Comedian tells Israeli audience members to leave his festival show
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/israelis-told-leave-festival-show-160106804.html
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Comedian tells Israeli audience members to leave his festival show
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/israelis-told-leave-festival-show-160106804.html
Posted by clydewoodforest
12 Comments
Gonna be honest
Went into this thinking it’s Reginald D Hunter he couldn’t have been that bad right it’s probably Zionists Zionising all over the place
But no. Shit joke about Domestic abuse being comparable to the actions of israel and following it up by saying Jews are money hungry.
>Two Israeli audience members were booed out of Reginald D Hunter’s comedy gig at the Edinburgh Fringe after they objected to a joke comparing the Jewish state to an abusive spouse, according to witnesses.
>The American stand-up, 55, was heard telling two audience members to leave his Fluffy Fluffy Beavers show on Sunday night after they heckled him over the joke, calling it “not funny”.
TL;DR
Two people react badly to a joke, start heckling, comedian tells them to leave
**Edit – I skimmed the article and missed part about the antisemitic comment made after they left. Which was extremely poor of me. The comment made is not appropriate or funny**
**Putting the edit here rather than acknowledging the comments below to make sure it’s seen.**
>After the show, Hunter said his partner sought out the review, but could not access it online because of a paywall, saying: “Typical f—— Jews, they won’t tell you anything unless you subscribe.”
Everything else aside, this is just plain antisemitism.
> The Telegraph’s theatre critic Dominic Cavendish, who was in the audience, said: “The pair, who said they were from Israel, then endured their fellow audience members shouting expletives (‘f— off’ among them), and telling them to go – with slow-hand claps, boos and cries of ‘genocidal maniac’, ‘you’re not welcome’ and ‘free Palestine’ part of the toxic mix.”
I thought we weren’t supposed to blame entire groups of people on the actions of some?
Truth be told, I think complaining about a joke you don’t like when watching comedy is bad form to begin with, but his response to this and the follow up about the Jewish Chronicle are not on, and I doubt he’s react well to a joke about black stereotypes in the same way. Aren’t comedians meant to be able to handle heckles by humiliating their detractors with humour?
Watch him not get cancelled because it’s Jew hate, not racism towards another group
The story is burying the lede.
>“Typical f—— Jews, they won’t tell you anything unless you subscribe.”
How is this okay?
Worst “comedy” show I ever attended was a Reginald D Hunter show at the fringe. Total waste of time. Utter shit.
I am not Israel’s greatest fan myself.
What I don’t like is this harassing all Israelis and even worse, harassing all Jewish people. Get a fucking grip you bigoted cunts.
The appropriate heckle here would be “imagine we’re sitting on a bus”.
Really wanted this to be bullshit, I liked him on panel shows back in the day.
Turns out there’s probably good reason he doesn’t do them any more.
With the crackdown on this kind of speech, the police will pay a visit? Right?
Israel is like an abusive spouse = OK (although I’m honestly not sure I see the joke here – are Israel and Palestine meant to be married? Or is it a joke about the relationship between the West and Israel? Genuinely not sure what he’s trying to convey)
Israelis, get out of my show = Not OK
Jews are money grabbing = Literally stereotypical antisemitism.
How is it so hard for people to tell the difference???