In a follow up to my last post, it seems that Amy Schumer couldn’t help but double down and issue a non-apology for imploding her show in Tampa.

“Dearest Tampa: I’m sorry you didn’t want me, a comedian who talks about what she believes in, to mention the biggest thing going on in our country right now,” she read from an “open letter” at Madison Square Garden. “How could I think it was OK to spend five minutes having a peaceful conversation with someone with different views?”

Really?  So for her “having a peaceful conversation with someone with different views” is ridiculing a whole bunch of people to their faces, then bringing one person up on stage to berate them for their beliefs.

“After the show, I want you to know that I will go straight to a rehab facility that will teach me how to make all people happy — both the rich, entitled, white people who are gonna vote for him and the very poor people who’ve been tricked into it.”

No, toots, you don’t get it.  This is the problem with celebrities and the super rich.  They get it into their heads that because they make more money and are more famous than most people, they are smarter than us and are always right about everything and can lecture us at any time about any issue.  Insulting your audience is also not a wise move.

The people who went to her show went to see a stand-up routine, not hear an unsolicited political diatribe.  Her job is tell jokes, when she is on stage doing a show that people paid for, her job is to do a routine that people expect.  When her customers are disappointed that they didn’t get the service they paid for, they left.

Being a comedian doesn’t change the fact that people paid for tickets with a certain expectation, and an anti-Trump lecture was not part of that.  Would that behavior be expected with any other job?

If your mechanic is charging you by the hour, would you want to pay if he took 15 minutes in the middle of fixing your alternator to give you an anti-gun lecture?

Of course not.

How would my clients like it if when I wrote up a report on a heat treat analysis and included in my report a page about Hillary Clinton’s corruption?

Why is it any different for Schumer.  It’s not, and that’s why people walked out.  It’s in part why the NFL is seeing a decline ratings, people want to watch football to enjoy some TV, and when the players are protesting and ESPN is now more political than MSNBC people are turning it off.

The once great George Carlin did political humor.  Back in the day, he was anti-establishment and it was funny.  There is good political humor.  During the GW Bush administration he just became a hack.  His routine was not funny, it was just one long anti-Bush tirade, and it didn’t do well.   He killed is own career going from making fun of politicians to being hyper partisan.  Very few people wanted to sit through a 90 minute show where every punchline was – quite literally – “fuck Bush.”

Tell your jokes, throw the ball, sing the songs we want to hear, and don’t berate your audience with your political opinions while you are on their dime.

But no.  Schumer, instead, is going to prove just how nasty and scolding a person she is.

“I look forward to putting this all behind us in a couple weeks when Hillary Clinton is our mother——- president!” she said. 

Just yuck!