A veteran New York stand-up artist told Page Six he was “shocked by the brazenness” of anti-Semites at the city’s comedy clubs.
Judy Gold was “stunned” after encountering Jewish-hating hecklers at two different comedy clubs over the weekend.
Mr. Gold, 63, was performing at the New York Comedy Club on Friday night when a vile audience member yelled a slur at him: “You’re a Jew.”
Gold, who has been performing stand-up for more than 40 years, said he has encountered many annoying audience members, but nothing like this.
“[This]one guy was really disruptive and I said, ‘That’s annoying for a comedian.'” “The audience was great, so I was just talking to him and he just yelled,” the “Search Party” alum told us.
“I’ve been doing this since I was 19, I can handle anything,” she told Page Six, but admitted she was stunned by the hateful heckling.
Officials at the Upper West Side club told Page Six that the bigoted bully did not take kindly to him.
“He was talking back to the security guard,” the witness said. “I wanted to get in his face and fight him outside.”
Club staff eventually paid the bill and let him leave.
Gold is grateful to the comedy club for calling him out and immediately removing him.
But that wasn’t the only time the “Yes, I Can Say That” author encountered anti-Semitism over the weekend.
The next night, the Emmy Award-winning comedian had another unpleasant experience at a Manhattan club, which he declined to name.
“Someone made a comment about Jews being cheap, so I said, ‘Thank you for bringing that metaphor back from 1600,'” she recalled, noting that this patron was not dumped.
Ms Gold said she was “shocked” by how “brazen” racists had become, recalling that the last time she heard such stories was decades ago.
“The last time something like this happened was over 30 years ago in Marietta, Georgia,” she said. “Someone yelled, ‘Jews have all the money,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, that’s why we’re doing this show in Marietta, Georgia.'”
