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Tenacious D’s Newcastle show postponed after comment about Trump assassination attempt

The latest show on Tenacious D’s Australian tour has been postponed after senator Ralph Babet demanded the pair be deported following an apparent joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

American comedy rock duo Jack Black and Kyle Gass were due to perform in Newcastle on Tuesday evening, but the show – part of the band’s Spicy Meatball Tour – was cancelled without notice on Tuesday afternoon.

Concert promoter Frontier Touring said on social media that it regretted “to advise that Tenacious D’s concert tonight at Newcastle Entertainment Centre has been postponed”.

Video from the event showed (Kyle) Gass being presented with a birthday cake and told to “make a wish” as he blew out the candles. Gass then appeared to say “don’t miss Trump next time” – just hours after the shooting at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania that left the former president injured.

yournamehere ,

australian senator? what? who gives a shit? most ppl wish trump or the magas were dead.

OccamsRazer ,

No, actually most people aren’t blood thirsty lunatics who are willing to kill their political opposition. Most people are able to disagree with others without wanting them dead.

jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

The concert was in Australia, so, yeah, Australian Senator.

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

I fucking love you Tenacious D.

iheartneopets ,

Well. Half of Tenacious D. The other half is making posts on his Instagram like this:

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TexMexBazooka ,

That reads like a PR firm posting for him

iheartneopets ,

He’s not an infant or a puppet. Anything posted for him almost certainly comes with his at least partial approval. Who do you think hires his PR firm? He does.

xenoclast ,

Oof. Coward.

iamtherealwalrus ,

Coward

Coward for having his own opinion? So anyone who doesn’t agree with you is a coward?

brognak ,

Canceling an entire tour, that people already bought tickets and travel for, over a small gaff made off the cuff by someone who has been his friend longer than a large amount of Lemmy has been alive, is fucking cowardice. And this is 100% a PR firms opinion and we will never know whatever JBs true feelings are because, again, hes a coward and will never speak out about it for fears it might upset his money train.

BruceTwarzen ,

I wish i had a time machine to kill hitler.

Hey now easy, don’t call for political violence.

postmateDumbass ,

Didn’t work when they took out Jenkins either.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge , (edited )
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

Anyone who sees the writing on the wall would’ve backed Kyle up. Our country is in deep trouble. I know it, Jack knows it, you know it, we all know it. The head of project 25 literally said things will “remain bloodless” in the midst of the “second American revolution” if “the left allows it”. You understand what that means right? I stand with Kyle.

iheartneopets ,

Very much agreed.

Buddahriffic ,

Damn, wasn’t expecting to lose respect for Jack Black today.

daltotron ,

throwing kyle under the bus is a classic Tenacious D bit, though

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

That’s a deportation-worthy statement?

unexposedhazard ,

Land of the free, freedom of speech, lmao

RaoulDook ,

Yes Newcastle, Australia - the land of the free as it was always known

Norgur ,
@Norgur@fedia.io avatar

In a country that has neither got anything to do with Trump nor with the shooting... Someone needs to pamper a certain voter demographic, I'd say

girlfreddy OP ,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

Pamper?

Pampers?

Norgur ,
@Norgur@fedia.io avatar

I got a toddler at home. I'm very familiar with their product range :P

jago ,

You question the word “pamper” because your only familiarity with it is in the context of the diaper brand?

Holy shit. Crack a book once in a while.

dezmd ,
@dezmd@lemmy.world avatar

It was obviously a joke to imply the voter demographic in question are acting like babies.

Don’t be an Aussie Senator.

girlfreddy OP ,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

Jayzuz buddy. It was a joke ffs. Take a pill.

catloaf ,

Usually people say “pander to”, I’m not sure pamper really makes sense here

Viking_Hippie ,

Pamper is a synonym for coddling. Makes perfect sense in this context

Cheradenine ,

As far as immigration goes (even temporary) Oz still has the equivalent of moral turpitude regulations. They can be quite strict. They can also just say they don’t like the cut of your jib.

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison denied Djokovic was being singled out and said no-one was above the country’s rules. But he added that Djokovic’s stance on vaccination had drawn attention.

www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59889522

Note that this is only an example of a famous person running afoul of Australian immigration. Anti vaxxers are of course assholes and morons.

gravitas_deficiency , (edited )

You can’t legally deport a US citizen from the US lmao what a dipshit it’s ‘straya, derp

Edit: is this my peak Lemmy moment? I didn’t even read the title all the way through 😓

Napdyn ,

They are touring in Australia

girlfreddy OP ,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

This happened in Australia, not America.

Maybe you need more coffee.

gravitas_deficiency ,

I do, actually

FireTower ,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

Also even if you could generally, you couldn’t do it for this as America has very strong free speech protections.

ColeSloth ,

Government officials get super pissed whenever the violence is aimed at them instead of the poor.

theacharnian ,
@theacharnian@lemmy.ca avatar

Free speech, you snowflakes.

puppy ,

You mean to say that right wing politician can’t take a joke without getting offended? What a bunch of snowflakes. Man up, facts don’t care about your feelings!

Blackbeard ,
@Blackbeard@lemmy.world avatar

cAnCeL CuLtUrE11!!! fReEzE pEaCh!!!@

einkorn ,
@einkorn@feddit.org avatar

Maybe he did miss Trump and wants to really meet him at the next opportunity? 🤔

tobogganablaze ,

Based!

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The latest show on Tenacious D’s Australian tour has been postponed after senator Ralph Babet demanded the pair be deported following an apparent joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

Babet, a United Australia party senator, demanded the federal government deport the band after Gass appeared to joke about Donald Trump’s attempted assassination at a Sydney concert on Sunday.

Video from the event showed Gass being presented with a birthday cake and told to “make a wish” as he blew out the candles.

“I call on the prime minister Anthony Albanese to join me in denouncing Tenacious D, Jack Black and band member Kyle Gass, and I call on the immigration minister Andrew Giles to revoke their visas and deport them immediately,” Babet said on Tuesday.

While conservative and pro-Trump accounts online were heavily critical of Gass’s comment, Tenacious D did receive some support from others.

Black has publicly criticised Trump previously, and recently appeared at a celebrity fundraiser for Joe Biden.

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