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."

  • 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.

  • Watching the reaction to this leads me to believe people treat life as they do a video game. Thousands of lives are expendable, but people suddenly clutch pearls when it’s one of the people whose lives “matter.”

    Would Jack Black have canceled the tour if someone defended one of the people committing genocide in Palestine or putting immigrants in cages and deporting them back to potentially destructive situations?

    I really can’t muster the energy to care about someone like Trump or Biden when I’m seeing dead children in my feed every day.

    “I don’t support violence.” Yes these people do, with their silence and complicity. It’s hypocrisy and double standards of the most disgusting kind.

    Tl;dr I’ve lost respect for Jack Black

    • I think the concern isn’t that Kyle said something offensive, but that what Kyle said puts a target on their backs. If you perform on stage in public, you don’t want your bandmate joking about assassinating people on stage in public, especially when an attempt actually occurs and there’s a large number of extremists interested in retribution.