New Jersey-based comedian Jim
Breuer is canceling a December show at Montclair's Wellmont Theater due to the
theater’s vaccination policy.
In a
Facebook live, Breuer says he will not do the Dec. 3 show, among other performances,
due to what he is calling "segregation" by the theaters.
"I have to stick to my
morals,” says Breuer. “I have to stick to what I know is right. As a human to
another human. When you have to be forced, bribed, dictated, which is basically
what's going on. I
will not do a show where they force you, to come out and laugh, the only way
you can do that is that you need to get a shot? No, or you gotta go prove, no."
Many performers have taken
the opposite approach and will not take the stage unless audiences members are
vaccinated, including comedian Patton Oswalt, as well as
the band Phish, who performed last month in Atlantic City.