Early life Jacobs was born in
Rexburg, Idaho in 1972, the second of five children. Following his family's relocation to
Los Angeles at the age of 4, Jacobs and his siblings, namely his older sister Rachel and younger brothers
Parker and Tyler, began working as
child actors. Throughout the course of his childhood and into his late teens, Jacobs appeared in numerous productions, most prominently playing the role of
Joey Stivic in the short-lived
All in the Family spin-off
Gloria, but primarily playing small roles in teen films such as
Pretty in Pink and
Gleaming the Cube and episodes of sitcoms like
Married... with Children and
Roseanne, before retiring from acting in the early 1990s, citing a dislike of the competitive nature of the business. While working on
Gleaming the Cube, Jacobs befriended a number of well known and highly influential skateboarders and artists. During this time, Jacobs was also active producing skateboarding videos with his friend and creative partner
Scott Schultz. In 1999, Jacobs anonymously performed with other members of The Aquabats in the side project
The Sandfleas, playing drums under the stage name "Fang". In 2018, the band did a live show with popular drummer Travis Barker, for their 20-year reunion show, and at the "Back to the Beach" festival the same year with other old members. As of 2022, The Aquabats continue to tour and record, and the band's sixth studio album,
Kooky Spooky...In Stereo was released in August 2020. On March 3, 2012,
The Aquabats! Super Show!, a live-action musical television series starring the band, premiered on cable channel
The Hub, with Jacobs serving as co-creator, producer, writer and star. Despite accumulating six
Daytime Emmy nominations over the course of two seasons, winning one for stunt coordination, The Hub declined to pick
Super Show! up for a third season, effectively cancelling the series. Following a successful
Kickstarter campaign in 2018,
Super Show! was retooled as a bi-weekly
YouTube series which began airing in late 2019.
Yo Gabba Gabba! In 1999, Jacobs and Schultz formed a
production company which was later formalized as "The Magic Store" with the goal of creating family-oriented television entertainment. Together, the two independently created, wrote and directed two pilot episodes in 2005 for a preschooler-targeted
children's television series called
Yo Gabba Gabba!. The series was picked up by
ViacomCBSs
Nickelodeon channel in 2007, eventually becoming an international success and winning numerous television awards.
Yo Gabba Gabba! has since completed four seasons. The pilot started in 1999. ==Personal life==