Australian senator Ralph Babet demands the duo, Hollywood star Jack Black and musician Kyle Gass, be deported over the latter’s comment

The latest show on Tenacious D’s Australian tour has been postponed after senator Ralph Babet demanded the pair be deported following an apparent joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

American comedy rock duo Jack Black and Kyle Gass were due to perform in Newcastle on Tuesday evening, but the show – part of the band’s Spicy Meatball Tour – was cancelled without notice on Tuesday afternoon.

Concert promoter Frontier Touring said on social media that it regretted “to advise that Tenacious D’s concert tonight at Newcastle Entertainment Centre has been postponed”.

Video from the event showed (Kyle) Gass being presented with a birthday cake and told to “make a wish” as he blew out the candles. Gass then appeared to say “don’t miss Trump next time” – just hours after the shooting at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania that left the former president injured.

    • iheartneopets@lemm.eeEnglish
      292·
      4 months ago

      Well. Half of Tenacious D. The other half is making posts on his Instagram like this:

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        • iheartneopets@lemm.eeEnglish
          10·
          4 months ago

          He’s not an infant or a puppet. Anything posted for him almost certainly comes with his at least partial approval. Who do you think hires his PR firm? He does.

          • brognak@lemm.eeEnglish
            261·
            4 months ago

            Canceling an entire tour, that people already bought tickets and travel for, over a small gaff made off the cuff by someone who has been his friend longer than a large amount of Lemmy has been alive, is fucking cowardice. And this is 100% a PR firms opinion and we will never know whatever JBs true feelings are because, again, hes a coward and will never speak out about it for fears it might upset his money train.

          • BruceTwarzen@lemm.eeEnglish
            221·
            4 months ago

            I wish i had a time machine to kill hitler.

            Hey now easy, don’t call for political violence.

          • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.worldEnglish
            171·
            4 months ago

            Anyone who sees the writing on the wall would’ve backed Kyle up. Our country is in deep trouble. I know it, Jack knows it, you know it, we all know it. The head of project 25 literally said things will “remain bloodless” in the midst of the “second American revolution” if “the left allows it”. You understand what that means right? I stand with Kyle.