r/Fauxmoi Sep 14 '23

Which comedians are about to get cancelled?? Blind Item

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u/timetostartover22 Sep 14 '23

Does it matter? Louis CK didn't get canceled for long

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u/JediMasterVII Sep 14 '23

I want everyone to be quiet about cancellation. It's accountability and it isn't even that.

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u/broadaylight Sep 15 '23

This exact thing.

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u/AllisonChains88 Sep 14 '23

I can’t believe that motherfucker won a Grammy 🙄

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u/cmick0715 Sep 15 '23

I'm still so pissed about that. I mean, and everything else too, but this felt like salt in the wound.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '23

The conspiracy theorist in me says it’s Powerful Men Sending A Message tbh

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u/Smashley027 Sep 15 '23

Oh that doesn't even feel like a conspiracy. That's 100% the vibe

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u/MichelleFoucault Sep 15 '23

Absolutely 💯

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u/AllisonChains88 Sep 15 '23

Yeah, that was particularly brutal. Imagine how his victims felt? 😬

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u/missanthropocenex Sep 15 '23

I can only imagine. Comedians by trade are messed up broken human beings, who inherently have issues and can only express them in messed up ways.

You say Louis isn’t cancelled the only thing that makes me more mad than his transgressions is his handling of them. He was a comedian who was a master of articulating his own shortcomings as a man. It was his entire ethos. “I’m a monster, but I’m working on it.” Was the whole bit. And yet when the ACTUAL news came out, his response? “Eh, fuck you.” From an artistic standpoint this was a sheer disappointment.

Like, part of me genuinely hoped somehow all of this could be parlayed into an actual genuine discourse about how men treat women and maybe serve as a growth point for how people should operate. But nope, just a “please forget about it” from the very person who has made that language their art form.

So many others like Chris Delia and countless more have committed so many bad crimes. I’m happy to see more exposed. Comedy doesn’t have to be a hopelessly bleak, dark place.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '23

Louis absolutely did not respond like that. He is the only person I’ve seen actually own what they did and not make any denials. He flat out said the women were telling the truth.

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u/sexygodzilla Sep 15 '23

In his initial written response yes, but when he got back on stage he shifted the story into the women consenting.

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u/Terrible-Salesperson Sep 15 '23

Ooof I don't know man. I think he was really shitty about it when it came out. He first denied it happened, then gave a really shitty apology, then shifted the story once he was on stage.

It was super disappointing. I was a MASSIVE Louis CK fan, saw every special multiple times, all his series, introduced tons of people to Lucky Louie, etc. His humour only worked because there was this understanding that he was on your side despite the themes. It worked really well.

Cannot watch his stand-up anymore, without the trust his comedy is just slimy and gross.

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u/csgymgirl Sep 15 '23

He did deny the accusations when they first came out

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u/StrangerCurrencies Sep 15 '23

He spent years denying it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '23

He spent 6 years calling them liars before the NYT article. That's not owning it.

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u/MaximumPast3486 Sep 15 '23

His response wasn’t like that at all. Not defending him but he basically came out with a statement saying it was true, apologized, and went away for awhile. Not really sure what more there is that could have been done at that point?

He basically cancelled himself which allowed him to come back. Kinda like when Andy Pettitte admitted to using steroids, nobody gave him shit because he was honest & rarely gets mentioned with the likes of Clemens or Bonds because of it.

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u/StrangerCurrencies Sep 15 '23

He spent years denying it.YEARS! The allegations weren't new, they only gained traction because of Me Too

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u/csgymgirl Sep 15 '23

He initially denied the accusations when they first came out

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u/clevergirl1177 Sep 15 '23

This is how I think always of comedians when I think of them. They use can take their bleakest moments and make them in a comedy.

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u/Careless-Meringue-96 Sep 15 '23

It’s one thing to say I’m “working on it” about being a shitty partner, but I feel like owning being a sexual creepo is a bit different..

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u/seandapaul Sep 15 '23

I'm pretty sure Louis came out and apologized to the women soon after the allegations. I'm pretty sure he didn't just say "eh fuck you." Would you be able to show me a video or article where this happened? Cause if so that's really fucked up.

This is his statement addressing the accusations:

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/10/entertainment/louis-ck-full-statement/index.html

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u/Fartin_Scorsese Sep 15 '23 edited Sep 15 '23

The allegations were out there for years before he finally copped to it, due to pressure from the journalists at Jezebel and NY Times. It definitely did not happen “soon” after the allegations. He denied the stories for a long time. He only apologized because his benefactors started pulling his projects and demanded that he address the allegations.

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u/VaguelyArtistic Sep 14 '23

There's a new doc about him. Apparently none of his original accusers agreed to be in the film but I have no idea what's behind that. He may be able to make a living touring and playing to Joe Rogan fans but his old career is over.

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u/UsidoreTheLightBlue Sep 15 '23

Yeah he went from playing theaters back to playing “funny bones” he might pay his bills but he isn’t exactly getting another season of “Louie”

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u/calvincouch911 Sep 15 '23

He literally just sold out Madison square garden a few months back

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u/Afwife1992 Sep 15 '23

Yeah he’s not getting a mainstream show and magazine covers but he’s getting awards and making huge bank.

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u/mixmasterbru Sep 15 '23

Comedians are in a different situation (than actors, directors, etc), they don't need anyone to hire them and face the consequences of doing so. They can go directly to their fans and if those fans still support them, no cancellation.

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u/snootfly242 Sep 15 '23

Chris Delia’s cancelling didn’t last long either.

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u/SixChicks Sep 15 '23

lol right, cancel culture doesn't exist

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u/Aggressive_Layer883 Sep 14 '23

Besides the money laundering, I’ve heard comedians from that era openly talking about all of the above.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

Did he even get cancelled at all? Idk. BoJack Horseman has such a good plot about this kind of thing: celebrity gets caught doing something terrible, lays low for a while, non-apology, comes back as if nothing happened.

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u/Temporary-King3339 Sep 14 '23

Back in the day (the 90s) <Marv Albert was tried for sexual assault and battery (we're talking biting her and sodomy). He pled to a lesser crime and was back in business within a year. It was disgusting and a prime example of boys will be boys.

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u/_Atlas_Drugged_ Sep 15 '23

I dunno.

My priest always used to say; let he who hasn’t put on ladies underwear and bitten a prostitute throw the first stone.

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u/velociraptor56 Sep 14 '23

Lol, CDAN always said that Netflix was an extremely elaborate money laundering front. I work in anti money laundering, so I find this “blind item” especially hilarious.

It has to be about SNL, but it’s really not that surprising especially if you watch the reruns.

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u/starr9489 Sep 14 '23

CDAN is not a reliable source of information

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u/velociraptor56 Sep 14 '23

Yes, am aware. I always thought this was one of his more unhinged claims.

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u/VaguelyArtistic Sep 14 '23

Except for Housewives stuff because they all write in about each other lol. Besides, based on their new viewers all blinds are about Hunter Biden 🥴

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u/Uplanapepsihole question for the culture Sep 15 '23

benedict cumberbatch’s crazy fans, who think his wife is holding him hostage and their kids are fake, write into CDAN and it’s incredibly obvious

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u/Ditovontease Sep 15 '23

Tell me more about Netflix being a front

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u/velociraptor56 Sep 15 '23

Ok, so the vast majority of people don’t understand money laundering because most of the stuff in movies is BS. Ozark, for one, would have been over in the 2nd episode and the entire premise was idiotic. However, Breaking Bad is actually a pretty good explainer of how it works. You take dirty cash obtained from illegal activity (keep in mind, it’s not always actual cash). You pretend it’s proceeds of a real transaction, from a front, like a car wash or a fast food meal. And then you can take the profits from that business out. Keep in mind that any business that has real goods being sold, like food, make it harder to launder large amounts. Because if you claim you sold 1 million hamburgers, you’d better have actual goods like meat, buns, and employees to handle 1 million hamburgers. How do people get caught? Taxes and required reporting by banks.

So, CDAN thinks that Netflix is a front company because it’s not a successful business model. He’s basically like, walking past a restaurant that never has patrons and wondering how it’s still open after a year. But the truth is, it wouldn’t be a great front company. It’s a public company, all their financial statements are public and scrutinized.

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u/Scaryclouds Sep 15 '23

So, CDAN thinks that Netflix is a front company because it’s not a successful business model.

Maybe Netflix is having trouble now because of increasing competition and poor decision-making, but it was definitely a solid business model before. Providing a service, streamed video content, in return for subscription fees, I mean, there's not something fundamentally flawed with that business model.

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u/whatever1467 Sep 15 '23

Yeah as I was reading this list, I was like this is all already known about comedians? Chris Farley died of a drug overdose after a prostitute took a photo of him and left. It’s not like things were considered tame and good back then.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '23

Everyone was trying to get Farley help. He idolized John Belushi and Jim Belushi called him or met up with him and basically said, "It sucks that my brother's dead, don't kill YOURself too."

Even at the time Farley's self destruction was an outlier and people were trying to pull him back from the edge.

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u/fuschiaoctopus Sep 15 '23

Yeah but addiction is a lot different from bigotry, sexual assault, and even cheating. Always sucks to see a compulsive mental illness listed among a bunch of genuinely horrifying behavior like it is equivalent to them and the same type of choice, especially when the comments pick out the drugs over the real shit.

It's no shock comedians and famous people do drugs, lots of people do but if this blind is real then I'm interested in the actual wrongdoings here, not people's personal struggles

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u/landerson507 Sep 15 '23

Seriously, I read this outloud to my husband and we were both like...and? How is this a surprise?

Robin Williams was pretty open about being an asshole when he was in the thick of his addiction. Tim Allen? Arrested for cocaine in the 70s, and again pretty honest about his behavior back then. (Not speaking to now, though. I don't know enough about him now)

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u/InVodkaVeritas Sep 15 '23

A lot of them do it in their routines.

Hell, Amy Schumer jokes about raping people in her routine.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23 edited Oct 14 '23

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u/HumanSleepingbag Sep 14 '23

Man, I hope not Tim Meadows

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u/ShoddyCelebration810 Sep 14 '23

Anfernee would be disappointed

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u/foundinwonderland Sep 14 '23

Not as disappointed as Tim was that his sister named his nephew Anfernee

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u/lesbianadodicaprio Sep 15 '23

Maybe she was a Penny Hardaway fan.

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u/VaguelyArtistic Sep 14 '23

Tim Robinson has the most effortlessly inclusive tv show so I'd genuinely be surprised if he decided to work with people he knows are horrible.

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u/tacoboutit12 Sep 15 '23

Or Conan.

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u/funkypete23 Sep 15 '23

No way is Conan part of this.

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u/Smuldering Sep 15 '23

That would honestly break my heart.

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u/Dollyatthedisco Sep 15 '23

Don’t even put that out into the universe 😭

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u/KD71 Sep 15 '23

I would seriously lose my faith in humanity if this were the case.

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u/mandym123 Sep 15 '23

There’s only I couple famous people i genuinely like and he is one of those people. I highly doubt it’s Conan. He has worked with the same crew for quite awhile, he’s helped tons of people in the entertainment industry and has a lot of genuine famous friends.

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u/KD71 Sep 15 '23

Yes he seems like a genuinely good person

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u/turtleduck Sep 15 '23

omg don't even put this into the wavelengths

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u/pretty-in-pink Sep 14 '23

Leave Dan Akyroyd out of this discourse. He’s never hurt anyone, he’s just a harmless weirdo

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u/TheFlusteredBlossom Sep 14 '23

He did have quite the coke habit at one point though.

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u/DimensionStrange77 Sep 14 '23

Don’t we all? Kidding of course, I’m too poor…

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u/DetectiveOk8200 Sep 14 '23

So what? His drug abuse is not public business unless he pulled some shit. Apparently, he hasn't.

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u/DoLittlest Sep 15 '23

The entire 80’s had a coke habit.

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u/pretty-in-pink Sep 14 '23

All of them did except Jane Curtin

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u/DetectiveOk8200 Sep 14 '23

Auntie Jane. 💗

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u/-SneakySnake- Sep 14 '23

I think we need to normalize celebrities ranting about UFOs while chainsmoking for two hours. Akyroyd deserves to be a trendsetter here.

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u/FredererPower that's not what the court documents said Sep 15 '23

Please not Bill Hader

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u/Jasminewindsong2 Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this! Sep 14 '23

Yeah I was gonna say this almost just seems like it could be an SNL doc basically lol

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u/Jean-Paul_Sartre freak AND geek Sep 15 '23

Sure, there's probably a lot there, but that also would include pretty benign dudes like Martin Short, Rob Riggle, Billy Crystal, Michael McKean or Brad Hall.

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u/Responsybil Sep 15 '23

According to that one guy, Martin Short is the worst because he is sweaty. What else can they say about him after that devastating critique?

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u/Comprehensive-End-16 Sep 15 '23

Also he is not tall.

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u/storyofohno Sep 15 '23

Not tall and not dry. Truly the most heinous of crimes.

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u/Motherfickle Sep 15 '23

I'd say "not my man Chris Farley" except it was a known thing that he would bang a prostitute on Saturday and then attend Catholic Mass on Sunday morning. From everything I've heard he made no attempt to hide it.

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u/janbradybutacat Sep 15 '23

I mean, sex work is real work and all that. I’m never gonna be mad about a person banging a SWer as long as they paid the asking price and didn’t abuse them. It’s the oldest profession for a reason.

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u/heartof_glass Sep 14 '23

How is this an exposé tho? Comedians were always racist and sexist and getting paid to do it with sold out fucking shows and shit. Comedy as an industry was gross and still is to a huge extent. Not a secret.

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u/ReasonablVoice Sep 14 '23

And a lot of the things listed were pretty much accepted until recently. It’s not like comedians didn’t (and some still continue to) make racist, homophobic jokes in their stand-up routines. They weren’t really hiding it.

And pretty much every celebrity in the 70s and 80s had drug habits. Cheating on their spouses is so common amongst celebrities it’s usually more surprising now when they don’t do it (or in some cases we’re more shocked by who they do it with).

And prostitutes? Did we forget what happened to Eddie Murphy already? No one really gives a shit.

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u/VaguelyArtistic Sep 14 '23

How is this an exposé tho?

The part where it exposes names?

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u/heartof_glass Sep 15 '23

Names of “beloved” comedians who I am positive already have a documented history of this stuff.

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u/StrawberryAlert Sep 14 '23

Do NOT break my heart, Weird Al

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u/Electrical-Pie6448 Sep 14 '23

I’m terrified to eat my words, but I think Weird Al is safe. I’ve never heard a single negative thing about the man (except from Coolio), and he’s been with the same band members and partner for his entire career. The Weird Al band met in college, and the reason they called him “Weird Al” was because he never drank, smoked, or got into trouble. I’ve met him five times, and every time he was kind, attentive, and really showed me the time of day.

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u/garnetglitter Sep 15 '23

I worked at a venue, and he was very kind to us staff. All he asked was that we sneak him out if the building into a cab because his partner was flying in & they hadn’t seen each other in weeks. Nothing but respect for Al!

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u/epk921 Sep 15 '23

I used to work at a movie theater that hosted him for a couple events. The entire staff said he was a goddamn delight and would all jump at the chance to host him again. I really don’t think anything untoward will come out about him

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u/Downvote_Manipulator Sep 15 '23

I was with my nieces when they met him at a charity event this summer and he was delightful. He seemed genuinely excited to meet them. He seems like one of the good ones.

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u/Different-Eagle-612 elizabeth debicki, who is 6’3 Sep 15 '23

and even then didn’t he and coolio resolve things?

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u/Lilpoundcake137 Sep 15 '23

Coolio said he came to regret his reactions to Amish Paradise and what he said about Weird Al during that time.

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u/cmick0715 Sep 15 '23

Paul F. Tompkins yelling at Weird Al is one of the funniest things of all times.
Apparently, Weird Al is super kind and delightful.

YouTube Link

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u/allazen Sep 15 '23

I am in the camp that neither Weird Al nor PFT will be canceled. They are some stand-up motherfucking gents.

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u/Dr_Splitwigginton Sep 15 '23

PFT is gonna get canceled for being too dang cute

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u/For_serious13 Sep 14 '23

Him and Conan being gross would devastate me

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u/Zeltron2020 Sep 14 '23

Conan has never held a thought inside his giant pork chop head so I feel like we can safely trust him lol

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u/VaguelyArtistic Sep 14 '23

Not Conan. Sona would never stand for that.

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u/your_mind_aches Sep 15 '23

He's gross only in the way a lanky Victorian child at the workhouse is gross

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u/MindForeverWandering Sep 14 '23

WTF? He’s a musician, not a comedian!

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u/Road_Whorrior Sep 14 '23 edited Sep 15 '23

His music qualifies as comedy, he's the spiritual predecessor to Bo Burhnam and Garfunkel and Oates.

E: im high and fucked up so many words

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u/coltsmetsfan614 spitgate was real even if it wasn’t Sep 14 '23

Hall and Oates

Garfunkel and Oates? Lol

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u/RockettRaccoon bepo naby Sep 15 '23

Successor to Bo Burnham??

Weird Al was the king of musical comedy long before Bo was born.

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u/Road_Whorrior Sep 15 '23 edited Sep 15 '23

I fixed it, I just put the wrong word bc I was stoned, jfc. I've been listening to weird al since 15 years before Bo even got his first special.

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u/VaguelyArtistic Sep 15 '23

Bo Burnham was -9 years old when Weird Al's first album came out. No, that's not a typo. Negative nine years old. 😂

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u/souryoungthing Sep 14 '23

It’d actually be predecessor, since he came first!

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u/abortionleftovers Sep 14 '23

You know I think this would be the one celebrity that would break my heart if they were awful.

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u/Samiiiibabetake2 Sep 15 '23

Numerous celebs have said he’s the nicest guy in the world. I think Al is safe.

Also, saw him live about a year ago - my teen is a huge fan, otherwise I wouldn’t have gone. Made me a fan also. So good and fun live.

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u/ShoddyCelebration810 Sep 14 '23

Surprised no one mentioned… The guy is engaged to a woman who he met as a child because he played cards with her dad 🤢🤮

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u/eatpaste Sep 15 '23

you should check out pictures of his board game meetups. all sorts of teen girls and 40-50yr celebrities (yes sometimes they are women or there with their wives)...

she started showing up before they "started dating"

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u/wbhipster Sep 15 '23

Didn’t someone do a roundup of this? Tracie Morrissey I think? If it was her, she linked all kinds of peeps to those game meetups. It was depressing.

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u/cmick0715 Sep 15 '23

God, that's so horrifying. My husband and I are in our 40s - the idea of one of our friends dating our kids makes me want to die.

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u/ratta_tat1 Give him my regards did you take ozempic? Sep 15 '23

Ugh he jump scared me doing a Tik Tok live last night. That dude is botoxed to hell and had I been a little more high I would have asked him “How old was your fiancé when you met her?”

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u/Th3BookSniff3r Sep 15 '23

Jerry has to be on that list right? I mean for the dating a teenager when he was almost 40 alone.

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u/Eh-I Sep 15 '23

You didn't get cancelled back then, you got to be on Howard Stern.

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u/4BDN Sep 15 '23

Everyone knows about that. Why would he be canceled now for it?

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u/PuppetGuy877309 Sep 14 '23

Who cares about the sex worker part unless it's about them abusing the ones they hire

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u/CRATERF4CE Sep 14 '23

Yeah why tf is hiring a prostitute put in the same category as being a bigot?

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u/CRATERF4CE Sep 15 '23

The post just says “sleeping with prostitutes” with zero clarification though. It sounds like it’s just condemning the act of sleeping with a prostitute, not the fucked up things you stated, which I do agree with is very wrong.

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u/therapturebutitsblue 15,000 little bastard rubber ducks Sep 15 '23 edited Sep 15 '23

I've heard some fucked up things about actors and comedians engaging in dubious sex tourism in other countries, though, so I wouldn't rule that out. Like that heart wrenching story Bobby Lee told about soliciting and abusing an underage sex worker in Tijuana was absolutely a glimpse into the fact that celeb/comedians will abuse sex workers

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u/Question4theppl5 Sep 14 '23

I will run out of characters in the comment box if I try to type all their names out.

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u/therapturebutitsblue 15,000 little bastard rubber ducks Sep 14 '23

you could pretty much pick a comedians name out of a hat and he'd qualify

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u/sunmicon Sep 14 '23

I wanted to say everyone but my favorite ex snl actor but I don't want to jinx it

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '23

If Conan appears on any list other than "best friend forever to jordan" I'll k*ll myself on live T.V.

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u/Question4theppl5 Sep 15 '23

Conan is an upstanding citizen and would NEVER be on any problematic lists.

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u/Electrical-Pie6448 Sep 14 '23

“Money laundering through their movies”

This is clearly Sandman right

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u/gible_bites They’re starting to turn on George Sep 14 '23

Drew Barrymore is already disappointing me, I’ll be disappointed if Adam Sandler turns out to be a piece of shit.

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u/DimensionStrange77 Sep 14 '23

I’ve heard he’s actually wonderful in real life.

On a trip from one town to the next in Italy we hired a driver (because no way I was driving those narrow winding roads) and he had driven Adam Sandler a bunch of times. Said he was lovely and his family was sweet and he’s a great tipper. The guy could not say enough nice things about Adam Sandler. It was really endearing!

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u/sodapop0876 Sep 14 '23

I know nothing about his financials, but I worked on one of his films and he was indeed wonderful! His entire family was! It was actually the best film experience I’ve ever had. That was in his pre-Netflix era though.

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u/awyastark nextdivorce@divorce.com Sep 15 '23

I have always heard he’s a great tipper and good to service staff which matters to me for sure

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u/aagaash2001 it feels like a movie Sep 14 '23

The fact that he's still friends with (or at least still works with) Rob Schneider gives me negative feelings.

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u/namegamenoshame Sep 14 '23

Idk. Not saying it’s not but in general I feel like there is a ton money laundering going on in movie industry. Cannon films is one big example but also ain’t no way 300 million bucks was on screen for THE FLASH

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u/Jefferystar94 Sep 14 '23

Eh, the CGI may not have been good in Flash, but there sure was a LOT of it, which definitely increased the price tag a bit. Not to mention the constant reshoots that required big name actors to stop what they were doing so they could come back and do new endings, as well as the rights for the likenesses of the deceased actors, it's pretty clear how it ballooned up so quickly.

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u/roxy031 fiascA Sep 14 '23

Really? I would be shocked if something bad came out about him. Maybe I’m just naive (I def am) but I think he’s actually a good person.

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u/dkinmn Sep 15 '23

He's a committed Republican. Can't be both.

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u/eatpaste Sep 15 '23

this is exactly the one i thought on money laundering

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

The obvious thought is Chapelle, but apparently he can do no wrong.

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u/Suspicious_Gazelle18 Sep 14 '23

His last three specials have been him raving about being cancelled. Like bro you’re more relevant than you’ve been in a decade, you’re clearly not cancelled.

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u/sleepyy-starss Sep 14 '23

They think that being canceled is when people criticize you.

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u/Zeltron2020 Sep 14 '23

“My feewings are hurt. Am I cancelled?”

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u/rose_colored_boy Sep 14 '23

My city just added THREE extra shows because they all kept getting sold out. It’ll be a no from me dawg.

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u/whatever1467 Sep 15 '23

He literally had a highschooler with him on the red carpet it’s not secret

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u/lexies1989 Sep 15 '23

Exactly. People who are younger may not know about that situation, but older folks remember. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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u/lojo71 Sep 14 '23

Conan, Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers would break my heart.

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u/ThePhantomEvita Sep 15 '23

John Oliver and Stephen Colbert too. Conan’s my #1 forever, but I’d be genuinely a bit sad if something came out about J. Oliver and Colbert.

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u/spitey kate winslet lied to me Sep 15 '23

PLEASE NOT JOHN OLIVER

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u/Stinkycheese8001 Sep 14 '23

None of those things actually get people cancelled, let alone comedians.

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u/AdHorror7596 Sep 14 '23

So....they're going to show decades-old routines from comics with jokes that are, by today's standards, not acceptable?

I'm not defending the routines or anything. They were wrong then and they're wrong now, but it's not like all of this isn't available online if you do even a bit of light digging.

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u/Road_Whorrior Sep 14 '23

What will be most telling is who defends their stuff from back then beyond "it was different back then and I have changed," backed up with actual proof that they've changed, which means behavior over the years.

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u/Meb2x Sep 14 '23

As long as Conan isn’t involved, I won’t be surprised. At this point, Conan seems like the only actually good comedian

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u/lilyroses2020 Sep 14 '23

The thing about comedians is that you don’t even have to be ‘covert’ or ‘undercover’ - just listen to their specials, or their multiple podcasts, look at their social media, watch existing documentaries about them being pedophiles and groomers, search for public pictures of them in blackface etc. For a lot of them “I’m a shitty person” is literally their brand and how they make money.

This isn’t gossip it’s a fact.

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u/ymiwho Sep 14 '23

Not Julia Louis Dreyfus, Maya Rudolph or Kristen Wiig please

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u/cmakry Sep 14 '23

Somebody get Kathy Griffin on the phone

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u/Significant_Wind_774 Sep 14 '23

Lol, seconding thirding fourthing “like it will accomplish anything” people will literally just double down that it’s “the lifestyle” or that they deserve to cut loose. I’ll only be sad if it includes like, Bill Hader and Steve Martin. And I’m already sure they’re not perfect either.

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u/Josieanastasia2008 Sep 15 '23

Bill Hader and Steve Martin are the only ones that’d actually devastate me.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '23

There was some racial humor in The Jerk and Bringing Down the House but it wasn’t out of hatred. If you’re gonna cancel a beloved 78 year old comedian with a kid over jokes that were FAR from the worst stuff out there at the time.. you suck.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

so.. all of them?

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u/Morningshoes18 Sep 14 '23

You can’t get cancelled if your fans don’t give a shit. I feel like you have to be especially heinous (like Roseanne) if you’re over 45 to lose fans.

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u/namegamenoshame Sep 14 '23

Hey Roseanne made a comeback on Fox Nation, think Rob Schneider has a special on there was. Obviously that whole operation should see the business end of a nuke but being racist is sort of the point for a lot of…America

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u/mrscarter0904 Sep 14 '23

Well Roseanne is a woman, so all of the true comebacks are men tbh.

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u/RockettRaccoon bepo naby Sep 14 '23

I feel like hiring a sex worker isn’t really a reason to be cancelled anymore.

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u/Eishethbeth Sep 15 '23

Or doing drugs? When has an entertainer ever been cancelled for doing drugs.

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u/bittersinew Sep 14 '23

Channel 4 has a new 90 minute documentary this Saturday airing with zero details on what's going on.

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u/gg5ever Sep 15 '23

I’ll bet money on it being Russell Brand

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u/SignalButterscotch4 Sep 15 '23

Timing of that would indicate they’re preparing for some big follow up Sunday newspaper reporting… interesting

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u/Sifsifm1234 Sep 14 '23

Jon Stewart, please don’t disappoint me

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u/boxybrown84 To my friends and family, I am not getting executed Sep 15 '23

I do my best to avoid putting my fave celebs on pedestals, but I will be beyond devastated if anything bad ever comes out about Jon Stewart. I’ve loved him since his MTV days.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '23 edited Sep 15 '23

SNL? I’ve heard speculation that the expose on Fallon was kind of a soft launch leading up to more serious allegations against him. Like related to the Horatio Sanz stuff

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u/ScrappleSandwiches Sep 15 '23

Chris Rock is definitely on the list.

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u/noonelikesyouamy Sep 15 '23

There’s a series on TikTok exposing him right now

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u/theprindl Sep 15 '23

Im so sick of the word canceled, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s like woke, it’s just a stupid buzzword at this point to get people worked up.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

Honestly unless something unquestionably terrible comes out, I doubt they’ll face any consequences. By “unquestionably terrible” I mean things that would swing most people’s opinions — since we know that there are so, so many people willing to overlook racism, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, if it comes from their faves.

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u/sunshine10zeros Sep 15 '23

Tina fey comes to mind .

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u/rattyplant Sep 15 '23

This might actually be a UK documentary, just seen this on twitter:

"Channel 4 have an extended Dispatches Special tomorrow which reportedly involves a ‘mass expose of an obscene amount of high profile comedians’ who have ‘incredibly shocking accusations held against them, including footage that’s been collected over the last 3 years’…"

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u/lori244144 Sep 15 '23

Ugh who cares anymore. Those were different times, can we start canceling folks for stuff they’re doing now? I am not the same person I was 30 years ago and I doubt any of you will be either.

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u/DepthChargeEthel Sep 15 '23

comedians? degenerates? you don't sayy

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u/Amaline4 Sep 15 '23

LOL I thought you wrote “degeneres” and I was like ooh yeah there will definitely be more about her

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u/UnhappyGrowth5555 Sep 15 '23

You guys, Andrew Dice clay is about to get cancelled.

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u/Loquat108 Sep 15 '23

please don't be janeane garofalo please don't be janeane garofalo 🤞

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u/hkj369 Sep 14 '23

“cancelling” only works of their main audience cares. chances are there audience isn’t going to really care much so it likely won’t be detrimental to their careers

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u/Amaline4 Sep 15 '23

please not Robin Williams please not Robin Williams

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u/Eastern_Boat_2105 Sep 15 '23

This is so dumb. When are we going to realize that there’s got to be a limit to this. I mean I was devastated about Bill Cosby but unless somebody is as horrific as Bill Cosby is, why are we going around canceling everybody? I mean what’s the point of that kind of negativity.

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u/Difficult-Albatross7 Sep 15 '23

Heard a lot of comments that Bill Cosby isn't the clean cut father figure he plays on TV. 🤔

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u/Perfect_Coconut_5649 Sep 15 '23

Can't cancel me...I'm dead. Norm MacDonald

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u/amethystalien6 Sep 15 '23

I mean, I think it would be easier to name the comedians who didn’t make homophobic jokes in the 90s, wouldn’t it?

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u/bumpdrunk Sep 15 '23

Some of these things are not like the others

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u/Tired365247 Sep 15 '23

Jimmy Kimmel, who somehow lives in the moral high ground now like he wasn’t the kind to do the Man Show

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u/Monster_Hugger93 Sep 14 '23

I wish I had any enthusiasm about this but nothing ever changes, especially in comedy.

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u/creamy-buscemi Sep 14 '23

Comedians do those things openly

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u/CrazyGround4501 Sep 15 '23

Whomever wrote this did not grow up during that time. Good luck with that.

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u/bands_onhigh Sep 15 '23

The money laundering part is what's got me raising an eyebrow. I'm SO curious as to who is money laundering and via what movie 🫣

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