Corporate Comedy Meltdown
Tuesday, July 5th, 2005I was in San Francisco at JavaOne last week. It was great to see so many of the folks from my Java Pro days, and dive back down deep into the language (and the community) for a few days (and it didn’t hurt that I also had my wife and daughter along for some extracurricular activities).
But I skipped the big Wednesday night blowout that Sun threw for Java’s 10th birthday. Dennis Miller was on the bill, and I decided I’d rather spend the evening with Paula and Zoe than listen to some right-wing schmuck.
As it turns out, Miller managed to offend a fair portion of the audience–given that many of them were European, and his routine consisted largely of insulting foriegners. Simon went as far as to apologize on behalf of Sun.
It’s hard enough to find someone funny for these kinds of events (which Miller arguably is not) without the politics. But you’d have thought someone might have (a) done their homework on Miller’s content, or at least (b) briefed him on the demographics of his audience beforehand.