Jack Black, Friends Stars, Ben Stiller, And Adam Scott Will Play An Escape Room On TV
The celebrities will try to solve puzzles to help raise money for charity.
As part of a charity campaign, a series of big celebrities--including Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, and Adam Scott--will play a televised Escape Room.
The Celebrity Escape Room, as it's called, will air on NBC on May 21 as part of the charity Comic Relief's annual Red Nose Day campaign. Now in its sixth year, the Red Nose Day campaign is a US charity that raises money and awareness for children living in poverty.
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The Celebrity Escape Room will featuring Black as the Game Master, as he challenges Stiller, Kudrow, Cox, and Scott to work together to solve puzzles and hopefully escape the various rooms. Each room the celebrities make it through will earn money for the charity.
Following the Escape Room, the Red Nose Day event will continue with an "entertainment showcase" featuring short films that demonstrate how poverty has affected young people.
For lots more on everything about this year's Red Nose Day campaign, check out the full press release.
Kudrow and Cox are also coming back to TV later this year as part of the Friends reunion special, alongside David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston, and Matthew Perry. They are each being paid as much as $3 million each to appear in the one-hour special, which airs in May on HBO's new streaming service, HBO Max.
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