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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Rock isn't the only comedian assaulted on stage in the past week. The other man is gay.
When actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock over the weekend for making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith during the Academy Awards, the violence reverberated around the world. As social media debated whether or not Smith was justified, comedians warned that Smiths outburst would make them targets on stage.
LGBTQ ally Kathy Griffin went viral for her tweet castigating Smith and warning of the message it sends, but comedian Sampson McCormick can look at it another way. He was also attacked on stage by an audience member, but McCormick, a gay man, bashed back. And then he finished his set.
Sampson, the first LGBTQ comic to perform at a Smithsonian institution, was performing at Win-River Resort & Casino in Redding, California when an audience member took offense and came up swinging.
When a woman in the audience started heckling him, McCormick gave it right back, asking her, How many teeth do you have?
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Walleye
(30,702 posts)So he smacked him. Use your words, man
unblock
(51,974 posts)He's also a rapper and lyricist. He's capable of improvising in a fast metered rhyme.
The dynamic that led him to use violence had nothing to do with any inability to use words as an alternative.
He simply *chose* to use violence instead of words.
Walleye
(30,702 posts)FreeState
(10,552 posts)he has no moral high ground there. Thats probably why he couldn't think of what to say because he knows the video is out there.
Walleye
(30,702 posts)Elessar Zappa
(13,649 posts)Doesnt excuse his violence.
Walleye
(30,702 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)and it stinks
dem4decades
(11,241 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,435 posts)She became fair game and no has right to be upset when they get "burned".
mahina
(17,502 posts)Thats some kind of a low. Good on him for hitting back and carrying on w his set.
Evergreen Emerald
(13,069 posts)After all, he was offended.
Duncan Grant
(8,257 posts)Jeez, thats ugly even when I say it.
Edit: Glad that no one was seriously hurt. Security did their job. Self-defense was the appropriate response.
murpheeslaw
(110 posts)man was escorted out along with his girlfriend/sister
LexVegas
(6,005 posts)It's a fucking show!
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... US comic community