'We'll be back': Jack Black says band Tenacious D 'needs a break' but will eventually return when the time is right
Actor and musician Jack Black vowed that his band Tenacious D will eventually return from hiatus despite canceling their tour over remarks about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
During a tour stop in Sydney, Australia, bandmate Kyle Gass was performing alongside Black when Gass was asked to make a birthday wish. Surprisingly, Gass said, "Don't miss Trump next time," referring to Trump nearly being shot in the head by a sniper just two days earlier.
The next day, Black announced that future creative plans with the band would be put on hold, and the remainder of the tour would be canceled.
Black spoke about the band's status with Variety at the premiere of the movie "Borderlands."
"We need to take a break. Everybody needs a break sometime," Black said about the future of the group. "And we'll be back," he added.
When asked if he had spoken to Gass since the tour was canceled, the actor replied "Yeah, we're friends. That hasn't changed. These things take time sometimes. ... And we'll be back when it feels right."
'I love Tenacious D. It's probably my favorite job, if you can call it that.'
Black posted a statement on Instagram after the tour was canceled that he was "blindsided" by Gass' remarks and would "never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form."
Gass, in a since-deleted post of his own, said that his "improvised" line was "highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake."
"I don't condone violence of any kind, in any form, against anyone. What happened was a tragedy, and I'm incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgement. I profoundly apologize to those I've let down and truly regret any pain I've caused," Gass added.
Despite his apology, Gass was later dropped by his talent agency over the incident, according to the Daily Mail.
At the "Borderlands" premiere, Black showed off the magical guitar pick from his groundbreaking musical comedy film "Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny."
The album and movie became cult classics as Black was becoming a Hollywood staple in comedy films.
"Look what I wore today: I wore the Pick of Destiny," Black said on the red carpet. "I love Tenacious D. It's probably my favorite job, if you can call it that. It's a work of art, it's my baby."
Tenacious D's last studio album, "Post-Apocalypto," was released in 2018.
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Avid Biden supporter Jack Black laughed at Kyle Gass' joke about the recent assassination attempt that killed a rally attendee.
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DEBUNKED: Democrat LIES about Trump VP pick JD Vance
After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt, former President Donald Trump wasted no time announcing who his vice president will be: Sen. JD Vance.
Of course, the left immediately went into fear mode, painting Vance as a “MAGA extremist.”
The official Biden-Harris HQ account on X even shared a fear mongering graphic on Vance to drive this point home.
The graphic featured a checklist of Vance’s supposed views, including, “JD Vance supports Trump’s Project 2025 agenda, says Project 2025 is ‘full of good ideas,’ opposes marriage equality, compares abortion to slavery, supports a national abortion ban, opposes Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, opposes ACA, 2020 election denier, and kisses up to Putin and Russia.”
Sara Gonzales doesn’t see the problem.
“Great, I’m in. I’m like guys, I was already voting for this team, you don’t have to keep selling me,” Gonzales laughs.
Of course, much of the list is exaggerated — like his apparent comparison of abortion to slavery.
What Vance actually said in a recent podcast interview was that “slavery and abortion have a morally distorting effect on the entire society.”
Joy Behar of "The View" has also jumped on the opportunity to spread fear about the vice presidential candidate, accusing Vance of wanting to force children who are raped or victims of incest to give birth.
While Vance’s stance on abortion for women is clear, Behar took him completely out of context.
“It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it’s whether a child should be allowed to live. Even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society, the question really to me is about the baby,” Vance said in a recent podcast when asked about abortion in cases where a woman has been raped or a victim of incest.
President Biden went completely off the rails as well in a post on X, where he said that Trump and Vance plan to “raise taxes on middle class families while pushing more tax cuts for the rich.”
“Isn’t it cute that the Democrats are constantly projecting onto Republicans what they themselves are guilty of?” Gonzales asks. “The truth of the matter is of course, JD Vance told the New York Times he opposed higher taxes for the middle class.”
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