Journey Star Perry Lashes Out At Comic Over Racist Slur Story
By WENNMonday, March 22, 2010
Former JOURNEY star STEVE PERRY has taken aim at comedienne SARAH SILVERMAN for suggesting he used a racist slur to describe her humour.
Silverman refused to name names in her interview with Playboy magazine, but hinted that the “onetime lead singer of a very popular band from the 1980s” was Perry, joking, “I’ll just say this: After that, I stopped believin’,” which the rocker took as a reference to Journey hit Don’t Stop Believin’.
She claimed the mystery man approached her after a show and said, “You’re my favourite comedian - you have the best n**ger jokes.”
But Perry wasn’t laughing when he read the article, insisting he has never used the “n-word”.
He tells Rolling Stone magazine, “I’m really shocked. She was so friendly and so nice. I don’t understand why she would go there, it’s so bizarre. I don’t use that word, are you kidding? That’s so derogatory.
“I walked up to her after the show and I said, ‘I can’t believe that somehow you seem to be getting away with all these slurs and the n-word, I just can’t believe how you’re doing this,’ and I looked at my friend and I said, ‘I can’t believe how she’s getting away with this,’ and she looked at me and kind of smiled. It wasn’t like I was condemning her or condoning her.”
But Perry has no plans to boycott the outrageous comedienne’s shows: “You’ve gotta see her show because she uses every ethnic slur known to man that historically has been very unforgivable.”
