Club customers storm out

Comic Paul Mooney has had a gig pulled after making bad-taste jokes about the Boston bombs.

His show last night was cancelled after he received about 20 walk-outs on Saturday.

According to one Twitter user in the audience, the black comic said: ‘White people in Boston deserved what they got.’ and said ‘as long as no blacks got hurt it was OK.’

Customers who stormed out of the Levity Live club in West Nyack, upstate New York, were given a refund, the club told Newsday magazine. But no representative for the comic gave any comment.

Mooney has a reputation for being close to the bone, and an online bio warns: ‘This is not a show for those considered easily offended.’

Published: 22 Apr 2013