Posted on 06/07/2023 11:50:53 AM PDT by nickcarraway
”The king of late night is off … you get the Rodney King of late night,“ the ”Fox Across America“ comedian said
Apparently there’s too far even for a “Gutfeld!” live studio audience – a joke that guest host Jimmy Failla told Thursday night at the expense of Dylan Mulvaney drew a cold, hard silence from the live studio audience after the “Fox Across America” comedian referred to the transgender influencer as “him.”
Failla, a former NYC cab driver with a relentlessly crass sense of humor, got a modest laugh with his first dig at Mulvaney early in his monologue. The comedian said he was overweight as a kid, and “growing up I felt bad for being a guy who grew up with a set of C-cup boobies. But looking back I actually wish I had ‘em, I’d get a Bud Light endorsement.”
With a picture of Mulvaney on the screen, the live audience at Fox News studios in New York guffawed and clapped. Then Failla forced this awkward transition: “I’d rather watch 10 hours of him pretending to be a woman than sit through another second of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle pretending to be a victim.”
Crickets.
“Thank you!” Failla blurted and quickly moved on to his jokes about the former royals’ supposed high-speed car chase.
It’s not uncommon for the “Gutfeld!” audience to stonewall even Greg Gutfeld’s bad or potentially offensive jokes, something that Failla, a regular guest on the show, found out early Thursday. They clammed up at the first joke out of his mouth: “The king of late night (Greg Gutfeld) is off … instead you get the Rodney King of late night.”
Audience members and guests barely responded as Failla looked around awkwardly.
“Good start,” a voice was heard saying off-camera.
“Too soon?! It was 1992! Come on you guys!” Failla said.
Watch the exchanges at the beginning of the video above.
Why is his audience PC?
What’s the problem?
Nobody from the surrounding conservative suburban areas wants to go into the City anymore.
"It's dead, Jim"
The joke just wasn’t funny.
Depends on which flavor of “libertarian” you are talking about. Some of them would never agree to such a thing, and some would be quite authoritarian about it, despite the apparent contradiction.
You mean, what people used to call “flamboyant”?
The best thing about Gutfeld is his guests...I really do not like him or what he says much.
He strikes me as a person who grew up well balanced and confident in a loving home. He’s married, and of course that doesn’t mean he can’t be “elegant” (if that’s what you mean), but he seems extremely normal to me.
Yes, but didn’t think anything of it. Sometimes the audience laughs, sometimes they don’t.
I have no idea how those studio audiences are selected. 95% of the people I meet are too PC for my taste, so if the audiences are selected somewhat randomly - that could explain it.
I think PC is a form of cowardice - too many people seeking approval and caring too much what others think. That causes conformity and group-think, and makes them susceptible to brainwashing.
It’s unbelievable how many people are willing to say “she” when they know perfectly well they are referring to a male.
Gutfeld strikes me as one of the less PC talk show hosts out there - he likes to say outrageous things. I don’t know anything about how he would deal with the current Bud Light tranny issue - it’s been a year or so since I’ve watched Fox.
I don’t get this. Is the audience dumb or did they not hear him or did they forget to flash the laugh light? This is more like seinfeld, a story about nothing.
That makes sense
Hey, ask anyone in the business. In comedy you’re always taking a risk. Take it from Steve Martin, “Comedy is not pretty.”
***drew a cold, hard silence from the live studio audience***
Maybe the audience was too terrified of a backlash if they did laugh!
Gutfeld isn’t PC. My wife absolutely will not miss his show and I hear about it if he’s not on it. Faila might have had a tourist audience instead of the native New Yorkers that would have laughed.
There’s no evidence that they were silent because he called Mulvaney a him. Just the woke author trying to extrapolate that.
The article is trying to make something out of nothing, assuming readers are idiots. Anyone who watches the video can hear that calling Mulvaney “him” wasn’t the punch line; it was the setup for a punch line about Harry and Megan, which didn’t really land.
Maybe we should all just call each other ‘comrade’
Correct. Maybe the deliver was off. ( it looks funny in print). Or maybe it was an audience of royalists.
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