Jack Black Bringing ‘The Guinea Pig Diaries’ To Television
By Adam Quigley/Sept. 29, 2010 8:22 pm EST
The project is based on A.J. Jacobs’ nonfiction book The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment, and is about “a man fixated on self-improvement who takes on difficult experiments and lifestyles, all of which makes things tough on his family”. Learn more after the break.
From the brief synopsis, the show sounds nearly identical to My Name is Earl, except with the promise of more… Jack Black. A lengthier description at the author’s site provides added context:
These experiments wreaked havoc on my life, and drove both my wife and me to the brink of insanity, but also gave me fascinating insights.
On a mission to understand the mysteries of modern life – from love to work to fame – I became a human guinea pig. I immersed myself in 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).
The site also details some of Jacobs’ experiments, which include: hiring a team in Bangalore, India to take of his every menial task; openly speaking every passing thought no matter the circumstances; acting as a beautiful woman on an online dating site; and assuming the identity of actor Noah Taylor and crashing the Academy Awards.
So if the show gets picked up, those are some of the hijinks you can expect to see Black getting into.
