Please welcome Kyle Gass and Jack Black, Tenacious D.
("Kashmir", Led Zeppelin)
(crowd cheering)
The greatest band in the world.
Thank you.
You've trained them well though, very well.
My minions will do is I tell them.
Yey, merrily yeah.
Who are you?
That was some entrance.
That was like a writhing mass
of uncomfortableness, over there.
We made it, we made it to the chase.
(muttering)
That was great, you came out to Zeppelin
in the only way one can come out to Zeppelin.
That was fantastic.
Thank you
So much to talk about.
First of all, Jack, congratulations.
You had a baby, is this correct?
I do have a baby (indistinct)
(crowd cheers)
That's great, congratulations.
Seriously, that's...
I'm, uh, I'm...
[Conan] You enjoying it?
I'm pretty happy with him.
[Conan] Yeah.
He's pretty darn...
You can't send him back.
Yeah, unfortunately he does take after me
in that he's fat, he's pretty fat.
[Kyle] Babies can be fat, yeah.
I'm gonna do a little bit of lipo just to...
Just to get rid of the baby fat
and then he's gonna be 'mwah'.
No, 'cause it's competitive.
A lot of celebrity babies and he's gonna thank me, later.
What do you mean you're competing
with other celebrity babies?
Yeah, I'm competing with the Brendalina baby,
Tomcat baby, you got a baby.
[Conan] Yeah.
And mine's gonna be the best.
You wanna have the best celebrity baby?
Wow, that's a great idea.
It seems like an empty goal.
Okay, no, I'm not gonna do that.
And I don't condone it.
[Conan] Yeah.
Baby lipo, but I do...
You just saved us so much mail by saying that
Seriously?
"I don't condone baby lipo"
At what age is it appropriate?
Can I just ask something real about my baby?
Yeah.
He is about the cutest, most squeezably soft thing
but then sometimes he has the Wolverine talons.
Because he's got the sharp...
You got a baby with the sharp talons as well?
Yeah, what happens is their nails grow out
a little bit and they don't realize it.
And they go like 'ha ha ha'
And suddenly, you're being mauled to death
Exactly.
By a baby bear, yeah.
And so you're supposed to clip them.
[Conan] Yeah.
But I'm terrified to clip them
because he's a fidgety, movey guy
Right.
And I might take off a digit.
Yeah, their fingers are like that big
Yeah.
Yeah, it's very dangerous.
Its like a game of, what's that really delicate...
Operation, you gotta like...
(crowd laughing)
Wait till he's asleep.
Now, Kyle, let me ask you something.
Kyle, you and Jack, you've known each other for a long time.
You taught, you're a very accomplished guitar player,
You taught Jack how to play the guitar.
What would you say his strengths are as a rock guitarist?
Analyze his abilities for me.
I'm gonna say intensity.
[Conan] Yeah.
Thank you.
And making the easy songs actually look difficult.
Right.
(crown laughing)
(mumbles)
That's a talent.
Yeah, it is.
Thank you
There's only so many chords.
So when he's playing like kumbaya, you know,
he's rocking it very intensely.
Yeah.
Might as well be, yeah.
[Conan] Yeah, that's uh...
It works, it works.
Jack, tell us what were you like as a child?
Describe Jack Black as a kid.
Well, when I was a kid, I uh...
I think I'm kind of lucky to be alive.
I was a little rambunctious.
I'm terrified for when my baby gets to be a teenager.
I love the way you say baby.
(crowd laughs)
My baby
You don't say baby, you go 'you're my baby'.
Yeah.
My baby.
But when I first got my license
I would drive around my neighborhood.
I had a lot of Hills in the neighborhood
and all my friends would pile in, like a clown car
And we would just treat the road like a roller coaster.
[Conan] Right.
Try to get air over the Dukes of Hazzard Hill.
Right, you'd do those hops over...
Oh yeah, oh God.
But one time we went into Westwood.
It's kind of
[Conan] In Los Angeles.
Yeah, it's a fancy part of Los Angeles.
And I had rigged the windshield wiper sprayers
to go outwards, not at my windshield.
[Kyle] What?
Just to get unsuspecting victims with the
(makes spraying noise)
in the face
(makes spraying noise)
So you were driving around.
I mean, I that's probably illegal what you're doing
We're driving around Westwood
there was kind of a nerdy, muscly nerdy guy on a 10 speed.
And I was like, check this out.
'whoosh' and 'speee'
And he was like "Ah, I'll get you"
[Conan] This ain't dude shit
And we drove away laughing hysterically
Okay.
And they were like, too good, too good.
We gotta go around the block, hit them one more time,
one more time for good measure.
Right.
And then we drove up,
'spoosh' and then dri... traffic, traffic.
(crowd laughs)
Oh no, roll up the windows
and then comes the "Open the door"
And were like "No."
[Conan] Right.
And I went from being...
I just turned into an emasculated tiny thing.
Well, we've all had that happen.
Let me ask you Kyle, you are,
I have a little fact about you,
this is very impressive.
You're the youngest ever to graduate Julliard
in the classical guitar department
Yes, uh...
How old were you when you...?
I was 13.
13 when you graduated from Julliard?
Incredible.
(crowd cheering)
And now it's all your dreams have come true,
you're making a fortune now, Tenacious D.
I'm a, I'm a thousander
(crowd laughing)
And uh...
You've made as much as a thou...
I'd hope that I would at this age.
Yeah, very nice.
You've achieved great things.
So, it's kind of crazy, when I think about it.
Now, I have to ask about this Jack, you're in trouble
I've heard, with Steven Seagal.
Yes.
(crowd laughs)
[Conan] Clearly I've broached a troubling subject for you.
I was foolish enough in a Sports Illustrated Article
to say that I could take him down.
[Conan] Was this, you were doing...
I was promoting Nacho Libre
Yeah
Where I'm a wrestler, a professional Mexican wrestler.
And he had his publicist call my publicist
and said, ah
[Kyle] Uh, well, now things are getting serious then.
And he wanted to arrange for an ass kicking
a public ass-beating.
I love that when you have your,
your assistant or publicist
call somebody to arrange an ass-kicking
He wanted to squeeze it into my schedule
where he would break my fingers and spine bone.
[Conan] Right.
So now I live in fear.
I live in constant terror
that Steven Seagal is gonna run around a corner
and you put me on a death hold.
I love the idea that the two of you
like on blackberries, trying to look through your schedules.
I can't do Thursday at eight.
Then how about Friday at nine?
For your ass-smashing.
(crowd laughs)
Man Pay-per-view for that, I would...
Yeah.
Well, we'll get that on there, he's a madman.
"Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny."
You are the greatest band in the world,
and it's only been a matter of time
before your feature length film.
Yes.
It is upon us now.
And this is the story of how the D,
the tenacious D, came into being
Yeah.
Yet another self-reflective tale, from the D
It was a long journey getting to this point.
And yeah, we decided that the best way
to tell the story was just to tell the truth.
[Conan] Right.
Just tell the real, honest biopic and pull no punches.
[Conan] Right.
[Kyle] Yeah.
And then we decided, no, we had to put in some fake stuff.
(crowd laughing)
Yeah, it was boring
'cause two guys meeting and saying, let's do this.
Okay, let's try it.
Yeah, that's no good.
Meatloaf
Yeah.
Plays your father.
(crowd laughs)
How did that, what does this mean to you,
to have meatloaf play your dad?
Well, I always imagined meatloaf, yeah,
playing my father in the movie
even before we had a script.
I don't know why it was just a...
he inspired me, I mean
[Kyle] Why would would meatloaf?
Okay, we look similar.
He's probably, I'm probably gonna look like him,
when I get to his age.
And hopefully I'll still be rocking when I'm up there
Oh you'll be rocking, yeah.
But, um, yeah, he had a certain style
and like a theatrical rock that I've definitely
bitten off a piece of his style in my (indistinct)
And he sings in this movie,
is this the first time that he's
This is the first time that Meatloaf has sung
in a movie since "Rocky Horror Picture Show".
[Conan] Yeah.
It's a bit of a coup.
[Conan] Yeah.
I would say
I would think so too.
(crowd cheers)
Why not?
We have a clip here,
from "Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny",
anything you'd like to do to set up this clip?
This is when Jack and I first meet,
I believe at Venice beach.
Yeah.
It's an amazing coming together of two great
The legendary meeting, yeah.
Yeah, let's take a look at this clip.
(Spanish guitar music)
Oh!
Oh man
Thank you.
Oh my God.
Okay.
That was the best thing I've ever seen.
Who are you?
Name's Kyle Gass.
Kyle Gass.
Dude, will you just teach me that one thing
that you did where you're like, hangin'
I'm not giving free guitar lessons, today.
Why don't you stand over there?
Right here?
You're awesome.
(crowd cheers)
You could see the
(cheering continues)
(crown laughs)
You looked like you had something to say
and then you decided...
(guttural shout from audience)
What?
Right after that, we bust into
a profanity filled song that we couldn't show
which is actually the best part of the scene.
Yeah.
That's a problem with our movie
is that, it's kick ass but it's all profane.
And so the trailer...
Maybe it's a little too kick ass
Exactly. We shouldn't have kicked so much ass.