Tenacious D member’s vile Trump joke risks Jack Black’s ‘good guy’ image

nypost.com:

recent “This Is Me… Now” tour. No superstar wants to perform to a sea of velvet. Or an untimely illness could befall the singer, as happened when Celine Dion was diagnosed with the rare neurological disorder Stiff Person Syndrome.Adele’s Las Vegas residency was initially — and dramatically — delayed for a few months due to artistic issues.Far less common is an entire, multicity, international tour being axed due to a single ugly remark.But that’s what went down this week when Tenacious D band member Kyle Gass made a vile joke about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Jack Black presented Gass with a birthday cake onstage during a gig in Sydney and asked his friend to “make a wish.” Cute. What could possibly be scandalous about Dewey from “School of Rock” delivering a baked dessert during what was dubbed “The Spicy Meatball Tour”?

Well, one day after a shooter’s bullet nearly hit the ex-president in the head, Gass responded, in a moment that was recorded on video, “Don’t miss Trump next time.” Beyond disgusting.

There was no coming back from such a putrid comment. And therefore the band’s frontman, comedian and movie star Black, nixed the remainder of their dates three days later.