{"id":421577,"date":"2026-01-21T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421577\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:40:08","slug":"kyle-gass-talks-trump-shooting-joke-backlash-tenacious-ds-future-more-in-new-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421577\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Gass talks Trump shooting joke backlash, Tenacious D’s future, more in new interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tenacious D put all plans \u201con hold\u201d<\/a> after Kyle Gass joked onstage about Trump getting shot in 2024, but Jack Black said they\u2019d \u201cbe back\u201d<\/a> \u201cwhen it feels right.\u201d Gass has now spoken at length about the situation for the first time, in a new interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>. \u201cI was naive, of course \u2014 people are gonna pick that up,\u201d he told Rolling Stone. \u201cBut I just felt it was kind of a private moment. I thought I was safe in the bubble. And it was so fast. Five one-syllable words that brought down the empire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking back on that night with Rolling Stone, Gass emphasized that Australia was one of the duo\u2019s \u201cfavorite destinations\u201d and the high spirits surrounding his birthday night, adding, \u201cI\u2019m in a different hemisphere, I\u2019m in a different continent. And I\u2019m naively forgetting about cameras and such. So [we play] \u201cThe Metal\u201d and then I just decided to quip about what happened. And it was terrible. It was terrible judgment, obviously. I\u2019ve felt terrible ever since, because it\u2019s such a responsibility to not screw up like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a Defcon 2 for sure in the camp,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd I did it. It was hard to take responsibility for it, but it was my fuck-up. When you\u2019re in it, it\u2019s hard to even think straight. It\u2019s 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\u2019t even count the franchises now. So as hard as it was, I just had to take the long ride home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Telling Rolling Stone about some of the backlash, from calls for him to be deported to being dropped by his agent, Gass said, \u201cIt didn\u2019t take long to be like, \u2018Oh this guy is such a grandstander.\u2019 We\u2019re so used to it over here, where people take the opportunity to make a grand statement. And then the next day, my agent dropped me. And I was like, \u2018Well, gee, it would have been nice to at least talk to you or something.\u2019 But I think he wanted to get in the news cycle too\u2026 It did feel like an overreaction. But that speaks more to my relationship with my agent. I\u2019ve been around a long time and I guess he was tired of me saying no to too many projects or something. He saw an opening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gass also told Rolling Stone about his relationship with Black now, saying, \u201cNo, I mean, Jack and I are all good. At the end of the day, we\u2019re friends. I\u2019ve known Jack since he was 18 and it\u2019s been such a long marriage, really. You go up and down, and we\u2019ve always taken long breaks. He\u2019s had a lot of stuff to do, and I\u2019ve got my other projects. So it doesn\u2019t even feel that different now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gass also reiterated that Tenacious D will return, saying, \u201cWe will serve no D-wine, before it\u2019s D-time \u2014 but we will be back. We will return.\u201d Read the interview in full on Rolling Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Gass\u2019 band the Kyle Gass Band release a new album, Live in Palmdale<\/a>, this Friday (1\/23), and he has a few shows coming up with them in California. See all dates below.<\/p>\n

KYLE GASS BAND: 2026 TOUR DATES
Friday, Jan 23 -Studio City, CA @ Licorice Pizza \u2013 Album Release Show and Signing
Friday, March 6 \u2013 Long Beach, CA @ DiPiazza\u2019s
Saturday, March 7 \u2013 Palmdale, CA @ Transplants Brewery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tenacious D put all plans \u201con hold\u201d after Kyle Gass joked onstage about Trump getting shot in 2024,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,12625,201254,216,201216],"class_list":["post-421577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-jack-black","tag-kyle-gass","tag-music","tag-tenacious-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}