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Another Second City Cast Member Quits After Offensive Audiences (He blames Trump!)
CBS Chicago ^ | 10/13/2016 | Steve Miller

Posted on 10/14/2016 8:34:35 AM PDT by simpson96

CHICAGO (CBS) — A fourth member of Second City’s ETC revue quit after multiple occurrences of offensive behavior from audiences.

33-year-old Peter Kim told WBBM that audiences here in Chicago and across the country where he has toured, seem to feel emboldened by the no-holds-bars, speak-your-mind style of Donald Trump.

“I really think he gave people carte blanche to act and behave hateful,” Kim said. Kim said audiences have gotten more abusive in the past year and has heard people use the ‘f’ word, alluding to a slur against gays.

“The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was a man was sitting next to a Hispanic couple,” Kim said. “We asked a question to another lady, completely different lady, we said, ‘Hey, ma’am, what is something small that pisses you off, like getting stuck in traffic.'”

The man, unsolicited, screamed out, ‘Sitting too close to a Mexican,’ while sitting next to a Hispanic couple.

Kim said there was another time he felt physically threatened by a man who got too close to the stage.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...


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To: simpson96

Run Petie, run... go find your safe place. Maybe one day you will be able to pull off an improv as a man...


21 posted on 10/14/2016 8:43:09 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: simpson96

Pussies are what pussies do....ain’t that right Peter Kim - a boy and girl name to round out the package - apropos....


22 posted on 10/14/2016 8:43:48 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: All
Surprise, surprise...

Youtube: He starts his act with "Where my white people at?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbGDJHc6og

23 posted on 10/14/2016 8:44:20 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: pfflier

Trump would probably pick-up another 3%-4% if he promised to deport Sandra Bee back to Canada.


24 posted on 10/14/2016 8:44:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Sandra = Samantha


25 posted on 10/14/2016 8:45:04 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SpinnerWebb
I miss the good old days... when comedians were actually funny and smart, and would put offensive hecklers into the hall of shame with their rapier wit.

Just for the sake of discussion, let's assume the behavior Peter Kim described actually happened. If he can't handle hecklers or disruptive audience members, he'll never make it as a comedian. I suspect he knows his career was going nowhere,and this is a convenient way of bailing out and saving face.

26 posted on 10/14/2016 8:46:47 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: junta

Provided that there actually was a Mexican in the audience and a guy really did say that.

All too often the left lies to push their silly agendas.


27 posted on 10/14/2016 8:46:50 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: EQAndyBuzz

+1


28 posted on 10/14/2016 8:46:58 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: simpson96

“feel emboldened by the no-holds-bars, speak-your-mind style”

That’s the no talent “comedians” job.


29 posted on 10/14/2016 8:47:05 AM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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To: Enchante
Comedy has been a cesspool of raunchiness for decades...

Bump. Sanctimonious hypocrites.

30 posted on 10/14/2016 8:47:23 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Yup. The last few times I went to a comedy club (10 years ago or so) I heard comedians tell “jokes” like:

“Republicans are stupid.”
“Christians are stupid.”
George Bush should be in jail.”

These are not jokes. They aren’t remotely “funny”. Now, if the audience wants to yell out offensive things and if the comedians say, “That bothers me”, then maybe the comedians should go back to being funny.


31 posted on 10/14/2016 8:47:29 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: simpson96
These pajama boys wouldn't last a minute on a Mel Brooks set ...


32 posted on 10/14/2016 8:47:39 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: simpson96

I think the comment about sitting too close to a Mexican was disgusting, however... this cretin would have had no problem at all if the person had substituted “Conservative” for Mexican.

As for caustic audiences, I’ve been in the midst of some very caustic audiences that were Leftist in nature, and that was just super for those on stage. They loved it, fed off of it, and propagated it.

Now the shoe is on the other foot. All I have to say is, FINALLY!

Let’s be honest here, the comment about the Mexican isn’t what bothered them. They didn’t like push-back on their trashing of Trump and Conservatives.

These same folks would be just fine if a “Mexican” joke were told from stage. Artistic license and all...

I think it’s great all the Leftists are quitting. We could use some fresh decent humor in this nation, absent the trashing of decent people and values.

Excellent of this person to voluntarily sit down and shut up.


33 posted on 10/14/2016 8:48:29 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (25 days: Until Presdient Pre-elect becomes President Elect Donald J. Trump. Help is on the way!)
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To: simpson96

Mrs. INFOOL7 and I haven’t been to see a stand up “comic” in years. The innuendo and subtle digs at our conservative / traditional lifestyle have long become tiresome let alone not entertaining. We refuse to pay to be belittled and insulted. especially when we can turn on the news and get that treatment for free.

Trump has opened the door to the great quiet seething rage that virtuous people have been harboring silently for decades.

Snowflakes and Shrinking violets ALERT!

PREPARE FOR THE WORST!

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

TRUMP IS COMMIN

AND HE IS BRINGING HELL WITH HIM.


34 posted on 10/14/2016 8:49:24 AM PDT by infool7 (The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
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To: junta

My first thought, too.

The sourpuss left has no sense of humor, because they are so puritanically self-righteous. They simply cannot allow that they are 1) silly, 2) capable of error, 3) exempt from scrutiny or lampooning.

Rush comes on saying jokingly, here come the rape police again, and the oh-so-righteous left accuses him of being pro-rape. There is not use in attempting textured nuanced conversation with them.


35 posted on 10/14/2016 8:52:49 AM PDT by Chaguito
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To: simpson96

I guess Mr Offended isn’t reading Wilileaks emails


36 posted on 10/14/2016 8:53:16 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Romeo + Juliet = True Love hilLIAR + Obambi = ISIS)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Like the loving death in Chicago since Zero took office?

Like the race baiter in the white hut??

And I know the Trump rallies are peaceful, with a handful of hellery protesters going violent.


37 posted on 10/14/2016 8:53:25 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Robert DeLong

What is PETER’s opinion of Margaret Cho’s ethnic “humor”?

A little hypocrisy with your tea, Pete?

Ten to one he’s an affirmative action’d token Asian in Second City and was selected on the basis of what he looks like rather than his alleged funniness

He’s quitting to keep from getting fired


38 posted on 10/14/2016 8:58:39 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Romeo + Juliet = True Love hilLIAR + Obambi = ISIS)
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To: simpson96

Lenny Bruce would have spit on this little daffodil.


39 posted on 10/14/2016 9:03:20 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Buckeye McFrog

We have enough of our own home grown a-holes here, we certainly don’t need to import them.


40 posted on 10/14/2016 9:04:32 AM PDT by pfflier
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