Joe Rogan slammed legacy media for its &#8220;sh***y format&#8221; and said &#8220;it&#8217;s way less popular&#8221; than it&#8217;s ever been in history, naming CNN and evening news.
During Spotify&#8217;s &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/177plfcE2xWKrOJUfnn13S?si=fvpV2ozeTgSNghfTMCkO8g">podcast</a> on Saturday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan">podcast host</a> was speaking with comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/louis-ck">Louis C.K.</a> about the media&#8217;s coverage of gruesome stories like the school shooting at Sandy Hook and 9-11, as the two agreed the media has always done this, calling it &#8220;obscene.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s messed up. It&#8217;s obscene and it&#8217;s normal. And that&#8217;s what they operate under. That&#8217;s their currency,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-has-change-of-heart-explains-why-will-smith-has-to-be-forgiven-after-chris-rock-slap">Rogan</a> replied, noting that with the media &#8220;there&#8217;s a diffusion of responsibility when you work for a large corporation.&#8221;
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&#8220;It&#8217;s a job that has to get done,&#8221; he added, noting the media&#8217;s response.
C.K. recalled being in the Fox News studio once, sitting in the control room when President Barack Obama was &#8220;making a speech&#8221; and he claimed no one was listening to the speech on any of the cameras in the room, yet commented on it afterward.
He said it happens at MSNBC and CNN too, &#8220;they&#8217;re not thinking about anything. They already know their reaction and they gotta come in with it really quick&#8221; because it&#8217;s got to get in people&#8217;s phones before another news outlet. &#8220;It&#8217;s entertainment.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fing-bravo-joe-rogan-takes-swipe-at-biden-administration-over-talk-about-gas-stove-ban">Rogan</a> agreed and said it&#8217;s &#8220;entertainment disguised as news for minimally engaged, casual viewers.&#8221;
&#8220;Because it&#8217;s not really people that are completely locked in for the most part,&#8221; the host explained. &#8220;Most people are just flipping through the channels and you know something outrageous &#8230; [hearing a reporter criticizing someone as bad for America.] But if you don&#8217;t say that they aren&#8217;t going to pay attention.&#8221;
&#8220;Then they [corporate media] is going to lose out on that Pfizer dollars that&#8217;s going to come through in the ad break,&#8221; he added. Because of the format, it&#8217;s just a trick to get you to watch a commercial for Colgate.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wants-crime-to-flourish-joe-rogan-slams-soros-as-an-evil-villain-in-superhero-movie">Rogan</a> told his guest that corporate media &#8220;is way less popular than it&#8217;s ever been in human history. Like in the history of news, the evening news, CNN, those things, are less popular than they have ever been.&#8221;
&#8220;And it&#8217;s because people are tired of it,&#8221; the podcast host shared. &#8220;It&#8217;s a sh***y format and in comparison to long-form discussions, independent interview shows &#8230; podcasts where people have nuanced perspectives. If you really want to understand what&#8217;s going on in the world, complicated issues, invasion of Ukraine by Russia, you need people to break it down to you. They aren&#8217;t going to get it in five minutes.&#8221;
&#8220;You are going to get &#8216;they hate us for our freedom,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s what you are going to get in five minutes. You are going to get nonsense talking points.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fing-bravo-joe-rogan-takes-swipe-at-biden-administration-over-talk-about-gas-stove-ban">&#8216;F***ing Bravo&#8217;: Joe Rogan Takes Swipe At Biden Administration Over Talk About Gas Stove Ban</a>

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Twitter is not happy that comedian Louis C.K. won a Grammy despite his “cancellation” five years ago.
The 54-year-old “Louie” alum got into trouble just when the #MeToo movement started gaining steam as multiple women came forward saying he had masturbated in their presence. Louis C.K. apologized while maintaining that all sexual encounters were consensual.
The Daily Wire originally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/louis-ck-responds-sexual-harassment-allegations-ben-shapiro">reported</a> that the comedian said: “At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my d*** without asking first. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your d*** isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them.”
“There is nothing about this that I forgive myself for,” he continued. “And I have to reconcile it with who I am. Which is nothing compared to the task I left them with. … The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them.”
Ever since the incident and fallout, Louis C.K. has remained mostly out of the spotlight until this surprise Grammy win. He took home “Best Comedy Album” for “Sincerely Louis CK.” Other nominated comics in the same category included Kevin Hart, Nate Bargatze, Lewis Black, Chelsea Handler, and Lavell Crawford.
Twitter followers were not amused that the allegedly “canceled” comedian won such a prestigious award.
“I don’t want to hear anything else about Will Smith now that Louis C.K. not only was nominated but just won an award #GRAMMYs,” one person wrote.
Another <a href="https://twitter.com/QueenMab87/status/1510761898475913217">agreed</a>, “Louis CK just won a whole a** Grammy while y’all are either calling for Will Smith’s head or crying about cancel culture. There are no consequences for white cishet men.”
Similar sentiments flooded the platform after the official Grammys <a href="https://twitter.com/RecordingAcad/status/1510752491985522688">account</a> shared his win.
&#8220;Rewarding the man that makes light of sexual harassment and assault while having allegations levied against him?&#8221; one person wrote.
&#8220;The Grammys are a great reminder that &#8216;cancel culture&#8217; doesn&#8217;t exist and no white dude has ever been successfully cancelled for anything terrible that they do,&#8221; someone else tweeted.
Some people spoke up in defense of the comedian, however, insisting that there were double standards for who got canceled and who didn’t.
“Lol Chris Brown beat the s*** out of Rihanna in 2009 and won a Grammy 3 years later. Save the crocodile tears over Louis CK, you absolute losers,” one person wrote.
After a long hiatus, Louis C.K.’s official <a href="https://louisck.com/">website</a> says he’s back on tour and will be visiting multiple European countries this spring. Some of those shows have already sold out.
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Louis C.K. took home a Grammy at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards Sunday for Best Comedy Album despite attempts and calls to cancel him after he admitted to several sexual misconduct allegations.
During the 2022 Grammy awards, the 54-year-old actor and comedian won a Grammy for his surprise album &#8220;Sincerely Louis C.K.,&#8221; five years after sexual harassment allegations surfaced against him, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/louis-c-k-wins-grammy-225905522.html">reported</a> Yahoo.com in a piece published Sunday.
The &#8220;Louie&#8221; star beat out other superstar comedians in the same category such as Kevin Hart, Chelsea Handler, and Lavell Crawford, <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/louis-c-k-grammys-sexual-misconduct-1331976/">reported</a> RollingStone.com.
After the comedian won, the Recording Academy posted a message on Twitter that read, &#8220;Congrats Best Comedy Album winner &#8211; &#8216;Sincerely Louis CK&#8217; Louis C.K.&#8221;
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The comedian was not there to accept the award and award presenter LeVar Burton said he would accept it for him, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/03/louis-c-k-wins-best-comedy-album-at-2022-grammys/">reported</a> the New York Post.
&#8220;Damn, I will accept this on his behalf,&#8221; Burton said.
As previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despite-calls-for-their-cancellations-dave-chappelle-louis-c-k-both-nominated-for-grammys">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, the &#8220;Sorry&#8221; star was nominated for a Grammy along with Dave Chappelle back in November, both of whom have faced being canceled for various reasons:
<blockquote>When the Recording Academy announced the nominations for 64th annual Grammy awards on Tuesday, the two comedians, who have both faced criticism and controversy for different reasons, were among the honorees.
Chappelle, who has been targeted by trans activists over jokes they deem “transphobic,” received a “Best Spoken Word Album” nomination for his Netflix special “8:46,” a comedy set he delivered in his hometown of Yellow Springs, Ohio, immediately following George Floyd’s death.
Other nominees in the category also touch on the subject of racial strife.
LeVar Burton is included for his narration of “Aftermath,” his dystopian novel that imagines a new civil war in the future. Don Cheadle is nominated for his reading of “Carry On: Reflections for A New Generation From John Lewis,” a biography on the late senator and civil rights activist. Black poet J. Ivey made the cut with, “Catching Dreams: Live At Fort Knox Chicago” Finally, Barack Obama received a nod for “A Promised Land,” a memoir of his time in the White House.</blockquote>
At the height of the #MeToo movement, <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/929053426062938112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E929053426062938112%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Flouis-ck-responds-sexual-harassment-allegations-ben-shapiro">C.K. admitted</a> that several sexual misconduct allegations reported by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html?smid=tw-nytimesarts&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0">The New York Times</a> — that he &#8220;had masturbated in front of non-consenting women multiple times over a period of years” — were true, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/louis-ck-responds-sexual-harassment-allegations-ben-shapiro">reported</a> previously by The Daily Wire.
&#8220;At the time, I said to myself that what I did was O.K. because I never showed a woman my d*** without asking first,&#8221; the comedian shared. &#8220;But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your d*** isn’t a question. It&#8217;s a predicament for them.&#8221;
&#8220;There is nothing about this that I forgive myself for,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And I have to reconcile it with who I am. Which is nothing compared to the task I left them with. &#8230; The hardest regret to live with is what you&#8217;ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them.&#8221;
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Superstar Comedian And Actor Takes Home Grammy For Latest Album Despite Calls To Be Canceled

Woke mobs may be calling for Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K. to be cancelled, but it appears Grammy voters feel differently.
When the Recording Academy announced the nominations for 64th annual Grammy awards on Tuesday, the two comedians, who have both faced criticism and controversy for different reasons, were among the honorees.
Chappelle, who has been targeted by trans activists over jokes they deem “transphobic,” received a “Best Spoken Word Album” nomination for his Netflix special “8:46,” a comedy set he delivered in his hometown of Yellow Springs, Ohio, immediately following George Floyd’s death.
Other nominees in the category also touch on the subject of racial strife.
LeVar Burton is included for his narration of “Aftermath,” his dystopian novel that imagines a new civil war in the future. Don Cheadle is nominated for his reading of “Carry On: Reflections for A New Generation From John Lewis,” a biography on the late senator and civil rights activist. Black poet J. Ivey made the cut with, “Catching Dreams: Live At Fort Knox Chicago” Finally, Barack Obama received a nod for “A Promised Land,” a memoir of his time in the White House.
Despite the fact that his sexual conduct with younger, female comedians and entertainment executives left Louis C.K. largely unwelcome on major streaming platforms and in some comedy clubs, his latest release, “Sincerely Louis CK,” nevertheless received a nomination for “Best Comedy Album.” The rest of the category includes offerings from Kevin Hart, Chelsea Handler, and Lewis Black.
Asked by Hollywood trade publication, <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/grammys-chief-on-noms-for-marilyn-manson-louis-ck-we-wont-look-at-peoples-history/">The Wrap</a>, about the controversial nominees, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said the Recording Academy does not “look back at people’s history” when considering nominations, but added that doesn’t mean all nominees will be invited to attend the ceremony.
“We won’t restrict the people who can submit their material for consideration,” Mason said, “We won’t look back at people’s history, we won’t look at their criminal record, we won’t look at anything other than the legality within our rules of, is this recording for this work eligible based on date and other criteria. If it is, they can submit for consideration.”
Mason went on:
<blockquote>What we will control is our stages, our shows, our events, our red carpets. We’ll take a look at anyone who is asking to be a part of that, asking to be in attendance, and we’ll make our decisions at that point. But we’re not going to be in the business of restricting people from submitting their work for our voters to decide on.</blockquote>
Many Grammy experts were watching to see how the organization would respond should cancelled country star <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/morgan-wallen-grammy-2022-situation-analysis-9648248/">Morgan Wallen</a> receive a nod. But despite having the best-selling country album of the year and being submitted in eight categories, the 28-year-old did not receive any nominations
The 2022 Grammys are scheduled to air on January 31, on CBS.

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Despite Calls For Their Cancellations, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K. Both Nominated For Grammys

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Former Vice President Joe Biden returned a $2800 donation from controversial comedian Louis CK, according to <a href="https://time.com/5825872/joe-biden-donation-louis-ck/">Time Magazine</a>, preferring to send back the money than be associated with allegations of sexual impropriety that have dogged Louis CK since the advent of the #MeToo movement.
The development is intriguing given that Biden is now facing his own allegations of sexual impropriety stemming from his time in Congress.
Louis CK reportedly donated the maximum amount that the FEC allows for individual political contributions, $2800, on March 4th, after the Democratic field began to coalesce behind the more &#8220;moderate&#8221; Biden, and after Biden chalked up a number of decisive wins on Super Tuesday, pulling well ahead of his closest opponent for the nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
&#8220;CK’s career was upended in 2017, after several women came forward and accused of him of sexually inappropriate behavior, including masturbating in front of them without their consent, or masturbating while over the phone with them without their consent,&#8221; <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/04/joe-biden-louis-ck-donation">Vanity Fair reported</a>. &#8220;CK, formerly a critically hailed comedian thanks to his genre-blending FX dramedy, &#8216;Louie,&#8217; quickly admitted that the reports were accurate, saying he had &#8216;been remorseful of my actions.'&#8221;
CK has since become &#8220;less apologetic,&#8221; Vanity Fair says, resisting being canceled and returning to the comedy circuit, now with material skewering his troubles.
The Biden campaign did not give details as to why they sent Louis CK&#8217;s money back, but Vanity Fair points out that the reason is self-evident.
&#8220;It’s obvious why Biden’s campaign would want to distance itself from C.K., especially considering Biden has been facing his own sexual-misconduct allegations from multiple women. Biden, who is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has denied the claims,&#8221; they said.
Biden actually hasn&#8217;t spoken at length about the issue.
His accuser, a former aide named Tara Reade, says that Biden touched her inappropriately when the two were alone in his office in the mid-1990s. Reade allegedly told friends and colleagues about the attack at the time &#8212; contemporanous accounts that give her accusations something of an air of credibility. She has also filed a police report with the Washington, D.C., police department, even though the statute of limitations for prosecution of such a crime has long passed.
Biden&#8217;s allies have worked diligently to discredit Reade, even though Reade&#8217;s allegations seem at least slightly more credible than those leveled against then-Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, by a former classmate, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who said Kavanaugh tried to sexually assault her during a house party when the pair were in high school. Dr. Ford had no evidence of the attack and there were no contemporaneous accounts; Dr. Ford&#8217;s only witness, a friend by the name of Leyland Keyser, denied ever hearing of the incident.
Returning CK&#8217;s donation at least puts Biden at a distance from the #MeToo movement.
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Report: Joe Biden Returned Donation From Comedian Louis CK Over Sexual Assault Allegations

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Before his stunning downfall, comedian Louis C.K. was known to joke about anything and everything, no matter how taboo.
He&#8217;s back, and he&#8217;s picked up right where he left off.
“I’d rather be in Auschwitz than New York City,” he joked in a show at a venue near Tel Aviv, Israel. “I mean now, not when it was open.”
The 52-year-old comedian, whose paternal grandfather was Jewish, delivered the line Thanksgiving night performance, prompting laughter and applause from the audience, the <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/11/29/louis-c-k-tells-israeli-audience-hed-rather-be-in-auschwitz-than-nyc/">New York Post</a> reported.
The comedian, whose real name is Louis Székely, is out on tour now, part of a long comeback after he admitted two years ago that he masturbated in front of women, with or without their approval.
“How have your last couple of years been?” he said as he opened his set.
After numerous women came out to make the allegations, C.K said in a November 2017 statement: “These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my d–k without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your d–k isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly.”
&#8220;I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me didn’t want to hear it. I didn’t think that I was doing any of that because my position allowed me not to think about it. There is nothing about this that I forgive myself for. And I have to reconcile it with who I am. Which is nothing compared to the task I left them with.”
At the Tel Aviv show, C.K. even joked about that subject, &#8220;advising the audience against following in his perverted footsteps,&#8221; The Post said.
“If they say ‘yes,’ then still don’t do it, because it’s not popular,” he said.
C.K. was riding high before his tumultuous fall. He has won six Emmy Awards and a Peabody and was the star of a popular FX TV series called “Louie,&#8221; plus, he sold out huge venues for his comedy show. But after his admission that he&#8217;d done the things all his accusers said he&#8217;d done, film distributor The Orchard dropped his movie “I Love You Daddy&#8221; just days before its release and C.K. disappeared.
The comedian opened his comeback tour in Richmond, Va., and he has shows booked in Detroit Akron, New Orleans, and Houston through February.
&#8220;One female fan who saw C.K.&#8217;s show in Holon thinks it’s time to forgive the Washington, D.C., native, who has also called New York City home,&#8221; The <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-louis-ck-tells-israeli-crowd-i-would-rather-be-in-auschwitz-20191129-5p4i2fbbbzbe3em5x553n47dta-story.html">Daily News</a> reported.
&#8220;As a woman who’s been very aware of everything that has happened over the #MeToo movement and all of that, I’d say that he’s probably the only celebrity who’s expressed regret over what he had done and was willing to actually address it,” Shiri Ayalon told the Associated Press.

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In his new Netflix special &#8220;Sticks &amp; Stones&#8221; released Monday, comedian Dave Chappelle slammed HBO&#8217;s documentary on alleged sexual abuse by Michael Jackson, said he didn&#8217;t believe Jackson&#8217;s accusers, and joked that even if Jackson did rape young boys, they were probably proud to go to school the next day having been molested by a megastar.
Chappelle&#8217;s comments came during a segment of his new stand-up comedy special focused on &#8220;celebrity hunting season,&#8221; an era he described as &#8220;the worst time ever to be a celebrity.&#8221;
In comments reported by <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dave-chappelle-slams-michael-jackson-accusers-cancel-culture-netflix-special-1234633">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, among other entertainment outlets, Chappelle warned his fellow celebrities that in the current &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; they&#8217;re all &#8220;doomed.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the worst time ever to be a celebrity,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You&#8217;re gonna be finished. Everyone&#8217;s doomed. Michael Jackson has been dead for 10 years, and this n**** has two new cases.&#8221;
HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Leaving Neverland,&#8221; he said, is &#8220;f***ing gross&#8221; and &#8220;really nasty sh**.&#8221; Though he at first expresses reluctance to admit it, Chappelle declares that he believes Jackson&#8217;s accusers — who say the star raped them when they were just 7 and 10 years old — are lying, then jokes that even if Jackson did do it, his victims should feel special to have been sexually abused by the world-famous celebrity.
&#8220;I don’t think he did it, but you know what? Even if he did do it … you know what I mean?&#8221; Chappelle said suggestively, pausing for effect.
As THR notes, the audience responded by erupting in laughter.
&#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s Michael Jackson,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I know more than half the people in this room have been molested in their lives, but it wasn’t no goddamn Michael Jackson, was it? This kid got his d*** sucked by the King of Pop. All we get is awkward Thanksgivings for the rest of our lives. You know how good it must have felt to go to school the next day after that sh**?&#8221;
Why does the comedian not believe the accusers? Chappelle explained that it&#8217;s because troubled child actor Macaulay Culkin hasn&#8217;t come forward. &#8220;I&#8217;m not a pedophile, but if I was, Macaulay Culkin&#8217;s the first kid I&#8217;m f***ing — I&#8217;ll tell you that right now,&#8221; he said.
(For a detailed account of the sexual abuse allegations against Jackson, which span decades and involve multiple accusers, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/arts/music/michael-jackson-timeline-sexual-abuse-accusations.html">read The New York Times&#8217; summary here</a>.)
Chappelle went on to suggest that while he doesn&#8217;t believe Jackson&#8217;s accusers, he does believe the accusations against R. Kelly are true. He also denied stories about his reasons for turning down an appearance on Lifetime&#8217;s &#8220;Surviving R. Kelly,&#8221; explaining that he really didn&#8217;t go on because he doesn&#8217;t know the guy.
Another superstar that has fallen victim to &#8220;celebrity hunting season,&#8221; he said, was fellow comedian Kevin Hart, who he praised as &#8220;damn near perfect,&#8221; or, at least &#8220;four tweets shy of being perfect.&#8221;
Shortly after being named the host of the Oscars, one of his self-described life-long dreams, Hart <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39134/kevin-hart-steps-down-oscars-host-amid-firestorm-james-barrett">stepped down</a> amid pressure from the Academy to apologize again for past tweets deemed offensive to the LGBT community.
Chappelle also referenced Louis C.K., who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/23427/louis-ck-responds-sexual-harassment-allegations-ben-shapiro">admitted to</a> and apologized for masturbating in front of unconsenting women, and whom Chappelle described as &#8220;a very good friend of mine before he died in that terrible masturbation accident,&#8221; as noted by <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/dave-chappelle-calls-michael-jackson-rape-accusers-liars-defends-louis-ck-in-netflixs-sticks-and-stones">The Daily Beast</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44834/music-video-director-who-worked-michael-jackson-i-hank-berrien">Music Video Director Who Worked With Michael Jackson: I Believe His Accusers, Jackson A &#8216;Predator&#8217;</a>

Dave Chappelle Slams Michael Jackson Accusers, Jokes About Child Rape In New Netflix Special

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&#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; cast member Pete Davidson spent New Year&#8217;s Eve throwing jabs at comedian Louis C.K. and joking about his death during a set at a Boston area club.
Davidson, who once mocked veteran Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) for losing his eye in war, was seemingly triggered by C.K.&#8217;s leaked stand-up routine, which included jokes about &#8220;gender neutral&#8221; millennials and the faux expertise of Parkland school shooting survivors.
During his routine, Davidson joked about triggering C.K.&#8217;s death via tattoo, <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2019/01/pete-davidson-louis-ck-fired-smoking-pot-saturday-night-live-1202031578/">reports</a> IndieWire:
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I got a &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; tattoo. Then the next day Alan Rickman, the guy who played Snape, died and I was like, &#8220;Oh, what a weird coincidence.&#8221; Then I got a Willy Wonka tattoo. Next day &#8212; Gene Wilder dies. Now I&#8217;m like, all right, that&#8217;s a coincidence, that&#8217;s weird. So I&#8217;m thinking of getting a tattoo of Louis C.K., what do you guys think? That joke used to be about Aziz Ansari, but Aziz has been nice to me recently.
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In 2017, C.K. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39849/actress-says-she-wants-comedian-louis-ck-raped-and-amanda-prestigiacomo">admitted</a> to masturbating in front of women over whom he said he had &#8220;power&#8221; after five women came forward with related accusations. Ansari, another comedian referenced by Davidson, was accused of engaging in sex acts with a woman who admittedly consented to the acts but claims she didn&#8217;t really want to participate.
But Davidson&#8217;s scorn for C.K. seems to derive from a personal beef. According to the &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; regular, C.K. made Davidson look bad in front of executive producer Lorne Michaels. IndieWire reports:
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Davidson went on to tell the audience that C.K. once tried to get him fired from his &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; gig for smoking marijuana. C.K. hosted an episode in April 2017 and, according to Davidson, &#8220;told all the producers in front of me that all this kid does is smoke weed and he&#8217;s gonna smoke his career away.&#8221; Davidson added that C.K. also went to &#8220;SNL&#8221; creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels to complain about how he &#8220;smokes so much weed that it makes people uncomfortable.&#8221;
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Davidson added, &#8220;Then five years later this motherf**ker&#8217;s been locking doors and jerking off in front of people.&#8221;
The leaked stand up from C.K. was widely condemned by Woke comedians and the mainstream media for going after Parkland school shooting survivors. &#8220;These kids &#8230; What are you doing? You&#8217;re young, you should be crazy, you should be unhinged. Not in a suit saying &#8216;I&#8217;m here to &#8230;&#8217; F*** you,&#8221; said C.K. during the set. &#8220;You&#8217;re not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot. Why does that mean I have to listen to you? Why does that make you interesting? You didn&#8217;t get shot. You pushed some fat kid in the way and now I gotta listen to you talking?&#8221;
C.K. also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39806/louis-ck-jokes-about-parkland-shooting-survivors-joseph-curl">ripped</a> &#8220;gender neutral&#8221; teens. &#8220;They are just boring,&#8221; he told the audience, adding, &#8220;They&#8217;re like royalty, they tell you what to call them. &#8216;You should address me as they/them, because I identify as gender neutral.&#8217; Oh, OK. OK. You should address me as &#8216;there,&#8217; because I identify as a location. And the location is your mother&#8217;s c***. It doesn&#8217;t have to be that nasty, but it can be.&#8221;

Pete Davidson Bashes Louis C.K., Jokes About His Death

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UPDATE: It appears Barkin deleted the tweets wishing rape and violence upon Louis C.K. Please see the screenshot provided, below: 
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And here we have a full-grown woman giving a very normal and healthy response to some jokes she heard <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenBarkin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EllenBarkin</a> <a href="https://t.co/hNJyW6oZA2">pic.twitter.com/hNJyW6oZA2</a>
&#8212; Lauren Chen (@RoamingMil) <a href="https://twitter.com/RoamingMil/status/1080244234861666304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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ORIGINAL STORY:
Actress and producer Ellen Barkin said she wanted comedian Louis C.K. to be &#8220;raped&#8221; and &#8220;shot at&#8221; on Monday.
&#8220;I hope louis ck gets raped,&#8221; tweeted Barkin, adding, &#8220;and shot at.&#8221;
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and shot at
&#8212; Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenBarkin/status/1079807404022398976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Barkin was apparently set off by the comedian&#8217;s leaked stand-up routine wherein C.K. rips &#8220;gender neutral&#8221; millennials and mocks Parkland school shooting survivors for their untouchable gun control activism.
&#8220;These kids &#8230; What are you doing? You&#8217;re young, you should be crazy, you should be unhinged. Not in a suit saying &#8216;I&#8217;m here to &#8230;&#8217; F*** you. You&#8217;re not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot. Why does that mean I have to listen to you? Why does that make you interesting? You didn&#8217;t get shot. You pushed some fat kid in the way and now I gotta&#8217; listen to you talking,&#8221; the comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39806/louis-ck-jokes-about-parkland-shooting-survivors-joseph-curl">said</a> to thunderous laughter.
Refusing to back down from her tweet, Barkin explained herself thusly: &#8220;for all of you ready to jump on my back, think for a minute about how louis ck must talk about the women who outed him? what do you think he wishes on them? do you think he will assault a woman again? read up on serial sexual assault.&#8221;
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for all of you ready to jump on myback, think for a minute about how louis ck must talk about the women who outed him? what do you think he wishes on them? do you think he will assault a woman again? read up on serial sexual assault
&#8212; Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenBarkin/status/1079813455966846976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In 2017, C.K. was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html">accused</a> of sexual misconduct (not sexual assault as stated by Barkin) by at least five women. C.K. allegedly had a habit of masturbating in front of female comedians. C.K. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/arts/television/louis-ck-statement.html">responded</a> to the accusations by acknowledging that he did in fact masturbate in front of the female accusers, but noted that he did so after asking permission, first. &#8220;These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was O.K. because I never showed a woman my d*ck without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your d*ck isn&#8217;t a question. It&#8217;s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly,&#8221; reads part of a statement from the comedian.
Barkin later responded to a Twitter account she apparently believed to be the comedian himself, though it remains unclear if the account is actually C.K.&#8217;s.
&#8220;Are you mad?&#8221; reads a tweet from the @louisck account. &#8220;No, you are mad. and very very sick. i am enraged,&#8221; said Barkin in reply.
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Are you mad? <a href="https://t.co/afqMldIMDi">https://t.co/afqMldIMDi</a>
&#8212; Louis C.K. (@louisck) <a href="https://twitter.com/louisck/status/1080226087420882944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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no, you are mad. and very very sick. i am enraged.
&#8212; Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenBarkin/status/1080310079608573952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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When Twitter users reacted to Barkin&#8217;s wishes of rape and violence against the comedian, she accused them of being &#8220;anti-choice anti-science anti-immigrant anti-poc [C]hristians&#8221; and &#8220;racist anti-semitic woman-hating muthaf***ers.&#8221;
&#8220;Interesting that most of the aggressive responders to my tweet r anti-choice anti-science anti-immigrant anti-poc [C]hristians,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Jew, an eye for an eye has its place for me. this sociopath &amp;serial predator will continue harming. stay safe while u clap.&#8221;
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interesting that most of the aggressive responders to my tweet r anti-choice anti-science anti-immigrant anti-poc christians. 
I&#8217;m a Jew, an eye for an eye has its place for me. this sociopath &amp;serial predator will continue harming. stay safe while u clap
&#8212; Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenBarkin/status/1080252513155276800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If all you racist anti-semitic woman-hating muthaf***ers are so distraught over my tweets, why the f*** are you following me? Cuz you&#8217;re dumb af. (that means *as f***),&#8221; reads another tweet.
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If all you racist anti-semitic woman-hating muthafuckers are so distraught over my tweets, why the fuck are you following me? Cuz you&#8217;re dumb af. (that means *as fuck).
&#8212; Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenBarkin/status/1080322984722739206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Barkin snagged a Primetime Emmy Award for her role in &#8220;Before Women Had Wings&#8221; and received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for &#8220;The Normal Heart.&#8221;
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Actress Says She Wants Comedian Louis C.K. Raped And Shot At For Offensive Humor

Louis C.K., the comedian whose career imploded after he was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple woman, has clearly had enough.
In a wild set at a Long Island comedy club on December 16, an audio tape of which has hit the internet, the disgraced comic doubled down hard, joking about crippled people, &#8220;retards,&#8221; Auschwitz, transgenders, the milquetoast youth of today, even the school shooting in Florida that left 17 dead.
C.K. lamented that survivors of the Parkland shooting testified in front of Congress. &#8220;These kids &#8230; What are you doing? You&#8217;re young, you should be crazy, you should be unhinged. Not in a suit saying &#8216;I&#8217;m here to &#8230;&#8217; F**k you. You&#8217;re not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot. Why does that mean I have to listen to you? Why does that make you interesting? You didn&#8217;t get shot. You pushed some fat kid in the way and now I gotta&#8217; listen to you talking,&#8221; C.K. said as the crowd howled with laughter.
The liberal website <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/louis-ck-leaked-set-governors-parkland-pronouns.html">Slate</a> went bananas. &#8220;Audio of a New Louis C.K. Set Has Leaked, and It&#8217;s Sickening,&#8221; they headlined their story. &#8220;It would be tacky for a comedian who had not spent years whipping it out in front of unwilling co-workers to complain about people trying to explain to him what&#8217;s appropriate and what&#8217;s not. For Louis C.K. to write and tell those jokes would require a breathtaking, Kevin Spacey&#8211;level lack of self-awareness, and there was a time that self-awareness was C.K.&#8217;s brand. So what the [f**k] is going on here?&#8221; they wrote.
Some on the internet were equally incensed.
&#8220;Making fun of the Parkland&#8217; survivors/activists sure is a bold way to begin rebranding after sexual assault allegations. Yikes,&#8221; wrote one person on Twitter.
&#8220;There was always part of me that was hoping he&#8217;d turn things around, put out a better apology, and make a huge comeback&#8230; but I think that part of me just died listening to this,&#8221; another said.
&#8220;OMG, I just.. .I&#8217;m so embarrassed that I used to think he was funny. This isn&#8217;t even doubling down. He just went full on monster,&#8221; said a third.
People even objected to the audience laughing.
&#8220;Why were people in the audience laughing? He was mocking child survivors who watched their classmates get slaughtered?&#8221; one person wrote on Twitter.
Slate also said &#8220;the single most disheartening thing about the bootleg recording is that Louis C.K. isn&#8217;t the only voice on it. An audience member, either the person who made the recording or someone who was sitting nearby, is audible throughout, giggling, snickering, and roaring in laughter.&#8221;
But that&#8217;s what comedians do. Since the days of Lenny Bruce, comedians have gone way out there, sometimes wading into waters that no one should brave. The best will make us ponder things we&#8217;ve never thought about, while the worst are just crude and infantile. Where C.K. comes down in that lot is an individual decision, because in America, comedians of all levels have the freedom to say their piece and people can decide whether or not to pay them homage.
For the record, C.K. went a lot further. The comedian also mocked young people for using gender-neutral terms and demanding everyone else do, too.
&#8220;They are just boring. F**king telling, &#8216;You shouldn&#8217;t say that.&#8217; What are you, an old lady? What are you f**king doing? &#8216;Nyeah, that&#8217;s not appropriate.&#8217; F**k you! You&#8217;re a child!&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;re like royalty, they tell you what to call them. &#8216;You should address me as they/them, because I identify as gender neutral.&#8217; Oh, OK. OK. You should address me as &#8220;there,&#8221; because I identify as a location. And the location is your mother&#8217;s c***. It doesn&#8217;t have to be that nasty, but it can be,&#8221; he said.
He also joked about Auschwitz. &#8220;I live in New York. I f**king hate it now. I loved New York for 20 years. Now I&#8217;d rather be in Auschwitz, honestly. I mean Auschwitz now,&#8221; he said.
And C.K. made light of his &#8220;whole bad year.&#8221; &#8220;So what kind of a year did you guys have? I bet none of you had the same year that I had. You ever had a whole bad year? Did you ever have a year that sucks 365 s*** c*** days in a row? Did you ever have a time that it so sh**** that it starts to get funny?&#8221;
He said he lost lots of money after women accused him of masturbating in front of them against their will.
&#8220;I lost so much f**king money. In a day. In one day I lost, I&#8217;m not going to tell you, but millions and millions of dollars. So you know it&#8217;s at least four, because three is millions and millions. It was $35 million. I don&#8217;t give a f**k, I&#8217;ll tell you.&#8221;
You can hear his whole set below, but as you can tell from the asterisks above, it gets real raunchy.
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Louis C.K. Mocks Parkland Shooting Survivors. Internet Goes Insane.

Earlier this week, the persistently woke comedienne <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37457/sarah-silverman-admits-she-gave-louis-ck-consent-paul-bois">Sarah Silverman made a surprise turn</a> during an interview with Howard Stern on SiriusXM in which she admitted to having previously consented to watching her longtime friend Louis C.K. do the dirty deed on himself several times.
&#8220;I know I&#8217;m going to regret saying this,&#8221; Silverman said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve known Louis forever, I&#8217;m not making excuses for him, so please don&#8217;t take this that way. We are peers. We are equals. When we were kids, and he asked if he could masturbate in front of me, sometimes I&#8217;d go, &#8216;F*** yeah I want to see that!&#8217;&#8230; It&#8217;s not analogous to the other women that are talking about what he did to them. He could offer me nothing. We were only just friends. Sometimes, yeah, I wanted to see it, it was amazing. Sometimes I would say, &#8216;F***ing no, gross,&#8217; and we got pizza.&#8221;
At the height of #MeToo, Louis C.K. admitted to some shocking misconduct, which included having two women watch him masturbate. While Silverman did not exactly defend C.K.&#8217;s behavior, she downplayed the predatory aspect of it, portraying it as a failure on his part to understand the power he had over his victims.
&#8220;Once he became powerful, even within just his [comedy] community, he felt like he was the same person, but the dynamic was different and it was not OK,&#8221; Silverman said.
Silverman says that C.K. learned his lesson before The New York Times story, which noted that he reached out to some of the women to say sorry.
&#8220;Even in that article they talk about how he went on and tried to connect with some of these women to say he f***ed up and wronged them,&#8221; she said.&#8221;I&#8217;m not saying everyone should embrace Louis again. I believe he has remorse. I just want him to talk about it on stage. He&#8217;s going to have to find his way or not find his way.&#8221;
Her comments didn&#8217;t go over well with one of C.K.&#8217;s accusers, comedienne Rebecca Corry, who blasted Silverman on Twitter for defending a &#8220;predator.&#8221;
&#8220;To be real clear, CK had &#8216;nothing to offer me&#8217; as I too was his equal on the set the day he decided to sexually harass me. He took away a day I worked years for and still has no remorse. He&#8217;s a predator who victimized women for decades and lied about it,&#8221; Corry said.

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To be real clear, CK had &#8220;nothing to offer me&#8221; as I too was his equal on the set the day he decided to sexually harrass me. He took away a day I worked years for and still has no remorse. He&#8217;s a predator who victimized women for decades and lied about it. <a href="https://t.co/xrfI6HwXqx">https://t.co/xrfI6HwXqx</a>
&#8212; Rebecca Corry (@TheRebeccaCorry) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRebeccaCorry/status/1054471083967959040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Silverman immediately apologized to Corry and conceded her point that C.K. simply &#8220;f***ed&#8221; with her.
&#8220;Rebecca I&#8217;m sorry,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Ugh this is why I don&#8217;t like weighing in. I can&#8217;t seem to do press 4 my show w/out being asked about it. But you&#8217;re right- you were equals and he f***ed with you and it&#8217;s not ok. I&#8217;m sorry, friend. You are so talented and so kind.&#8221;
Corry accepted her apology and lamented how her accusation against C.K. has caused a maelstrom of chaos in her life.
&#8220;Thank you. I know exactly how you feel,&#8221; tweeted Corry. &#8220;I can&#8217;t seem to live my life without getting rape &amp; death threats, harassed &amp; called a c**t regularly for simply telling the truth. I&#8217;m sorry your friend created this situation. We deserve to do our art without having to deal with this s**t.&#8221;
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Thank you. I know exactly how you feel. I can&#8217;t seem to live my life without getting rape &amp; death threats, harassed &amp; called a cunt regularly for simply telling the truth. I&#8217;m sorry your friend created this situation. We deserve to do our art without having to deal with this shit <a href="https://t.co/yK6xafdzur">https://t.co/yK6xafdzur</a>
&#8212; Rebecca Corry (@TheRebeccaCorry) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRebeccaCorry/status/1054478976805101568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Louis C.K. Accuser Blasts Sarah Silverman For Defending ‘Predator Who Victimized Women For Decades’

Feminism

Sarah Silverman

Norm Macdonald was supposed to appear on the &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; Tuesday night, but NBC canceled his appearance after the comedian criticized the #MeToo movement in an interview.
Macdonald has a new Netflix <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34828/what-weve-been-waiting-norm-macdonald-gets-netflix-ashe-schow">show premiering Friday</a> called &#8220;Norm Macdonald Has A Show,&#8221; and was set to discuss his latest project with Jimmy Fallon, but after the former &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; star&#8217;s <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-norm-macdonalds-new-talk-show-wont-target-trump-1141832">interview with the Hollywood Reporter</a> was published, the network canceled, citing &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/arts/television/norm-macdonald-tonight-show-metoo.html">sensitivity to our audience</a>.&#8221;
In an interview in which Macdonald seemed to criticize and awkwardly defend everything he was asked about (he talked about how the Constitution was designed to survive President Donald Trump, but also said the world was not as bad as he feared it would be with Trump as president), one segment stuck out. It appears as though once a hashtag is deemed saintly, any criticism becomes unacceptable. &#8220;Superman&#8221; and &#8220;Mission Impossible&#8221; star Henry Cavill <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33118/henry-cavill-caves-apologizes-metoo-comments-ashe-schow">found this out the hard way</a> just a month ago.
Now it&#8217;s Macdonald&#8217;s turn. He told the Hollywood Reporter that he was &#8220;happy the #MeToo movement has slowed down a bit.&#8221;
&#8220;It used to be, &#8216;One hundred women can&#8217;t be lying.&#8217; And then it became, &#8216;One woman can&#8217;t lie.&#8217; And that became, &#8216;I believe all women.&#8217; And then you&#8217;re like, &#8216;What?&#8217; Like, that Chris Hardwick guy I really thought got the blunt end of the stick there,&#8221; Macdonald said.
Naturally, this quote was left out of most media accounts of Macdonald&#8217;s cancelled appearance.
Macdonald was then asked about an accused person admitting to wrongdoing, to which the comedian responded, &#8220;The model used to be: admit wrongdoing, show complete contrition and then we give you a second chance. Now it&#8217;s admit wrongdoing and you&#8217;re finished. And so the only way to survive is to deny, deny, deny. That&#8217;s not healthy &#8212; that there is no forgiveness. I do think that at some point it will end with a completely innocent person of prominence sticking a gun in his head and ending it. That&#8217;s my guess. I know a couple of people this has happened to.&#8221;
This, too, is left out of other media accounts of the interview. These are both sensible criticisms, but left-leaning media outlets need to defend #MeToo, so nuanced criticism is not allowed.
Macdonald was then asked who he knows that has been taken down due to #MeToo. He said Louis C.K. and Roseanne Barr.
&#8220;And Roseanne was so broken up [after her show&#8217;s reboot was canceled] that I got Louis to call her, even though Roseanne was very hard on Louis before that. But she was just so broken and just crying constantly,&#8221; Macdonald said. &#8220;There are very few people that have gone through what they have, losing everything in a day. Of course, people will go, &#8216;What about the victims?&#8217; But you know what? The victims didn&#8217;t have to go through that.&#8221;
This is the quote being shared in media posts. Following this, Macdonald reiterated how both comedians saw &#8220;All their work in their entire life wiped out in a single day, a moment.&#8221; He also said Barr was &#8220;a very left-wing person&#8221; who always wanted more minority representation on her shows. He also said it was &#8220;crazy&#8221; to call her a racist.
The tweet that ended Barr&#8217;s career was one in which she put up a picture of President Barack Obama&#8217;s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and a photo of a female ape from &#8220;Planet of the Apes.&#8221; Barr would later say she didn&#8217;t know Jarrett was black and that her tweet was about the <a href="https://deadline.com/2018/06/roseanne-barr-planet-of-the-apes-anti-semitism-valerie-jarrett-twitter-1202410310/">perceived anti-Semitism of the Obama administration</a>, which she believed was evident in the Iran deal.
Macdonald seemed to back up this version, as he told the Hollywood Reporter that Barr was left-wing about everything except Israel.
&#8220;What I do know is that she is a single-issue motivated person. And that issue is Israel. That&#8217;s all she cares about politically,&#8221; Macdonald said. &#8220;She is left wing in everything else. But that is why she did not like the Obama administration, because they snubbed Netanyahu. I believe that is the only reason that she voted Trump. She is certainly not a racist. That&#8217;s just crazy.&#8221;
Macdonald didn&#8217;t say anything else about Louis C.K.
For this tepid criticism of #MeToo and defense of his friends, Macdonald had his &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; appearance canceled.
&#8220;Out of sensitivity to our audience and in light of Norm Macdonald&#8217;s comments in the press today, &#8216;The Tonight Show&#8217; has decided to cancel his appearance on Tuesday&#8217;s telecast,&#8221; NBC said in a statement. The New York Times then called Netflix <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/arts/television/norm-macdonald-tonight-show-metoo.html">to see if it would cancel Macdonald&#8217;s show</a> based on this interview.
Macdonald tweeted an apology for the interview after the cancellation, saying he did not mean to minimize the pain of victims.
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Roseanne and Louis have both been very good friends of mine for many years. They both made terrible mistakes and I would never defend their actions. If my words sounded like I was minimizing the pain that their victims feel to this day, I am deeply sorry.
&#8212; Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) <a href="https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/1039661638629187585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2018</a></blockquote>
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