Actually, that was Penn. Teller doesn’t talk.
If you mean they shushed the booers, explicitly said “This is a house of love,” addressed Pence as “sir” and thanked Pence for his attendance twice, then sure. What uncouth ruffians! Give me a break. With so many people boiling over these days I’d say they set a higher standard for public discourse than most people bother. If people get their panties in a twist over such a mild form of confrontation, I question whether it’s only liberals in need of safe spaces.
Trump did request “safe places”.
The irony was not lost on me.
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That’s why it was only half!
Yeah. Teller spent half the time gesturing politics.
“Overtly political entertainers say political things at their entertainment event.” It would be great if we could stop being surprised.
Pence: ‘I wasn’t offended’ by message of ‘Hamilton’ cast
He says he wasn’t offended. I don’t believe him, he also thinks Trump is Presidential material.
Like all those people taken unawares at a Mark Russell concert.
Even better, I saw the video! I don’t like a performer calling out an audience member. The whole thing was kind of condescending.
That all said, Trump is super petty demanding an apology. Just move on with your life already. He’s going to be really tired of asking for apologies every time he’s aggrieved.
Ha! Point.
The cast of Hamilton makes curtain speeches all the time. This was not the first time.
The statement was written by the play’s creator. It was, for all intents and purposes, part of the script.
An actor’s job is to read the lines he’s given, innit?
Art is not supposed to be comfortable. It’s supposed to challenge the viewer and make his brain work. Pence was gracious enough to say it didn’t bother him, whereas our new president responded like the petulant child that he is.
Well, he’s not just an audience member. He’s a homophobic prick who just got elected VP, and I bet he didn’t get his tickets (and his secret service’s tickets) in advance like normal people. I wonder how much extra space, and other people’s time he took up? He can damn well listen to what they have to say.
Especially since HIV awareness is apparently such a huge part of Hamilton’s thing. Pence once floated a bill that would only provide AIDS funding to programs that taught homosexuality is immoral. That is fucking sick. I long for the day we are more offended by things like that than some mildly worded political statement by a notoriously political playwrite.
I wonder who this first amendment supporter voted for:
Social media accounts say an audience member began loudly ranting after actors playing Alexander Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafayette sang “Immigrants — we get the job done!” — a lyric that always draws cheers.
“He started raising his voice and throwing up middle fingers at anyone who looked at him, including me and my best friend,” audience member Ken Keacher told pajiba.com.
Kate Hoyt, who was with Keacher, told the site, “He was saying things like, ‘We won. Trump is president. Get over it.’ At some point Ken leaned into the aisle to try and tell him to leave and the guy then put up both his fists and said ‘Let’s go, Democrats. I’ll kill you all.’ ”
Disruption in Chicago 'Hamilton' audience ends in man's arrest - Chicago Sun-Times
Do they call out audience members by name for a political lecture all the time? Because that is what I am objecting to. I don’t care if they make a curtain speech that doesn’t do that.
That’s a very different argument that does not apply to a curtain speech. It is perfectly legitimate to make a political statement with art. Write a play called “Trump Sucks” or “Hillary Sucks” and perform it. Stage a production of “The Crucible”–which I very much want to do in the near future–perfectly fine. Take a photograph of a crucifix immersed in urine–it’s tacky and offensive to most sane people, but still fine.
The difference is you let the performance speak for itself, and let the audience take from it what they will. You don’t call out individual audience members to ambush them with a political lecture when they have not consented to be part of the show. That’s rude and unprofessional.