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Tuesday, November 04, 2003

can't beat the MTV news title 

Posted by Nick : 8:37 PM

Tenacious D Hunger Strike Proves They're Just Hungry For Attention:
NEW YORK — They were supposed to remain suspended in a glass cage above Times Square for 45 days. Tenacious D didn't even make it 45 minutes.

A mere 23 minutes after being hoisted in the air to begin what they claimed would be an extended hunger strike, Jack Black freaked out and Kyle Gass pulled handfuls of hidden M&Ms from his costume, plunging them frantically into his mouth. The goofball rockers were lowered to the ground and carted away in an ambulance.

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At the press conference, Black bristled at the idea that the D had copied Blaine. "I want to make one thing clear," he said with a straight face. "We are not out on some bullsh-- thing where you go up for 44 days and 44 nights. We're going for a full 45 days and 45 nights, and not only that, but I have evidence that David Blaine had liquid cheeseburgers pumped into his box through a tube. We will not have a tube."
If you love Jack Black's humor you have got to pick up Tenacious D's album. I own it, and it is simply wonderful. It works on that supreme level of parody, done so well in the conventions of the medium that you're prone to forget that you are witness to a parody.

For further examples of the supreme level of parody, see Simpsons seasons 2-5,6,7,8 or 9... determining when exactly The Simpsons jumped the shark will be a future blog post, just as soon as I need distraction from a really big project. Finals aren't too far away!

UPDATE: I see Viking Pundit really outdid me in the D joke department.
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