*Steve Harvey found himself in an interesting situation at his “What Men Really Think” event last weekend.
The funny man and radio/TV talk show host & “Think Like A Man” author invited 2000 men and 100 women to a Chicago theater on Sunday, August 16 for a taping of a two-part special for his daytime talk show. Let’s just say he really did find out what some men think.
Perhaps it was due to fatigue and hunger; the taping ran extremely long (10 hours) and according to comedian Tim Dunn’s Facebook post, here’s some highlights or should we say, lowlights:
– Over a hundred women were seated onstage, and when they got up to speak they were catcalled. This resulted in the warm-up comic asking the men to stop catcalling, as the vibe in the room had become “too rapey.”
– When women skyped in to ask Steve for advice, their image was displayed on large screens, which men would either catcall or groan at based on the women’s looks. And like, if you looked at the guys groaning, spending a night with any of these women would be the absolute best night of their lives.
– During a segment about how often men want sex, a young man got up and mentioned that he is sometimes too tired from work to have sex with his girlfriend. He was immediately booed and had homophobic epithets yelled at him.
– During the same segment, a woman got up and described a time when she didn’t want to have sex because she had just finished a tiring road trip. In that time, she was first catcalled, then booed, ending with a man yelling “you haven’t done your duty!” in response to her story.
– To end that segment, Steve said it should be the woman’s decision whether or not to have sex. Only the women onstage, the comedians in our row, and a few other men throughout the theater applauded that statement.
– Finally, the one good part of this day was my friend Bryan Duff spending the whole time pretending to be a caricature of these types of men. Instead of applauding, he would beat his chest. He growled at the camera. Whenever we tried to ask Bryan’s character about his feelings, he would tear up and quietly mention his strained relationship with his dad, but then go right back to being gross. It was incredible. And what happened to Bryan’s disgusting, sexist character? He got a job offer from one of the men around us. Not making this sh*t up.
Even though the behavior displayed by the men was basically juvenile, it shouldn’t come as a surprise given the sheer number of males. Maybe it would have come off as a lot less “rapey” if it was a much smaller audience and they weren’t hungry and irritable. Still, we hear Mr. Harvey plans use the footage, or at least the non-“rapey” parts for his nationally syndicated TV talk show on September 8 and 9 as part of the show’s “Season of Surprises.”
“The nature of the topic alone can elicit strong opinions from both men and women. While we always encourage a healthy debate, we do not condone or tolerate rude or disrespectful behavior towards our audience or any of our guests. We are very proud of the episodes that we produced and are confident that our national audience will find the conversation both insightful and entertaining,” a representative for the show said in a statement to the Chicago Tribune.
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