Did this really happen?

[AnnRKeyintheUSA]

A friend told me this story today and says it's true, but it sounds more like a joke to me. Did something like this really happen or not? I know you guys would know.

A recent concert:

Bono comes to the edge of the stage and claps his hands. He waits a few seconds, claps again. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Then he finally speaks. "Every time I clap my hands, a poor child in Africa DIES!"

then somebody in the audience yells out:

"Then stop clapping, you sadistic asshole!"

 

[paulrg]

Thats an ancient joke about Bono.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

it's true. this actually happened. i believe it was at the infamous Kunstmuseum, Liechtenstein gig.

 

[Chrisedge]

Since almost every gig is recorded by someone....

snopes.com: Clapping Bono Rumor

 

[Karlonthe2nd]

Most stories say it happened in Glasgow. Well I was there that night and I sure as hell don't remember Bono making the crowd go silent and then clap along to him.

In otherwords, it's utter bullshit. Just another joke made at the B-mans expense.

 

[Shawn Bonneau]

Robin Williams has been closing his stand up shows with that joke. He starts of by talking about people saying they look alike, then does that joke

SMB

 

[JCOSTER]

Its as old as the hills!!!

 

[BVS]

Bono kicked an African child off of an airplane so that his hat could fly first class...

 

[digitize]

Is Bono okay?

 

[Liesje]

This one was past due...

 

[Moser]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

That's so old.

 

[cobl04]

it's true. this actually happened. i believe it was at the infamous Kunstmuseum, Liechtenstein gig.

oh god. what a concert that was.

 

[corianderstem]

 

[The Sad Punk]

Since almost every gig is recorded by someone....

snopes.com: Clapping Bono Rumor

Oh my god, the Sunday Mail actually published it.

Hope Media Watch got a hold of that.

 

[cobl04]

Oh my god, the Sunday Mail actually published it.

Hope Media Watch got a hold of that.

surely that can't be real... unless it was run as one of those small shitty little columns or in the fluff pages.

 

[Morgoth321]

Slightly off-topic, but I followed a link from the Snopes site onto the main Make Poverty History website. Go and watch the original 'Click' video - looking back on it with a few year's perspective, it seems unspeakably pompous now. (Yes, I know the whole campaign was sincerely managed with the best of intentions, but there's still something nauseating about celebrities telling us what to do.)

 

[The Sad Punk]

surely that can't be real... unless it was run as one of those small shitty little columns or in the fluff pages.

Everything in the Sunday Mail is either a small shitty little column or a fluff report.

 

[blueeyedgirl]

You take that back!!

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

i went to the doctor the other day and said "doctor, help please! it hurts when i go like this!" to which the doctor replied "well stop going like that!"


bahhh hahahahahahaha.

 

[Hewson]

Kunstmuseum, Liechtenstein

My favorite city in Europe. There's the little place that makes the best fish tacos.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

ahhh yes... i know the place of which you speak. did the little man in the boat alert you to this place as well?

 

[Hewson]

He's a very helpful little guy when properly stimulated.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

he is... was a great place as well. the place next door was a bit of a shithole, though.

 

[Hewson]

he is... was a great place as well. the place next door was a bit of a shithole, though.

I tried to get in there but was denied entry. It did smell though.

 

[gman]

Back on topic. Its an old joke, which was originally about Bob Geldof, from the Live Aid days

 

[mikal]

my favorite Bono moment is when he yelled at a fan for talking on his cell phone, and then 4 songs later, apologized and told everyone to take out their cell phones.

 

[propagandau2boy]

/\

 

[U2girl]

Talking on cell phones during a rock show

 

[Galeongirl]

My favorite city in Europe. There's the little place that makes the best fish tacos.

... Neither Kunstmuseum, nor Liechtenstein is a city.

 

[nirniva]

This thread. Five stars.