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Jack Black took celebrities taking donation calls at Friday night’s Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon in America to task - by demanding they phone each other with pledges.

The Tropic Thunder star admitted he has watched celebrity telethons as a cynic in the past - and he wanted to make sure this TV special would be a big winner.

He said, “You know that if one of those lucky so-and-so’s donated two percent of what they made, we could all go back to (TV show) Project Runway.”

He then tackled actor Josh Brolin, who was in the middle of a pledge call and ordered him to put the phone down, yelling, “Hang up the freaking phone!” Black then told Brolin to call comedienne Ellen DeGeneres, who was seated a few desks away from the movie star on the Kodak Theater stage, adding, “Make a pledge. What did you make on the Coen Brothers (film - No Country For Old Men)?”

Black then turned to the cameras and assured the viewers watching the show, “I’m gonna make these gravy trainers pony up.”

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Jack Black fears presidential candidate Barack Obama will pull the plug on his band’s upcoming campaign trail benefit concert when the Senator realizes they’ve cursed every other politician they’ve supported.

Black admits he and Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Gass don’t have a very good track record when it comes to supporting high-profile political figures.

He tells WENN, “We’re going to do an Obama benefit on the 23rd of September at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. He’s the better candidate and more in line with our views… I’m just a liberal guy. We’ve been doing political benefits for years and it’s an endorsement. I did it for (Senator) John Kerry and that didn’t work. We’ve supported lots of different causes; tried to legalize weed and that didn’t work. You just keep on chugging away trying to do what you think is good. Maybe Obama is gonna say ‘Do me a favor, don’t do a benefit for me,’ since we’ve effectively killed all the campaigns we’ve taken part in.”

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