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.”
Gass also split with his agent following the incident.
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JB’s response may be more of a concern for their safety than just an attempt to mitigate bad publicity. There are a lot more Trump supporters with guns than without.
Terrorism wins again.
Fearing for their safety on an Australian tour? No, if you read the article the response is all political and Australian politicians were calling for the band’s deportation.
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Anyone standing behind Trump is a traitor insurrectionist flying the flag of a felon. The world will be a far better place without Trump, and anyone expediting that outcome has my respect as a patriot.
Populist are the true destroyers of civilizations.
How dare you not be civil while they’re rounding people up and putting them in camps!
It’s probably more they don’t want crazy fucking trumpers taking shots at them. This is a safety issue a very real one. The band probably agrees with what he said but not enough to get killed over it. Which again is a very real possibility. These crazies almost got Trump with his security while Jack black walks around the venue of his shows alone before gigs.
Yeah this was absolutely worth never being in another movie or TV show /s
I guess trump is the only one allowed to make disrespectful comments about other people that almost die and it is just ok.
So you don’t think it’s ok for trump to make disrespectful comments about other people that almost die? Hmmmm
So you have no reading comprehension? Hmmmm
Bet you can’t explain to me how I’m wrong about his comment lol
Explain to me how he didnt imply that it’s not ok for trump to do it.
Or maybe you’re the one with terrible reading comprehension?
The comment is criticizing the fact that Trump can seemingly say and do whatever he wants and gets away with it. While if anyone else does it they’re called out on it.
So you think the implication of the original post was “everyone should be able to make disrespectful comments about people that almost die and it’s ok”?
Or is the implication “it’s not ok for people to make disrespectful comments about people that almost die”?
This isn’t complicated, those are the only two interpretations of the original comment. Only one of them is a realistic interpretation, and it - along with a lot of comments in this thread - are overtly hypocritical.
Don’t think I’ll win over you or the hypocrite-hivemind, and I don’t particularly care. Later.
Cool overdramatic story, bro
Uhhh what lol
Explaining how reading works = overdramatic
Is English your native language?
I don’t think the comment was appropriate but I also don’t think it was really necessary to cancel the tour over it. It was a joke made in poor taste. Worth an apology? Sure. But this seems like an overreaction.
The fact they cancelled the tour and that he split with his manager, makes me believe it wasn’t that harmonic anymore and it was the final straw.
If not, I agree it was a massive overreaction.
Inciting violence is not appropriate, but he could’ve easily just said he should’ve kept it to himself and move on.
Maybe he feels he can’t be a showman and be all fun when democracy is at stake.
It’s noteworthy that it doesn’t appear black canceled the tour just out of nowhere. I think they were getting pressure from the government based on what I’ve read.
From which government? The Aussies?
Yes. Apparently a single senator from the above users comment.
And the person who owns all the media in both those countries
People keep acting like Jack Black is punishing Kyle for being offensive, rather than trying to avoid a mass shooting at a Tenacious D concert after his bandmate endorsed political violence.
It’s only in overreaction if you’re not worried about your life, or the lives of your fans.
Australia is not the US
He’s on tour and he cancelled everything until October.
From what I understand the next scheduled show in Ohio is still not a sure thing.
Huge overreaction by Jack Black.
“We are quitting because you appeared to mouth certain words”
Yeah, massive over reaction. Also explains why there’s no footage/audio of the incident.
Watching Lewis Spears’ (an Australian comedian) take on it, it’s likely that the venues cancelled the events, and this is the PR reason.
Not really when guns are getting fired.
Don’t tour the shithole country?
That’s literally what he just decided, yes.
Today we are all Kyle Gass fans
When push comes to shove Jack Black folds. Sad to see.
He’s a comedian. Yes this was in poor taste but as a comedian sometimes you swing and miss.
Damnit. Jack Black is one of those people I never expected to lose any respect for.
I like how they managed to shoehorn Musk in there. Thanks BBC, very, uh, relevant.
Last week Kyle quit the band Now we’re back together Misunderstanding Didn’t understand It doesn’t matter Now we’re back together again
I so want this to be an epic version of that song.
The Ballad of Hollywood Jack and the Rage Kage.
Looks like jack used it as an excuse. Of course since he does live in the fluffy clouds of stardom he might really be that pretentious.
Might also be because a senator for the local dumb dumb party wanted to kick them out. Australian officials kinda love doing that as publicity. Freaking out on American celebrities is a political game, ever since someone did it to Johnny Depp and Amber Herd… And their dogs… And private jet that didn’t bother with docking at customs.
Cowardly nepo baby isn’t tenacious, absolute shocker.
I wouldn’t want to share a stage with someone actively encouraging the assassination of a political figure - even if I agree with the sentiment…
I talk to my friends about wishing he was gone but I don’t want to be around him if he’s shouting about it at work, either.
I understand Jack here.
