Comedian Jack Black has been joking about his upcoming tour with Tenacious D at a star-studded party in Beverly Hills.

"The new album, it's tremendous, if I don't say so myself, and the tour has been super fun," Black said. "We're blowing minds, we're changing lives and we're inventing new forms of music."

Steven Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman and Christina Hendricks were also at the event, which was held to present grants in excess of 1.2 million dollars to film schools.

"From the aspiring artists that we were as children to the filmmakers that we are today, we are all an organization that's fully committed to the preservation of works that not only inspired us back then to make movies but that continue to motivate us," Spielberg said.