Jack Black Sings My Chemical Romance Parody About a Goth Kid on Vacation on ‘SNL': ‘I Stayed in the Room With My Graphic Novels So I Could Masturbate'
Dressed in exaggerated goth attire, complete with bold eyeliner and a black wig, Black sang, 'When I was a young boy / My parents took me down to Jamaica / For my high school spring break / They said, 'Come to the pool' but / I stayed in the room with my graphic novels / So I could masturbate.'
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The song started with the reggae beat alone, with Thompson and Nwodim playing Jamaicans and singing, 'When there is war and struggle and pain / How do we fill our souls with joy again? / We look and we laugh at / Goth kid on vacation.'
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