<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adult Swim has severed ties with “Rick and Morty” co-creator Justin Roiland after he was charged with domestic violence.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this month newly publicized court records revealed that Roiland was being prosecuted by the Orange County District Attorney’s office due to an incident with a Jane Doe that occurred in January 2020 — a </span><a href="https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Roiland-complaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">criminal complaint</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was filed several months later, in May. Roiland has been charged with two felonies: one count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one account of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, and or deceit.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Adult Swim has ended its association with Justin Roiland,” Adult Swim/Cartoon Network/Boomerang Senior Vice President of Communications Mairie Moore </span><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/adult-swim-ends-relationship-justin-roiland-domestic-abuse-charges-1235308995/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in a statement on Tuesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Rick and Morty” is a sci-fi animated sitcom that debuted on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block in 2013, where it has functioned as the network’s flagship series for the better part of a decade. The series is surreal, irreverent, and darkly comedic and drew attention for its high concept, low-brow humor, with the naive Morty Smith being dragged across the universe and between alternate realities by his jaded, supremely intelligent, and extremely dysfunctional grandfather Rick Sanchez in a series of escalating misadventures.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to serving as co-creator and executive producer, Roiland was the voice actor for the two lead characters and often adlibbed portions of their dialogue. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Warner Discovery, Adult Swim’s parent company, intends to recast the iconic duo and continue the series, which has been greenlit to continue for another 4 seasons. The show’s official Twitter account confirmed that production on season 7 will continue uninterrupted. Co-creator Dan Harmon will take over as sole showrunner.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Online reaction to the news was mixed, with fans taking to </span><a href="https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1618014667099586562" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to voice their shock, disapproval, and relief.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“How can you continue without @Justin Roiland,” One user tweeted. “That’s like taking Seth McFarlane out of Family Guy… I’m outraged and hope this is a joke.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“ohhh geeeeez ☹️😳”  another user responded.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Thank goodness.” yet another user tweeted. “ Hate seeing franchises I like ruined by a person. If only Harry Potter could get away from JK.”</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some members of the conversation expressed their disbelief and dismay that outrage was being directed at Adult Swim for canning Roiland and not toward Roiland for the alleged domestic violence. Other users pushed back, saying that it was inappropriate for the company to move forward before Roiland was convicted, arguing for a presumption of innocence</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“To be clear, not only is Justin innocent,”  Roiland’s attorney T. Edward Welbourn told </span><a href="https://deadline.com/2023/01/adult-swim-severs-ties-rick-and-morty-co-creator-justin-roiland-domestic-violence-charges-1235239868/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deadline</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “But we also have every expectation that this matter is on course to be dismissed once the District Attorney’s office has completed its methodical review of the evidence. We look forward to clearing Justin’s name and helping him move forward as swiftly as possible.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Roiland pleaded not guilty to the charges in October 2020. No trial date has been set but Roiland will be required to attend a hearing on April 27th.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A mom on </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TikTok</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> went viral after posting videos of her </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/children"><span style="font-weight: 400;">child’s</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Christmas present telling inappropriate jokes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ashley Lynn, who uses the handle @mamabearash, headed to the social media platform to get the word out about a toy that she claims her grandmother purchased for the child at Walmart.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The mom said everything was going fine as her child was playing with the electronic remote-themed toy from the company Linsay until she started hearing the toy making jokes that definitely weren’t appropriate for children.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the </span><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mommabearash/video/7180975479506144554"><span style="font-weight: 400;">video</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Lynn presses a button and the toy can be heard saying, &#8220;How many Catholic priests are required to screw a lightbulb into its socket? Two: one to do the screwing, and one to hear the confession.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After another button press, the toy told another weird joke. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Tom told his friend he has a job with 10,000 people under him,” the toy can be heard saying. “His friend replied, ‘Wow, he must be the CEO of a corporation.’ Tom said, ‘No, he cuts the grass in a cemetery.&#8217;”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lynn said that joke was “kind of funny — but still, for a baby?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After a few other button presses, the toy can be heard joking about drive-by shootings.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;You&#8217;ll never guess what makes a clip-clop, clip-clop, bang bang, clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop noise: an Amish drive-by shooting.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lynn noted that this toy was advertised for children, saying “there’s a baby on the box” and that while the box also says that the remote “tells jokes,” she didn’t expect them to be so inappropriate for kids. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The TikTok clip racked up close to two million views on the platform.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One website selling this same Linsay Smart Toys Learning TV Remote Control describes it as a “light up toy remote for toddlers and kids with ABC songs, stories, music and fun sound effects and buttons with different shapes and textures” that’s “fun for babies through preschoolers.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The single </span><a href="https://www.shopmyexchange.com/linsay-smart-toys-learning-tv-remote-control/2909782"><span style="font-weight: 400;">review</span></a>, <span style="font-weight: 400;">which gave the product one star,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on that shopping site also mentions the toy&#8217;s jokes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Do NOT buy this!!,” the purchaser warns. “There are a number of jokes on here involving: Catholic priests and screwing, Amish drive by shootings, A joke about Santa, an honest lawyer, and the easter bunny not existing but a drunk man existing, and a lawyer willing to pick anyone’s side in a car wreck case.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This IS NOT for babies, let alone kids!” the reviewer concludes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lynn posted an update saying the company got back to her promptly and said they had “opened an investigation” into the problem and that the toy “would stop being sold.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a statement, a Walmart spokesperson </span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/babys-outraged-mom-tiktok-toy-spews-crude-jokes-place-songs-sounds"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Fox News Digital that the “item was listed by an outside third-party seller and removed from our site because it does not comply with our prohibited products policy.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Like other major retailers, we operate an online marketplace that allows third-party sellers to offer merchandise through our eCommerce platform. Walmart strives to maintain a marketplace that customers can trust,” the statement said.</span></p>


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<p>U.S. Supreme Court justices scheduled a criminal appeal for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> inmate facing the death penalty after a court used footage of comedian Jeff Ross roasting the convicted prisoner in a Comedy Central special.</p>
<p>Gabriel Paul Hall, who was convicted in 2015 of murdering a retired Texas A&amp;M University professor and disabled veteran Edwin Shaar and stabbing Sharr&#8217;s disabled wife Linda in their College Station home in 2011, received a death sentence after the court used the footage from &#8220;Jeff Ross Roasts Criminals: Live At Brazos County Jail&#8221; as evidence against him in the penalty phase of the trial.</p>
<p>Hall was an 18-year-old student at A&amp;M Consolidated High School at the time of the murder.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ross interviewed Petitioner [Hall], who was awaiting trial after being indicted on a high-profile capital murder charge,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-5487/236605/20220829155728025_2022.08.29%20Hall%20-%20cert%20petition%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">petition</a> reads. &#8220;Petitioner&#8217;s counsel were not advised of the interview, despite having previously sent the Sheriff a &#8216;no contact&#8217; letter instructing him to give no one access to Petitioner without their consent.&#8221;</p>
<p>Law and Crime <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/a-texas-jail-taped-a-comedy-central-roast-of-a-murderer-now-scotus-will-decide-whether-the-footage-could-be-used-to-sentence-him-to-death/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that court documents showed the judge admitted the footage during the penalty phase of Hall&#8217;s case.</p>
<p>The footage contained recorded interviews of Ross and Hall at the detention center, which permitted the comedian to speak with any inmate on camera that signed a release form.</p>
<p>During the exchange between Ross and Hall, the comedian asked why the inmate was in jail.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hacking somebody&#8217;s computer?&#8221; Ross said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Something like that, yes,&#8221; Hall responded.</p>
<p>Another inmate said, “‘Hacking&#8217; being the operative word.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; Hall said. &#8220;Yeah, used a machete on someone&#8217;s screen, so.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ross later referred to the prisoner as &#8220;a scary dude,&#8221; to which Hall responded that he &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t hurt a fly.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Really?&#8221; Ross said. &#8220;What about a human?”</p>
<p>&#8220;Eh, they&#8217;re annoying,&#8221; Hall responded. &#8220;We&#8217;ll leave &#8217;em to their own devices, so.&#8221;</p>
<p>Attorneys for Hall said the interview, which prosecutors played twice for the jury, included &#8220;numerous vulgar provocations by Ross and damaging responses from Petitioner.&#8221;</p>
<p>They said the video portrayed Hall in a &#8220;highly prejudicial&#8221; way that mocked Hall&#8217;s appearance, demeanor, and ethnic Asian heritage, where he was referred to as &#8220;Slim Sushi.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected Hall&#8217;s appeal, saying his comments showed a lack of remorse.</p>
<p>Ross has not responded to requests for comment by media outlets.</p>
<p>McKenzie Edwards, Hall&#8217;s attorney, tweeted Wednesday that the counsel team has asked the nation&#8217;s highest court to review the constitutionality of her client&#8217;s sentence.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">“A Texas jail volunteered to let Comedy Central comedian Jeff Ross roast its inmates,&#8221; Edwards said. &#8220;It encouraged inmates to participate. Texas then used the footage to sentence my client, Gabriel Hall, to death.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">A Texas jail volunteered to let Comedy Central comedian Jeff Ross roast its inmates. It encouraged inmates to participate. Texas then used the footage to sentence my client, Gabriel Hall, to death. </p>
<p>We’re asking <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCOTUS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SCOTUS</a> to review the constitutionality of Mr. Hall’s sentence. <a href="https://t.co/JFNFskKHDw">pic.twitter.com/JFNFskKHDw</a></p>
<p>&mdash; McKenzie Edwards (@mckeds) <a href="https://twitter.com/mckeds/status/1608111423795695617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Hall has asked SCOTUS to overturn the death sentence because he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel.</p>
<p>Supreme Court justices are set to discuss Hall&#8217;s appeal and decide whether to consider the case on January 6.</p>


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<p>Kelly Rizzo, widow of the late comedian Bob Saget, took some time over the Christmas weekend to reflect on her first holiday season without the &#8220;Full House&#8221; star.</p>
<p>Rizzo shared her thoughts — along with several throwback photos of herself with the former &#8220;America&#8217;s Funniest Videos&#8221; host in happier times — in an Instagram post on Saturday.</p>
<p>&#8220;Cherish every single moment,&#8221; Rizzo began, adding, &#8220;I certainly didn’t think that our first Christmas together (in the same city) last year would be our last.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rizzo noted that Christmas of 2021 was the first time that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/something-doesnt-make-sense-experts-question-bob-sagets-autopsy-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saget</a> had gone with her and her step-daughter Laura to Chicago to celebrate Christmas with her family — and she reflected on the impression he&#8217;d made on even the youngest members of her family in such a short time.</p>
<p>&#8220;I’m so glad we had that special time together. He got to spend time with my niece Alex, who was only 2, and got to meet my niece Brooklyn who was only 2 weeks old,&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;Alex still remembers &#8216;Uncle Bob&#8217; and talks about him every single day. He certainly left a lasting impression that I’m so grateful for. But Bob did that with everyone he met.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Rizzo went on to reflect on the holidays in general, offering her prayers for others who might be going through a difficult season or missing a loved one in the same way that she was — and adding her hope that the good memories would be enough to carry them through the hard times.</p>
<p>&#8220;The holidays are a time for hope, love, and togetherness. I pray that if you’re missing a loved one this holiday season, that you’re blessed with many deep and loving memories and gratitude that will help carry you through,&#8221; she said. &#8220;As I’ve said before, I’m just so grateful that I got to have that incredible man in my life and that I got to be in his for 6 years. There’s no greater Christmas present than that.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Sending love and prayers and wishes to you all. And I cannot thank you all enough for almost a full year of all the love and support and kindness from everyone. It means more than you know. I can only hope to show you how thankful I am and give it back a bit over time,&#8221; Rizzo concluded.</p>
<p>Saget <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-bob-sagets-family-announces-cause-of-death/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed away</a> suddenly on January 9, 2022, while still on tour in Florida. His official cause of death was listed as head trauma, according to a statement from his family shortly after he passed: &#8220;The authorities have determined that Bob passed from head trauma. They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep. No drugs or alcohol were involved.&#8221;</p>


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<p>Comedian Chris Rock unveiled plans on Christmas Day for his upcoming stand-up special — set to be Netflix&#8217;s first foray into live-streaming — which will premiere on the platform on March 4, 2023.</p>
<p>Rock will be performing the show — which he has titled &#8220;Selective Outrage&#8221; — in Baltimore, Maryland, and Netflix will stream the performance live in hundreds of countries around the globe at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT.</p>
<p>&#8220;Netflix&#8217;s First Live Global Event,&#8221; the streaming service shared the announcement in a tweet on Christmas Day. &#8220;Chris Rock, Selective Outrage. March 4, 10pm/7pm PT.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;No pre-records, no edits &#8230; wait a minute &#8230; 190 countries, all at once,&#8221; Rock said in the promotional video.</p>
<p>&#8220;Selective Outrage&#8221; will be Rock&#8217;s second Netflix stand-up special — he had previously partnered with the streaming platform for 2018&#8217;s &#8220;Tamborine&#8221; — and follows his 2022 appearance at the Netflix is a Joke: The Festival alongside fellow comedian Dave Chappelle.</p>
<p>The announcement also capped off a banner year for Rock, who graced front pages worldwide after taking a (literal) hit from actor Will Smith during the 2022 Academy Awards — over a joke Rock made at the expense of Jada Pinkett Smith&#8217;s bald head.</p>
<p>Smith apologized, eventually — but the Academy slapped back with a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/will-smith-banned-from-attending-oscars-for-ten-years-over-chris-rock-slap/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10-year ban</a> for the &#8220;Emancipated&#8221; actor. Rock spent much of the rest of 2022 traveling with his Ego Death Tour.</p>
<p>Entertainment site Deadline <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/05/netflix-live-streaming-1235023539/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first reported</a> that Netflix planned to move into live-streaming back in mid-May, predicting that the still-developing capabilities would likely be used to stream comedy specials and other unscripted programming.</p>
<p>&#8220;It would mean that Netflix would be able to use it for live voting for competition series and talent contests such as its upcoming dance competition series &#8216;Dance 100&#8217; from &#8216;The Circle&#8217; producer Studio Lambert,&#8221; the outlet noted.</p>
<p>Netflix <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/12/chris-rock-live-netflix-streaming-stand-up-premiere-1235205957/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could also decide</a> to bring back Netflix is a Joke: The Festival and add a few of those performances to the live-streaming offerings as well. The festival, which launched in the spring of 2022, included &#8220;more than 330 comedians performing 295 shows across more than 35 venues in Los Angeles&#8221; according to Deadline. It also featured the first-ever stand-up comedy performance to be held at Dodger Stadium and sold more than 260,000 tickets in total.</p>


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<p>&#8220;Monty Python&#8221; alumni John Cleese slammed those he called the &#8220;wokes&#8221; and talked about the current environment for entertainers with many people sitting in the audience just waiting for the &#8220;thrill of being offended.&#8221;</p>
<p>During a wide-ranging interview for Reason.com&#8217;s January 2023 <a href="https://reason.com/2022/12/18/john-cleese-on-how-wokeness-smothers-creativity/?fbclid=IwAR0d9PL2VsNu_nW7lmMZG99KEjJ-cAnxdWEOeF1KQci9bD5AB-n3EjFh5QQ">issue</a>, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-cleese">83-year-old</a> comedian talked about political correctness and &#8220;wokeism&#8221; which he called the enemies of creativity and humor. The &#8220;Fawlty Towers&#8221; star said that &#8220;wokeism&#8221; is &#8220;the internal interruption&#8221; of the creative process.</p>
<p>&#8220;You think of an idea and you immediately think: &#8216;Oooh, is that going to get me into trouble? Well, that person last Thursday got away with it,'&#8221; Cleese shared. &#8220;But all that stuff immediately stops you being creative.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The woke people, I think, miss something quite badly,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The meaning of a word depends on its context. If I use sarcasm, then what I&#8217;m meaning is the opposite of the words I&#8217;m actually saying. If you don&#8217;t get irony, then if you take it seriously, you completely misunderstand the intention of the writer or speaker.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Monty Python legend <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnCleese?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnCleese</a> on giving offense and getting laughs <a href="https://t.co/g6ukBw4Yg7">https://t.co/g6ukBw4Yg7</a></p>
<p>&mdash; reason (@reason) <a href="https://twitter.com/reason/status/1604432054317641728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;There are people sitting there who are deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended,&#8221; Cleese continued.</p>
<p>The &#8220;A Fish Called Wanda&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/monty-python-alum-has-had-it-with-wokeism-the-death-of-creativity">star</a> also said he realized decades ago the importance of laughter in helping us heal with the struggles and hardships of our own lives.</p>
<p>&#8220;It takes us to a part of our mind where we&#8217;re probably healthier than we are at any other time, and it&#8217;s this thing about laughing at yourself,&#8221; the actor shared. &#8220;I&#8217;m not so sure that the wokes would ever laugh at themselves, no matter how hilarious they are.&#8221;</p>
<p>The famed British comedian has been very outspoken in the past about cancel culture and even announced plans to host a new unnamed show on GB news that he said will tackle it, labeling the &#8220;wokes&#8221; the new &#8220;authoritarians,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beware-the-wokes-monty-python-alum-defends-new-show-tackling-cancel-culture-and-new-authoritarians">previously reported</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Like all people who believe that are purer than they actually are, they are authoritarians,&#8221; Cleese previously <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1579397566655262720?s=20&amp;t=uUR-qN7yGJAx40uWiVuwFA">tweeted</a> about his new show. &#8220;Which is why all the best comedians make fun of them.&#8221;</p>
<p>The comedian will work with political satirist and comedian Andrew Doyle on the show that will hit the air waves in 2023, <a href="https://variety.com/2022/tv/global/monty-python-john-cleese-gb-news-cancel-culture-1235397650/">Variety</a> noted. No title has yet to be released.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beware-the-wokes-monty-python-alum-defends-new-show-tackling-cancel-culture-and-new-authoritarians">&#8216;Beware The ‘Wokes’&#8217;: &#8216;Monty Python&#8217; Alum Defends New Show Tackling &#8216;Cancel Culture&#8217; And New &#8216;Authoritarians&#8217;</a></strong></p>


Pendulum Summit In Dublin – Day 2

‘Monty Python’ Alum John Cleese Slams ‘Wokes’ And The Current ‘Thrill Of Being Offended’

Cancel Culture

Entertainment

John Cleese

Wokeness

World

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is something about Dave Chappelle. It is a quality of detachment that inspires great confidence in his audiences. </span>It is largely because of this trust that Chappelle can venture into subject matter — such as race or the trans issue, even Donald Trump — that makes most celebrities send out apologetic press releases, without being harmed.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even his most recent controversy, bringing Elon Musk on stage at a recent show, to a chorus of boos, has left him unscathed. What Chappelle is really able to do is tap into the Id of Left-leaning Americans, to let them linger on thoughts they aren’t supposed to have.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Id, in Freudian psychology, is essentially the instinctual pleasure center where base ideas and desires exist. It is regulated, or is supposed to be, by the SuperEgo and that conflict produces the Ego, which moderates these contrary internal drives and motivations. Progressive ideology, particularly in censorious applications, operates very much like the SuperEgo. The speech codes aren’t just meant to protect others, but to cleanse oneself.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For American progressives who have turned safety, including from ideas, into their overriding concern in all matters from moderating content, to climate change, to altering the basic understanding of sex and gender, Chappelle is dangerous because he only discovers what was already inside of them. They laugh when he gets edgy, in large part, because they are thinking about things they aren’t supposed to think about in ways they shouldn&#8217;t think about them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In his preface for “Anti-Oedipus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia,” a high mountain top of postmodernism, Michel Foucault calls for philosophy to combat fascism, and not just “historical” or political fascism, “but also the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a blueprint for later theories like white privilege, intersectionality, and white fragility, in which those in power — basically white people — are meant to expunge from their minds certain ideas or thoughts, not through a process of investigation, but as a moral obligation complete with rituals for confession and atonement. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A recent CNN timeline of the events leading to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/snl-writers-could-boycott-show-over-dave-chappelle-hosting-gig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protests within Saturday Night Live</a> last month, when Chappelle hosted the show is instructive here. Some quotes from </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/12/entertainment/dave-chappelle-transgender-controversy-timeline-cec/index.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CNN</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In a series of stand-up shows at New York City’s</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Radio City Music Hall, Chappelle made jokes aimed at trans people for at least 20 minutes,</span><a href="https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/dave-chappelle-radio-city-music-hall-review.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Vulture reported.</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">He made explicit jokes about trans people’s bodies and referred to trans people as “transgenders,” among other comments, Vulture said.”</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Netflix released Chappelle’s special ‘The Closer.’ In it, he goes on an </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/entertainment/dave-chappelle-netflix-controversy/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">extended tangent about transgender people</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and makes several jokes at their expense. He misgenders a trans comedian, once again makes explicit jokes about trans women’s bodies and defends TERFs, or trans-exclusionary radical feminists,” </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">CNN reported.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Notice anything missing? There is not a single quote from a single offending joke that Chappelle told. Why? Because the entire premise behind the outrage is based on the idea that challenging trans ideology, at all, is literally an act of violence, therefore CNN could not include the material, even in an attempt to tell their readers what had transpired.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a rhetorical SuperEgo that is out of control in our society. And what happens to a person, movement, or society when the Id is so completely repressed is depression, isolation, inability to work with others. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the 90 or so minutes of a Dave Chappelle show the Id is allowed some space, some freedom to be explored. And if one, by the curtain falling feels, maybe I shouldn’t have laughed at some of that, they can ask themselves why, and truly rule their own ideas instead of being ruled by them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prior to his controversial jokes, the biggest story surrounding Chappelle was him abandoning a $50 million contract with Comedy Central in 2003. And the two are related. As an artist, we know that Chappelle means what he creates; he’s not offending people for fame or fortune, but because great art tells the truth. Chappelle’s great gift, for all of society, but even more for progressives who give him a special “anti-wokeness” pass, is that he can allow their Id to come up for air, to stop being suppressed beneath the boot of conformity and Newspeak.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We should suspect that Dave Chappelle is not finished getting himself in trouble, but maybe trouble is the wrong word — maybe it&#8217;s, more simply, the subject of accusations of impropriety. But that’s a good thing, because he keeps coming back. And deep down even most of his critics know that his unique form of comic therapy is ultimately good for all of us.</span></p>
<p><em>David Marcus is a Brooklyn based columnist and author of &#8220;Charade: The Covid Lies That Crushed A Nation&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>


Saturday Night Live – Season 48

Why Dave Chappelle Is The ‘Id’ Of The American Left

Dave Chappelle

Readers Pass

Sigmund Freud

Transgender

<p>Isaiah Lee, 24, was sentenced on Wednesday for his alleged May 3 attack on <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/dave-chappelle-assaulted-onstage-at-hollywood-bowl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dave Chappelle</a> during the comedian&#8217;s performance at the Hollywood Bowl.</p>
<p>After Lee <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/12/15/dave-chappelle-attacker-sentenced-jail-hollywood-bowl-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded</a> &#8220;no contest&#8221; on two misdemeanor counts — entering a restricted area during a live event and battery — prosecutors agreed to a deal that would land him in Los Angeles County jail for nine months.</p>
<p>The Los Angeles City Attorney&#8217;s office confirmed that Lee was sentenced to serve 270 days behind bars, according to entertainment site TMZ.</p>
<p>Lee allegedly charged onto the stage during Chappelle&#8217;s set, evading security and tackling the comedian before he ran off the stage and attempted to escape. Chappelle&#8217;s friends proved to be more effective than security had been, however, and they were able to take the attacker down, breaking his arm in the process.</p>
<p>Chappelle continued with the show and <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/05/05/dave-chappelle-attack-audio-hollywood-bowl-afterparty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paused</a> during an after-party to express thanks to his friends — <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/dave-chappelle-joking-about-jon-stewart-breaking-attackers-arm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joking</a> at one point that fellow comedian Jon Stewart had been a part of the group attacking the suspect.</p>
<p>&#8220;I felt good my friends broke his arm. I felt good, how bad does a n***** have to be that Jon Stewart would stomp him!&#8221; Chappelle joked, adding that it would have been &#8220;stupid&#8221; for them to kill the attacker.</p>
<p>&#8220;Those are very powerful friends and I&#8217;m sharing [this night] with people I love very much,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon was <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/soros-backed-prosecutor-seeks-slap-on-the-wrist-for-alleged-dave-chappelle-attacker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">widely criticized</a> for refusing to charge Lee with a felony. Ultimately, the L.A. City Attorney filed four misdemeanor charges against him. Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami disagreed with Gascon&#8217;s decision, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dave-chappelle-attacker-wont-be-charged-assault-deadly-weapon-da-office-says">telling</a> Fox News at the time, “Anyone who arms themselves with a deadly weapon, in this case a knife, and violently attacks an innocent person, famous or not, should be charged accordingly &#8230; With only a misdemeanor charge, the person could be released soon, with only a slap on the wrist. That fails to provide justice to the victim, accountability for this person’s actions, and safety to the general public.&#8221;</p>
<p>The weapon Lee allegedly carried was a replica gun with a blade attached to it — which he had carried in a bag and never took out to use it to threaten Chappelle — is reportedly slated to be destroyed.</p>


Dave Chappelle Theatre Dedication Ceremony

Dave Chappelle Attack Suspect Gets Hard Time In Plea Deal

Violent Crime

<p>Tim Allen said the &#8220;saddest thing in the world&#8221; to him is that comedic greats like Richard Pryor and George Carlin would not be able to tell jokes in 2022 because of the political climate.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-allen">69-year-old actor</a> said that as a comedian he never means to hurt anyone with his jokes and that it&#8217;s all meant to &#8220;make them laugh,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/tim-allen-addresses-current-state-of-comedy">Fox News</a> reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;I got into this business because of my college attraction to Lenny Bruce and eventually late college I saw Richard Pryor in concert and George Carlin,&#8221; Allen explained. &#8220;You never thought of what they were doing as infuriating people to make them laugh.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Nowadays, you know, I don&#8217;t think they would be allowed to say that,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So, that&#8217;s the saddest thing in the world to me. That everything is OK as long as I&#8217;m not being offended.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tim Allen addresses the current state of comedy: &#39;We&#39;re all in the same boat here&#39; <a href="https://t.co/sDpOQrxS2p">https://t.co/sDpOQrxS2p</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1603037119529848832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;The Santa Clause&#8221; star said what he does is &#8220;lie to tell the truth. That&#8217;s what comedy is about. You&#8217;re overextending yourself so that people go, &#8216;S***, that is weird.'&#8221;</p>
<p>He also said he hopes attacking comedians is just a phase that will end.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t get anybody, hopefully, getting mad enough to hurt me or yell out screaming in my big concerts,&#8221; Allen said. &#8220;Comedy isn&#8217;t about hurting people, it&#8217;s herding – get everybody together to laugh at this thing. If you get hurt by it, that&#8217;s unfortunate.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; star, an open Republican, also hasn&#8217;t hidden his thoughts about &#8220;woke&#8221; culture.</p>
<p>In October, Allen trolled those he labeled &#8220;wokees&#8221; as he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-allen-trolls-wokees-asks-the-question-everyone-is-wondering-about-this-group">tweeted</a> &#8220;Who is the face of woke?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Do wokees have a club house in someone&#8217;s backyard or maybe a cute yet safe playpen somewhere?&#8221; the &#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; star tweeted to his hundreds of thousands of followers.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, the superstar actor appeared to take a swipe at Disney&#8217;s pro-LGBTQIA+ programming when he tweeted about his latest trip to its famous theme park in southern California.</p>
<p>&#8220;Took some kids to Disneyland and overheard a 13 year old boy wondering if he may be pansexual since he loves skillets,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/ofctimallen/status/1536782789596434432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1536782789596434432%7Ctwgr%5E8088668e3a5cfd63ac67e5a9eafa9cc4f7b2c44e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Ftim-allen-trolls-wokees-asks-the-question-everyone-is-wondering-about-this-group">tweeted</a> at the time.</p>
<p><em>Disclosure: The Daily Wire has announced plans for kids’ entertainment content.</em></p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-allen-says-hes-better-as-santa-claus-than-other-roles-says-new-christmas-series-doesnt-ignore-christian-holiday">Tim Allen Says He&#8217;s &#8216;Better As Santa Claus&#8217; Than Other Roles, Says New Christmas Series Doesn&#8217;t &#8216;Ignore&#8217; Christian Holiday</a></strong></p>


Tim Allen-2

‘Saddest Thing In The World’: Tim Allen Says Comedic Greats Like Richard Pryor And George Carlin Couldn’t Tell Jokes In 2022

Hollywood

Tim Allen

Woke Culture

<p>Stephen &#8220;tWitch&#8221; Boss, 40, longtime DJ for &#8220;<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-ellen-degeneres-show-airs-final-episode-she-recalls-how-much-show-has-changed-since-the-start/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ellen Show</a>,&#8221; was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel room on Tuesday in an apparent suicide.</p>
<p>According to a <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/12/14/stephen-twitch-boss-dead-dies-dj-ellen-degeneres-so-you-think-you-can-dance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from entertainment site TMZ, authorities were alerted to a possible situation by his wife, Allison Holker, who reported that he had left home without his car and she was concerned for his safety.</p>
<p>By 11:15 a.m., paramedics were called to a Los Angeles hotel room for a medical emergency, at which point they found Boss dead of what they said appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Boss was pronounced dead at the scene.</p>
<p>Boss and Holker had celebrated their wedding anniversary just days earlier, according to a post Holker shared on Instagram on Saturday. &#8220;It’s our 9th anniversary!! I couldn’t be more grateful to celebrate this perfect magical day!!! Saying YES to @sir_twitch_alot has been one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life!! I feel so blessed and loved!! I love you baby and I will never take you or OUR love for granted! I LOVE YOU #happyanniversary#bosswedding2013,&#8221; she captioned the photo from their 2013 wedding.</p>
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<p>Holker <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/12/14/allison-holker-reacts-to-husband-stephen-twitch-boss-death/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> publicly about her husband&#8217;s untimely passing, saying, &#8220;It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to share my husband Stephen has left us. Stephen lit up every room he stepped into. He valued family, friends and community above all else and leading with love and light was everything to him.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He was the backbone of our family, the best husband and father, and an inspiration to his fans. To say he left a legacy would be an understatement, and his positive impact will continue to be felt. I am certain there won’t be a day that goes by that we won’t honor his memory,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Stephen, we love you, we miss you, and I will always save the last dance for you,&#8221; she concluded. Boss started his stint with Ellen DeGeneres on the long-running &#8220;The Ellen Show&#8221; in 2014 and remained with the program until its end in 2022. He became a producer on the show in 2020.</p>
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Today – Season 71

Longtime ‘Ellen’ DJ Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Dead At 40, Apparent Suicide

Longtime 'Ellen' DJ Stephen 'tWitch' Boss Dead At 40, Apparent Suicide

Ellen Degeneres

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Never argue with a living legend like Mel Brooks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The genius behind “The Producers,” “Young Frankenstein” and “Blazing Saddles” insists the latter </span><a href="https://variety.com/2017/film/news/mel-brooks-blazing-saddles-pc-culture-1202568893/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">couldn’t be made in today’s woke climate</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He’s right, of course.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brooks’ western sendup, co-written by Richard Pryor, savages racism in ways that are no longer permissible. It’s rude, crude and full of love for both Westerns and people of all races.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s also the ultimate example of a classic that wouldn’t be made today in its current form.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But there are others.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some films don’t make sense when it comes to possible remakes. The 1983 comedy “Mr. Mom,” for example, lampooned the idea of a father (Michael Keaton) doing so-called domestic work.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, millions of stay-at-home dads can do household chores while providing children with a strong father figure.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The following movies served up storylines and gags that simply wouldn’t pass muster with today’s social media scolds for very different reasons.</span></p>
<h2><b>&#8220;The Bad News Bears&#8221;</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s one of the best baseball movies ever. Walter Matthau plays former minor league player Morris Buttermaker who coaches a rag-tag little league team to the championships. Along the way a boozy Buttermaker passes out on the pitcher’s mound and, later, gives beer to his pre-teen charges.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The screenplay features plenty of racially-charged epithets, some uttered by the young players.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They staged a remake via 2005’s “Bad News Bears” with Billy Bob Thornton, but some of those rough edges were sanded smooth. Any attempt at retelling “Bears” now would look nothing like the source material.</span></p>
<h2><b>&#8220;Some Like It Hot&#8221;</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The recent Broadway revival of the hit 1959 movie changed the film’s classic moments and, in the process, removed all the funny from it. The man who thought Jack Lemmon’s character was an actual woman learns he’s a dude and shrugs, “Well, nobody’s perfect.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s one of the best final film lines ever, but in the musical version the confused paramour says, </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/dec/11/some-like-it-hot-review-broadway-adaptation-lukewarm"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You’re perfect.”</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Drag comedy existed for decades. Everyone from Milton Berle to Monty Python put on women’s clothing for yuks. It’s mostly obsolete today, and certainly no one would dare pitch a movie about two straight white men who dress up as women to escape a mobster — even if it’s considered in some circles as the </span><a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/billy-wilders-some-like-it-hot-is-the-best-comedy-film-ever-made/articleshow/60176544.cms?from=mdr"><span style="font-weight: 400;">greatest screen comedy of all time</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Any “Hot” remake would sink under the woke demands of modern storytelling. Just look, once more, at the musical update which had one of the two drag performers embrace non-binary status after putting on a dress.</span></p>
<h2><b>&#8220;The Toy&#8221;</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This 1982 comedy follows a very wealthy white man (Jackie Gleason) who buys his son a unique gift — a black man (Richard Pryor) tasked with serving as the lad’s friend or, as one character describes it, his “toy.” Maybe woke bylaws aren’t so bad in this case. Who would entertain such a pitch in today’s world?</span></p>
<h2><b>&#8220;Shallow Hal&#8221;</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cheap fat jokes, both then and now, are … cheap. They still were told for decades before the era of “fat shaming” made them obsolete.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet the Farrelly brothers’ “Shallow Hal” isn’t just an assembly line of fat gags. It’s a sweet story about a jerk (Jack Black) who learns to look past one-dimensional beauty to find his perfect partner.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 2001 comedy finds Gwyneth Paltrow playing an obese woman who charms Black’s character after he undergoes a sort of hypnosis. He can only see a woman’s inner beauty and love swiftly blooms.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No modern satirist would attempt something as tricky as “Shallow Hal,” even if the ultimate message is one of acceptance, not hate.</span></p>
<h2><b>&#8220;I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry&#8221;</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most critics loathe Adam Sander comedies, and yet this 2007 romp is shockingly sensitive — in between the outrageous bits. Sandler and Kevin James play straight firefighters who pretend to be a gay couple in order to secure insurance for James’ children.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The comic leads perform as broadly as many expected, but what those revisiting the film will see is how genuinely inclusive the story proves. Yet the Sandler/James “gay panic” bits alone would prevent the movie from being produced today, for starters.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Critics pounced, and seized, on “Chuck and Larry” during its theatrical release but GLAAD had kinder comments, citing its message of </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121003051343/http:/www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20035169,00.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“equality and respect.”</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plus, “Chuck and Larry” doesn’t have a political agenda beyond laughs, family bonds, and treating everyone with kindness. That’s not enough for today’s woke warriors, who would transform the movie into a series of LGBTQ+ lectures.</span></p>
<h2><b>&#8220;Dirty Harry&#8221;</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rampaging crime rates make it a perfect time for “Dirty” Harry Callahan to take out the trash. Again. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This 1971 smash connected to the zeitgeist by showing a cop who didn’t play by the rules. Yes, 50+ years ago that sounded fresher than it does today.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Liberal critics like Pauline Kael raged against Clint Eastwood’s “Harry” upon its release, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">using the same language as progressives uncork today — “</span><a href="https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/dirty-harry-is-not-fascist" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fascist</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eastwood’s cop takes down the bad guys on his terms, and he even mocks some of their ethnic dialects in the process. Modern Hollywood wouldn’t go near a “Dirty Harry” remake today, no matter how much money it might make.</span></p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Comedian</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and 90s sitcom actor Mark Curry posted a video to social media over the weekend that has since gone viral, showing him being asked by employees to verify that he was a guest in a </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colorado"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colorado Springs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> hotel. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the lengthy Instagram </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl95gKNo4T9/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">video</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the 61-year-old actor accuses hotel staff of </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/racism"><span style="font-weight: 400;">racially profiling</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> him. He recorded two alleged hotel employees following him around the lobby where he was drinking a cup of coffee. Curry refused to show the two men his room key or confirm that he was a hotel guest. He also declined to provide his name or room number to the front desk attendant when asked.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;If you&#8217;re black and you&#8217;re in Colorado Springs, you can&#8217;t be in the lobby,&#8221; Curry says during the 26-minute </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/instagram"><span style="font-weight: 400;">video</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. &#8220;Wow! This is crazy, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The comedian was staying at the Mining Exchange (A Wyndham Grand Hotel &amp; Spa) at the time of the alleged incident.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Curry recorded the two men following him around and narrated the whole time. &#8220;I would like to call the police on this guy for following me. I don&#8217;t know who he is,&#8221; Curry told the front desk attendant. She identified the two men as hotel staff.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;A black man can&#8217;t go nowhere in America,&#8221; Curry fumed later while filming in his hotel room. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Black man and a hotel lobby it&#8217;s impossible that he has a room here,&#8221; he captioned the video. &#8220;No, I have a suite! He walks up to me with no badge on. I don&#8217;t know who this man is.&#8221; He then implored followers to call the hotel manager and complain.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a statement, the hotel said that it was &#8220;committed to providing a safe and inclusive space for all guests and employees.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We deeply regret this incident and have reached out to Mr. Curry to offer not only our sincere apologies but a full refund of his stay and an invitation to return, at no cost, anytime in the future,&#8221; the statement said, per </span><a href="https://ew.com/tv/holly-robinson-peete-supports-mark-curry-hotel-racial-profiling/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Entertainment Weekly</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hotel management also said they were &#8220;using this opportunity to revisit training with our staff, helping to ensure all interactions are reflective of our company values.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Followers on social media had mixed reactions, with some accusing the hotel staff of blatant racist behavior and others saying Curry should have identified himself as a guest.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You good my dude??? I’ve called the number a bunch of times can’t get thru!!!!” comedian D.L. Hughley wrote in the comments.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Shameful! Absolutely disgusting! Love you [M]ark! No one deserves this!” actress Raven Symone agreed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Curry’s co-star Holly Robinson Peete also chimed in, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hollyrpeete/status/1601739464362950656"><span style="font-weight: 400;">tweeting:</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Sending love out to my costar and friend … just finding out about this awful profiling harassment he was subjected to in Colorado Springs. I hope the Hotel has apologized to him at least. UNACCEPTABLE.” </span></p>


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