Bob Roberts

It's so bad.

Bob Roberts.

This film keeps coming up as well.

The early 90s, Super Mario Brothers.

"But, uh, it also could be about, you know, the Gore Vidal character too.

You know, the, the-- it could be about what, why change doesn't happen." And so the-- when Bill Clinton was playing his saxophone on Arsenio Hall, I was like, "Hmm, that's kind of Bob Roberts-y too."

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

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Tim, did you get involved with the prison stuff when you, when you did, uh... 'Cause I was thinking about Dead Man Walking, which is your second film, which is so different from [laughs] Bob Roberts, uh, in every way.

Uh, is that when you first started getting involved with that or becoming really aware of, of that?

It's like you come, you come, you see, you know, you can see that play.

You can see a, a short film I made of Bob Roberts.

You can, when I first started that idea, which was for Saturday Night Live, um, I made a short film on Bob Roberts.

Um, short films that I've made.

Uh, films I've pref- uh, a film that's coming up in a couple months that, or maybe next month of, uh, the very first film I was in when I'm was, like, n- nine years old.

I get that.

I get, I get Silo a lot these days.

I get Bob Roberts.

I mean, it was just like, you know, one thing led to another, and people started responding.

And then Tim had a chance to make a movie, and we made Bob Roberts.

And we co-wrote those songs, and I was in it from...

Before it got greenlit and through production, post-production, and so on.

And it went on from there.

I did three...

Two films before we did Bob Roberts.

It was three films.

...

Bob Roberts, Maniac Cop, Lethal Weapon.

Yeah.

Oh, he's in Lethal Weapon.

I won't explain what the movie's about.

Third is Bob Roberts, that satirical where he plays like a right-wing folk singer.

Very funny, very poignant, of course, with how things have turned out in the last 30 years.

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Over the next five years, they began to perform under their chosen band name of Tenacious D, while each pursuing their acting.

Jack had small roles in TV series such as The X-Files, Picket Fences and Northern Exposure, as well as increasing visuals in films like Bob Roberts, Tim Robbins' film which he cast him in, Waterworld, The Cable Guy, Mars Attacks and others, while Kyle saw time in Biodome with Black, Seinfeld and Friends.

They also struck up a friendship with Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters, who came to see them perform often, which led to an appearance on that band's music video for Learn to Fly.

On the back of this, the duo got a three half-hour episode series deal with HBO, with each episode containing two enclosed episodes of the adventures of JB and KG.

If you pitch ...

I pitched myself to Tim Robbins, because I loved his movies when he was doing Bob Roberts and all those kinds of things, those kooky things.

And I met him, and he was like, "What?" You know? [laughs]

Yeah.

And we'll see how it goes.

Bob Roberts.

Yeah, this seems odd.

Tim Robbins, Ray Wise from Twin Peaks drink.