Jb should have just kept his mouth shut, maybe made some half assed apology, but that’s about it. Making a big deal about how unacceptable Kage’s comment was is just pandering to the far right. It’s mostly just the far right that is pearl clutching over this.
Comedy is the last bastion of free speech. If you do not like the joke then stop listening, move on, change the channel. Censoring comedy because someone doesn’t like the joke is the only thing that is unacceptable here. Really disappointed in Jabels here.
Or maybe theres more to it than we know. I'd actually be shocked if he and his family weren't receiving death threats for those comments, so I dunno, maybe he didn't want him and his fans to get shot the fuck up at one if their shows (or at the very least have issues performing due to anxiety over such an event).
Unfortunately, in the current US, it's not an irrational fear for someone like him. I can't say I blame him at all.
Canceling the tour and essentially breaking up the band is what brought all the attention in the first place. My point was that nobody in the US would have heard about this if JB hadn’t made such a big deal.
His partner in Tenacious D, Kyle Gass, had his birthday the day after the Trump assassination attempt. When asked what he wished for his birthday live on stage, Kyle said "don't miss Trump next time".
Jack canceled the remaining shows and has posted some huge social media posts about how terrible that joke was and how upset he is.
I can agree. It was a joke in poor taste but a stern talking would have been fine, right?
People make mistakes and it's best to keep politics far from entertainment.
Maybe so, but it's off-brand for a comedy duo like Tenacious D to comment on politics, especially in a country with some right-wing nutjobs like Australia.
I don't doubt that both Jack Black and Kyle Gass are both liberal dudes, but their whole thing is inoffensive rock/metal comedy that's accessible to all. With that said, it's been entirely blown out of proportion.
All you people up there in City Hall, you're fucking it up for all the people that's in the streets, this is a song for the people in the streets not the people in City Hall....
The fuck are you talking about? As far as I understand it, he didn't throw Gass in a cage to keep him from every stating a joke again... he just chose not to participate in something he didn't agree with. That kind of choice thing you claim to be for.
Are you some sort of free speech absolutist who only wants people to agree with you?
Why can't people see that this is about self-preservation, not PR.
Like for fuck sake, do you need to see gay people lined up against a wall by conservative death squads before realizing how fucked up the situation here is?
I'd be shocked if both of them (and their families) have not been receiving death threats since Gass made the joke.
Imo, JB capitulated to the far right by so staunchly objecting to KG’s comment/joke… it wasn’t necessary for him to make such a big deal about it, legitimizing the outrage which, imo, wasn’t justified.
Have whatever opinion you want, idgaf.
Also, a ‘free speech absolutist’ and ‘only wanting people to agree with you’ are unrelated concepts… to quote you, the fuck are you talking about?
it's kind of dramatic to frame "hey it's not cool to use our platform to jokingly encourage would-be assassins" as "capitulation" to such-and-such political movement. by all means make assassination jokes in private but it's different when it's through a megaphone like that - we live in an age of stochastic terror man, that shit's been weaponized for a decade now and it's silly to pretend it isn't as long as the "joke" reflects your own feelings. this is some maga-level mental gymnastics, maybe think more about it.