Angry fans walked out during Wanda Sykes’s show at a venue in Red Bank, N. J., on Thursday night after she made a series of…
Angry fans walked out during Wanda Sykes’s show at a venue in Red Bank, N. J., on Thursday night after she made a series of jokes about President Trump, the Asbury Park Press reported.
According to the local paper, the comedian opened her set at Count Basie Center for the Arts taking swipes at Trump’s response to reports that world leaders laughed during his speech to the United Nations earlier this week, saying, they “weren’t laughing at me, they were laughing with me.”
Sykes had reportedly quipped if such were the case, “What was the joke he told?”
The comedian had also joked that the general public appeared to be aging faster than the typical rate under the Trump administration — compared to previous administrations where the president seemed to be aging more.
Attendees reportedly heckled the comedian minutes into her set, with several audience members complaining that Sykes’s jokes had been “too political.”
However, Sykes, who has long been critical of Trump, asked the audience in response what they had expected to see.
Although more than a dozen fans walked out during the comedian’s show, many who stayed told the paper they were pleased with Sykes’s performance.
“She made her point — she’s a black lesbian,” Gabby Young told the publication. “You knew what you were gonna get. You should have known that it wasn’t going to be pro-Trump.”
Sykes was also booed by fans in 2016 for telling jokes mocking Trump during a performance at the TD Garden in Boston.
