"I'm in a different hemisphere, I'm in a different continent. And I'm naively forgetting about cameras and such. So [we play] "The Metal" and then I just decided to quip about what happened. And it was terrible. It was terrible judgment, obviously. I've felt terrible ever since, because it's such a responsibility to not screw up like that."
"And I did it. It was hard to take responsibility for it, but it was my fuck-up. When you're in it, it's hard to even think straight. It's just this thing flooding and coming at you. We had to take the break. And I got it. Jack has this magnificent career; I can't even count the franchises now. So as hard as it was, I just had to take the long ride home."
Tenacious D put plans on hold after Kyle Gass made an onstage joke about Trump being shot during a birthday show in Australia. Jack Black said the duo would come back when it felt right. Gass described feeling naive and safe in a celebratory bubble, noting that five quick words triggered massive backlash. He called his judgment terrible, expressed remorse, and accepted responsibility for the fallout. He described the situation as intense and overwhelming, compared it to a "Defcon 2" moment, and acknowledged professional and public consequences, including calls for deportation and losing representation.
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