Sarah Silverman Blackface Protester Booted From Her Comedy Show

Sarah Silverman‘s comedy present in New Jersey received 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, but it surely brought about an enormous concern.

Jackson says 20 minutes into Sarah’s opening act, the comedian … Rory Albanese, determined to handle him. He claims Rory incited the gang, 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 instructed Jackson to maneuver to a balcony seat. He refused to maneuver, and pulled out his cellphone to report the interplay.

The video cuts out earlier than issues allegedly received 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 right down to the foyer.

The on line casino says Jackson “presented himself as offensive” they usually have the best to take away or relocate anybody from the property at any time. The assertion went on, “Ocean prides itself with both a diverse workplace and customer base.”

Jackson claims Sarah was behind all of it … he says she “had the security goons at the Ocean Resort Casino in AC attack me and rough 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 in opposition to African Americans thinly disguised as jokes.

Jackson believes he was kicked out for “racially motivated reasons” and feared for his life and well-being on the time. He claims police have been referred to 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 received the ticket.

Bottom line for Jackson, “Sarah Silverman feels it okay for her to wear back face, but no one else.”

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