Modified On March 18, 2006
…get the check beforehand.
Anyone catch The Apprentice last week? The teams were tasked with entertaining a bunch of car dealers in a daytime event. One of them got the bright idea of hiring a comedian. Okay. Cool. They got Corey Kahaney. Okay. Cool. The gig didn’t go great (or at least that’s what the editors wanted us to think… we’re not sure exactly how it went, but that’s not the issue here).
What was disturbing was the post-mortem, where these chuckleheads dissected the event and tried to figure out what went wrong. The idiots on the team that lost tried to blame their failure on the comedian (of course!) complaining that she was coarse, vulgar. Odlly, when they were pushed, they had to admit that she was funny.
Trump was a douchebag. He asked if she was paid before the gig or after– Implying that, had they waited until after the gig to pay her, they would have had the option to not pay her! Nice!
Trump also appeared shocked at the price tag for Kahaney– $1,700. He said that maybe they could’ve saved that much just by putting one of the team members up there to entertain. (Yeah, right– Jerry the Russian guy is a real scream. We would’ve loved to be present for that meltdown.)
Trump displayed a total disregard for the artist, a total lack of respect for what it is we do. And a total failure to grasp just how hard standup is and how much experience and expertise Kahaney and other professional comics bring to the table. Shame on Trump for being such a lunkhead and for being so… unbusinesslike.