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Jack Black cancels Tenacious D tour and places future projects on hold after Kyle Gass comments on Trump (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Jack Black announced on Instagram that he's cancelled the rest of the Tenacious D world tour and placed future projects on hiatus.

This happened after his bandmate Kyle Gass sparked controversy by commenting on the recent Donald Trump assassination attempt.

At their recent Sydney show, Kyle Gass was given a birthday cake and asked to make a wish for his 64th birthday, to which he said "Don't miss Trump next time."

In his later statement, Black said he was "blindsided" by his bandmate's comment and condemned any calls for political violence.

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[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Man, americans really do need famous guys to tell them what to think.

[–] exanime@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Recently had to take a trip to the USA for work and it felt surreal... all the posters of whatever celebrity with captions like "XYZ wants you to stop littering" or "Such-and-Such only use Colgate". It felt like a brain washing operation for toddlers (and this was at the airport)

[–] DannyMac@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's weird, I don't notice that too much.

Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Meanwhile, George Clooney only does nescafe commercials in foreign languages.

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah. It’s fucking sad. Our education system gutted arts and critical thinking. We are doomed. Hope we don’t hurt you guys on our way down.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

We are in a war for our future right now and we can take all the help we can get.

[–] MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Nobody needs anything but to have access to the most famous people in the world, the most money in the world, and the biggest markets in the world, and not put them all together is just bad business.