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Jack Black cancels Tenacious D tour and places future projects on hold after Kyle Gass comments on Trump

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.

cikano ,

Today I learnt to respect Kyle Gass even more

runjun ,

My heart dropped at the headline. I was like fuck, here comes some conservative BS.

remotedev ,

Nah man, he’s an idiot. Can’t believe he said that.

Everybody knows if you say your wish out loud it doesn’t come true!

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Kudos Kyle, for speaking the truth!

CodexArcanum , (edited )

Thankfully, it’s not the commentary I was afraid he’d offered. JB sounds spineless in this, it was a joke and an honest expression of the very real existential fear people feel towards Trump rule.

I fucking hate this. Trump gets on mic everyday to wish death on some innocent groups of people but we’re fucking forbidden from joking about it towards him?

Edit: I hope everyone who downvotes me gets very peacefully and nonviolently re-educated.

ThePantser ,
@ThePantser@lemmy.world avatar

Well there goes my respect for JB, is he a secret Trump supporter?

CrimsonMishaps ,

He’s a very popular actor/musician that isn’t looking to wade into any controversy that might damage his popular brand.

downpunxx ,

Controversy? He's not looking to get fucking shot.

IchNichtenLichten ,
@IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world avatar

That’s just so fucking rock and roll of him.

T4V0 ,
@T4V0@lemmy.pt avatar

He did go to Biden’s fundraiser in L.A.

ShinkanTrain ,

Just privileged and out of touch. You’d think he’s a celebrity or something.

Enkrod ,

I think he mostly doesn’t want to get shot by angry Magats.

brenticus ,

I think it’s complicated a bit by the fact that this was said on stage at one of their shows. I think canceling the tour is a gross overreaction, but with the current political climate (even ignoring the assassination attempt) I can understand some hesitancy to proceed if anyone is going to be associating them with calls for political violence.

All that said… based birthday wish, fully agree with Gass’s joke.

Apytele , (edited )

Yeah like he’s not wrong, but maybe don’t say it on stage in front of everybody and God at your job that you and your coworkers are depending on to pay the bills. I’m sure none of them are living paycheck to paycheck but art also doesn’t make as much money as people like to think, especially in this day and age, and I’m not going to fault any one individual for playing it safe these days.

Scubus ,

Fighting Satan and kage getting anal raped by Satan: I sleep

Kage making a joke about a fascist dictator pedophile convicted felon getting shot: real shit

God teir cringe

RampantParanoia2365 ,

What joke? Hopefully the next person doesn’t miss.

Fuzzy_Red_Panda ,

Agree. Absolutely not a joke. Former president has caused, is causing, and will continue to cause active violent harm to the country, but it’s not appropriate to talk about how justified it is to stop him?

He’s literally above the law now; there is no peaceful way to adequately deal with him in a timely manner. He, his conservative judges, and the republicans in power have backed the American people into a corner of violence.

RampantParanoia2365 ,

He murdered thousands of people with a willful mishandling of a pandemic virus for stupid and shortsighted reasons. He is a mass murderer and terrorist who may become President again. And people are worried about fucking decency.

teawrecks ,

Politicians are always responsible for deaths of their constituents as an indirect result of their actions, it’s just a question of how many. We set up legislative and judicial systems to address this question rather than relying on mobs and vigilantes. It’s called living in a civilized society. It’s not about decency, it’s about creating a safe society we want to live in. Personally I don’t want to live in the wild west where anyone with a gun can play judge, jury, and executioner; you may feel differently.

But I agree that the recent SCOTUS ruling is worrying, because it does appear to put the president above the law. As JFK put it, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”. Not good, not preferable…but inevitable.

Crackhappy ,
@Crackhappy@lemmy.world avatar

It closely echoes what I thought at the time. “Do not miss, or do not take the shot.” As Yoda said, “There is no try.”

WhyFlip ,

One of the stupidest quotes in the history of quotes.

Crackhappy ,
@Crackhappy@lemmy.world avatar

Agreed. I like it anyway.

solsangraal ,

from the party of “fuck your feelings”:

hOw DaRe YoU jOkE aBoUt ThAt!!!

Pandantic ,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

“I wonder how Paul Pelosi is feeling.” Roaring laughter

AshMan85 ,

Yeah, the time for civil has passed. The attempt of his life happened because no one is willing to do anything about him.

Dkarma ,

Reap what you sow by definition.

z500 ,
@z500@startrek.website avatar

Personally I was hoping for a heart attack. Did anyone think an assassination, successful or not, wouldn’t just lead to a complete shit-show?

Asafum ,

I was hoping the “excitement” of almost being killed would have lead to a heart attack, but who am I kidding? This is The Worst Timeline™ everything goes to shit and the absolute worst of us live forever and get everything they want…

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

a shit show yes, but maybe less of a shitshow than a second term as POTUS.

JustEnoughDucks ,
@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl avatar

To be honest. I think all famous people right now are preparing for the real possibility of a fascist dictatorship in america very soon.

They are trying to stay off of Trump’s assassination list. If they stay in the mode of “we condemn violence towards trump” then trumps ego doesn’t get hurt by them and they end up having a mysterious heart attack, drug overdose, or 3 in the back of the head “suicide”

TheHottub ,
@TheHottub@lemmy.world avatar

As somebody with experience being on tour and playing shows every night and having a mic in front of you. Maybe a little toasted on stage as well. You tend to say things that you normally wouldn’t. High energy, adrenaline, trying to keep the crowd entertained and think on your toes. You can say things right as they come to you without full consideration.

cosmicrookie ,
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

My guess is, that this will be the outcome of all of this. An apology along the lines of what you just mentioned, and a “back to reality call”. At least I hope so

Pandantic ,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

He already apologized and said he was wrong to say it.

cosmicrookie ,
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

That sounds like the wisest approach to this.

Burn_The_Right ,

KG should not have apologized.

Apologies are designed for human beings and entities capable of experiencing empathy. Conservatives are not able to process the concept of an apology. They are just as unable to recognize apologies as they are unable to issue them.

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think he’s apologizing for the conservatives.

Crikeste ,

Yeah, maybe Jack Black will come to his senses.

apfelwoiSchoppen , (edited )
@apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world avatar

Jables didn’t call him Rage Cage for nothing. Sounds like an ep of the TV show tbh.

youtu.be/krUP7yb50yo

piped.video/watch?v=krUP7yb50yo

Geek_King ,

That sucks, I hadn’t had the chance to see them before, but I got tickets for a show they’re having near me in a few months. I guess I need to see what getting a refund looks like.

ShinkanTrain ,

Read: Man in his 50s found excuse to not do a tiresome thing

_stranger_ ,

I saw his show last year, and the energy he puts into them is incredible. Dude has more energy than most people half his age.

unexposedhazard , (edited )

The answer is drugs

Edit: do you guys actually think people dont take any drugs for these massive stage performances?

ShinkanTrain ,

Then let’s go with the alternative: Man overreacts and acts self righteous over a joke. Cancels other people’s plans.

_stranger_ ,

Here’s what really happened: A man with an actual moral compass decides work life balance and his relationship with his long time friend and business partner is more important than money, and has decided to take the time to figure things out between them.

ShinkanTrain ,

If your actual moral compass tells you the real problem is not coddling fascists when they get what’s due to them, it’s pointing in the wrong direction.

_stranger_ ,

Jack black is a better human than me, I won’t argue that point.

OpenStars ,
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

This is why I blocked lemmy.ml, along with hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml - too bad those user blocks are so ineffective and still show every comment from every user from there.

wizardbeard ,

Blocking the instance is not blocking the users of that instance. Confusing, but it’s separate functionality. Instance blocking blocks all posts from the instance showing up in your feeds. Doesn’t block comments or users, you still have to do that individually.

Probably should be renamed as an option, because logically you would think it would block everything from that instance, not just posts/communities.

OpenStars ,
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

Right, you basically cannot block all comments from those instances. Though it does prevent notifications if they reply to you. The only way to avoid wasting your time with them is to block each and every single person that comes along, including every single new one. Which also does nothing to stop them from downvoting you. In short, unless an entire instance defederates from them and you join it - which none of the well-known instances do, and it is not entirely so trivial to spin up your own - there is nothing that an individual user can do about the situation, atm.

And sometimes I even have enjoyable conversations with people on those instances - still, those are in the extreme minority (fewer than 1/1000) and I would choose to sacrifice that to have the option to walk away entirely, if I could. Especially since I could always have an alt account elsewhere to get the best of both worlds. As they also do in turn (several have openly admitted this), to get around the instance defederations.

BruceTwarzen ,

I’d have a lot of energy too if i’d make millions of dollars to sing mediocre songs.

cosmicrookie ,
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

It sounds like you don’t know who Jack Black is

PP_BOY_ ,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

Damn. It’s gotta be stressful as a public figure toeing the line between basic decency and a desire to not get investigated by the S(ecret) S(ervice). Can’t say I blame him for wanting to distance himself from that type of commentary

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