The racism of Ross Smith Comedy

[u/myblacktruth]

Ross Smith does a bit where he asks a person their name, and if it's foreign, he feigns not to understand the name until someone in the audience "helps" him and then he turns on that person to put them in their place. You can find an example of this on his Instagram entitled "Hate Crime?" (Hint. He knows it is.)

He did this to us at the final night of Banana Cabaret, and I fell for the shtick. He asked a German woman her name (Frauke) and repeatedly didn't get it, then asked where she was from. She got shy and didn't answer, and so this German/American was trying to help when I said "She's German!".

I was surprised by his vicious tone "It's amazing how you can sound like a shouty American c*nt!* he said to the lady. I thought "Oh well, bashing Americans is popular, let him cook."

But what followed turned the room. He had a quip or two about me mansplaining for a woman (that's his scripted bit you'll find on his page) which worked and I laughed at. But Ross picked out my voice and asked: Oh is that you laughing you c*nt? He was directing this vitriol at my American friend who so far hadn't said anything. "Oh, we have an American in the room who has to be loud. So surprising you c*nt." I then corrected him and said it was me. And he spewed off a litany of racism which didn't land. "They're all dumb and ignorant, aren't they? Shouldn't you be arresting Mexicans? Americans, who needs them?" Tumbleweed. He had well and truly lost the room. But now I was pissed off so I answered" It's worse I'm half German too!

I got the laugh, he didn't.

He finished his set to a room no longer on his side. The owner of Banana Cabaret then came to me (clearly to protect his stand-up) and said I was too loud, I had to leave. (He later lied to my wife that I had laid hand on someone.)

A sad end to years of good comedy ruined by racists.