Hospital fundraiser pulls Rob Schneider mid-act after horrified realization that they booked Rob Schneider
"We do not condone, accept, endorse, or share Mr. Schneider’s positions"
Having apparently failed to learn the genuinely valuable lessons of the American Republican party—a sentence that we were not, personally, expecting to type out in earnest today—a Canadian hospital foundation was forced to issue an apology this week after booking comedian Rob Schneider for a fundraising show, only to discover what “booking Rob Schneider” actually entails. Exact details about the material Schneider assayed at the Hospitals Of Regina foundation fundraising event this past Saturday haven’t become widely available just yet—although social media sources use lots of words like “transphobic,” “misogynistic,” and “anti-vaccine,” and very few words like “funny”—but the actual result is pretty clear: Schneider was asked to end his set mid-act, after multiple attendees booed him and walked out.
And while we would never try to divert from Schneider’s own basic, awful responsibility for being Rob Schneider, we do have to throw some shade at the event’s organizers, who, we can only assume went “Adam Sandler’s sixth-ranked best friend? Let’s book him!” without doing any further research on the various twists, turns, and tributaries that Schneider’s comedy career has taken in recent years. Including, again, the time this literally happened like two months ago, when he was booked for a Republican holiday event that went awry when attendees found out he’s a far-more-vulgar version of a right-wing comic than what they were expecting.
That booking, at least, made a kind of sense, in so far as Schneider has fully embraced his conservative values in his let’s-call-it-comedy act. We don’t know what the Regina people were thinking, though, unless they have some kind of very specific memory issue where the last thing they recall is “Makin’ copies,” or, possibly, “You can do it!” (We’re pretty sure Sandler also has this disease, by the way, which is why Schneider keeps popping up in stuff like last year’s Netflix animated series Leo.)
Anyway, the Foundation issued an apology today, saying “We do not condone, accept, endorse or share Mr. Schneider’s positions, as expressed during his comedy set and acknowledge that in this instance the performance did not meet the expectations of our audience and our team. An unconditional apology was offered right after to our guests and our community. We reiterate this sincere and unconditional apology today, for any offense caused by Mr. Schneider’s recent comedy set, at the Four Seasons Ball.”
[via THR]