Tenacious D Goes On 45 Day Hunger Strike; Quit After 1 Hour
Rock duo in school of mock
The well-fed rockers of Tenacious D went on a 45-day hunger strike yesterday.
They were tenacious enough to last about an hour.
A comic-rock duo featuring actor Jack Black, Tenacious D has earned a hard-core following of fans ravenous for their anthems invoking the themes and lingo of heavy metal.
Yesterday, Black and partner Kyle Gass pledged a gesture as grand as their music, saying they would starve themselves while dangling above Times Square for 45 days – or until their new DVD sold 1 million copies.
“Kyle is going to bring a guitar, and if we need extra nourishment, we will live off the power of each other’s rock,” Black said.
MTV’s “Total Request Live” broadcast Black and Gass being hoisted above Times Square at Broadway and 45th St., entering a glass-like box with nothing but a guitar and a bucket.
The portly pop stars wore skintight, silver superhero costumes emblazoned with the letter D.
Their stunt lampooned magician David Blaine’s attempt to survive without food while suspended in a glass box above the Thames River in London. Blaine lasted 44 days.
“I have evidence that David Blaine had liquid cheeseburgers pumped into his box,” Black said at a press conference before the event.
But when put to the test, the duo soon started pounding the glass and yelling, “Let me down!” They were brought down during a commercial break.
Gass noted he had once gone eight hours without eating, and added he had prepared for the fast, having eaten “extra eggs with my corn beef hash this morning.”
