Comedian Wanda Sykes gives Crowd the Finger after getting booed for Trump Criticism
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[QUOTE=AbioFlesh;51369170]Yeah, and a lot of that is coming from the same people who would argue against PC culture and censorship. "It's only okay when I agree with it."[/QUOTE]
Yep, keep in mind that r/theDonald is a place where dissenting opinion is literally not allowed. Somehow liberals get shit for refusing to talk to and accept the opinions of republicans when that is how republicans act.
Should have gone the Bill Burr route. When the crowd at a show started pissing him off and heckling, he just used his entire allotted set time to trash the crowd and its city. By the time it was over everyone loved him
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNnkDjMVJqE[/media]
[QUOTE=Tudd;51369321]If this is a routine, she should probably change it abit.[/QUOTE]
While I agree it could use some work, changing it completely would be pretty spineless.
Do you think Louis C.K. changed stopped telling his child molester jokes just because he got backlash on SNL? No, because there are still audience members who aren't babies, and enjoy the humour.
Even in this Wanda Sykes segment, especially near the end, you can still hear a lot of cheering.
Comedy culture is going insane right now. I thought a big point of comedy was to actually lighten the mood of heavy situations to a conversational level. Now everybody's just filled with rage and misconstruing political statements with political jokes.
Patton Oswalt is foaming at the mouth on twitter as we speak
[QUOTE=Water-Marine;51369437]Comedy culture is going insane right now. I thought a big point of comedy was to actually lighten the mood of heavy situations to a conversational level. Now everybody's just filled with rage and misconstruing political statements with political jokes.
Patton Oswalt is foaming at the mouth on twitter as we speak[/QUOTE]
Yeah man, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, definitely sold out stadiums on the basis of "lightening the mood".
Different comedians take different approaches to comedy. Also they're people too. Opinion is a pretty big driving force in comedy. There's a reason why people say "all good comedians are liberal".
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;51369057]It seems to work for Stephen Colbert?[/QUOTE]
Colbert isn't even kind of one sided.
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[QUOTE=Water-Marine;51369437]Comedy culture is going insane right now. I thought a big point of comedy was to actually lighten the mood of heavy situations to a conversational level. Now everybody's just filled with rage and misconstruing political statements with political jokes.
Patton Oswalt is foaming at the mouth on twitter as we speak[/QUOTE]
Patton Oswalt has a history of mental issues all centered around addiction and hyper severe anxiety and is a self identifying, card carrying sjw, right down to having a monologue about Gamergate.
Secondly there is no 'everyone'. Sykes has always been political and as a person who is both gay and black, her stance is not remotely surprising, and she is in fact, right. Trump is not the first.
Also Boston is not remotely a liberal town and never has been. Boston has a hyper liberal college, Boston is a working class town, you do the math.
[QUOTE=Streecer;51369387]I've been seeing this kind of shit all over now. You can't criticize Trump! It's the left/MSM/biased media's fault that Trump got elected. I don't like being called a bigot, so I voted for one. The left is too condescending, I need my precious feelings to be protected despite the alt-right's big thing being anti-politically correct speech.
They're passing on the responsibility of Trump's election to the people who didn't even vote for him. Unless John Oliver was in the voting booth with you with a gun to your head, it's your choice, you can't just pretend that everybody else forced you to vote one way or another.
I think it ties into a sudden sense of buyers remorse for Trump supporters, the rush of the election day is over, and now they face the very genuine prospect of Trump walking back on many of his stupid slogans and promises. His cabinet selection process isn't exactly encouraging for those hoping he'd fly in the face of the GOP establishment.[/QUOTE]
Oh get off your high horse.
Nobody here says we cant criticize Trump. People are just pointing out how dumb the comedian is.
[QUOTE=Oizen;51369088]Best to leave politics out of it entirely.
Unless you're doing impressions or something, theres plenty of valid jokes to make about Donald Trump.[/QUOTE]
It's definitely a different genre. Political comedy is very popular in Germany, but people go there [I]specifically[/I] for that stuff.
"Comedian"... hah. The "I'm a black woman and everything is racist" schtick got old very quick. Serves her right IMO.
[QUOTE=thejjokerr;51369315]She's not a very good comedian if she can't turn boo's into laughter with a witty comeback or actually new content. All she does after they start is just recycle what everyone else is saying about trump.[/QUOTE]
and you don't know shit about comedy if you think good comedians don't have bad routines every now and then
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;51369550]"Comedian"... hah. The "I'm a black woman and everything is racist" schtick got old very quick. Serves her right IMO.[/QUOTE]
yeah man what a [url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843100/awards]shit comedian[/url]
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;51369550]"Comedian"... hah. The "I'm a black woman and everything is racist" schtick got old very quick. Serves her right IMO.[/QUOTE]
what makes you think that's her only shtick? have you even seen her stuff?
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[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;51369550]"Comedian"... hah. The "I'm a black woman and everything is racist" schtick got old very quick. Serves her right IMO.[/QUOTE]
Have you actually heard a wanda sykes routine or did you just assume this as her only subject matter from her appearance?
Don't see why the crowd exploded at that part, but all the stuff before was fine. People need to grow a backbone and actually laugh for once. I thought the whole reason they elected Trump was to "end political correctness."
Most of us Trump Supporters don't have a problem at all making fun of him.
But when it is obvious you got someone on the mic holding his supporters in content, and saying he is racist, sexist, and homophobic like every media outlet has done the last year, it gets abit grating when you probably just wanted to go out to an event for fun.
I mean there is a reason why people in the crowd were overwhelmingly laughing along with the Trump jokes till around the end.
It also shows that someone hasn't learned why their side lost ultimately.
Significant difference between calling Trump sexist, racist and homophobic (which is specifically aimed at him and has basis in reality considering his policies/political allies) and all Trump supporters sexist, racist and homophobic (which is obviously ridiculous).
It also seems you haven't learnt why the left lost this election since it seems so many Trump supporters are being overly smug right now and telling people to 'stop overreacting' without giving people a lot of comfort.
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;51369057]It seems to work for Stephen Colbert?[/QUOTE]
colbert has a pre-taped show with a more or less trained crowd
a comic doing club performances is the wild west.
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;51369890]Significant difference between calling Trump sexist, racist and homophobic (which is specifically aimed at him and has basis in reality considering his policies/political allies) and all Trump supporters sexist, racist and homophobic (which is obviously ridiculous).
It also seems you haven't learnt why the left lost this election since it seems so many Trump supporters are being overly smug right now and telling people to 'stop overreacting' without giving people a lot of comfort.[/QUOTE]
To me it doesn't seem to matter who is labeled sexist, racist, and homophobic, himself or his supporters.
Because at the end of the day, the media and Hillary knew that if they could just label him hard, it would make his supporters look complicit and give people reason to believe they were all those labels.
In essence this is how identity politics works.
[QUOTE=Rossy167;51369151]This kinda seems like a trend online and perhaps irl right now: just because Trump has now been elected doesn't mean he's immune to criticism. If you criticise the current president elect you do not hate freedom, you are practicing your right to freedom of speech. If you are against people criticising the president elect you are against the right of freedom of speech.
Or perhaps the shit she was saying just wasn't funny. Point still stands, I've seen a lot of [i]now Trump has been elected you must accept this and never criticise him[/i][/QUOTE]
The same rhetoric was used for Bush IIRC. "You must be more respectful of the president! He's the president!" (though the awesome part is I once asked my Texan great-grandmother what she thought of him, and she said "I'd just like to get him down here and kick his ass 'til he fell down!" :v: )
Then Obama got elected. "I hope they deport him!" "When are they going to change the rose garden into a watermelon patch?" "He's literally the anti-christ!" "It's not the 'White House' anymore, it's the 'Niggy House'." (I shit you not, I had a co-worker tell me that in complete seriousness, but then this was the same guy who didn't believe in solar eclipses and claimed they were "superstition" so take that as you will)
Then Trump got elected. "He won, you have to give him respect!"
It's a vicious cycle/circle-jerk.
I never thought I'd see the day where right-wing voters called for a [I]comedian[/I] to be more politically correct.
It's almost like - [I]gasp[/I] - people don't like being offended no matter what their political beliefs are!
[QUOTE=.Isak.;51370020]I never thought I'd see the day where right-wing voters called for a [I]comedian[/I] to be more politically correct.
It's almost like - [I]gasp[/I] - people don't like being offended no matter what their political beliefs are![/QUOTE]
Well she ain't no Dave Chapelle with that political material.
I don't have time to watch the video but if she ended her routine with "Okay joking aside let me tell you my honest opinion about Trump" then yeah she deserved to get booed. A lot of people go to comedy shows to get away from stuff like that and bringing it up as straight and dry as possible isn't a smart thing to do.
If she was working it into a joke then yeah fuck the crowd for having thin skin.
"nothing will change", they said, as trump announces what he wants to change in his first 100 days
My parents were actually at this show, and they said it took like two more acts and Denis Leary coming back out on stage to calm the crowd down.
[QUOTE=Sift;51370098]I don't have time to watch the video but if she ended her routine with "Okay joking aside let me tell you my honest opinion about Trump" then yeah she deserved to get booed. A lot of people go to comedy shows to get away from stuff like that and bringing it up as straight and dry as possible isn't a smart thing to do.
If she was working it into a joke then yeah fuck the crowd for having thin skin.[/QUOTE]
Well the part that the crowd exploded about did seem kinda like a serious remark, but maybe that's because the crowd cut her off. "It's not the first time we elect a racist sexist homophobic guy, it's just the first confirmed one" doesn't seem like that great of a joke, but come the fuck on, these people got paper-thin skin. And they took everything before that just fine, I don't get it.
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