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the details (via Variety Magazine):

Kyle Gass, true heart of the poster, put the tenacious in tenacious d, Jack Black, true pants of the pisser, put the money in his mouth and his whole ass in front of the camera

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 month ago (6 children)

imagine ending a lucrative partnership/long term friendship over someone disliking the same guy as you, but a little more

honestly really repellent behavior

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago

It also makes all their other "edgy" humor just seem conpletely cringe.

They make fun of pearl clutches getting mad at rock music because it's the devil so made rock songs about the devil and rocks but if somebody says something mean about a fascist that's a bridge to far.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jack Black would rather still be in kung-fu panda 27, instead of being tethered to a guy who pulled a kathy lee griffin by going in too hard on trump for civility-minded people.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago

what kathy griffin did was significantly cooler and more hardcore! that's part of what makes it so gutless; this is basically a nothing statement that literally billions of people would casually agree with and it's being treated as if gass came out and said "i am a full-fledged neo-nazi, i have killed before and i will kill again, a very special thank you to my boy jack for making it all possible!" it's so far beyond ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Such a comment is too incivil" maybe-later-honey

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Jack Black definitely agrees, he's just a hyper careerist with a very manicured public persona. These people believe in their careers above all, and that's what this is about. All PR.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He probably has enough money to live on for the rest of his life without working again if he wanted to. At that point, you either have principles or you don't and Jack Black clearly doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apparently he has $50 million.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, enough that he, his children, his grandchildren, and his great-grandchildren need never work a day in their lives.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Apparently if you buy 1$ million worth of state bonds, the yearly payout will be about equal to a teacher's salary (depending on the type of bond of course). That's not a lot, but it's enough to live on in a lot of places. He can buy that fifty times.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

sure, but this is how rich people are.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

It’s time he stopped LARPing at being a rock star if he wants to be family friendly G-rated celeb

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And yet, completely par for a rock star.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

oooooh trust me, i know it. i spent my teens/early 20s around college town musicians

the disgusting shit most of them routinely did makes this look like a downright heroic way to spend your time in comparison

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

I know, right? You've known each other for years, this is completely tame.