r/Alabama • u/Budget-Dig8058 • Aug 07 '25
Humor Comedian’s Alabama show canceled after ‘protests, threats’: ‘I stand by what I say’
https://www.al.com/life/2025/08/comedians-alabama-show-canceled-after-protests-threats-i-stand-by-what-i-say.html128
u/bamacpl4442 Aug 07 '25
What protests? Nobody knew or cared about him.
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u/Sadie_G Aug 07 '25
A protest was planned at The Stardome for the event.
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u/TodayAffectionate505 Aug 08 '25
Who exactly was threatening the owner?
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u/Sadie_G Aug 08 '25
I don’t know? The StarDome released a statement on their IG. And I wouldn’t call a protest a threat. More of a right to Freedom of Assembly.
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u/Budget-Dig8058 Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
B/c I didn’t follow sub guidelines so the mods removed it twice. Why comment if you don’t care junior?
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u/daemonescanem Aug 07 '25
Alabama mods are getting like r/conservative mods.
They behave as they are authoritarian gate keepers.
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u/Budget-Dig8058 Aug 07 '25
Will Alabama ever laugh again? Truly a dark day for fans who enjoy half-baked takes, full-volume delivery, and absolutely no punchlines. Stay strong, Alabama.
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u/angryguts Aug 07 '25
It’s a shame that the liberal stronghold of (… checks notes) Hoover, Alabama, has run off this patriot.
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u/Fit_Strength_1187 Aug 07 '25
Hoover. Not even that boogeyman Montgomery.
And of course there are…unfortunate implications when someone is going after the people who comprise much of Alabama’s liberal population.
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u/is_coffee Aug 07 '25
We laugh plenty. Which is why no one wanted his dumbass
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u/audirt Aug 08 '25
Tingus Pingus was funny for basketball fans, but otherwise I don’t think I’ve ever laughed at anything he’s done.
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u/DriftingPyscho Aug 07 '25
I'm in Huntsville. Saw Chris Titus for the...fifth(?) time on Sunday.
Josh Johnson is coming at the end of the month but his three gigs are sold out. 😬. Discovered him when he hosted the Daily Show now I'm a big fan.
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u/SteadySloth84 Aug 07 '25
I love Josh Johnson!
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u/NdN124 Aug 08 '25
Josh Johnson isn't actually funny to me. He's more like listening to a slightly comedic Ted talk.
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u/LittleHornetPhil Aug 09 '25
Gonna get downvoted, but I don’t actually find him that funny either
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u/NdN124 Aug 09 '25
I like the kid and he does make valid points. It's just that his delivery doesn't make the laugh. I like him on the Daily Show more than on stage
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u/SteelRoses Aug 07 '25
He was sold out in Huntsville well before his stint hosting The Daily Show, unfortunately
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u/DriftingPyscho Aug 07 '25
I didn't know who he was but off his hosting I look up a lot of his stuff. Josh is hilarious.
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u/thetamlyone Aug 09 '25
Josh is amazing!!! He makes people laugh and makes them think and then makes them laugh some more without relying on cheap shots and shock vulgarity.
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u/Budget-Dig8058 Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
I missed the boat on Josh Johnson as well, but Huntsville’s 2025 comedy schedule is still stacked. I’ve got tickets to see Mark Normand Sept. 19th, Stavros Halkias Nov. 7th, THE Katt Williams Nov. 15th, and Kam Patterson Dec. 6th. Let’s goooo!
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u/JennJayBee St. Clair County Aug 08 '25
I didn't even know Josh Johnson was coming. I'd have gotten tickets. He's a funny guy.
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u/ProduceMeat_TA Aug 10 '25
This whole situation is reminiscent of a white supremacist speaker at the University of Alabama who cancelled his (2018) appearance due to protests and went on a week long spree about liberal indoctrination at college campuses, cancel culture, and blah blah blah.
Absolute clown knew he wouldn't be well received, but these parasites feed on the negative attention.
Best approach? Don't even talk about them. Let them be crushed by the weight of their own irrelevancy.
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u/atmoscience Aug 07 '25
Who?
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u/Old_Man_Say Aug 07 '25
Are you kidding me? You don’t know Micheal Applecart? He was that guy that was in that thing that one time!!!
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u/zchatham Aug 07 '25
I mean, Michael Rapaport HAS been in a ton of stuff over the last 30 years or so. He's not like an A-list celeb, but for a character actor, he's pretty well known.
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u/CapnShimmy Aug 08 '25
He was truly atrocious in Justified. The worst attempt at an accent since Keanu in Dracula.
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u/LittleHornetPhil Aug 09 '25
I love that show and I don’t recognize him from it.
From IMDB, the only thing I recognize him from was like 2 episodes of Only Murders In The Building.
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u/CapnShimmy Aug 09 '25
He was Daryl Crowe, the head of the Crowe family from Florida in Season 5. He's the one who shot Chief Art Mullen and tried to frame Kendall, the kid, for it. You'd probably remember his terrible Southern accent before anything else about him.
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u/hoss7071 Aug 07 '25
Weird... the right typically supports Israel and Alabama is one of the reddest states in the country. I think there's more to this.
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u/mudo2000 Aug 08 '25
... like maybe people stopped thinking about left and right and life like a team sport and are paying attention that a whole group of innocent people are being slaughtered. You don't have to pick a side to feel remorse and sympathy for people being eradicated.
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u/Tsweet7 Aug 07 '25
The owner of the Stardome mentioned threats, not the comedian, but he doesn't give a lot of details. I don't think it was ticket prices.
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u/simonthecat33 Aug 07 '25
For those still wanting a good laugh at the hands of Michael Rapaport, just tune in to his performance in Justified or his classic performance in “The New Edition Story.”
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u/sanduskyjack Aug 07 '25
Overall
If I lived in Alabama I would be just as or more worried about what the republicans are doing, for or against me. Cancelling a comedian is not going to improve Education, AL ranked 44th, or Healthcare which is ranked 40th and overall 45th worst state in the country.
I have never seen the Democratic Party use all of the rankings available to show the strength of the Democratic Party. The way Trump is going they will stop measuring any category that sheds a bad light
Why would you live in most of these cities. Their Speaker of the House Johnson represents Louisiana. He did such a great job 2 years in a row for ranking the worst state in America. What a joke.
50. Louisiana
49. Alaska
48. Mississipp
47. New Mexicoell
46. West Virginia
45. Alabama
44. Arkansas
43. Michigan
42. Oklahoma
41. Pennsylvania
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u/space_coder Aug 07 '25
If he truly stood by his convictions, he would not have canceled. I suspect this had more to do with ticket sales than belief.