Kathy Griffin Looks Back on Past Relationship with Ex Jack Black

Kathy Griffin is reflecting on her past with ex-boyfriend Jack Black.

In a recent TikTok, the comedian, 64, shed some light on her relationship with the School of Rock star in the 1990s. She showed a photo of her and Black, 55, embracing one another on a couch in a throwback photograph.

“This is a picture of me and my then-boyfriend, Jack Black, who you probably know mostly from School of Rock,” she teased. “So he was the first boyfriend I ever had where other bros thought I was cool because I was dating him,” the My Life on the D-List star said before quipping, “By the way, dating is a very loose term.”

The comic recalled that she stayed at his apartment one time, and the next day, she explained that she used his shower and said to him, “‘I need a shower towel.’ And ‘He goes, ‘You’re standing on it.’” 

“You guys, that’s straight guys,” she said. “He had one bath mat/towel that he used for both, and that was it,” she continued. “So naturally, I kept sleeping with him.”

Griffin has spoken infrequently about her relationship with Black, but she revealed during an appearance on The Talk in 2013 that the Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle star met her mother, Maggie. 

“I remember introducing him to my mum, and my mother said, ‘Oh my god, he looks like a serial killer,'” she said, per the Herald Sun. Griffin added she and Black hooked up a “handful” of times, joking, “I’m not ashamed, but I’m not proud.”

She opened up about their relationship in her 2009 book, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin. “Another example of getting flack from the boys is what happened when Jack Black dumped me. That’s right. I f—ed Jack Black,” she wrote, per Goodreads. 

“Okay, we went out only two or three times, but that’s a relationship in my book,” she continued. “And by the way, this is my book.”

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Since her fling with Black, she married software entrepreneur Matthew Moline in 2001, and the pair divorced in 2005. She then dated Randy Bick beginning in 2011. The pair tied the knot in January 2020, but she filed for divorce from him in December 2023.

She has since joked to PEOPLE that she has her eyes set on a different comic — but he could be to be off the market. 

“I had my eye on Marty Short, but that trollop Meryl Streep got in my way. You cannot trust these Hollywood phonies,” Griffin joked of the Only Murders in the Building costars’ rumored romance.