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Chris Riemenschneider: PRINCE FUNNY-GUY

Published Jun 28, 2002

Prince proved he still can bust the bank at his "Xenophobia" celebrations this past week (with the $100 fan-club fee and $250 fee for passes, maybe he could've thrown in the $5 Polaroids atop his "Graffiti Bridge" motorcycle). However, the singer also managed to bust a few guts during the first of seven concerts at Paisley Park on Friday.

{{{At the start of the show he warned, "We're gonna get deep . . . scuba-gear deep," but things never got too heavy. When an Asian audience member who got on stage to dance pronounced his name phonetically as "tuna," Prince immediately shot back, "Well, you'd better groove hard, Tuna, or we're gonna put you back in the can." }}}

Later, he called to the stage two preschool-age twin boys who were wearing the "My Name Is Prince"-era costume with the gold chain-link veil and police-badge shirt. (Kids got in free.) Said the Man, "I happen to know they can't see right now."

Oh that Princey, he's such a fucking comedian. Did he throw in some Jehova jokes too?

"How many Jehova Witnesses to brainwash the NPGMC?"

what does the journalist mean by "things never got too heavy"? is this an implication that the show didn't quite deliver?

i also don't understand prince's line "i happen to know they can't see right now". um, what?!

oh, i've just got it, what prince meant about the kids not being able to see. that actually is very funny.

I think this "Tuna" was at the Toronto show and the same thing was said??? Sorry Charlie?

Hilarious! Cool that he's laughing at himself. Proves you shouldn't take him so serious...well okay, maybe so when it comes to FUNK!






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[This message was edited Thu Jun 27 19:48:17 PDT 2002 by FlyingCloudPassenger]

Okay, I give up.
Please share what he meant by the "I happen to know they can't see right now'' line.

lol... trib star umm okay ...

lookin at a copy of the paper yep..
it's still the StarTribune lol...

he meant that all the time y'all thought he was cool n the my name is Prince chain veiled police hat...he couldn't c nothin'

so he knew from xperience that the kids couldn't c nothing either...
a slow laugher...more of a deep heh, heh, heh...what prince? u couldn't c then? ha, ha!

it's rather self xplanitory

Is that why his facial hairs was always messed up back then?

disdain4theunfunky said:

Hillarious
I saw Prince in concert in Miami and he was funny.

He is so funny like Mike Tyson

How do u pronounce "Prince" as "tuna"?

Somethin missin there...

Is this guy dissing P none of those comments were funny

JAMIESTARR said:

i agree wit u JS...

neps, r u serious?!? the asian guy's name was TU NUH, phonetically, tu-na, not prince!!!

and no, as in no reference was made to tuna in toronto, that was TAKUMI!!!

prince is not funny.

subyduby said:

Suby, its taking me a while to figure out what u are typing and what is your signature.

Weirdage.

nunatak said:

no he wasnt at the toronto show