Comedian Reggie Brown’s act was cut short this weekend at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans after he made a number of politically and racially tinged jokes about Republicans and President Obama, reports Washington Post. “My mother loved a black man and, no, she was not a Kardashian,” Brown said. He also made a joke about how First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated all of Black History Month but he only celebrated half the month. In addition, Brown showed a picture of Fred Sanford and his sister-in-law Ethel from the show Sanford and Son and said that’s what the Obamas will look like when the president leaves office. This humor made many uncomfortable, but the straw the broke the camel’s back came when he targeted Republicans.
Brown went after TPaw (Tim Pawlenty) and his backtracking during the GOP debates regarding Mitt Romney’s ‘ORomneycare,’ saying that CNN’s “John King serviced him up a ball softer than Barney Frank’s backside.” He then roasted Newt Gingrich, commenting that his approval ratings are dropping “faster than Anthony Weiner’s pants in an AOL chat room.” Brown was eventually escorted off the stage when he was setting up a joke about Michele Bachmann.
“I just thought he had gone too far,” said RLC President and CEO Charlie Davis. “He was funny the first 10 or 15 minutes, but it was inappropriate, it was getting ridiculous.”