Comedian and actor David Cross recently trashed comedians taking a stand against cancel culture, claiming they just 'b---- and moan' and try to look like heroes.
shows last minute and resulted in Netflix employees striking at company headquarters to get the streaming platform to remove his specials. during one of his L.A. shows in 2022. The attack happened amidst the campaign to cancel Chappelle, though no official connection between the attacker and aggrieved LGBTQ supporters was made.
Obeidallah then asked Cross whether fans had ever come up to Cross after a show complaining about jokes, to which he replied,"Yeah." He said,"Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. It was something where it was like the talking about the phrase ‘the N-word’ or something. And this woman was Black. She explained why that upset her, and I explained why I thought it was I was kind of defending it and the idea behind it."Cross claimed the two of them came to an agreement after a"longer conversation," but insisted he has no problem just dropping those kinds of jokes to appease sensitive crowds.
Elsewhere, he added,"Now that I have that information, and I can see her point of view, why would I continue to do it? Just to be some hero of free speech?" Dave Chappelle had a scheduled performance at First Avenue in Minneapolis canceled at the last minute after the venue caved to criticism.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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