Jack Black announces new movie ‘School of Spineless PR Management’

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.

Yeah...

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.

It's fucking stupid, but here we are.
- 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.
What is this about? I must've missed this.
- 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.
Especially since at the concert everyone laughed, there was no pearl clutching till the twitter post
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?
- 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?
- 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.

Fuck yeah love the satire, I lost so much respect for JB over how he handled kyle glass's comment. Tenacious D is one of my favorite sleepover movies from when I was a kid.

the left needs to stop being a bunch of cowards. tell the right we're coming for them. they need to be scared of us. quit living up to the stereotype of 'average liberal soyboy'.

If liberals weren't soyboy cowards they'd be a proud vegetarian socialist.
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." When fascists eventually resort to it, they find they're not the only ones who can use violence.
- or we could just shut them all down now before that day ever comes.

I feel like this is referencing something I'm out of the loop on

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/jack-black-cancels-tenacious-d-tour-trump-assassination-kyle-gass-1236073486/

Jack Black canceled his tour after Kyle Gass made a joke about the Trump assassination attempt.
- It was not the greatest joke in the world. No, it was just a tribute.
- Let's not bury the lede here: the joke in question was making a birthday wish while blowing out candles saying "don't miss next time". Joke or not, that is publicly encouraging the assassination of a former president.
  
  Like, there's a big difference between "I heard he shit his pants when the bullets started flying" and "I hope it happens again and succeeds this time".
  
  Fuck Trump. Fuck everything about him. But you gotta know that shit isn't acceptable when standing next to the guy who played Bowser for Nintendo
  
  EDIT: Whole lot of people in here can't fucking read lmao. I don't give a shit about Trump, conservatives, or anyone on that side of this issue. I just know that it's a dumb move to make that joke standing on stage with a guy who stars in PG movies for a living. Y'all need to get a grip
KG made a joke about Trump getting assassinated and Black totally stopped the tour and disowned him.
- There may be more to this that we arent aware of like they agreed to not do controversial material ages ago and Kyle pitched the joke and Jack said "Dude fucking no, we dont want to touch this."
  
  It might be more about creative differences than the actual joke is what I'm saying.

Last week, Kyle quit the band...

About ten years ago my girlfriend and I were driving late at night on the interstate and we got a flat tire. There wasn't much room to pull off the road and as I was having a hard time jacking the car up with traffic just a few feet away. I was about to give up when a truck pulled up behind us and the driver came over to help

...wrong thread, or am I missing some reference here?
- Since we're all talking about Jack Black I just wanted to share a story
That driver was Warren Buffet.
- We never did get his name