A few weeks back, a friend of mine went to see comedian Todd Barry at a venue in Philadelphia called North Star Bar. It was a situation where he was performing between musical acts. It was late on a Tuedsay evening and the venue was fairy empty except for a handful of rowdies, about fifty people in all. According to my friend, Todd began telling a joke about a customized yamakuh made to look like a slice of watermelon (the routine normally goes like this). However, on this particular evening, Todd tried setting up the joke by asking if there were any Jewish people in the audience. The response was predominantly boos and hisses. Todd, ever the pro, used the reaction well, though he still seemed a little shaken. He congratulated one of the audience members for her dazzling lexicon ("See?", said Barry, "She even knows the lingo. Jewhater...").
Here is a short mp3 of the incident. My friend tells me the booing was far louder in the actual venue.
As a former resident of Philadelphia, I find this all deeply disturbing.
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