Comedian Chrissie Mayr defends Dallas show where she was heckled over Dylan Mulvaney jokes
The barb lambasted Mulvaney - who has made headlines recently due to a large boycott of her partnership with Bud Light - for having 'no tits' and being a 'man'
Chrissie Mayr appeared by video to uphold her right to disparage the 26-year-old TikToker, a week after she shared a clip showing the reaction to her Texas set
A standup comic is defending her right to joke about trans activist Dylan Mulvaney - following a problematic set earlier this month in Dallas.
Based in New York, redhead comedienne Chrissie Mayr appeared by video to uphold her right to disparage the 26-year-old TikToker, a week after she shared a clip showing audience members reacting with ire to her show at Hyena's Comedy Club.
The two-minute, 14-second clip shows Mayr making a joke at the expense of the transgender influencer, that eventually fails to land on the Texas crowd.
The barb had lambasted Mulvaney - who has made headlines recently due to a conservative boycott of her partnership with Bud Light - for having 'no tits' because 'he is a man'.
Almost immediately, the comedian is seen battling back barbs from the unruly crowd, prompting some of the sensitive audience members to storm out - after openly slamming Marr as a 'transphobe'. The clip has since gone viral, and has spawned fierce debate as to whether Mayr's comments were malicious.
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Speaking in an interview Friday, redhead comedienne Chrissie Mayr Mayr maintained her comments made about Mulvaney were within the confines of comedy - before decrying transgender activists criticizing her set for acting like the 'protected class du jour'
The redhead comedienne prompted ire while performing at Hyena's Comedy Club in Dallas, Texas earlier this month when she made a joke about Dylan Mulvaney, 26, not having breast implants despite her self-professed year of 'girlhood' during which she transitioned
Speaking in an interview Friday in front of signage advertising her podcast, Mayr maintained her comments were within the confines of comedy - before decrying activists now criticizing her set for acting like a 'protected class du jour'.
'I don't know if they were looking to be offended, but they could have been people that are just easily offended,' the New York comic told Fox News of how the crowd's reaction to her jests point to a larger cultural problem.
'And they didn't realize it [until] they were at the show, because a lot of people live in a bubble and they aren't challenged.'
She went on to declare: 'It sometimes takes being at a comedy show for these feelings to come out.'
Slamming the response and subsequent backlash as un-American - and the current push for transgender activism as 'propaganda' - Mayr touted comedy clubs' status as a place where controversial opinions should be said without fear, especially given the context of the First Amendment.
'Stand-up is one of the very few places where you can like just,' the comic attempts to explain before losing her train of thought.
She goes on to insist: 'It's the rawest form of entertainment, but also human interaction.
'You should be laughing at things at a comedy club that might get you in trouble at work. You should be making side comments to your buddies at a comedy club that could get you in trouble at work.
'It's one of the last few places of freedom where you can be yourself and let loose.'
A former feminist who ditched those beliefs during the 2020 Presidential Election - in which she voted for Donald Trump - Mayr also had some choice words for the transgender community during the brief TV spot.
Slamming them as overly sensitive, Mayr poked fun at those who felt she went to far with her joke, which lambasted the fact Mulvaney does not yet have breast implants despite a self-professed year of 'girlhood' - during which she transitioned.
Speaking in front of signage advertising her podcast, the comedienne called the backlash she had faced over the joke as un-American - while slamming the current push to support of transgender activism as 'propaganda'
'You should be laughing at things at a comedy club that might get you in trouble at work. You should be making side comments to your buddies at a comedy club that could get you in trouble at work,' said, defending comedy clubs as one of the last bastions of free speech
A woman in the audience took offense after a man suggested Mulvaney was male, yelling: 'No! She's a woman!' The comedian jokingly struck back, saying: 'Uh-oh, uh-oh, we have one of those. It's all good. We can all have different beliefs'
The women stayed long enough to finish their French fries before yelling: 'F**k you, transphobe'
'Trans are like the protected class du jour,' she declared, using the French phrase to cite how the group and their respective rights only became a pressing issue relatively recently.
'People feel very entitled – you can just say you're non-binary and whoop, you have as much entitlement as a full-blown trans person.'
Mayr proceeded to insist that one of the primary forces fueling the current virality of the clip was the fact it lampooned the idea that 'just anyone can join this victim group'
'Then you can't criticize anything they ever said,' she went on to add. 'Not only can you can't criticize them, you can't even joke about them in a comedy club.'
To hit her point home, Mayr cited how the same night she made the disparaging transgender jabs, she also joked about Puerto Ricans.
'I had a joke about migrants in that set,' she told the conservative news station.
'I literally had a joke where I was like, "Oh I'm from Texas, my favorite sex position is the El Paso. Have you guys ever done the El Paso? Oh, it's where you turn your back and 50,000 people run over you."'
That off-color remark, however, proved far less polarizing than the one about Mulvaney, Mayr said - insisting the occurrence provides concrete proof of the double standard she says is currently on display.
'Their friends aren't challenging them, their family [isn't] challenging them, their work, their school – everything's in line with the mainstream,' Mayr declared.
The barb had lambasted Mulvaney - who has made headlines recently due to a conservative boycott of her partnership with Bud Light - for having 'no tits' because 'he is a man'
'I just don't think they're very self-aware, and they're so used to their feelings being validated everywhere they go.'
She added: 'And their reality being, I guess, reflected back to them.'
Mayr finished the sitdown by touting the importance of differing dialogues about various subjects - as well as the dangers that come with people shying away from questioning narratives being pushed by the mainstream.
'True equality is being able to joke about everybody,' she sensationally declared, as she continues to face criticism on social media for the much-seen clip, which she herself shared and has since garnered more than 3million views.
'Again, there's nothing wrong, there's nothing to update here,' she added of what her next course of action will be amid this backlash.
'All human beings should be constantly learning, growing, trying to see somebody else's opinion.'
Mayr made the jokes Hyena's Comedy Club in early May, at the height of the huge public outcry still being seen against the Days of Girlhood series for her failing Bud Light campaign.
Footage shows the comedian saying if she transition she would go out and get bottom surgery, commenting on how Mulvaney has not had gender reassignment.
'Why has it been a year of girlhood and still no t***?' she joked. 'Why no t*** for Dylan? I don't understand.' An audience member yelled out: 'Because he's a man.'
Mayr agreed, before a woman in the audience corrected the comedian - yelling: 'No! She's a woman!'
'Uh-oh, uh-oh, we have one of those,' Mayr joked with the crowd. 'It's all good. We can all have different beliefs. It's okay, some of us can believe in reality and some of us can't.'
Mayr's set continued to poke fun at the LGBT+ community, including a quip where described bisexuals as 'just fun at parties.'
Throughout the video, Mayr showed the group of women sitting at their table appearing to be uncomfortable with the jokes.
They were so uncomfortable, Mayr claimed, that 'these ''women'' went straight to management to complain and then proceeded to stampede (knock over) my merch table.'
'This is the conflict when it comes to comedy and Leftists. It's just not compatible,' she wrote on Twitter.
She also claimed that after the Mulvaney joke, the women stayed long enough to finish their French fries before storming out.
As the women stormed out, one of them yelled: 'F**k you, transphobe.'
The comedian was unfazed by the insult, yelling back: 'Is that the best you can do? Oh, my God, it's so sad.
'Make sure she gets home safe, I don't want those women to get harpooned in the neck on their way to their cars.'
Source: Daily Mail
