“If you saw me kick a guy’s butt after the show last night, I’m sorry,” comedian Kim Congdon tweeted this weekend. “He sexually assaulted me after my set (and bragged about it on the way out) and ruined an otherwise perfect night for me.”
Congdon – whose credits include Impractical jokers, Stoned Science, broad topics on YouTube as well as them This bitch Podcast and appearances on well-known podcasts such as The Joe Rogan Experience and Kill Tony — opened for Joey Diaz at Sony Hall in New York when the incident happened, she said Deadline Tonight.
“I left my phone on a tripod near the sound booth and went to get it,” Congdon said after their set. That led her through the crowd. “The guy must have come back from the bathroom or something.”
Although she didn’t originally describe the incident in detail, after some doubtful replies from trolls on Twitter, Congdon made herself very clear.
“I can’t believe I have to say this,” she wrote, “but I wouldn’t tweet or make a fuss about someone accidentally grazing me.” I’m not looking to get or blame anyone. This man stabbed me twice in my vagina, basically trying to ‘finger’ me through leggings as I walked past,” with her back to him.
“When it happened,” Congdon told Deadline tonight, “I was already going the other way. When I turned around, he literally pretended to be blind.”
The incident happened, she said: “Right as Joey [Diaz] came on stage and a lot of people cheered and then the lights went out.” She lost sight of the man in the darkness, but venue officials tracked him down.
“After they found him, I went and identified him,” the comedian said. And then they let him go.
She tweeted: “He didn’t care that he got kicked out because he said ‘at least I can touch Kim’s p*ssy.’ “
Congdon noted to Deadline that “this happened the same night they threw the beer at this girl,” Ariel Elias, at a comedy club in nearby New Jersey.
These are just the most recent attacks on comedians on stage, beginning with Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, then Dave Chappelle being physically assaulted at the Hollywood Bowl, TI storm the stage in Atlanta and snatched the mic from a comedian who made fun of him and standup comic Sampson McCormick beaten by a spectator during his show at Win-River Resort & Casino in Redding.
“It’s really bad,” Congdon said tonight. “I’ve been doing comedy for 10 years and I’ve dealt with stalkers and all kinds of things. Unfortunately this happened and my next thought was, ‘This probably won’t be the last time.’ “
