You are comics, and above anything else, you should support free speech. It really doesn’t matter how big of a shit-bag you think Amiri King is. Make sure that you have processes in place to vet nominations and votes, and let’s keep this thing local.
If you’re going to put together a best-of-Louisville list, then get with the 21st century. You should have been disqualified on that basis alone. You’re a successful guy with fans all over the world, but you’re not a local comedian. You live in Nicholasville (at least that’s what I’ve heard from several sources) and more importantly, your fan base is not local. The award is for “best local comedian.” I don’t care what you say on YouTube, and I’ll defend your right to say whatever dumbed-down shit that pours from your piehole, but you’re not a local comedian. Let’s take a tour, shall we?Ĭome on, Amiri. Who’s to blame for this entertaining mess? Both have a shit-ton of fans around the world, but they’re not really local. Him winning best local comedian is like Jennifer Lawrence winning best local actress. As I understand it, Amiri did once live here, but that makes no difference.
Not because of his political and social rants, but because he’s not local, and I’m almost sure that a majority of people who voted for Amiri are not from here, as well. Still, Amiri King does not deserve the award for best local comedian. Sound familiar? I could also tell you about Phil Donahue, who was fired from MSNBC for opposing Bush’s war in Iraq, but I don’t want to belabor the point. ABC did not want to be associated with those comments, so he was fired. He opined that we were the cowards for launching missiles from miles away. Before “Real Time with Bill Maher,” there was a show on ABC that Maher hosted called “Politically Incorrect.” Bill was unceremoniously fired after 9/11 (the real one, not the anniversary) for saying that the terrorists who died in the planes were not cowards. In case you weren’t alive during this time period, please allow me to illuminate. Here’s my hypothesis: If we start silencing people like Amiri King, then how long will it be before we start silencing the political speech by people like Bill Maher? Oh wait, that’s already happened. I know the First Amendment does not apply here. I know LEO is well within its rights to disassociate themselves from anyone it chooses.
Now before anyone lectures me on LEO’s right to not associate themselves with unfunny comedians, hear me out: I am no fan of Amiri King, but I am a huge fan of free speech. The only thing missing from their Neanderthal repertoire was a directive for someone to go suck a “big, green donkey dick.” From “liberal faggot” to “world’s biggest pussy,” they effortlessly covered the gamut of all the seventh-grade insults. Once Amiri’s window-licking fans and mouth-breathing followers caught wind of his lost award, they littered LEO’s Facebook page with an endless array of predictably derisive insults. The best part about all of this was I got to watch this whole thing unfold on my Facebook feed. Now, if you know anything about social justice warriors, they do not cotton to racists or misogynists, so they started complaining with righteous indignation to LEO’s editorial staff who, in turn, agreed with their assessment and withdrew their “Readers’ Choice” award for best local comedian. For these reasons, Amiri was labeled a racist and a misogynist. After all, this guy rails on against Black Lives Matter, he defended Trump’s “locker room” language and he’s fairly unapologetic about his opinions. The reason he was stripped is because a few social justice warriors (SJWS) figured out who Amiri was, and they were incensed. That is, until he was unceremoniously stripped of this year’s award. He has also won LEO’s “best local comedian” for the last two years. With nearly 2,000,000 Facebook followers, Amiri has fans all over the world. While his appeal is not universal, it is widespread. If you’re not familiar with what has gone down in the last few days, please allow me to catch you up.Īmiri King is, by all accounts, a successful Facebook and social media comedian. As a semi-retired comic, I thought it was my duty to weigh in on this Amiri King controversy.
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