Jack Black has said he’s cancelled the rest of the Tenacious D world tour after his bandmate Kyle Gass sparked an outcry with a comment about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.The comedy rock group were on stage in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday when Gass was asked to make a wish after being presented with a cake for his 64th birthday.He appeared to reply: "Don’t miss Trump next time."

  • @elbucho
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    895 months ago

    As much as I agree with Kyle’s sentiment, I can 100% understand Jack’s position here. In addition to wanting to remain eligible for movie and tv roles, he probably also doesn’t want to get shot. Security for singers is probably more lax than security for ex-presidents, after all (at least most of the time). It’s easy to imagine some troglodytic cultist piece of shit taking the band joking about killing their bloated lord and savior personally, and resolving to do something about it.

  • bizarroland
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    485 months ago

    On the one hand, I can get where he’s coming from on a humanitarian viewpoint, that praying for someone else’s death is in the abstract a bad thing.

    But to break up a band that’s been going for like 25 years and that was the foundation of his entire success over something that could be equated to being a jovial quip either means that tenacious d has other issues as a band or that Jack Black has some political opinions that are more important to him than his friends.

    I hope he gets a wake up call and attempts to repair the relationship with Kyle Gass as soon as possible.

    • @[email protected]
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      435 months ago

      Or…… Jack Black has a lucrative movie career that could get completely derailed if he doesn’t distance himself from this for a while.

    • missingno
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      185 months ago

      Did he confirm the band is breaking up, or could they just be canceling the tour until this blows over?

      • skulblaka
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        185 months ago

        There’s no news about the band breaking up. They just don’t want Kyle shot live on stage.

        • @[email protected]
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          105 months ago

          I mean, wouldn’t the safest place to continue doing concerts would be Australia, where they actually have pretty stringent gun laws?

      • JJROKCZ
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        It’s almost surely the latter

    • @xenoclast
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      I dunno. He’s American. Killing insurrectionists and fascists is pretty popular. I heard they put something about it in the constitution.

      Jack is a coward. It’s the least metal thing he’s ever done … and he played a cartoon panda.

  • @[email protected]
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    145 months ago

    He’s probably hoping he doesn’t have to testify at his former bandmate’s televised military trial

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    Last week, Jack quit the band …