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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.

Hobbes ,

I like jack black, but seriously fuck him for this and for not taking a stand against fascism.

extremeboredom ,

What do you want him to do, exactly?

DarkNightoftheSoul ,
@DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz avatar

Given the plain meaning of the words they said, it sounds like they want jack black to take a stand against fascism.

edit: also maybe to fuck him, that seems like a valid interpretation.

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

Not throw his partner under the bus? Go out there and be the Tenacious D we know and make rock history. Instead he cowers behind a PR statement.

Clbull ,

Postponed is kinda inaccurate…

  1. Kyle Gass’s talent agent has cut ties with him.
  2. Jack Black made a statement on Instagram to announce the tour’s cancellation and that any future Tenacious D projects were on hold indefinitely, stating that he was “blindsided” by what Kyle said and that he condemend any calls for political violence.
  3. Tenacious D were big promoters of Rock the Vote, a nonpartisan organisation dedicated to encouraging more young people to register and exercise their right to vote, to the point of planning a campus tour in partnership with them. Can’t really appear nonpartisan if you (even jokingly) wish for a presidential nominee and former US president to be assassinated.
  4. Black had a lot more to lose from this than Gass, since he’s the one with an actual Hollywood film career.
fisco ,
@fisco@lemmy.ml avatar

The world has gone PC mad 🤦🏻‍♂️

xenoclast ,

That’s not what’s happening. These are authoritarian fascists being upset at slights against their Great Leader. Textbook behavior.

Very very very different than common context for “PC”

CableMonster ,

So wishing/advocating someone murdered is a “slight”?

scarabic ,

Crude humor from Tenacious D? I was led to believe this was a family show!

tigeruppercut ,

So who actually postponed the show? One senator got his balls in a twist, but it doesn’t seem like anything official’s been done yet.

tobogganablaze ,

They (themselves) have now completely canceled the rest of the tour:

www.9news.com.au/…/74fb229f-dbef-45a4-8b72-107417…

WanderingVentra ,

Because of that comment? Come on guys, don’t give in like that.

BossDj ,

Looks like Jack Black was genuinely bothered by it.

I also wonder if there’s a part there aren’t saying. Maybe they have gotten death threats or fear for their lives

Delusional ,

Make a comment about a horrible man nearly missing his demise, cancel tour.

Horrible man rapes children, defrauded charities, wants to fuck his own daughter, cheated on all of his wives, tries to destroy democracy in America, yet he’s still Republican’s #1 choice for president.

Republicans are complicit in the destruction of America.

JustAnotherRando ,

That definitely feels like Jables had a “come on man, you can’t say that shit in public” moment with KG. I wouldn’t be surprised if they lay low for a while on the band and focus on other stuff until this blows over.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Yeah Jables can’t really be associated with that. He might lose his spot in Jumanji 5: More Money Please.

Viking_Hippie ,

Or Kung Fu Panda 5: ok, but this is the last one for real!

Seriously though, Jack Black is a treasure as a performer and seemingly as a person, normally.

He’s dead wrong on this one, though. Poor Kyle must feel so damn betrayed right now!

Rev3rze ,

I lost some respect for jables here, the way he’s seemingly throwing Kage under the bus… But at the same time I can recognise that JB has always tried to keep up a positive persona. Not apolitical but he’s never been the type to promote violence directed at specific people. Kyle did him kinda dirty by doing something to potentially harm that (assuming he was truthful when he said he was blindsided by it, and not just saying that after it blew up in the news).

Not saying Kyle is wrong and Jack is right here, though. I’ve always felt a little bad for Kyle that Jack put tenacious D and therefore Kyle on the sidelines when his Hollywood career took off. Kyle was rightfully quite jaded about that and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s led him to doing this without considering the possible consequences for Jack.

The whole thing sucks for both of them, I guess.

Evilcoleslaw ,

I’ve lost some respect for shutting it down as hard as he did. I could see postponing some shows, dropping out of the Rock the Vote things they scheduled in October. Maybe more if they’re getting threats and have safety concerns now.

But going as far as to say that all future creative plans are on hold I think was too far especially. Though I can see if he truly was blindsided, that it could hurt.

Etterra ,

I may not care about their music, but I support them. DJT and all of his frothingly mad followers are the whole reason that the violence and anger have wildly increased out of control in the first place. As far as I’m concerned, this is just them reaping what they’ve sown.

abbadon420 ,

They should write a song about this whole affair

Hackworth ,

I did not mean…

UltraGiGaGigantic ,

It’s me…

No KG.

No me

Tenacious deeeeeeeeheeee

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.

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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