College gig gone horribly wrong!

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 27th, 2007

Steve Trevino, an L.A. comedian booked into a “welcome event” at suburban Philly college Villanova, is making quite a stir here in the Delaware Valley.

WPVI, the local ABC affiliate, is running a 2:08 segment on their news broadcast (that’s a lot of time on a half-hour broadcast, even on a slow newsday!) about his Friday night show– he got the hook after 15 mintues.

Trevino is alleged to have spewed, “bad language, including the n-word and racist and sexist humor.”

University officials say they hired Trevino after they saw a benign tape of his work and he promised a clean show.

“We have a contract and we say we are a Catholic university. We have standards that we want met. Even when he was here that day, we talked about having a PG-13 show. So, we really did the things that we normally do. It was very upsetting. He was very offensive,” said Kathy Byrnes, and assistant vice president of student life.

After 15 minutes the show was stopped and Trevino asked to leave the stage.

The package included a clip of Trevino on Byron Allen‘s Comics Unleashed. Our favorite, wince-inducing part was the student who said she “turned her hearing aids off” to avoid hearing any more of the performance!

Ouch!

We have an email into Trevino to see what his side is.

We wonder what happened. Who doesn’t know that colleges are home to the weeniest, most sensitive folks on the planet? And this was a Catholic college! Is there anyone on the planet who doesn’t know that ‘Nova is an Augustinian Catholic institution?

Who sends out a clean (“benign” in this case!) tape and then drops the dreaded “n-word” in the first fifteen? The accounts all say he was required to do a 90-minute show. Perhaps he was daunted by the amount of time. But dropping the nasty in the first fifteen?

And, benign videotape notwithstanding, what kind of student activities goofball books a comedian into a welcome weekend event after checking out the comic’s website and seeing an illustration of a t-shirt that says, “I support SINGLE MOMS”–accompanied by a silhouette of a stripper hugging a stripper pole, no less?!?!

Sounds like there might be plenty of blame to go around.

Trevino’s official site seems to be non-responsive, as none of the links work– not even the “NOW AVAILABLE” banner over the Single Moms T-shirts!

There’s got to be more to this story.

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