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 Looks like one of the comic clubs got in trouble again this year! The Daily News reported Saturday that the routine of the B. Love Strutters upset some. Why, we just can’t have tasteless jokes at this event that was forever a blackface parade! Let’s see what all the fuss is about:
The skit featured [Geno's Steaks owner Joey] Vento popping out of the top of a float labeled “Gewizno’s Steaks” with a “When ordering, speak English” sign. Vento waved a poster reading, “What?” and tossed fake cheesesteaks into the crowd.
Then an announcer for B. Love Strutters cried out, “Uh-oh, here comes the Border Patrol!” Club members wearing Texas-sized cowboy hats and brandishing wooden rifles pretended to hold back a rioting crowd of “immigrants” from storming the border “fences.” As the immigrants burst forth, they traded in their country’s flag for an American flag, and a Mummer dressed as President-elect Barack Obama handed out Green Cards.
Look, the immigrants came into this country and traded their home country’s flag for an American one, so it could have been worse. I really enjoyed (I think) Lori Delgado’s attempt to spin it positively, calling the skit “a celebration of diversity.” Vento, of course, was having none of that, as he hates diversity:
When asked about that characterization yesterday, the 69-year-old Vento said, “Diversity? It’s a celebration to get a message across that we love immigrants here, we just want you here legally and we want you to speak English.”
Ha, ha, it sure was. Erhm.
Did routine cross bad-taste border? [Daily News]
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