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‘Detroit Sucks!’: Chicago Audience Gives Sheen a Standing Ovation

‘Detroit Sucks!’: Chicago Audience Gives Sheen a Standing Ovation
CHICAGO (AP) – After being heckled and booed in Detroit, Charlie Sheen made some changes to his road show Sunday night—and this time, it ended with a standing ovation.


Sheen used a talk show-style format at his Chicago show, with a master of ceremonies asking the actor questions. The interviewer, who didn’t identify himself, kept Sheen on track and gave the actor a chance to make some snarky comments.

Some audience members said the second performance on Sheen’s “My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option” tour wasn’t outstanding, but at least it had amusing moments. And Sheen drew cheers throughout the show, which began and ended with a standing ovation.

 

Mackenzie Barth, 19, said it was a “weird” show. “At least no one was booing,” she added.

During the show at the historic 3,600-seat Chicago Theatre, Sheen smoked cigarettes and answered questions about his marriages, his career and his life with the women he calls his “goddesses.”

“They have not disallowed me everything that makes me happy. Period. The end,” Sheen said of the former porn star and an actress who live with him.

Sheen also had some snappy comebacks for the emcee.

Asked how many times he had been married, Sheen retorted, “Seven-thousand. That‘s why I’m broke.”


Asked why he’s “paid for sex” in the past, Sheen responded, “Because I had millions to blow. I ran out of things to buy.”

Sheen also seemed to have a better rapport with the Chicago crowd. As the show began, some in the crowd began chanting “Detroit sucks.” When one audience member asked Sheen to take off his shirt, he swapped his T-shirt for a collared shirt thrown at him by a larger man in the audience. He proceeded to wear the too big shirt for the rest of the show and referred throughout the show to the man who had given it to him.

Early on, Sheen urged the audience in an obscenity-laced statement “not to become (expletive) Detroit tonight. Let‘s show Detroit how it’s (expletive) done.“ Later when Sheen was asked by the interviewer when he had started ”winning,” Sheen responded, “The winning started in (expletive) Chicago.”

Ellen Olson, who was wearing a black T-shirt with Sheen’s catchphrase “Winning!” in white across the front, said she enjoyed the performance.

“I think he interacted with the audience a lot, which made it more funny,” said Olson, 55, of Elmwood Park.

Before the show, audience members said they had low expectations based on what they heard and read about the inaugural performance.

“We figured we’d try it out and see what happens, and if it’s bad, we’ll leave,” said Katie Iglehart, 23, of Chicago, who was attending the show with a friend.

Like the Chicago show, Sheen’s Detroit performance began with thunderous applause. But it soon disintegrated before ending 70 minutes later. In between, Sheen tried to appease his audience with rants, a rapper and a question and answer session, ultimately concluding the first show was “an experiment.”

Sheen, 45, reappeared after the house lights went up to thank the hundreds who remained.

It wasn’t clear when the former “Two and a Half Men” star lost the audience, but there were many awkward moments.

Sheen, known for his wild partying and rampant drug use, said he thought Detroit would be a good place to tell some stories about crack cocaine. The remark prompted loud, immediate boos.

At another point, Sheen showed a short film he wrote, directed and produced years ago called “RPG.” He sat in the front row to watch the flick, which starred a much younger Johnny Depp. Again, more boos.

Sheen didn’t show the film Sunday night.

Sheen has made headlines in recent years as much for his drug use, failed marriages, custody disputes and run-ins with the police, as for his acting. Martin Sheen has compared his son‘s struggle with addiction to a cancer patient’s struggle for survival.

In August, the wayward star pleaded guilty in Aspen, Colo., to misdemeanor third-degree assault after a Christmas Day altercation with his third wife, Brooke Mueller. The couple have since finalized their divorce.

Sheen’s behavior, which included lashing out at “Two and a Half Men” producer Chuck Lorre, finally became too much for Warner Bros. Television, which fired him March 7.

Sheen fired back with a $100 million lawsuit and all-out media assault in which he informed the world about his standing as a “rock star from Mars” with “Adonis DNA.”

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Associated Press writers Mike Householder and Jeff Karoub contributed to this report.

Comments (88)

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  • Fight for America
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:26am

    “Fans” who enable his self destruction – are not his friends. They’re just sucking up the adrenaline that follows him. He wants their money and they provide it, Parasites and Host.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:18am

    Exactly, JUSTANOTHEROPINION; it’s Chicago, home of the BARACKRACY–no wonder so many blues bars.

    Mr. Sheen is just boring and embarrasing. His kids will be disgraced someday which is incomprehensible to me and most.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:01am

    I guess the Jerry Springer croud has a new hero.

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:14am

      …and Oprah crowd…they’re almost the same crowd..except one can’t read…

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  • mikeg72
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:48am

    This speaks volumes about our once great nation. This guy is the poster child for everything that has gone wrong and where we are headed. I am truely ashamed for what we are leaving our children, too ashamed to even tell them. To see these bright enthusiastic kids struggle through college to get good grades. To what end? Is there any hope for this nation? The sad thing is that this nation is full of wonderful beautiful people who unfortunately trusted our leaders. They all lead us straight down the path of destruction for they did not have the simple will and desire to cause a smidgen of pain that could have put us back on the path of prosperity. Instead these weak knees simpletons allowed the minority to rule, and rule they did. Now, we have driven off the cliff and are on our way down to the rocks below. Enjoy what is left folks, while you can.

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  • jerryod1627
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:46am

    What would you expect from a bunch of people who elected Emanuel mayor? Charlie fit’s right in!

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  • Bushie
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:14am

    The same people backed barry obama. What do you expect from dumb masses? If Hitler was runner today, he could win.

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  • American_Alliance_for_the_Support_of_Sarcasm
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:09am

    WHO GIVES A DAMN ABOUT CHARLIE SHEEN?!
    Dear The Blaze.com can you guys report things and people that matter not private citizens being stupid?

    Thanks

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  • Marylou7
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:05am

    Charlie Sheen IS indicative of what is happening to our once blessed Republic. Our people are so blinded and pumped up by success that they have forgotten what our great nation stands for any more. Lord help us all, including Charlie Sheen.

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  • reconmarine
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:02am

    Let’s put this all into perspective. This is Chicago, Illinois. The people who brought us Obama, Rahm Emanual, Blago and Oprah. They like any attention seeking weirdo.

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  • awall1231
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 5:58am

    of course Chicago liked him, there nothing but drug addicts also. I bet he gets standing ovations in all the liberal areas.

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  • Homesick
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 5:43am

    This whole story shows just how sick this socioty has become. Which as others have pointed out is getting downright insane.

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  • SafeguardOurLiberty
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 5:38am

    You are looking at the people that voted for OBAMA.

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  • oldsoldier10
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 5:29am

    would actually be better new if their was no new about charlie sheen lindsay lohan or any other liberal out of control wacko… blaze you can do better!

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  • GulfPeg
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:47am

    Now why am I not surprised about Chicago liking Sheen? :)

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:39am

    Yawn….. Nothing to see here, folks. Just keep going. The medics and EMTs will be along shortly to scrape this mess off the road.

    Report Post » biohazard23  
  • alaskajohn
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:39am

    Spoiled brat PERIOD. nuff said

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  • Cherynn
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:16am

    No news here, Chicago is full of morons. Its why I moved out of that city.

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  • tbear44
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:13am

    Well that sure sounds like it was worth the money to see! *rolls eyes*

    Report Post » tbear44  
    • vennoye
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:44am

      I bet this audience has also seen all airplane crash, train wreck and 25 Halloween movies too!!! This is just another “wreckage” they can watch.

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  • Brasil2520
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:09am

    Yup a salt and pepper team on the Chicago News I expected that, well anyway you have to give the kid credit for not giving up, that takes balls to go back up on stage after that Detoit disaster and then try harder to make it work.

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:51am

    Not surprising, this is Chicargo after all.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:47am

    AND CROWDS LIKE THIS ARE AN EXAMPLE OF HOW FAR OUR NATION HAS FALLEN

    (required lower-case)

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:22am

      I am not surprised that people came – I am surprised how much these people have to waste on this show. They must be all Republicans because everyone on the left is broke!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-PLI

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:24am

      And I am surprised how much space the Blaze spent on this jerk! http://maboulette.wordpress.com

      Report Post » walkwithme1966  
    • Psychosis
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:49am

      @ walkwithme

      that was a lame attempt at a dig on repubs but, what do you expect from the mentally challenged

      looked at your lame site eons ago, and have no need to check it again, it is still full of misquotes, lies, and articles completely empty of any correlating fact, which is a great description of you

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 4:50am

      p.s. he is a lefty like you !!!! by the way ………..birds of a feather ……………..

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:52am

      @Walkwithme… Wrong on that count. Republicans aren’t that stupid. Only dumb *ss libs would go to see the likes of that dying freak!

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:10am

      Everyone on the left is broke? Is that why Obama is going to launch a billion dollar campaign?

      I know you really believe the things you write, but pay attention to campaign funding this time around. Not only how much is spent but where it comes from.

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  • Dorkville
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:47am

    All ass, no class.

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  • OHTAY
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:45am

    Ma-sheen..more like dumbass.

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  • andyottito
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:45am

    So, what does this say about the intelligence level of the fine people of Chicago? Is Detroit really that much smarter than Chicago?

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:50am

      Well, c’mon!! They produced Obama. This doesn’t surprise me in the least!

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    • freeus
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:11am

      Apparently.

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    • parlayer
      Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:55pm

      On the Money observation, although it isn’t much better out west where he (and me) come from.

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  • taxed
    Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:43am

    His people have to be like “What the hell is going on?? I don’t get this.”

    http://conservativepoliticalforum.com/index.php?board=1.0

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:14am

      You know it’s not just Charlie. It seems like I’ve waken on planet bassackwards. There’s just sooo many bazaar things going on all over. Who’da thunk the media would start overtly supporting communism and the left would start ignoring all rules and laws. You can’t count the number of left wing loons that have been showering violence across the country … Jared Loughner & Sheriff Dupnik, Union threats, Fred Phelps, the guy who flew into the IRS building, the pendejo who beat up Kenneth Gladney, The Black Panthers, illegal aliens invading by the millions and getting off scot free, our own government selling guns to Meixcan drug dealers … etc etc etc . And often it seems as if the violence against conservative, everyday Americans goes un-prosecuted. These are truly troubling times. We need for those who have corrupted their charge and abrogated their duties to be held accountable.This means jail time! If the current congress won‘t do it then we’ll just have to send a fresh batch in ‘12.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:16am

      Only two questions I have are…

      Why do they still do stuff about this guy?
      Why do we even want to know about him anymore?

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 2:50am

      @CultureWarriers ~
      When you put it like that, it’s enough to keep a person awake.

      @SNOW ~
      I don’t know.
      I don’t know why anyone would want to see him, much less pay to see him,

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    • brliantedj
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:35am

      First I’d like to say Charlie will do as Charlie choses, I know his dad is cringing. If he wants to talk about his crack thing or prostitution claim to fame, it’s his god given right. If he gets paid to do it, my God! wouldn’t you like to have his life?!? if thats the life he chose and that’s worthy of people spending hard earned money on, more power to him. He is funny when he’s on, even my wife likes his show (2 1/2) and the crap on TV nowadays is frightning so who could blame her. We get Oprah network killing the only channel worth watching for her before. What the freak is there left?

      You have to realize some are going to levitate towards retards and some will levitate towards the truth. I don‘t wan’t to start a debate but can someone show me evidence of a plane striking the pentagon on 9/11 after there was a $billions shortfall on accounting announced on 9/10 by Rumsfeld? and the records were supposedly in the EXACT part that was struck. YES no airplane debris was ever found on video or eyewitnesses, like you’d expect seats or engine or something.
      Will save you some time NONE exists, Glad there’s a Charlie Sheen and his friend Alex Jones to keep this alive, make sure you look in to it… or as Glenn Beck likes to say… Check facts for yourself.

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    • quiet little lamb
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 3:54am

      anyone else think that when this hysteria wears off sheen may become a suicide watch?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 6:01am

      @quiet little lamb

      I think he is already a suicide watch. Just one killing him more slowly.

      Report Post » Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • trolltrainer
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:16am

      As much as I despise Sheen and want to see him fail I have to admit this might be a once in a lifetime window into the mind of a crazed, elite, immensely rich Hollywood star. I have to grudgingly respect his answer to paying for sex, I can see where he is coming from. If nothing else at least he is forthcoming, though in a mentally deranged way…

      Love to hate him now folks, methinks he will not be around much longer…A victim of his own success and lack of control.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:24am

      A standing ovation against another American city? How about a standing ovation against Islamic Jihadists instead?

      Report Post » TexasCommonSense  
    • lel2007
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 7:39am

      Sheen’s like a train wreck, people can’t resist gawking.

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:26am

      Sean Hannity was SO concerned about hid “good friend” Mr. Charlie Sheen’s health that he actually discussed this with conservative guests on his TV show 5-10 minutes a night for 2 weeks. Now, “Poof!” No more worries?
      That’s also how Sean treated the Ground Zero Mosque, “Where are the Jobs,” and Sarah Palin’s election. He is just as much a showman as Charlie – or Glenn – all just pitching populism.

      MONICNE  
    • trolltrainer
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:33am

      Sleazy Hippo writes:

      ” …[Hannity] is just as much a showman as Charlie – or Glenn – all just pitching populism.”

      ————————————————————–

      Yeah? So what is your point? That is why he has a show on TV and you are just a…sleazy hippo…

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:32am

      Just Sayin, Troll Trainer;

      This whole Sheen thing is a shiny object meant to make a few bucks by taking the eye off the ball of truth.

      So what if Charlie laughs all the way to the bank while the person you want elected goes without?

      The Blaze is entertainment not news.

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    • freeus
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:05am

      The Master of Ceremonies in Chicago was his psychiatrist.

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:45am

      @ TSUNAMI-22 – Point well taken!

      Report Post » CultureWarriors  
    • trolltrainer
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:28pm

      sleazy hippo:

      “Just Sayin, Troll Trainer;

      This whole Sheen thing is a shiny object meant to make a few bucks by taking the eye off the ball of truth.

      So what if Charlie laughs all the way to the bank while the person you want elected goes without?

      The Blaze is entertainment not news.”
      ——————————————————————–

      Can’t argue with any of that! That Charlie is getting even richer off of this is what makes this country so great. Who is mentally unstable here, Charlie, or the people paying money to hear his drug induced ramblings?

      As for the Blaze…Yep, just entertainment. Right leaning is the understatement of the day, misleading headlines, narrowed focus…Definitely not the source for real news. Yet…

      We both hang out here. :-)

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