Comedian Jim Norton has turned the Macklemore solidarity wave into satire, announcing on X that he is 'cancelling' stand-up shows at two football stadiums he was never booked to play, mocking the stars who quit Ed Sheeran's US tour.
The joke works because of where he claimed to be pulling out. Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, are giant American football venues that no stand-up comic would ever headline. Norton then piled on mock praise, telling Sheeran to brace for an 'influx of followers and money' from the walkouts, needling the idea that quitting the tour is a savvy career move dressed as conscience.
