David Jacobs (gymnast)

David Jacobs (born March 3, 1942) is an American trampoline gymnast. During the 1960s, he won several top-level trampolining medals. He became popular in 2019, due to appearing in a comical segment on Impractical Jokers.

Life and career
Jacobs was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to Careta (Aschenbach). The family moved to Amarillo, Texas, in 1957, and moved back to Sheboygan in 1965. While a sophomore, he joined Nard's trampoline club in Texas.

In 1964, he competed at the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) championships and finished third. While there, he began a working relationship with Eddie Cole.

Jacobs was a student at the University of Michigan (U of M) during the 1960s. At the 1966 Trampoline World Championships (TWC), he won the synchronized trampoline title with fellow Michigan student Wayne Miller.

He is also known for his unintentional appearance on the reality TV series Impractical Jokers. In the 2019 episode "Irritable Vowel Syndrome", a 77-year-old Jacobs was shopping at a Fairway Market, when he was approached by comedian Brian Quinn, who was performing a challenge for the show. Quinn performed the challenge by posing as a shopper. Quinn started a conversation with Jacobs after the segment, where Jacobs mentioned that he was a "superhuman athlete" and showed Quinn a video of his performance on YouTube. The other members of the group approached Jacobs, pretending to have known of Jacob’s stardom. The other Jokers also posed as other shoppers in the mall; one by one requesting to take a picture with him after claiming they had seen his videos of his athletics while making fun of Quinn for not knowing who Dave Jacobs is.