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."

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    4 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.

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

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

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

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

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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.