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

submitted 3 months ago by DxK@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] kn33@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 71 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (55 children)

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.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

It was not the greatest joke in the world. No, it was just a tribute.

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[–] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

KG made a joke about Trump getting assassinated and Black totally stopped the tour and disowned him.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Never thought I’d see someone think they had to white knight Jack Black, but here we are

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

NGL I'm kind of hoping that Jack isnt a closet MAGA asshole. Ill take a benign capitalist motive over that.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago

Oh, I don’t think he’s MAGA, I think he’s just entirely too worried about his acting career and threw Kyle under the bus without a second thought. Kyle just said what occurred to him in the moment and rather than backing Kyle, Jack just turned weasel.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People can lie but he seems to support Biden.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

He supports Biden, but not his best friend.

Goddamn it, JB. Just goddamn.