{"id":6049,"date":"2009-12-13T21:13:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T02:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6049"},"modified":"2009-12-13T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T04:20:07","slug":"kumail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/13\/kumail\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumail’s Hijack by the Accidental Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, Amardeep introduced us to the hilarious Desi comedian Kumail Nanjiani<\/a>. Little did I know till dinner conversation last night that Kumail had recently been comedy hijacked by the Accidental Racist (via Angry Asian Man<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

The story goes like this – Kumail was scheduled to do a comedy set at the Slipper Room<\/a> a couple weeks ago, when John Mayer (the musician) showed up unannounced to the show and jumped on the mic for an unscheduled five minute comedy performance… that turned into an awkward twenty minutes. Mayer’s comedy bit on the mic ate into Kumail’s scheduled performance time. Allright, fine. A famous musical douchebag takes the mic, and feels entitled to hog a comedy stage. To be expected, I guess. But then, he turned into a racist douchebag.<\/p>\n\n

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To hear Nanjiani tell the story, he was somewhat rattled after having had his set time cut by John Mayer, but things got awkward after Mayer referred to the Pakistan-born Kumail as “Kabul.” Whoops! Making matters even worse, Mayer apparently then began heckling Nanjiani onstage, telling him that “he looked like a brown guy but sounded like a white guy.” Double whoops! [vulture<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Check out an interview with Kumail below. They refer to John Mayer as the accidental racist at the 4:25 point.<\/p>\n\n

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Comedians say racist remarks all the time doing stand up. But I think what sets this apart is that, well frankly, Mayer isn’t a comedian and he hijacked a comedy set with pompous entitlement. Secondly, he interupted Kumail’s set to heckle him with racist comments.<\/p>\n\n

In the words of Angry Asian Man<\/a>, “Thinking you can be an actual standup comic is one thing, but interrupting another comic’s set, then making jokes about the Brown man? That’s racist! Stick to the music, Mayer (if you must).” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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