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Jack Black cancels Tenacious D tour and places future projects on hold after Kyle Gass comments on Trump (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Jack Black announced on Instagram that he's cancelled the rest of the Tenacious D world tour and placed future projects on hiatus.

This happened after his bandmate Kyle Gass sparked controversy by commenting on the recent Donald Trump assassination attempt.

At their recent Sydney show, Kyle Gass was given a birthday cake and asked to make a wish for his 64th birthday, to which he said "Don't miss Trump next time."

In his later statement, Black said he was "blindsided" by his bandmate's comment and condemned any calls for political violence.

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[–] MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 139 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Jack Black is trying to use his massive A-list star power to get Biden elected, something that will actually help people. Kyle Gass made an offhanded joke that could jeopardize that. So Jack Black needs to distance himself, and I'll bet you money Kyle Gass agrees with him.

It's an impossible situation to be in, but I kind of agree with Jack Black's move on this. He can do more good as a Hollywood A-lister for Biden than he can as an "edgy" rock star with a guy nobody's ever heard of.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 57 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The disrespect to the Gass man is ridiculous. Honestly Tenacious D comes from the same era of ridiculousness that gave rise to Borat, and I don't see why Kyle shouldn't be given the same leeway to say wild ass shit that Cohen did.

[–] MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah... pointing to the Zionist who just got canceled For being sexually inappropriate on set and to defend himself released a video of himself being sexually inappropriate on set isn't the defense you think it is. Even his wife left him.

And no offense to the gas man. I'm a 35-year-old white guy. I've been in love with the gas man for two decades now. But be honest with yourself, Most people don't know about Tenacious D. The second biggest category think of Tenacious D as Jack Black's band with that guy. That doesn't really compete with Bowser from Mario levels of fame.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Man I'm actually kinda sad I somehow missed Cohen getting super canceled. I'll have to go look for it.

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

Me too. This is a surprise to me but I don’t pay much attention to E news or whatever we wanna call it

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

That doesn't really compete with Bowser from Mario levels of fame.

I understand what you're saying but man, I hate seeing people water themselves down for fame.
One more reason to not be excited for the upcoming Minecraft and Borderlands movie.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 44 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This is a good take, but I really fucking hate the constant "we go high" shit.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

we're so fucking high right now we can't see the people below being eaten alive and actual Nazi flags being flown to scare people from voting. but hey, it's cooler up here.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I really fucking hate the constant “we go high” shit.

The guy that took a shot at Trump was a Republican. And the guy who would have inevitably driven a car-sized fertilizer bomb into a crowd of Tenacious D fans would also be a Republican.

This isn't "going high", its self-preservation. We live in a fascist country swarming with fascist cops and fascist vigilantes, and we need to fucking act like it. Every concert going forward would have had insane security costs because of this one off-handed remark.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Shit is so dark right now. The rational, empathetic person in me is still very much in control, and agrees with you. But the geopolitical realist in me is quietly whispering "Kyle has chosen the path of martyrdom."

The thing is, our opposition is not rational or empathetic.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Biden's speech at the NAACP was pretty good, and his calls to revamp the Supreme Court and make a new amendment were pretty cool

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago

Well, seeing as going low does nothing but exacerbate this whole "us vs. them" mentality we have right now, which is how we're stuck in this situation in the first place... maybe get the fuck over it?

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Man, americans really do need famous guys to tell them what to think.

[–] exanime@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Recently had to take a trip to the USA for work and it felt surreal... all the posters of whatever celebrity with captions like "XYZ wants you to stop littering" or "Such-and-Such only use Colgate". It felt like a brain washing operation for toddlers (and this was at the airport)

[–] DannyMac@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's weird, I don't notice that too much.

Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Meanwhile, George Clooney only does nescafe commercials in foreign languages.

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah. It’s fucking sad. Our education system gutted arts and critical thinking. We are doomed. Hope we don’t hurt you guys on our way down.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

We are in a war for our future right now and we can take all the help we can get.

[–] MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Nobody needs anything but to have access to the most famous people in the world, the most money in the world, and the biggest markets in the world, and not put them all together is just bad business.