John Mayer reportedly pulled an oh-no-he-didn’t last week at The Slipper room in New York, when he jumped up on stage and made a few racist remarks to comedian Kumail Nanjiani.
According to sources at the show, John decided to exercise his funny skills the other night, so he convinced the show’s host Seth Herzog to allow him to do a 5-minute-long routine. He decided however, to stay on stage for 20 minutes, which cut into real comedian Kumail’s stage time. When he finally left the stage, Kumail went on to perform, but this apparently annoyed John, so John decided to crash the stage during the middle of Kumail’s performance, and start spewing racist jokes to the Pakistani comedian.
John reportedly called Kumail “Kabul”, and then went on to tell him that he “looked like a brown guy but sounded like a white guy”.
John finally issued a John-Mayer-style apology over the weekend, saying,
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.
John humbly added that he personally apologized to Kumail after the show, and that Kumail accepted.
