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Jack Black announces new movie ‘School of Spineless PR Management’ (chaser.com.au)

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[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 115 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Australian venues were already cancelling before JB did anything.

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 12 points 5 months ago

What is this about? I must've missed this.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 months ago

Oh and in his posts he said that all future creative plans for the band are on hold, not just the tours.

Which to me seems like a massive overreaction. I can understand canceling the tours for safety but everything else? Eh...

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

Especially since at the concert everyone laughed, there was no pearl clutching till the twitter post

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[-] Kroxx@lemm.ee 82 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] fukurthumz420@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago

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'.

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[-] kn33@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

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