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HipChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 07:30 PM
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Bill Maher Invites Obama Impersonator Reggie Brown To Finish Controversial Act

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-invites-obama-impersonator-reggie-brown-to-finish-controversial-act/

Last week, Obama impersonator Reggie Brown stole the post-Weinergate spotlight by telling jokes so scathing to Republicans that he was yanked mid-routine from the Republican leadership conference. Never a fan of censorship, Brown caught Bill Maher’s eye, and the comedian invited Brown onto his program last night to finish the act he started a week ago.

Maher, of course, had strong words for the “white douchebag” that removed Brown from his podium while doing his act, explaining to his audience how Brown had “started talking about Republicans and the sandman came out” (organizers also cited the racially sensitive nature of the act as a reason for removing him). Then he had Brown come out again, and begin where he left off.

Now… as I was saying,” Brown began his act, as if a week and some controversy had not transpired between now and the last time he gave this same speech, “Michele Bachmann. And you thought black women were scary.” The speech didn’t get much more PC after that, with jokes about nearly everyone in the Republican field, from Herman Cain (“he’s one of my undercover ACORN volunteers”) to Mitt Romney (“he is what people who hate white people think of when they think of white people”).
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90-percent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 07:33 PM
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1. Saw it
I wonder if the Maher performance was entirely what would have been if he was not thrown off the Republican stage? OR was it tweezed up a bit because he was free of Republican restraints?

-90% Jimmy
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 08:02 PM
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2. Saw it - he was pretty spot on too.
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 09:06 PM
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3. Was this Real Time and if so, is there a link? No HBO here. :(
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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 09:35 PM
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4. Brown interview on NPR said he went over time limit
by 3 minutes..only had one joke to tell. then see him giving other interviews playing up to anger over it all. Am not certain how I feel about it.
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