A TikTok video released by comedian Jenny Zigrino shows a drunk man approaching her during her stand-up show. She said she wasn’t sure whether he wanted to attack her or make love to her.
As of August 27, the video of the incident has been viewed more than 1.9 million times on TikTok, and the text on the screen begins: “That time I was almost attacked in a performance…” it Show Zigrino performing an indoor venue on stage.
She shouted through the microphone: “Sit down, now!” A male audience stood up and walked slowly towards her. “Don’t go near anywhere,” she added.
Another audience member said, “Yes, brother, calm down.” A woman yelled: “Brother!”
Zigrino then said, “Seriously, go away. Seriously, go away, man.” At this moment, several other comedians began to approach the stage and kick the man out. “Get the fuck out of here,” she said.
In a subsequent video, Zigrino explained that when the man entered the venue, he was “very drunk” and handed her a bottle of wine. After being “generally destructive” in her setting, she asked him, “What the fuck is your deal?”
“Then he came to me, not to attack me, but like to actively make friends with me?” she joked. After the show, a man told her that it was “crazy”, but added, “At least you have a bottle of wine.”
“I thought,’I was almost attacked!'” she said in the second follow-up video. In another follow-up, she said that the comment on her original video of the incident was “real crazy riding…garbage people…and some very good people.”
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She explained in another follow-up report that many male commentators believed that she was beaten on stage as a “sweet revenge” for her not needing a man.
“Those guys are insecure bastards,” she whispered.
Then she added, “Have you seen my video? When did I say I don’t want men?…I love men. I want men…but I want those who don’t want ‘S men are not a bunch of cowards like you.”
Zigrino is far from the only female comedian who has encountered male hostility while working in the field.
Comedy is still a male-dominated field, a group of comedians, female comics tell protectorSome male promoters never book more than one female in a set of comics.
The female comedian also talked about a “whispering network” in which women advise each other to men in their field who are notorious for physical harassment, misogynistic speech, and hostility towards women.
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