Kelly Bachman desrves more than applause, she deserves her own network television program:
With her heart racing as she went onstage, Kelly Bachman knew she had to speak up.
“I’m a comic,” the 27-year-old said to open her routine, in a video later shared on social media. “It’s our job to name the elephant in the room. Does anybody know what that is?”
A few people nodded and muttered in affirmation. Most of the crowd, a hodgepodge of 20- and 30-something performers at a basement bar in Manhattan, was dead silent.
“It’s a Freddy Krueger in the room, if you will,” she said. “I didn’t know we had to bring our own mace and rape whistles.” At that point, a handful of people in the back of the room started booing her. One yelled, “Shut up!”But Bachman didn’t need to say more for the crowd to notice who she was talking about: Sitting in a green velvet booth was Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood mogul accused of sexually abusing or harassing more than 80 women.
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For her part, Bachman is taking one thing away.
“If Harvey Weinstein is calling me rude,” she quipped, “I’m putting that on my résumé.”
Get this woman a network show.
Google Maps has frozen the reviews and ratings for Downtime, the nightclub that repeatedly welcomed Weinstein. You can't even *read* the reviews, much less add to them. Nice to know that the famously unresponsive Google gladly instantly to action when it comes to protecting the friends of an elite rapist!
Oh, Yelp has also protected Downtime from new reviews and ratings. Heartwarming, isn't it?