‘For some reason we were laughing so hard at the idea of a band being called Tenacious D. ‘[Commentator Marv Albert] would say “playing some tenacious defense”, I don’t know if he ever said, “tenacious d”, we might have made that abbreviation for him.
(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)] They recently dropped an incredible cover of Britney Spears’ Baby One More Time for the Kung Fu Panda 4 soundtrack last year – before controversially canceling their tour.
Jack Black has finally cleared up one of the biggest mysteries in music, revealing the meaning behind Tenacious D’s name.
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The Farrelly Brothers wrote and directed the comedy, in which Jack played a superficial man who was hypnotized to see only inner beauty, and fell in love with a bigger woman after perceiving her as slim.
