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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.

Triasha ,

He probably doesn’t want to get shot.

rekabis ,

Most of the western world fought back against the Nazis in WWII for the very reason that fascism is deeply hostile to a healthy democracy and a free society.

Kyle was right: we didn’t teach our soldiers to miss back then, so there is no excuse to miss now.

A_Random_Idiot ,

Was a right wing idiot, listening to right wing hate and violence, who took a shot at a right wing idol.

Theres nothing “ours” or “soldier” about it.

IzzyJ ,
@IzzyJ@lemmy.world avatar

Tbf, there was a WWII instructional film that taught “how to get killed”, but that was sarcastic (and about the Pacific theater)

iAvicenna ,
@iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

I mean to be honest half the world is probably saying the same thing.

ILikeBoobies ,

Only America’s allies

Alexstarfire ,

Half of America is wishing it too, even if not vocalized.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

The problem being the other half isn’t.

FiniteBanjo ,

I assume Jack and his team probably started recieving threats from the crowd that shot at Trump (republicans).

iAvicenna ,
@iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

I guess attempting to kill and joking about killing Trump is a privilege that only republicans enjoy

FiniteBanjo ,

TBH I don’t give a single solitary fuck who Republicans think or don’t think is allowed to do anything. That doesn’t mean Jack Black has to risk his life over some ha has.

MrScottyTay ,

This barely would be known if it wasn’t for them splitting up over about it though. They said it to an Australian crowd. They ain’t doing anything about it.

FiniteBanjo ,

There have been no statements about the band ending, but they have almost certainly ended the Australian Tour, sadly. Gass has also been dropped by Greene Talent agency, so he might have to work to regain trust from the business suits if they want to do big events again. Both Gass and Black have both been apologetic and on the same page with their public statements.

They once wrote and performed a song about killing politicians and ruling as idiot kings, they’ll be fine.

MrScottyTay ,

Ahh, think I misinterpreted Black’s “all future creative plans are on hold” statement. Forgetting the “on hold” part.

b161 ,

formergijoe ,

Oh Kyle, why did you say that? If you say your birthday wish out loud it won’t come true!

HawlSera ,

Come the fuck on Jack, you’re better than this.

dessimbelackis ,

Based Kyle gass vs hollywood-pilled jack black

darganon ,

Nothing and no one can harm the old Rage Kage again…

FiniteBanjo ,

I’m like 99% sure they recieved threats after what Kyle said, so I don’t blame Jack.

n3m37h ,

Its not Jack, it’s the bullshit cancel culture.

HawlSera ,

Glad we’re finally acknowledging that shit is real

A_Random_Idiot ,

Cancel culture is real.

Its what the right does every time they get their panties in a twist.

Hell, a lot of Project 2025 is nothing but cancel culture shit.

IzzyJ ,
@IzzyJ@lemmy.world avatar

It used to just be called blacklisting pfc

Kedly ,

I really hope this is just PR shit and Jack Black isnt ending a friendship with a longterm friend over an edgy joke, cause like man, I know he’s a celebrity, but I had a lot of respect for him up until this point

mynameisigglepiggle ,

Just the other day, I looked at him with his shaggy ass beard, half done up bright shirt and too large shorts singing whatever the fuck and thought to myself:

“I have mad respect for jack black, That is a man that truly does not give a fuck. I should try and be more like him”

And then this reaction comes out and all that is gone and I’m reminded that I’m a terrible judge of character.

xenspidey ,

Why? Because he’s not ok with his band mate saying on stage someone should be murdered?

Couldbealeotard ,
@Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world avatar

Because the man does, in fact, give a fuck when it counts.

mynameisigglepiggle ,

I think its more because instead of just saying “hey that’s not cool” he publicly shat on his friend and threw him under the bus, disbanded the band, cancelled the concert.

He obviously knows Kyle pretty well, so this sentiment can’t be a surprise to him. So therefore he has no integrity by supporting his friend behind closed doors and being two faced when his sentiments are aired in public.

Part of not giving a fuck is having the integrity to be who you truly are, and from his reaction I can see is just an act.

Rev3rze ,

It goes both ways though. Kyle should also know his friend wouldn’t be happy about potentially losing his career over calls to murder a person for political reasons.

Disclaimer: I fucking hate Trump and wish he was killed years ago so I’m not saying I disagree with what Kyle said, I’m just disagreeing with when he chose to express it because he was there representing tenacious D which extends to jack as well. I’ll also add that at this point I worry that killing Trump now would only replace him with someone actually competent to drive the fascism train over the tracks that are already firmly in place, but that’s a different discussion.

fine_sandy_bottom ,

How much money did he lose cancelling the tour though?

Giving up that kind of money takes integrity.

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ,

It’s not like either of them are hurting for it.

The crew on the other hand though…

Goodie ,

The trick is to choose what to not give a fuck about.

Jack black doesn’t give a fuck about others opinions of his appearance.

He does give a fuck about death threats.

Seems pretty sensible and reasonable to me.

Blackmist ,

Looks like Kyle doesn’t give a fuck more.

Jack did a fundraiser for Biden. I suspect he’s just toeing the Dem line on this one. Doesn’t really want to see “Democrat fundraiser calls for death of Trump” splashed across the news.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

I’m more going to chalk it up to not wanting to stand on a stage within rifle range when maga lunatics are on the prowl.

Wolf314159 ,

If I was about to go on tour with my best friend and he said something stupid that put us in danger from real life lunatics with guns, I’d fucking cancel the tour too because I cared about us both and our relationship. Besides, if you can’t tell your friends they’re wrong when they’re wrong, they’re not really your friend. This isn’t necessarily the act of betrayal you’re making it out to be.

I’m betting that making this statement publicly makes it easier to break the tour contracts, rather than backing out of the tour without saying why.

Kedly ,

That part I understand, its the “put future projects on haitus” I’m commenting about. Although I guess I gave more detail in my other comment than I did this one so fair play

Professorozone ,

And doesn’t this go both ways? One of my favorite sayings is: a friend is someone who when you’ve made a fool of yourself, doesn’t think you’ve done a permanent job of it. Perhaps Jack Black could forgive his best friend and move along. Perhaps make a joint statement at the next event.

captainlezbian ,

Absolutely but a friend is also the person who pulls you aside and doesn’t let you go on stage before the heat dies down.

Socsa ,

Is woke PC killing standup comedy?

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

I empathize with his statement, but it was a bad idea to express it publicly like that.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

From a purely practical perspective, it immediately balloons the security costs of the tour through the end of the year. Black was smart to cancel the tour and probably saved a few dozen lives in the process, giving how trigger happy Trump’s base has proven itself to be.

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe. It seems like a bit of an overreaction to me, and I really don’t like the idea that we can’t say mean things about their god emperor because they’ll get mad and be violent. Has Muslim and Mohammed vibes.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

I really don’t like the idea that we can’t say mean things about their god emperor because they’ll get mad and be violent

I don’t like it either. But that’s stocastic terrorism for you. It’s anti-populist and anti-liberty by design.

Only solution is to police the fascists until they’re more scared of you than you are of them. And that doesn’t work if the cops are on the fascists’ side.

Has Muslim and Mohammed vibes.

No shortage of Christian terrorism. Just ask any abortion clinic nurse.

EmptySlime ,

No shortage of Christian terrorism. Just ask any abortion clinic nurse.

The clinic that did the selective termination that saved my twins’ lives had to be so cloak and dagger about their stuff that we literally had no idea we were showing up to the termination until they’re wheeling my wife back to surgery. It’s one of the only clinics in the state that even does the procedure we needed to my knowledge. That’s how many bomb threats, arson and assassination attempts they deal with.

HelixDab2 ,

Serious question, if you don’t mind. How did a selective termination save twins’ lives? Was your wife originally carrying triplets or quadruplets in a high-risk pregnancy? I’m entirely pro-choice, the wording is just a little odd and I’m having a hard time parsing the meaning.

Zorque ,

Advocating shooting someone is just “mean things” now?

I understand the sentiment, but it doesn’t all fall under the same umbrella. Saying he has small hands and advocating that someone shoot him dead are not the same thing.

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

I understand your sentiment as well, but it gets old seeing so much hand-wringing about advocating violence against a fascist who advocates violence while giving his violent followers a pass. “Oh, that’s just how they are! We have to coddle them or they’ll kill people! But you’re terrible!”

https://preview.redd.it/83225qt0mvc51.png?width=542&auto=webp&s=9bb0c38fc8813dbe0785557a94fa700fe3aef5aa

petrol_sniff_king ,

Yeah, Trump was mid-speech “here’s how we’re going to deport every single just-minding-their-own-business brown family from our country” when he got shot, too.

Not that that was why he got shot, but it does make all the handwringing funnier.

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Apparently turning his head to check his immigration notes saved his life. This is how we know there is no god.

Kedly ,

I get that its a heavily inappropriate thing to say right now, but at the end of the day it’s an edgy joke, and while ending the tour because of security concerns (and pr concerns) makes sense, cutting all professional ties with the guy seems a bit extreme, especially since he’s already apologized

xenspidey ,

Having an effigy of a beheaded Trump is more of an edgy joke (Kathy Griffin in 2017). Wishing an assignation attempt that actually occurred to have been successful is a little different.

Kedly ,

I’m talking about Kyle Gass here, was it him or Kathy Griffin that did the effigy? That’s a lot more than making a joke about a possible president thats more than likely going to fuck up the entire world hadnt dodged a bullet, but again, if it wasnt, and were just talking about a joke, Once again its not inappropriate enough to end an entire lifetime relationship over, especially after he apologized and owned up to it being inappropriate

xenspidey ,

Did he actually end a relationship? Or just cancel the tour? I would argue that if he would have died and actually become a martyr it would be much worse. I also don’t think of he does actually win the whole world is going to be f’d up. Thats mostly just rhetoric. Will he suck? Yup. Will he be there next putin that has unlimited terms? No chance.

Kedly ,

If you think another Trump presidency isnt going to seriously have a negative effect on the world, I do not have the energy to engage with you on this

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

Ah but it is the liberals who are fostering an environment of violence

Hylactor ,

Food for thought, this is what a win for terrorists looks like. When you can’t make a joke for fear of violence, that’s the goal of the violence.

Twelve20two ,

Really fuckin sucks :/

lennivelkant ,

Guess someone ought to do something about these terrorists - isn’t that what the War on Terror is about?

(Sarcasm)

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
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Jack is a Coward. I stand with Kyle. Remember, whenever someone calls for violence, that the head of project 25 said "We are in the midst of a second American revolution., which will remain bloodless, should the left choose it to be."

Don’t think for a second Trump is against it.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

Well that just makes me like him even more ¯_(ツ)_/¯

BroBot9000 ,
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

Grow a pair Jack!

masquenox ,

It’s a worthy wish.

MiltownClowns ,

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.

BruceTwarzen ,

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

exanime ,

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 ,

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

Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

https://i.etsystatic.com/36068062/r/il/9c8729/5184978223/il_fullxfull.5184978223_la2n.jpg

Socsa ,

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

aStonedSanta ,

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.

MiltownClowns ,

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.

Socsa ,

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

LordGimp ,

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 ,

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 ,

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

aStonedSanta ,

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 ,

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.

peg ,

Biden’s demented. Neither choice makes any sense.

MiltownClowns , (edited )

Russian troll or just a fucking idiot?

frunch ,

Porque no los dos? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

MedicPigBabySaver ,

Shut up.

Mediocre_Bard ,

Still voting Biden.

Buddahriffic ,

He could be a corpse and still would be a far better choice than Trump.

Socsa ,

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

thermal_shock ,

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 ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

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 , (edited )

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.

Zorque ,

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?

HawlSera ,

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

taiyang ,

Y’all burying the lead here: Kyle blew on a birthday cake and made a wish but he spoke it out loud! Now it’ll never come true. :(

masquenox ,

Damnit, Kyle - you had one job!

Zorque ,

*lede

Sorry

taiyang ,

TIL, huh.

Lede feels like it only exists for that expression, unless you’re in journalism. The biggest irony is it’s actually a 1950s alteration of lead, but the expression came out of journalism so here we are.

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