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"Hey, fuck you. He paid to be here just like the rest of us." UPDATE

According to the Defamer, the clip originally appeared on YouTube, but was taken down at the request of Shore’s reps at the Gersh Agency, ostensibly because it was a copyrighted performance and was used without permission. The clip bobbed back to the surface on iFilms.

The reaction of some comedians and others has been disconcerting. The word of the day: schadenfreude, “A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.” Some folks, even some comics, are behaving like 14-year-old junior high girls by taking the “I never liked that guy anyway/he deserved to get socked/it’s about time” approach to the whole affair.

Shore is a comedian. Plain and simple. He’s a draw, he’s a professional, he’s a standup comic, just like us. We see him get punched and we immediately identify. If you think you’re immune to this kind of assault, you’re out of your mind. If you think Pauly Shore somehow deserved to get punched onstage in a comedy club, you’re part of the problem.

Ifilm is hosting a short video that purportedly shows Pauly Shore dealing with a heckler in the front row of The 8th St. Comedy Club in Odessa, TX. Another patron hops onstage, confronts Shore, then decks him, as the crowd yells, “Hit him!”

The title of this post is what someone (we believe it’s the guy who eventually assaults Shore) yells just before the confrontation.

the 8th St. Comedy Club in Odessa seems to have a crowd control problem. And America seems to have a problem with comedians.

Is it real? According to their website, Shore headlined there this past weekend. It sure looks real. There’s no statement on the site alluding to any assault. Other websites like the Defamer are reporting it, but the MSM has yet to pick it up. We suppose that, since there was no racial slur involved in the incident, there’s really no story here. (Unless you count Shore calling the crowd “White trash motherfuckers,” as he left the stage, after being assaulted.) And, because of the MSM’s inexplicable hatred of Shore, they view this as something that was inevitable, if not a public service.

Thanks to Paul Ogata for alerting us.