{"id":92460,"date":"2024-07-16T21:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T01:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/07\/16\/tenacious-ds-kyle-gass-dropped-by-agent-following-trump-assassination-joke\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T01:04:06","slug":"tenacious-ds-kyle-gass-dropped-by-agent-following-trump-assassination-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/07\/16\/tenacious-ds-kyle-gass-dropped-by-agent-following-trump-assassination-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenacious D\u2019s Kyle Gass Dropped by Agent Following Trump Assassination\u00a0Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tTenacious D<\/a>\u2018s Kyle Gass<\/a> has been dropped by his agent Michael Greene<\/strong> of Greene Talent in the wake of Gass\u2019 onstage joke about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Greene confirmed with Billboard<\/em>. The news was first reported by Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe joke came during a Tenacious D show at the ICC Syndey Theatre in Sydney on Sunday (July 14) after Gass\u2019 Tenacious D partner Jack Black<\/a> implored him to \u201cmake a wish\u201d when Gass was presented with a birthday cake on stage. Gass responded, \u201cDon\u2019t miss Trump next time,\u201d a reference to the attempted assassination of the former president (and newly-crowned Republican presidential nominee) during a rally in Butler, Pa. on Saturday (July 13). The tragic incident resulted in the death of one audience member and led to serious injuries for two others.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAfter video footage of Gass\u2019 joke began circulating online, Black wrote via Instagram on Tuesday (July 16) that he had been \u201cblindsided\u201d<\/a> by the comment and that \u201cand all future creative plans\u201d for the duo would be put on hold. \u201cI would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tGass concurrently released his own statement apologizing for the remark, saying, \u201cThe line I improvised onstage Sunday night in Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake. I don\u2019t condone violence of any kind, in any form, against anyone. What happened was a tragedy, and I\u2019m incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgement. I profoundly apologize to those I\u2019ve let down and truly regret any pain I\u2019ve caused.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTenacious D and its Australasia tour producer, Frontier Touring, canceled a total of six shows in the wake of the backlash: Newcastle (July 16), July 18 (Brisbane), July 20 (Melbourne), July 22 (Adelaide), July 24 (Wellington) and July 26 (Auckland). As of press time, there is no word on whether the duo will still play five shows scheduled for October on its Rock D Vote Tour in U.S. swing states ahead of the presidential election.<\/p>\n

\n\tA representative for Gass did not immediately respond to Billboard<\/em>\u2018s request for comment on this story.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Tuesday, Australian Senator Ralph Babet<\/strong> of the United Australia Party released a statement <\/a>condemning Tenacious D and requesting that the duo \u201cbe immediately removed from the country.\u201d He also called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese <\/strong>to join him in denouncing the band and asked Immigration Minister Andrew Giles <\/strong>\u201cto revoke their visas and deport them immediately.\u201d He added, \u201cAnything less than deportation is an endorsement of the shooting and attempted assassination\u201d of Trump.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump took the stage on the first night of the Republican National Convention on Monday (July 15) with a bandage on his right ear, which was grazed by a bullet during the assassination attempt. The former president also announced Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate Monday.<\/p>\n

\n\tAuthorities are still searching for a motive for the shooter, a 20-year-old registered Republican who was killed by Secret Service snipers after firing off several rounds using an AR-15 rifle.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlack and Gass formed Tenacious D in 1994 when both were members of The Actors\u2019 Gang theater company. The duo has released a total of four studio albums and also starred in their own self-titled HBO series that ran from 1997 to 2000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tenacious D\u2018s Kyle Gass has been dropped by his agent Michael Greene of Greene Talent in the wake of Gass\u2019 onstage joke about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Greene confirmed with Billboard. The news was first reported by Rolling Stone. The joke came during a Tenacious D show at the ICC Syndey Theatre in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}