696
submitted 4 months ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

The latest show on Tenacious D’s Australian tour has been postponed after senator Ralph Babet demanded the pair be deported following an apparent joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

American comedy rock duo Jack Black and Kyle Gass were due to perform in Newcastle on Tuesday evening, but the show – part of the band’s Spicy Meatball Tour – was cancelled without notice on Tuesday afternoon.

Concert promoter Frontier Touring said on social media that it regretted “to advise that Tenacious D’s concert tonight at Newcastle Entertainment Centre has been postponed”.

Video from the event showed (Kyle) Gass being presented with a birthday cake and told to “make a wish” as he blew out the candles. Gass then appeared to say “don’t miss Trump next time” – just hours after the shooting at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania that left the former president injured.

(page 3) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago

So who actually postponed the show? One senator got his balls in a twist, but it doesn't seem like anything official's been done yet.

load more comments (9 replies)
[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I may not care about their music, but I support them. DJT and all of his frothingly mad followers are the whole reason that the violence and anger have wildly increased out of control in the first place. As far as I'm concerned, this is just them reaping what they've sown.

[-] fisco@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

The world has gone PC mad 🤦🏻‍♂️

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

They should write a song about this whole affair

[-] Hackworth@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I did not mean...

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's me...

No KG.

No me

Tenacious deeeeeeeeheeee

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2024
696 points (97.2% liked)

World News

39021 readers
1006 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS