{"id":2372,"date":"2016-11-20T23:14:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T07:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2016-11-20T23:14:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T07:14:01","slug":"sykes-scandalizes-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/11\/20\/sykes-scandalizes-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Sykes Scandalizes Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something that was certainly not a stunt was an incident involving <strong>Wanda Sykes <\/strong>&#8211; and I&#8217;m embarrassed to say it happened in my beloved Boston.\u00a0 Sykes performed at the 22nd annual <strong><em>Comics Come Home<\/em><\/strong> benefit for the <em>Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care <\/em>at the <strong><em>Boston Garden<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;.err, the <strong><em>TD Garden<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Wanda waded into political waters, saying, &#8220;I am certain this is not the first time we&#8217;ve elected a racist, sexist, homophobic president.&#8221;\u00a0 Kinda edgy, pretty tame for Wanda.\u00a0\u00a0 She got quite a few boos, but was definitely not booed off stage.\u00a0 &#8220;I didn&#8217;t go anywhere.\u00a0 I was booed while ON stage in the middle of my set.\u00a0 Some people in the audience didn&#8217;t want to hear my Trump jokes.\u00a0 Hell, I couldn&#8217;t even get to the punch lines.\u00a0 They were booing the setups.\u00a0 They were yelling for me to shut the F up and to go F myself, so I simply told them how that made me feel.\u00a0 I then moved on to other material, got some laughs and said goodnight.\u00a0 I left the stage with my head held high and with my middle finger even higher,&#8221; says Sykes.\u00a0 Some reporters also mentioned that as she left the stage, a female fan ran up and hugged her.\u00a0 Sykes clarified that, too.\u00a0 &#8220;Then &#8216;some woman&#8217;, who happens to be my beautiful wife, ran onstage, gave me a huge kiss, and flashed the peace sign.\u00a0 To my surprise, the audience cheered and applauded.\u00a0 It was a great moment and it gave me a little hope for our future.\u00a0 Peace &amp; Love, Wanda&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something that was certainly not a stunt was an incident involving Wanda Sykes &#8211; and I&#8217;m embarrassed to say it happened in my beloved Boston.\u00a0 Sykes performed at the 22nd annual Comics Come Home benefit for the Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care at the Boston Garden&#8230;.err, the TD Garden.\u00a0 Wanda waded into political waters,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}