Well Rob Schneider bombed out at a GOP gathering…

Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Rob Schneider delivered a comedy set so off-color and off-putting to a group of prominent Republicans late last year that the host cut the performance short and later apologized to attendees, Daniel Lippman reports.

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) walked out during Schneider’s performance, which occurred at the holiday gala hosted at the Waldorf Astoria by the Senate Working Group, a networking group for senior GOP Hill staffers, downtown alumni and other corporate and individual members.

The show was supposed to last at least a half-hour, but SWG executive director James Kimmey stopped it within 10 minutes after the comedian made “raunchy” and inappropriate jokes, people present for or familiar with the performance said, including some aimed at Asian people, including a crack about “Korean whore-houses.”

Schneider’s set was “gross and vulgar,” Hyde-Smith’s spokesperson said. “She didn’t have to listen to it and so she got up and left.”

The approximately 150 attendees, which included more than 40 Senate chiefs of staff, received an apology email the next day: “While we do our best to ensure every aspect of our program is professional, courteous, and appropriate, we sincerely regret that the entertainment at last night’s program fell short of that goal,” it said.

SWG said in a statement that Schneider disregarded a verbal agreement he’d made with Kimmey to keep his set relatively clean. Still, Schneider’s brand of edgy-approaching-tasteless comedy has been well documented: Schneider has a “long history of perpetuating racial stereotypes,” according to a 2017 Daily Beast story.

Representatives for Schneider did not respond to a request for comment.

politico.com