{"id":5069,"date":"2026-09-03T10:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/jack-black-paid-bar-tab-for-stranger-who-had-no-clue-who-he-was\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:06:18","slug":"jack-black-paid-bar-tab-for-stranger-who-had-no-clue-who-he-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/jack-black-paid-bar-tab-for-stranger-who-had-no-clue-who-he-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Black paid bar tab for stranger who had no clue who he was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-09-03 10:06:16<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A man expecting a quiet drink before dinner was given a celebrity encounter to remember after Jack Black sat beside him at a Seattle hotel bar.<BR><br \/>\nThe stranger had no idea who was sitting next to him when the pair began chatting during a work trip on Valentine&#8217;s Day around 20 years ago.<BR><br \/>\nSharing the story on Reddit, he said they talked for roughly half an hour before Black had to leave, but the actor had an unexpected surprise up his sleeve.<BR><br \/>\nThe man wrote: \u201c[Jack Black] sat down next to me (had no idea who he was) and we struck up a conversation. Chatter for half an hour or so and he had to go. He picked up my tab as he left.<BR><br \/>\n\u201cThe bartender said: \u2018Making friends with Jack Black, that&#8217;s pretty cool!\u2019 I was clueless. He had to explain who he was to me.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nThe man said Black was \u201csuper cool\u201d and did not behave like someone famous or \u201cfull of himself\u201d.<BR><br \/>\nHe added: \u201cJust a normal dude. Turns out he had a Tenacious D concert in town that night.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nBlack, 57, has become one of Hollywood&#8217;s most recognisable comic actors, appearing in films including School of Rock, where he played substitute teacher Dewey Finn, back in 2003, while his band Tenacious D made waves in 2001 with their self-titled debut, featuring tracks like Tribute and Wonderboy.<BR><br \/>\nHe has also voiced Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie and played Claptrap in the live-action Borderlands adaptation.<BR><br \/>\nMore recently, Black starred as Steve in the live-action Minecraft movie.<BR><br \/>\nBut the actor&#8217;s encounter with the mystery drinker showed a quieter side to his larger-than-life persona.<BR><br \/>\nRather than revealing his identity and leaving the stranger star-struck, Black simply enjoyed a conversation with him before picking up the tab,<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-09-03 10:06:16 A man expecting a quiet drink before dinner was given a celebrity encounter to remember after Jack Black sat beside him at a Seattle hotel bar. The stranger&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}