John Mayer, WTF were you thinking?

[nec13]

John Mayer graduated summa cum laude from the Al Campanis School of Racial Relations.

[Andy]

who gives a fuck? I didn't give a shit about him before and I don't now, but if I liked his music I wouldn't let something like this get in the way of it. People say outrageous shit to get attention and I'm pretty sure he's not the first musician who's an unfunny prick.

[emma]

I read this whole thread, realized reading this interview would only make me angry, and then I read the whole interview because I have poor judgment and because it is 1 a.m.

This was pretty classy:

I feel like women are getting their comeuppance against men now. I hear about man-whores more than I hear about whores. When women are whorish, they’re owning their sexuality. When men are whorish, they’re disgusting beasts. I think they’re paying us back for a double standard that’s lasted for a hundred years.

Ladies, good news! We're cool now! When people call you a whore it's a compliment! Stop being all weird about it!

[JonFromMaplewood]

This was pretty classy:

I feel like women are getting their comeuppance against men now. I hear about man-whores more than I hear about whores. When women are whorish, they’re owning their sexuality. When men are whorish, they’re disgusting beasts. I think they’re paying us back for a double standard that’s lasted for a hundred years.

And apparently, the double standard has lasted for only one hundred years.  I bet you didn't know that, HESTER PRYNNE.

[gravy boat]

This was pretty classy:

I feel like women are getting their comeuppance against men now. I hear about man-whores more than I hear about whores. When women are whorish, they’re owning their sexuality. When men are whorish, they’re disgusting beasts. I think they’re paying us back for a double standard that’s lasted for a hundred years.

And apparently, the double standard has lasted for only one hundred years.  I bet you didn't know that, HESTER PRYNNE.

Also, so is "whore" for women now a compliment?

[buffcoat]

What's wrong with you, (some) ladies (especially "14 out of 10" ladies) that this guy can't count on all his extremities the number of ladies he's been with in a year?  Did our parents fight the Sexual Revolution for THIS?

[Barry Egan]

And apparently, the double standard has lasted for only one hundred years.  I bet you didn't know that, HESTER PRYNNE.

This has had me laughing all morning.  Thanks!

[Chris L]

'Sup, bro-whores?

[Regular Joe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZUkhbAiveQ&feature=player_embedded

[fonpr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZUkhbAiveQ&feature=player_embedded

"Wormhole of Selfishness"

We should write a song.

Somebody write the first line.

[orator]

Seems like he's desperately trying to outdo Kanye.

[fonpr]

Seems like he's desperately trying to outdo Kanye.

Is that the first line?

[Trembling Eagle]

all apologies should have groovy backing music.

[methanolcereal]

First he offends the Pakistani community, and now this. Your cock ain't the only thing David Duke about ya, John!

Anyway, this story is about John Mayer’s attempt at stand-up at the Slipper Room last week, and the story comes directly from a comedian named Kumail Nanjiani, who not only witnessed Mayer’s act, but was the one to fall victim to Mayer’s racist douchery.

A quick word about Nanjiani: he’s an up-and-coming Pakistani comedian who has spent the last year performing on late night shows for David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Saturday Night Live. He’s been named one of the “Ten Comedians To Watch” and he’s making deals all over the place. Basically, he’s a funny guy, and he does this for a living, with great joy.

Here’s what happened when Mayer showed up at the Slipper Room, told by Nanjiani and New York Magazine:

John Mayer showed up at the Slipper Room unannounced last Tuesday night and asked the evening’s emcee, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’s Seth Herzog, if he could do five minutes of stand-up. According to Nanjiani, who was originally scheduled to take the stage when Mayer showed up, Mayer then proceeded to bomb for not five minutes, but for twenty, eating into Nanjiani’s performance time. Which would have been fine, except Mayer then decided to come back out onstage AGAIN in the middle of Nanjiani’s set.

This is when things got weird.

To hear Nanjiani tell the story, he was somewhat rattled after having had his set time cut by John Mayer, but things got awkward after Mayer referred to the Pakistan-born Kumail as “Kabul.” Whoops! Making matters even worse, Mayer apparently then began heckling Nanjiani onstage, telling him that “he looked like a brown guy but sounded like a white guy.” Double whoops! Now, Nanjiani was careful last night not to accuse Mayer of being a racist, nor does he seem to hold a real grudge against Mayer; rather, he was just relating a hilariously surreal story of a recent stand-up gig to a bunch of comedy nerds (like us!).

When Mayer was discussing the incident to The Comic’s Comic, he described what went down as: “I’m blind and I’m an idiot. I go in and I smash things with my big, dumb Hulk hands. I don’t know how to do it yet. I don’t know how to bomb. It was combative in the sense that the crowd didn’t really accept the fact that the jock, the guy who gets the girls, was at a place where the guys go who talk about how they don’t get the girls.” So… Mayer’s not a racist, he’s just a guy who gets laid, and all of us are jellus h8ters? Right.

Ugh. This is just awful. I like what I've seen of Kumail Nanjiani and the fact that this self-entitled doucher is completely disrespectful and out of his element and tries to turn that on Kumail is just...

Ugh.

I've never been a fan of John Mayer's music (from what I've heard it's for 13 year old girls and for frat boys trying to show their "sensitive" side) but I thought he was kind of funny on that one Dave Chappelle skit but this is just inexcusable.

[Dan in Chicago]

Guys you are making way too big of a deal over this.

Racism has been ended by all black people everywhere unconditionally loving John Mayer.

And whores are just women who celebrate there sexuality...through money.

It's all so simple.