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Heckler,comedian,australia,brendon burns Woman at a comedy show in Australia with no sense of humor
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see the poor bastard next to her squirm
guy next to her was funny, his pain was probably what made it so visceral
Sounds like a classic closet racist to me
I'm guessing she doesn't think certain comments are racist unless they are directed at her.
Maybe she's just really sensitive....kinda doubting it.
I mean, seriously, why do you go to a comedy show if your skin is so f'in thin?
He so did the right thing. Eject the troublemaker and tell her to shove off.
Not funny in my eyes. But hey, we're are democracy, aren't we? ;-)
Looks like i am the only one who thinks that HE was the one being over the top rude. she interrupted his program, it's ok to be angry about that. But there certainly are millions of ways to handle that situation better than he did. Even if he didn't insult her personaly in the first place, with the stuff he directed directly to her he absolutely did.
Not funny in my eyes. But hey, we're are democracy, aren't we? ;-)
Of course he was being rude, and he has every right to be rude. First of all he's a comedian, and debating about racism in a stand-up comedy is stupid and boring. Second of all, he was in the middle of a performance. If she had tried to speak to him about her views after his act I imagine he wouldn't have spoken to her like that.
This comic has a job... make people laugh. If one person can't take it for whatever reason then they should leave. I love his Zulu joke BTW.
BTW, I am Italian. I have had my share of Italian jokes - even aimed at me. I laugh. My first name is Marco. I have had hundreds of people say "Marco Polo" when they hear my name. I don't care. I turn it back on them and pretend I have never heard it my life. Then they go off for about a minute trying to explain the (pretty much lame after several hundred times hearing it) joke to me. Inevitably they will mention kids playing Marco Polo in the pool. At that point I jump in and tell them that as a kid I only played "Marco {my last name}" in the pool. The look on their face when they realize that I got them is priceless. Sure I could get mad that someone is picking on my name. Instead I get creative and make their joke far funnier. One person told me that she told her son about it and her son told her, "mom, how can you be so gullible?" That was great to hear.
One of the person that tried this on me was an HR person at my current job. Later when she explained the company's no-name calling policy I threatened to report her for her "Marco Polo" jokes. She knows I am not being serious. I often remind her that I am stopping in later so she can help me fill out a complaint form against her. She still makes Marco Polo jokes. It's funny and we both smile.
Life is short. If you can't laugh at yourself then life will only seem shorter.
Racist jokes suck.. and the fact that lots of comedians go for the cheap racist laugh sucks.
I wouldn't know whether the comedians are ^mean, or just ignorant. In this guy's case it looks like ignorance, as evidenced by his blindness to the heckler's point about the Zulu with a bone through the nose.
that said. that woman should have left without a scene.. maybe stood around with a sign outside the show or something. Just cause you think something sucks, doesn't mean you have to ruin it for everyone who feels differently.
She didn't seem to grasp that he was mocking racism.
And how could she not realise it was a JOKE.
Going to see stand-up comedy and thinking what's said isn't a joke is alot like joining the army and saying "oh, we don't have to - you know - actually be soldiers?"
Ah yes.. Hitler's infamous stand-up comedy period.
First of all, based on her comment that "he has been picking on [me] all night" we can't tell - maybe he was. Maybe this was just the culmination of a dozen small slights aimed at her. Just because we don't see it, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
If this is the case, shame on the sift. If not, then she was rightly ridiculed out.
But I figgered the sift would reserve judgement until more information (longer clip?) was available.
I always get mad at Wanda Sikes and the like because they use racism to create their material, to continue to use her as an example liek 50% of the shit that comes out of her mouth is about how black women have big asses and if SHE says it it's ok because hey, it's like she's making fun of herself, isnt there a Seinfeld about this where Tim Watley becomes a jew for the jokes?
anyway, this guy didnt seem to have it comming, Michael Richards on the other hand, did, we all tend to think that the world revolves around us, im sorry this woman misconstrued this man's act as a slight toward her BUT if he really did intend something (as i am half inclined to suspect by the venomous reply) then shame on him, as it stands, i cant tell
I'd hate to try navigating through life with anyone so sensitive.
>> ^harry:
I like her last-minute Godwin: "Yeah, that's how nazism started!"
Ah yes.. Hitler's infamous stand-up comedy period.
jeezz... So how was it like to be laughed off by a whole audience? did you feel you achieved something?
did nt think so
The comedian is Brendon Burns, an Aussie comedian who works primarily in the UK now. His Myspace is here where this video is listed as part of his viral marketing for his DVD. (seems to be working).
From watching a few more of his clips, I would say he's actually quite a thinker really, this clip (it's long) has him on stage at an Aussie club with Chopper Reed and another comic, and there's a heckler there who spews racist crap, and he takes him down a few notches, he's not racist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3CTAmfb8pI
People can be so, so, so damn sensitive about the most ridiculous things. This particular joke he makes is pointing out the ridiculousness of racism, it is NOT racist itself.
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Indian or Pakistani?
Because she kept looking at him for his support, and the guy was actually trying to make faces, making it seem like he was as disappointed as she was.
Total bullocks.
You guys, this is fake. Bad acting etc. But the main tip off to me is that there's a camera (not hand held, by the way) set up right on her. It's bad.
Never heard of the crowd shot? It's where cameras cut to the audience to see their approval of the joke. Camera's also have a lovely thing attached to them called the camera-man (or camera person) whose job it is to point the camera at something. Interesting stuff, you should watch more TV as your research assignment
http://www.videosift.com/video/Guy-gets-wedgied-at-ComicCon-in-defense-of-Ping-Pong-srsly
http://www.videosift.com/video/Joe-Rogan-Vs-Heckler
http://www.videosift.com/video/How-George-Carlin-Handles-a-Heckler
English.
The guy may be aussie born, but the crowd, and half the slang he uses isnt.
Also, I think when she talks about being targeted she is referring to the comic looking at her or gesturing toward her with his hand after he makes a joke that involves race. If you watch his hand and where he looks when he says, "Which one are you?" he appears to be looking and pointing straight at her based on where we know her to be later. Not defending her, just pointing that out.
>> ^sbchapm:
You guys, this is fake. Bad acting etc. But the main tip off to me is that there's a camera (not hand held, by the way) set up right on her. It's bad.
Never heard of the crowd shot? It's where cameras cut to the audience to see their approval of the joke. Camera's also have a lovely thing attached to them called the camera-man (or camera person) whose job it is to point the camera at something. Interesting stuff, you should watch more TV as your research assignment
I'm not sure why I deserve this tone of reply, but yes, I do know those things. My thought was that usually, when there's a random response, such as hers, it's not that easy for the "camera-man" as you call him to lock in like that. It just seems fake to me, that's all. I didn't insult your mother or anything. But I do think that one of the reasons that I like this site is that people can have decent conversations without relying on sarcasm too much. Don't you think the guy next to her is a bit over the top? I think so. Do you? This is a called a conversation.
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