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Tenacious D Interview

07 February 2003

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Do you think Britain can fully appreciate the Tenacious D style of humour?

JB:  (taking a very noisy drink of water)
….ssshhlllluuurrrppppppppp,mmmnnyyaaaaaaaaaaahhhh.
………………………mmm………………nnmmmmnnnnaaaa

KG:  …..I don’t know, that has to be seen.

JB:  I dunno.  There may be a problem with the language barrier (because it’s a different language here, right?

KG: Britain-ese, I think they call it.

JB:  We’ve heard that a lot of people speak English though.

KG:  Will Scotland ever regain it’s independence?

Uh, next question...

JB:  (to Kyle) Scotland?  Aren’t they independent? Wasn’t it Ireland?

Jack, what are the best and worst differences between doing Tenacious D and doing movies - being on the road or kissing Gwyneth Paltrow all day?

JB:  I only got to kiss Gywneth Paltrow for a few seconds at a time and then she was off to her trailer like she didn’t know me. And that’s not as fun as it sounds. Actually, it was pretty fun. I prefer the road with the band. It’s less stressful, you can make your own hours and when you’re recording an album, you wake up and decide when you're gonna go record the day after, ‘four in the afternoon sounds good to me, brother’. 

So, it’s just the lazy lifestyle then?

JB:  Yeah, but in the movies, it’s like ‘You’ll be waking up at four in the morning’. And you’ll get in the make-up chair and you’ll be wearing this fruity outfit that was picked out for you.

Do you have a favourite fruity outfit?

JB:  I look pretty ridiculous in a tank-top.  Any time that I have to wear a shirt that I have to tuck my short into my pants, I look a bit like a troll or a DWAARRRFFF!!!!

Kyle, what do you get up to when Jack’s off doing his movies?

KG:  Um, masturbate mostly.  Some television.  Actually, I’m an actor also, but of less fame & fortune than Jack, but I’m actually gonna do a TV show next year on NBC.

JB:  You asked before if Britain will think we’re funny, who’s the big comedian over here now?  My favourite is Peter Sellers, that dead guy. 
He was British. Uh, our stuff is pretty dirty though.

So where did the legendary 'D' originally meet?
 
JB:  Well, me and Kyle actually met in Scotland and our friendship blossomed at the Edinburgh theatre festival in ’89.  We did a show there with the Actors Gang Theatre Company that Tim Robbins was in charge of.  It wasn’t even in the Fringe; we were in the main festival. We went and got drunk at the End Of The World pub and some other pub where some guy hanged himself. Think I’ve still got the T-shirt. Uh, we’ve also got some short films from it that we now show in-between songs.

What kind?

JB:  There’s one called ‘Rock Star Sperm for sale’.

Is that Ron Jeremy or something?

JB: Oh no, NO, no, no, NO. It’s all me…& Kyle. There’s another one called ‘Butt Baby’. That’s where Kyle delivers a baby through his anus.

That sounds sexy...

KG: They’re sort of like Benny Hill.

He’s big in America, isn’t he?

KG: Yeah.

Why?

KG: I dunno, didn’t he come from here?

Yeah, but we didn’t like him.

JB:  Do you guys have Benny Hin, that evangelical preacher?

No.  Never heard of him.

JB:  Okay, good, don’t let him in.

KG: Whose Line Is It Anyway? 

We get that.

JB:  Well we’re better than that. Bunch of ‘blokes’ pretending to be funny at the last second. ‘Make-em-ups’ I like to call it. 

KG:  Greg Proops. What do call that thing we’d like to do to him?

JB:  ‘Brain him?’  He’s like ‘now I know, look at me, I’m a professor of comedy’. 

KG: ‘Here I am, with a telephone, hmmm, what can I do?’.

JB:  It takes a lot for me to laugh these days, there’s gotta be some shock to it.

Like Bill Hicks?

JB:  Yeah!  

Any plans to return to the UK?

JB:  Don’t know, depends on where the love is. 

And is it here?

JB: I don’t know yet, we don’t know if anybody likes us.

Last question. What’s more important, world domination or being bigger than Satan? 

JB:  What’s the difference? I wouldn’t wanna be bigger than Satan. He might get jealous and turn us into toads. World domination has always been the key, our goal. 

KG: Think we’re gonna have some trouble with Indonesia though.

JB:  China?  No. I think Germany’s the next stop though.

KG: Chinese life’s easy though.

JB:  You were thinking about the buddah again weren’t you?

Well, that’s all I have to ask then...

JB:  It was good to meet your vocal acquaintance. Next time we come to Scotland, you come see us, we’ll go play golf.  And Kyle’s pretty good at golf so WATCH OUT BUDDY!



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