NBC Picks Up Jack Black Comedy; Black Buys A Rockin' House

Comedian Jack Black joins funny folk Chelsea Handler and Whitney Cummings in NBC’s growing list of upcoming pilots.

Black will produce the comedy pilot called “My Life As An Experiment,” which is based on a book by A.J. Jacobs. The show is about a magazine writer and how his work assignments impact his life.

When creating the book that inspired the show, Jacobs considered himself a “human guinea pig” who took on a “series of radical lifestyle experiments.”

“I changed the way I thought, talked and looked. I followed old wisdom and new science. I saw the world from the eyes of a woman. I followed the wisdom of George Washington. I outsourced my life. I engaged, I’m afraid to say, in public nudity. (Not all at the same time),” he writes on his website.

According to Jacobs, the tenacious projects were as challenging for himself as they were for his wife. Among crazy endeavors, Jacobs embarked on a soulful month of truth telling (or “Radical Honesty”), which required many apologies in the following month and even pretended to be actor Noah Taylor in order to crash the Academy Awards.

The pilot script has been written by Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith, who previously contributed to “The King of Queens.”

In other, Jack Black news, the Los Angeles Time reports that Black just purchased the former home of Flea, Red hot Chili Pepper’s bassist Michael Balzary for nearly $6 million. After a two year search, Black and family will call the seven-bedroom Los Feliz-area residence home.