Former SNL comedian is forced off the stage for not being PC

[TSwizzle]

Snowflakes take offense and boot Nimesh Patel off stage, hilarious;

A former SNL comedian was kicked off stage by event organizers who snatched the mic from his hands mid-set because his 'offensive' jokes were deemed 'racist' and 'homophobic'. Nimesh Patel was performing a stand-up comedy gig at an event hosted by Columbia University’s Asian American Alliance (AAA) when he was ordered off the stage. The Emmy Award nominated writer, who was the first Indian-American writer for SNL, was taking part in an annual charity event called cultureSHOCK: Reclaim last Friday when he made the remarks. The 32-year-old reportedly joked that being a gay black man can not be a choice because, 'no one looks in the mirror and thinks, "this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it"', according to the Columbia Spectator.

DailyMail

For Sofia Jao, problems with the performance resided not in the set, but with Patel’s closing remarks.

“I really dislike when people who are older say that our generation needs to be exposed to the real world. Obviously the world is not a safe space but just accepting that it's not and continuing to perpetuate the un-safeness of it… is saying that it can’t be changed,” said Jao. “When older generations say you need to stop being so sensitive, it’s like undermining what our generation is trying to do in accepting others and making it safer.”

Poor Sofia, I weep for her. Weep tears of laughter that is.

 

[Trausti]

The event was called "cultureSHOCK." Every time ya think the SJWs couldn't get any dumber, well, there ya go. They are the church ladies of our times.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

OMG! Overly sensitive group at a school prematurely end stand-up routine 30 minutes into the routine.

This news couldn't possibly be yuger, except for the exposure that there are some very naive liberals that exist!

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Gee, you're such a macho tough guy TSwizzle!

Did you go beyond your little world at all in regard to this? Of course not. Here's a take from someone who was actually there:

The news articles I’ve read give the impression that Patel told some controversial jokes that caused PC outrage, but the performance was just a trainwreck. While Patel started with strong laughs, he soon hit a controversial joke that earned mixed reactions. Instead of moving on, Patel warned us that he’s from an older generation (this guy is only 32), and then delivered the usual condescending and presumptuous spiel about how we need to learn about the “real world.” I thought, “Relax, you just got on stage.” Patel presented himself as arrogant and almost contemptuous toward the audience he was meant to entertain. Later, he even said, “Well, I’m already paid,” setting the tone of his performance.

The atmosphere throughout the remainder of the routine was uncomfortable with a few occasional laughs. While it’s normal in stand-up to pick an audience member to dialogue with, Patel just kept returning to the same girl to ask her painfully drawn out questions, as if he were mining material for a routine he had not prepared. He asked another audience member personal questions about their parents in a room full of strangers.
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Patel’s mic wasn’t just cut off because he told offensive jokes to a sensitive, snowflake audience, which is the narrative that I see being talked about. He was booted off the stage because he sucked the energy out of an entire auditorium. When he told the gay Black joke, even he noted the tension. His routine was the antithesis of what cultureSHOCK stood for. He stepped into an uplifting atmosphere and soiled it, which is the opposite of what he was meant to do as a hired entertainer performing at someone else’s event.

In stand-up comedy terms, he bombed. Hard. And then, on top of that--or, more likely, because of it--he went for cheap, offensive jokes, a pattern all-to-familiar to anyone who has ever been to a comedy show where someone doesn't read the audience right and just eats it onstage.

So, apparently after thirty minutes of biting it hard, they pulled him.

Iow, it wasn't just one thing; it was, as the reviewer noted, a trainwreck that they mercy killed at the end of an otherwise (apparently) well-received and celebrated occasion; a sour note that evidently stood out in stark relief against every other experience in the event.

And then third-rate beta cucks evidently couldn't wait to offer it up for shit-sniffing to their alpha superiors for approval to disseminate, so good job! Your alpha superiors won't ever reward you, per the norm.

 

[dismal]

The 32-year-old reportedly joked that being a gay black man can not be a choice because, 'no one looks in the mirror and thinks, "this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it"'

I get that this is a joke about race and gayness but is it really racist and/or homophobic?

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OMG! Overly sensitive group at a school prematurely end stand-up routine 30 minutes into the routine.

This news couldn't possibly be yuger, except for the exposure that there are some very naive liberals that exist!

Oh good, Higgins is here again to reflexively defend the crazy shit leftists spew out without actually offering any coherent defense of it.

 

[Trausti]

Have we considered that the reason he was kick off stage is due to racism? All of you supporting his early termination are a bunch of racists.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

OMG! Overly sensitive group at a school prematurely end stand-up routine 30 minutes into the routine.

This news couldn't possibly be yuger, except for the exposure that there are some very naive liberals that exist!

^ right on cue.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Oh gosh, back in college, there was a stand up comic and he absolutely bombed. A couple of his things weren't "PC", but that wasn't the issue. The issue was he just wasn't funny, and we started feeling for the guy, because he knew just how badly he was bombing. I wish we would have pulled the plug on him, not because of [echo chamber]PC[/echo chamber] but because it was awful embarrassing to watch.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Well, I certainly hope that the school will provide them all with counselling for their PTSD after having to experience that.

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Oh gosh, back in college, there was a stand up comic and he absolutely bombed. A couple of his things weren't "PC", but that wasn't the issue. The issue was he just wasn't funny, and we started feeling for the guy, because he knew just how badly he was bombing. I wish we would have pulled the plug on him, not because of [echo chamber]PC[/echo chamber] but because it was awful embarrassing to watch.

Yeah, and there is nothing worse than someone bombing for thirty minutes. Every second someone onstage is bombing is like an hour.

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Well, I certainly hope that the school will provide them all with counselling for their PTSD after having to experience that.

Having to experience what? The Daily Mail's mischaracterization of why he was pulled off stage (after thirty minutes)?

 

[TSwizzle]

Gee, you're such a macho tough guy TSwizzle!

Odd response but anyway;

To me, his routine was strangely obsessed with Black people, my favorite part being when he questioned why there was so much online outrage that Black actors weren’t nominated at the Oscars in 2016, but not for Asian actors. Patel’s anti-Blackness jumped out: The hashtag was #OscarsSoWhite, not #OscarsNotBlack.

His blatant anti-Blackness leads me to the most talked about part of the performance.

The joke went like this: Patel came to the stellar realization that being gay can’t be a choice because “no one looks in the mirror and thinks, ‘this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it.’” To a non-Black, non-queer person, it might be novel. But if you’re Black and gay, you don’t need a straight South Asian guy to point out that your life is hard because you’re Black and gay. That’s not insightful––it’s painfully unoriginal. “I wouldn’t choose to live with homophobia while facing racism,” has crossed the minds of queer Black people, probably in a moment of distress or when faced with homophobia in their own community.

This is the issue with telling jokes about other people’s identities: It’s hard to grasp the intricacies of a life you haven’t lived. Personally, I think comedians should be allowed to tell jokes about different communities, but they often end up falling into clichés, stereotypes, or just predictable material. Patel brought himself on stage to perform a tired joke, the punchline being marginalized struggles about which he has no true insight. Some may argue that he was making a comment on society’s racism and homophobia, but for whom? I watched a brown man use the experiences of Black people to make white people ponder and laugh while two of my gay Black friends cringed.

Where the fuck to begin with this claptrap I do not know but I am in deep shock that poor "Liberty Martin" (FFS!) gay Black (note the captal "B" in black but no capital "G" in gay) friends were a tad uncomfortable. Oh the humanity !!

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Gee, you're such a macho tough guy TSwizzle!

Odd response but anyway;

To me, his routine was strangely obsessed with Black people, my favorite part being when he questioned why there was so much online outrage that Black actors weren’t nominated at the Oscars in 2016, but not for Asian actors. Patel’s anti-Blackness jumped out: The hashtag was #OscarsSoWhite, not #OscarsNotBlack.

His blatant anti-Blackness leads me to the most talked about part of the performance.

The joke went like this: Patel came to the stellar realization that being gay can’t be a choice because “no one looks in the mirror and thinks, ‘this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it.’” To a non-Black, non-queer person, it might be novel. But if you’re Black and gay, you don’t need a straight South Asian guy to point out that your life is hard because you’re Black and gay. That’s not insightful––it’s painfully unoriginal. “I wouldn’t choose to live with homophobia while facing racism,” has crossed the minds of queer Black people, probably in a moment of distress or when faced with homophobia in their own community.

This is the issue with telling jokes about other people’s identities: It’s hard to grasp the intricacies of a life you haven’t lived. Personally, I think comedians should be allowed to tell jokes about different communities, but they often end up falling into clichés, stereotypes, or just predictable material. Patel brought himself on stage to perform a tired joke, the punchline being marginalized struggles about which he has no true insight. Some may argue that he was making a comment on society’s racism and homophobia, but for whom? I watched a brown man use the experiences of Black people to make white people ponder and laugh while two of my gay Black friends cringed.

Where the fuck to begin with this claptrap I do not know but I am in deep shock that poor "Liberty Martin" (FFS!) gay Black (note the captal "B" in black but no capital "G" in gay) friends were a tad uncomfortable. Oh the humanity !!

OMG, there are fringe liberals!

 

[JohnG]

I’m willing to put money on that he was not booted for being non-PC.

I get that there are people reacting harshly to racist remarks out there, but WTF do people think free speech is? A free pass to verbal abuse?

You free speech nuts (and I’m for free speech) think that I (and others) have to sit and listen to idiotic drivel and like it.

I don’t go running to HR when my co-workers start in on blaming minorities for their problems, but I tell them what I think and holy shit it’s like I just took away all their beer money for the week. They call me the PC police and wonder what I have against free speech without seeing the irony whatsoever.

 

[barbos]

I have to say Nimesh Patel is no Michael Richards

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Gee, you're such a macho tough guy TSwizzle!

Odd response

Is it beta cuck snowflake?

Where the fuck to begin with this claptrap I do not know but I am in deep shock that poor "Liberty Martin" (FFS!) gay Black (note the captal "B" in black but no capital "G" in gay) friends were a tad uncomfortable. Oh the humanity !!

And, once again, not the sole reason for why they finally cut Patel's mic to get him off the stage (after thirty minutes), but not knowing where the fuck to begin with this claptrap clearly has you all in a tizzy TSwizzle from West Hollywood (we all know what that means, ffs !)

 

[laughing dog]

I cannot decide which is stupidest - Patel's performance, that one woman's reaction to it quoted in , or the OP and its kneejerk applauders.

ETA - Patel is not a former SNL comedian. He wrote jokes for SNL for one year. He did not perform.

 

[Underseer]

Snowflakes take offense and boot Nimesh Patel off stage, hilarious;

A former SNL comedian was kicked off stage by event organizers who snatched the mic from his hands mid-set because his 'offensive' jokes were deemed 'racist' and 'homophobic'. Nimesh Patel was performing a stand-up comedy gig at an event hosted by Columbia University’s Asian American Alliance (AAA) when he was ordered off the stage. The Emmy Award nominated writer, who was the first Indian-American writer for SNL, was taking part in an annual charity event called cultureSHOCK: Reclaim last Friday when he made the remarks. The 32-year-old reportedly joked that being a gay black man can not be a choice because, 'no one looks in the mirror and thinks, "this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it"', according to the Columbia Spectator.

DailyMail

For Sofia Jao, problems with the performance resided not in the set, but with Patel’s closing remarks.

“I really dislike when people who are older say that our generation needs to be exposed to the real world. Obviously the world is not a safe space but just accepting that it's not and continuing to perpetuate the un-safeness of it… is saying that it can’t be changed,” said Jao. “When older generations say you need to stop being so sensitive, it’s like undermining what our generation is trying to do in accepting others and making it safer.”

Poor Sofia, I weep for her. Weep tears of laughter that is.

Oh no! He said something bigoted and people had a problem with that?

Audiences should be forced to listen to bigoted talk and businesses should be forced to provide a platform for bigoted talk whether they want to or not, because that would make us more free.

PS[ent]mdash[/ent]Dear conservatives and libertarians (who are completely different, but just happen to take most of the same positions on the same issues using the same phrasings to their arguments),
We have a number of openly fascist/white supremacist posters on this forum, including one who uses an avatar with an image of the fasces, from which the word fascist comes. Did you notice that you are taking the same side using the same arguments as the white supremacists? What do you suppose that means?

 

[dismal]

Snowflakes take offense and boot Nimesh Patel off stage, hilarious;

A former SNL comedian was kicked off stage by event organizers who snatched the mic from his hands mid-set because his 'offensive' jokes were deemed 'racist' and 'homophobic'. Nimesh Patel was performing a stand-up comedy gig at an event hosted by Columbia University’s Asian American Alliance (AAA) when he was ordered off the stage. The Emmy Award nominated writer, who was the first Indian-American writer for SNL, was taking part in an annual charity event called cultureSHOCK: Reclaim last Friday when he made the remarks. The 32-year-old reportedly joked that being a gay black man can not be a choice because, 'no one looks in the mirror and thinks, "this black thing is too easy, let me just add another thing to it"', according to the Columbia Spectator.

DailyMail

For Sofia Jao, problems with the performance resided not in the set, but with Patel’s closing remarks.

“I really dislike when people who are older say that our generation needs to be exposed to the real world. Obviously the world is not a safe space but just accepting that it's not and continuing to perpetuate the un-safeness of it… is saying that it can’t be changed,” said Jao. “When older generations say you need to stop being so sensitive, it’s like undermining what our generation is trying to do in accepting others and making it safer.”

Poor Sofia, I weep for her. Weep tears of laughter that is.

Oh no! He said something bigoted and people had a problem with that?

What is bigoted about what he said?

 

[repoman]

He should have done the "grabbler" sketch that The Onion did:

 

[blastula]

The gay black joke is unoriginal but it is not racist or homophobic in the least. It may have been controversial to homophobes back in the 90s, but today should just get nothing worse than a yawn.