Jerry Sadowitz says he would quit comedy if he didn't need the cash
04.03.2024 - 11:29
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Comic Jerry Sadowitz whose Edinburgh Fringe show was cancelled for being too controversial said if he didn’t need the money he would have given up on comedy a long time ago.
The American-born Scottish stand-up, whose show was axed from The Pleasance Theatre in 2022 over “extreme racism, sexism, homophobia and misogyny” said he feels like giving up as wokeism has trained the world not to laugh anymore.
Jerry, 62, who is currently touring Scotland with his new show Comedian, Magician, Psychopath!, said: “I was cancelled from the day I took up comedy, so nothing new. I made a joke about some typically unfunny female comic at Mayfest in Glasgow around 1984 and was promptly banned.
“My forty year ‘career’ consists of me hanging from a cliff by my fingernails. If I didn’t have to pay bills I would have given this ******** up a very long time ago.
“People have been trained by a controlled media not to laugh at anyone or anything anymore. It’s all part of an ongoing totalitarian future.”
Jerry, who was born in New Jersey but moved back to his mum’s native Glasgow when he was seven-years-old, made his comedy debut in 1983, aged 21, and secured a regular stand-up slot at the Weavers Inn pub on Glasgow’s London Road, which was run by future comedian Janey Godley.
The former Shawlands Academy pupil, who is on stage in Hamilton tonight has shows this week in Aberdeen, Dundee, Dunfermline and Greenock, admitted he doesn’t have the Scottish sense of humour folk seem to love.
Gerry, who is also a world-class magician, said: “Any sense of humour I did have has been drummed out of me since birth. I don’t qualify as being a Scot as I wasn’t born here. I don’t belong anywhere and that includes comedy and magic sadly.
“I don’t think Scotland has