. theater troupe the Actors Gang, which was founded by Tim Robbins.
36. He received the Sho West Comedy Star of the Year award in 2004.
37. He has received two Golden Globe Awards (2004 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Nominee and 2013 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical - Nominee)
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