Leave Estelle Getty Alone
New York City's Upright Citizen's Brigade theater hosted a 72-hour improv comedy marathon over the weekend, so it's not surprising that the jokes eventually turned to Heath Ledger, Estelle Getty and Bernie Mac's recent deaths. But guest panelist Brooke Shields was evidently caught off guard:
She was so freaked out, her eyes welled up, and she actually bit her nails at one point. When someone pretended to dump Estelle Getty's ashes on [30 Rock star] Jack McBrayer's head, Brooke got up and walked offstage. She watched the rest of the show from behind a curtain backstage, with a grimace.
We're assuming Brooke had never before attended a UCBT performance — and it's doubtful she'll ever return.
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Probably not, but she was not wrong. There is nothing wrong with not putting up with bad behaviour and a "comedy" situation does not mean all bets of decency are off the table.
She should have known what she was getting into, true. But the UCB aren't always funny either. And I've sat through Pauly Shore. True Story.
That's just totally disrespectful. Those are people's loved ones that they are miserable without right now. find a better way to be 'funny.'
A small price to pay for assaulting the world with Suddenly Susan.
She probably thought that the UCBT was a goup for people like her - the kind that shop at Crabtree & Evelyn and Donna Karan.
Good for her! She did the right thing. Well, almost the right thing. I would have left the building.
i would have done the same thing. probably would have left.