Sarah Silverman Blackface Protester Booted From Her Comedy Show

Sarah Silverman‘s comedy present in New Jersey acquired ugly earlier than it even began — an aged Black man was kicked out of the venue for protesting the notorious skit she did greater than 15 years in the past … in blackface.

The demonstrator, 71-year-old Michael B. Jackson, says he purchased a front-row ticket to Sarah’s Feb. 4 present on the Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City … and confirmed up in blackface. He says his intent was a peaceable protest, nevertheless it induced an enormous subject.

Jackson says 20 minutes into Sarah’s opening act, the comedian … Rory Albanese, determined to deal with him. He claims Rory incited the group, insulted and bullied him and requested safety to toss him out of the present, regardless of him saying he didn’t wish to be aside of the routine and sitting silently. Another supply who was on the present claims he was heckling and was given a warning.

That’s when a bunch of guards rolled up and informed Jackson to maneuver to a balcony seat. He refused to maneuver, and pulled out his cellphone to file the interplay.

The video cuts out earlier than issues allegedly acquired bodily — Jackson claims he ended up within the hospital after being attacked by a number of safety guards, who he says forcibly eliminated him from his seat, carried him to a again hallway, dropped him facedown on the ground and handcuffed him.

A rep for the on line casino tells TMZ … Jackson solely requested medical consideration for nervousness after being evicted from the present, strolling to his resort room and coming again all the way down to the foyer.

The on line casino says Jackson “offered himself as offensive” and so they have the precise to take away or relocate anybody from the property at any time. The assertion went on, “Ocean prides itself with each a various office and buyer base.”

Jackson claims Sarah was behind all of it … he says she “had the safety goons on the Ocean Resort Casino in AC assault me and tough me up” as a result of he wore blackface to protest her 2007 skit.

Sarah wore blackface for a bit on her TV present, “The Sarah Silverman Project.” Jackson says the skit is suffering from racist feedback towards African Americans thinly disguised as jokes.

Jackson believes he was kicked out for “racially motivated causes” and feared for his life and well-being on the time. He claims police had been known as and gave him a ticket for trespassing. A rep for the on line casino confirms officers escorted him from the constructing when he refused to depart, and that is why he acquired the ticket.

Bottom line for Jackson, “Sarah Silverman feels it okay for her to put on again face, however nobody else.”

Folks who had been there say Sarah addressed the incident when she acquired onstage — explaining he was protesting the skit from 2007 and letting the viewers know she’d by no means do one thing like that in the present day. We’re informed she additionally stated if Jackson was nonetheless within the crowd she would’ve apologized to him for the skit.