Another comedian found out that people aren’t too fond of mockery of the president, especially when it’s just not funny.
From the Hill:
Angry fans walked out during Wanda Sykes’s show at a venue in Red Bank, N.J., on Thursday night after she made a series of jokes about President Trump, the Asbury Park Press reported.
According to the local paper, the comedian opened her set at Count Basie Center for the Arts taking swipes at Trump’s response to reports that world leaders laughed during his speech to the United Nations earlier this week, saying, they “weren’t laughing at me, they were laughing with me.”
Sykes had reportedly quipped if such were the case, “What was the joke he told?”
That actually doesn’t sound so bad, but I wonder if they’re playing it down because Sykes is very fond of sticking as many expletives as possible into every sentence of her speech.
The comedian had also joked that the general public appeared to be aging faster than the typical rate under the Trump administration — compared to previous administrations where the president seemed to be aging more.
Attendees reportedly heckled the comedian minutes into her set, with several audience members complaining that Sykes’s jokes had been “too political.”
However, Sykes, who has long been critical of Trump, asked the audience in response what they had expected to see.
Although more than a dozen fans walked out during the comedian’s show, many who stayed told the paper they were pleased with Sykes’s performance.
Kinda pathetic really. I never found her funny at all, and I get the feeling that people just like her because they feel like they need to laugh at a black woman who curses a lot or risk being called racist.
I mean is this funny at all?
Nah.