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Please respect others and don't make political statements
You can't kill the Metal
The Metal will live on
But what will we do? If tenacious D has died what can we do? And what will we do, about all the fans that have the D tattoo?
They’ll have them removed, they’ll have to laser of the D tattoo….tattoo……
They’ll have to laser off the D tattoo…. 😔
Wait a minute Kage!
What's thatcha say?
I have assmark too
I always get a good chuckle out of JB's opening line after pulling his pants down: "I've had this birthmark since I was born."
About 30 seconds ago, Jack quit the band...
I heard there was a misunderstanding, didn’t understand.
Kyle made an insensitive, stupid joke. It was spur of the moment, and I’m sure he wishes he hadn’t. Can the western world please calm tf down over others’ words?
You are responding to someone quoting one of their songs. Way to ruin to thread!
after much reflection, i no longer feel it is appropriate to continue this thread, and all future plans are on hold. i am grateful to the fans for their support and understanding.
Doesn't matter. Now they're back together again.
(just in case anyone takes false hope from this - it's just continuing the song. No updates yet that I am aware of...please carry on singing)
Couldn't split up Kato and Nash
Couldn't split up tango and cash.
This is the ballad of Hollywood Jack and the Rage Kage.... Rage Kage was left far behind in the dust of his dreams
My theory: they are legit scared of fascist repercussions if trump gets elected.
All you people up there in City Hall. You’re fuckin’ it up for the people that’s in the streets.
And then after the smoke has cleared
And the rubble has been swept away
Jables and KG will peek out their heads
They've been watching the riots on a monitor
20 floors below sea level
From a bunker
Misunderstanding, didn’t understand
Doesnt matter now were back together again 😔
La la la la la
This better be a ‘Jack quits the band’ bit
Last week Jack quit the band
Now we're back together, uh
Duuuuude I totally miss youuuuuu
“All future creative plans are on hold” - after decades together, JB and KG might have a career altering disagreement. I see both sides, but that would be devastating :( The government totally sucks
I doubt JB disagrees with the sentiment, just the fact that KG said it on stage
It could easily happen. Have a few drinks, trying to be funny and something inappropriate slips out. Could see them halting until the election is over. Do not want draw the ire on them or their fans
Also I thought aussies has a bit rougher humour, so it would have been in the right context no?
Bad taste yes, but nothing to lose marbels about, like some Australian politician crying for deportation.
While playing a badass rock persona.
I can absolutely see fucking up like that.
Yeah. It can be really damaging to JB with his film career. Especially with him doing big family films like Mario and Minecraft.
and even that new Borderlands film.
If the Borderlands film is family friendly they are doing it wrong and it will go down in history like the live action ATLA travesty.
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Well, he ad-libed a bad joke that was "too soon". It's not like he published Mein Kampf or something. If we cancel every comedian that makes a bad or inappropriate joke there won't be any comedians left.
Yeah, JB has a thriving film career to think about. KG shouldn’t have said that.
Now I understand John Cena.
Seriously hoping not, but Jack has a massively successful other career that this type of incident can really hurt. And they trulyalmost ebded the band after the POD movie. Maybe just another extended break til things calm down.
What happened after the POD movie? Too vulgar?
The POD movie was a box office bomb and the expensive tour combined into a financial disaster for the band. Unfortunately for us D fans Jack has more lucrative opportunities on his own in movies. He also now has a family and a dreamworks family-friendly side to think about. Money can be very persuasive.
I had no idea, it was the coolest thing in the world to my friends and me.
The songs from that movie were amazing
JB is doing damage control for his own career. Honestly I was expecting something much worse when I saw KG’s apology and then this. I mean Jesus, I heard a hundred people make that joke the day it happened.
i couldn't handle tenac leaving ious d
Had a ticket for Brisbane on Thursday night, I’m so devastated
I really am bummed beyond words for all the Aussie and Kiwi D-ciples. This sucks.
I’m just so sad. I’ve been pumped for weeks.
Me too. I was hoping this was fake
Me too. Been so excited for this. I'm so fucking bummed.
Was taking my daughter to her first D concert. Devastated doesn’t begin to cover it.
So devastated. Had tickets for Melbourne and accommodation booked because we live 2 hours away :(
Yeah this can be such a huge financial hit to people. I wouldn’t be surprised if many flew in for shows.
Flew in from hobart, gutted.
Yeah I've got my flights booked for later in the week. No idea what I'm gunna do now, probably just bar hop and wallow in my misery for the weekend lmao
I'm not an aussie, but I recommend a meet-up megathread for the D fans that were planning to go there or the other shows. Maybe there's a venue with an open mic night where anyone can rock out to their favorite tasty jam.
Yeah, I have flights to Melbourne booked.
Absolutely! I feel really sorry for those who have paid more for travel etc than we have
Same. Been hyping up for this for weeks.
Sorry that's happened! I'd encourage you to come in and make a night of it if you can afford it. Lord knows little breaks do a world of good!
This fucking sucks. I really hope they are not over. Love the D and it was my dream to see them live one day. Fuck!
Am I the only one who thinks this is a massive overraction? Say sorry, move on. Don't let it stop the rock.
Jables does Disney movies. He's worried about protecting the brand. Disappointing, really
Same!! Was seeing them on Thursday 😭😭 been so excited for it
Kyle has now posted on Instagram apologising.
Trump advocated for violence against politicians many times over and that was apparently acceptable given he's actually the 2024 Republican nominee.
Why is it okay when Republicans say things like that and no one else? The double standard is insane.
Republicans/Right/Conservatives all scream that the other side are "snowflakes" and need safe spaces, etc - but as soon as someone makes a joke they don't like, it's suddenly calls for shows to be canceled? It's wiiiillldddd. They don't see their own hypocrisy.
Because no one holds them accountable for their actions or words while everyone else is held accountable for both.
Just look at what happened with Al Franken. Conservatives never give up a chance to to go after liberals or progressives for their actions, but liberals and progressives overwhemingly seem to turn the other cheek when it's conservatives that are caught in the act.
We had flights and accommodation booked for Melbourne, this was my partners birthday present :(
I'm so sorry, whatever happens I'm sure they will appreciate you all the same
This is so depressing.
Trump killing Tenacious D now. Will the horrors ever stop?
What??? Nooooo!!! I was going to see them on Saturday!!!
Same, was gonna be my first time seeing them too 😭
"Kyle took a bullet for me"
So fucking sad. Been looking forward to the Melbourne show for ages. 😭😭😭😭
I mean my 76 year old mom made the same joke
Your dad is gonna put out a tweet distancing himself from her joke
Dad just cancelled early bird dinner at Denny's for the rest of the week.
I think he overreacted by cancelling the rest of the shows
I get both sides. He does this for fun though, his real income now is from mainstream hollywood roles. Im guessing his manager told him to distance himself from Kyle before he loses roles in major productions that dont want controversy.
For sure. Can't lose that Mario $$ lol
I think Biden’s campaign or at least Biden insiders probably had a say as well.
Jack Black was one of the keynote speakers at Biden’s major fundraiser in LA. JB was selling “Dark Brandon” merchandise as well.
When you have Obama, George Clooney, etc. all strongly condemning the assassination attempt, but the one guy associated with them having a band being like “lmao 🤣shouldn’t have missed 💯”… yeah it looks pretty fuckin bad politically.
Yup this is what happened
My bet is that Tenacious D will take a break from touring until after the election and all this stuff blows over.
Yup, I bet this is exactly how it played out.
I think it might be partly a safety issue as well. People be cray cray
We have loud fuckwits in Australia for sure that would maybe turn up and create noise outside the venues. It would last a week at best before they get distracted by some other shit from Sky (think Fox) News. They are very much a minority, just super loud and get shitloads of media coverage. To the point when we had antivax, lockdown protests, other anti government protests you would always see the professional protesters in the coverage.
As far as safety of the band and crew, they'd need to beef security up slightly but that's it. There is very little to worry about here in terms of actual violence.
I'm pissed it's cancelled, I'm just going to seek refund of my tickets if they don't confirm new dates by a couple of weeks. I've had too many shows cancelled during/after covid that just didn't get rescheduled
Seriously. It’s not even that offensive a joke. A billion people have made it online.
I bet half of those don't even mean it as a joke
It was a bit of a distasteful comment by KG but really, it's not that big of a deal. And literally 99% of people outside of the US dgaf. I understand it from Jack's point of view in some way but at the same time, don't throw your mate under the bus like this. I'm on KG's side on this, it was probably something said in the moment without much thought behind it - distasteful yes but we've all probably said much worse.
Fuckin sick of US politics leaking all over the world man
Funny... No one's saying shit about what Neil Hamburger said on any given night.
The politician calling for their deportation is a scumbag. He shared violent stabbing videos on twitter and told the Australian government and e-safety commissioner to “go f--k” themselves. Stating "I WILL NOT REMOVE IT. Without free speech our nation will fall."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/albanese-musk-feud-x-removal-stabbing-footage/103756722
Ralph is a bitch
You CANNOT publicly voice your support for the assassination of someone if you are in the entertainment industry. It’s pretty fucking simple.
Canceling the whole tour is such an overreaction. It feels like JB throwing Kyle under the bus. People are going to be mad at Kyle for “ruining the tour” and praising Jack for condemning his band mate. After all they’ve been through you think Jack would be a bit more loyal and supportive. It was just an edgy joke that lots and lots of people have made. Kyle doesn’t deserve this at all 😢
Why do I get the feeling he was forced to say this?
Yeah they're going to hibernate for a while, and start up again when it blows over. It's Jables and the Rage Kage. Friendship is rare.
Sounds like a lawyer talk
By who…advised maybe. Forced? No.
i stand with rage cage
God damnit, we can't have nice things.
I think a lot of this has to do with the Rock the Vote concerts they were going to have.
You can't really host a non-partisan rally when also making assassination jokes. That's all they'll be known for while hosting these rallys in the near future.
I'm guessing it'll blow over after the election.
No way is he folding this easily, this has to be a bit. If Auckland is canceled I am going to be so pissed.
The whole tour is cancelled I'm pretty sure I also had tickets to the Auckland show and I bought them resale so I got double fucked
i cant see jack black cancelling the tour, throwing off so many peoples plans, losing so much money and breaking so many fan's trust like that for a bit
Americans hold musicians to higher standards than they do their politicians, what a fucked up country.
Fuck Trump, fuck this. I stand with both JB and KG, hope this isn't the end
I saw NOFX that same night and Fat Mike made multiple jokes about it. They're on their farewell tour and don't care about getting cancelled, but wow what a contrast.
That friendly Bowser/Kung Fu Panda money has my boy acting crazy. KG was right
What a ridiculous overreaction on their part
This is such a weak move from Jack. Everyone knows tenacious d is satire. So many artists arent afraid of pissing off trumpers and openly invite trumpers to fuck off.
I'm guessing the severity may be connected to the "Rock the Vote" fundraiser concerts in the US.
Probably a bit of self-protection given he's a very recognisable figure who spends most of his time living in a country with easy access to guns and many die-hard MAGA Trump supporters
It’s mostly just business tbh. He’s acts in kids films and has a public facing reputation as a jovial, high spirited, safe fellow. Lawyers have called lawyers and now he’s gotta go wait for it to blow over.
He's a global family icon. I get why he did this.
wasn’t that KG who said it?
Yes, he's being a bit vague with his phrasing
Utterly distraught, was meant to see them in two days too. Was waiting 6 months for this 😃
Damn I was travelling 5 hours to get to the Melbourne show this weekend. Fuck this
Lol, Kage barely speaks to the audience during the concerts and the one time he does this shit happens.
His PR team is calling this strategy Kung Fu Pandering.
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Yeah, I agree with you, it seems he's thrown KG under the bus. The joke was bad but is it worth such outrage? It's not like anyone goes to TD for political direction anyway.
It’s a shame we can’t publicly have dark humour anymore
Definitely wants to make sure he won't get booted from the Minecraft movie
This sucks. And haven’t we all joked about a rapist/pedo being killed once or twice before? I hope JB and the Rage are ok.
Also fuck Trump.
This is heart breaking, but I will never laser off my D tattoo
Huh, what happened?
Cage said 'next time don't miss' about the Trump shooting
As an obvious joke
100% of the crowd agreed with him too.
Source: I was there
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Dude, I totally miss you
He burned up the photos of Jables and Kage doing mushrooms. Fuck him, I don’t need no Hollywood Jack anyway.
Absolutely devastated, had tickets for Thursdays show but I’m more upset that this could be the end of the D for good. Fucking politics
Jack's Minecraft deal flashing before his eyes...
This is such an overreaction I wonder if there’s more to it
Political statements killed the metal?
Honestly, I'd get it if Jack got pissed. It was a reckless thing to say. I don't really care either way, but they have record deals, contracts, connections that can get harmed by these kind of comments. Good luck getting Kung Fu Panda 7 off the ground if you associate with people calling for political violence.
That being said, I think this whole thing got blown out of proportion. Kages gonna rage.
Way out of proportion. The D makes way worse jokes than this. I only get it in that the extreme right/maga is dangerous and although they joke about Biden all the time and how everyone is a snowflake this is what makes them have “feelings” all of a sudden. Now people can’t joke about the future King Trump but Joe Biden has people on a daily basis wanting him dead or wishing far worse than what happened to Trump.
Oh, come on, JB laughed in the video. It’s like when Will Smith laughed but then got a look at Jada. Someone must have gotten to him.
Trump ruins everything. Long live the D.
God that Spray Tanned fuck ruins everything good. You know if it was Biden who was shot at Trump and his cult would have been cheering. Leave it to the anti-snowflake crowd to get their panties in a bunch over a comedian and a joke
So Jack, or his team, threw Kage under the bus? And still no news of refunds for the Newcastle and upcoming shows. What a wild day
Oh wtf. This is bad.
I guess Hollywood pays better
I've waited my whole life to see Tenacious D after missing appearances in my 20s. I was going to finally see them in Melbourne on Saturday, I was so god damn close.
Jack Black trying to maintain his family friendly public image imo.
He and Kyle would likely joke about this in public knowing Jack’s political ideals, but since it’s gone public he has to distance himself from it to maintain his Dreamworks voice acting roles.
What a shame.
If Ted Nugent waved a gun around on stage and say that certain politicians should suck on it, they didn't cancel him.
You can't kill the metal, the metal will live on
First of all, I feeeeel for all the Austrailian D-ciples. I would be absolutely devastated.
I imagine itll just be a break until at least the election is over.
The comedy metal band made an offensive joke, right before playing a song called Fuck her Gently....
Can we please grow up and stop this coddling of right wing feelings.
Everyone mad about this are also the type of people to moan about woke snowflakes being too easily offended about everything.
If you're a GOP member you can get away with comments like that but if you're a musician you can not. What a fucked up world we live in.
K I never thought I would lose a bit of respect for JB. This really disappointed me, deeply.
Me too. It’s the wording that really surprised me, absolutely hung KG out to dry
I stand with rage kage and it’s really disappointing to see Jack cave to a fascist piece of shit and his followers. Not very metal of you my guy
Real Hollywood Jack move. Fuckin' lame.
Long live the D . . .
I think it’s just a bunch of damage control and that one of the Australian senators wanted to revoke their travel visas.
It was a joke. 99% of the D fans will know that, but the obvious joke about violence is bad PR. Also the Trump supporters are a very vocal and often gun-carrying minority.
There are fans griping on their insta at how hurt they are by what they said, but they are a sensitive group of people.
I think and hope this isn’t the end of The D. It would be a shame for something so stupid to be the end of something so great. But the band wants to be able to perform safely and without their visa’s getting revoked.
Also, for Jack, if his visa is revoked, he probably can’t make movies in Australia either, so they want to keep their visas.
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Man, what the fuck.
Well fuck a duck and the Palmer United Party
Melbourne ticket holder...looking forward to this show was really getting me through winter this year...fucking devastated.
Jack could have just been like Kyle I got to throw you under the bus here and guessing he would have been totalling cool with it as was his joke and how long they have been friends
At least hoping that’s the case
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Anybody saying jack is overreacting, let put his family friendly career aside. Kyle provoked one of the most unhinged, trigger happy group of people... I wouldn't blame him for just being scared.
All over a joke? Come on man
Jack tries to separate himself from that statement to protect his Hollywood career. What a sad world we live in, when artists have to cancel themselves over a bad joke.
Lmao Jack its ok, I was in a restaurant in Colorado when the shooting happened and I can confidently say that the entire restaurant yelled “FUCK HE MISSED!!! God dammit!” Everyone in the restaurant and adjacent restaurant patrons were upset at the fact the shooter missed and were fuming at the fact the country would have been different if indeed he had hit the target. The reality is that people just don’t like sleepy Donnie.
He was obviously joking - too many snowflakes these days... I've heard blue comedians say way worse stuff - but it's not real - it's comedy/fantasy and not to be taken seriously
If a single edgy obvious joke in poor taste is what kills Tenacious D then just…man what the fuck. I guess JB is full-on family friendly corporate now.
I had tickets to the final show in PA, my disappointment is immeasurable and my year is ruined
Who tf even cares what Kyle said, they really not some massive popular with literally everyone band, no one would have ever heard about this “incident” if he hadn’t of posted about it and made a big deal of it, seriously I changed up my trip to Europe to come home earlier to see tenacious D because it’s a bucket list item for me, and he cancels over this stupid joke? My lord
TENAC
Bros don’t cancel bros.
This is going to ruin the tour
Trump can be convicted of 34 felonies and not lose one supporter - in fact the fat fucker probably gained votes after taking some glass to the ear.
TD makes a flippant comment and their career is over…
Scales of justice or some such shit.
Jack is throwing Kyle under the bus
This is really silly. Jack's gonna do what he wants but Kyle did nothing wrong. People have been saying this kind of stuff about trump for years but now that he was attacked all jokes are off limits? No, they are not. What about all the anti-trump rhetoric at Rage Against The Machine shows? Roger Waters? Basically any comedian in the past 8 years? Kinda blowing my mind that Jack cancelled the tour over this.
This is more about Jacks career than anything.
You know if it was Biden, someone like Kid Rock would have a fucking concert full of shit like this.
LONG LIVE THE D!!!!
Jack is crazy. It was a dumb joke, made in the moment. Guarantee that plenty of comedians will be telling jokes on the subject, and they will be much darker than the one KG made. Man up Jack, stand by your friend. Jeez these typical freakin Hollywood types 😂
So many snowflakes whining on his Insta. I swear Trumpets are the most sensitive babies in the world
What a cop out. Absolutely lame response.
im saying this all from a completely politically neutral pov. if their statements are genuine and not a bit, i think its a tad over the top. people are allowed to state their opinions, especially in the form of a joke. its not like he said slurs or deeply criticised people. i also think they should have a bit more of a backbone and tell people to not be so easily offended. just my personal opinion.
No I bought resale tickets for the Auckland show I guess that money is gone now :(
Boo-urns
A stupid thing to say
United Australia Party wankers got to them
Who gets Saxaboom?
fucking lame
As long as there’s a record deal they’ll always be friends.
And there goes my plans to see them for the first time in October. Damn...
Ffs 🤦♂️
I highly doubt they're over. Kage and Jables will talk this out and maybe wait through the election.
Damn, so disappointed
Having them deported from AUS because of a joke is a bit dramatic. SMH
Dammit dude. I was so ready to see them live in October this year. I saw them once years ago but the venue was terrible. I was in the building but couldn’t even see the stage. Was really looking forward to actually seeing them this time.
This just feels like such a bad move for the fans. Really disappointed in how Jack is handling this.
Well that’s fucked. I get my Jack needs to step away for a bit. A very prosperous film career vs. a fun project. Too bad though. A poorly timed joke said in millions of homes across the nation but in a public setting. We’ll see you again, D. Long live the D. Long live me.
I’ve been trying to see the D for 20years. Finally got tix for October.
I need this to be a temporary thing.
Jack is overacting for sure! What Kyle said many have already said and it is clearly a joke. Canceling a tour and holding other creative plans? Be so fr.