Charity comedy event turns ugly at the Garden

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BOSTON - A charity event at the TD Garden Saturday night apparently turned ugly when things got political.

The event Comics Come Home was hosted at the Garden to raise money for the Cam Neely Foundation and was headlined by comics like Bill Burr, Dennis Leary and Wanda Sykes.

However, when Sykes began talking politics, some in the crowd didn't like it and reportedly started to boo.

Complaints about the event surfaced on Twitter and other social media sites, saying Sykes and follow-up comic Nick DiPaolo took it too far with their political remarks.

Reddit user u/hrmbwd posted to the Boston site complaining about the experience, "Just walked out of comics come home. Wanda Sykes had the "audacity" to say she was afraid of trump (sic) because she was a black woman and a lesbian and called trump a racist... and she got booed... in the bluest state in the union. I was so embarrassed for our city. She stayed on but the tension grew, a fight broke out 4 rows in front of us. The next comic was some Italian guy... he was a trump supporter, bashed Hilary... ok whatever its a comedy show, THEN called Obama a monkey and followed it up with a rape joke. My wife was screaming at the comic and we had to get out of there. The mood was deadly in the the garden. So embarrassed for our city, so concerned for our country."

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