Comedy: Louis C.K. Returns to Stand-up for the First Time Since Admitting to Sexual Misconduct

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Louis C.K. Returns to Stand-up for the First Time Since Admitting to Sexual Misconduct
By Halle Kiefer@hallekiefer

Louis C.K. Photo: Getty Images

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said there are no second acts in American lives, and he wasn’t even factoring in everybody finding out about how you showed your penis to your peers and co-workers. Louis C.K. seems ready to put that theory to the test, however, having returned for a surprise set at New York’s Comedy Cellar Sunday night, by all accounts his first live performance since admitting to sexual misconduct allegations made by five women amid the rise of #MeToo.

According to the New York Times, C.K. didn’t address the elephant in the room during his performance, but instead riffed on topics like “racism, waitresses’ tips, parades.” The comedian seemed “very relaxed,” said Cellar owner Noam Dworman. The Times reports that the sold-out audience “greeted him warmly, with an ovation even before he began,” though one audience member did contact the venue Monday to say “he wished he had known in advance” C.K. was performing, “so he could’ve decided whether to have been there or not.”

After the comedian admitted to allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior lodged against him last fall, specifically of making female co-workers and comedians watch him masturbate, C.K. lost his deal with FX, as well as his agent and management. His movie I Love You, Daddy was also shelved.

“At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my dick without asking first, which is also true,” C.K. said in a statement acknowledging his actions in November. “But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick 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.” Concluded C.K., “I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/arts/television/louis-ck-performs-comedy.html

 

[playahaitian]

Comedy Cellar Owner Says He Was Blindsided by Louis C.K. Stand-Up Set
By Jordan Crucchiola@jorcru

Louis C.K. Photo: ADRIAN SANCHEZ-GONZALEZ/AFP/Getty Images

On Sunday night, Louis C.K. performed a stand-up set at New York’s famed Comedy Cellar. The performance came nine months after the comic admitted to sexually harassing multiple women by masturbating in front of them, and subsequently lying about his guilt before eventually issuing a kind of mea culpalast November. Today, Comedy Cellar owner Noam Dworman told The Hollywood Reporterhe had no advance notice about C.K.’s appearance — which, according to the club owner, was actually C.K.’s second stand-up routine after one he did at Governor’s of Levittown in Long Island, despite the Cellar being billed as C.K.’s first public appearance — and that he was even asleep at home when the comic took the stage. “He just went and told the emcee that he wanted to go on, and it’s pretty much autopilot at that point — the emcee let him go on,” says Dworman. “It’s not an open mike, but it’s Louis C.K.”

Dworman, who only heard audio of the performance after it happened, confirmed that the comic received a hearty ovation, and said he has only received one complaint from a patron who “felt really upset by it and said he felt ambushed.” Several positive pieces of feedback have also come to Dworman about the set, and the club owner did express hesitation about blocking comics from taking the stage, but he did add that, “the ambush thing is a problem … in the future I have to find a way where nobody who doesn’t want to be there feels like a captive audience.”

On the content of the set, Dworman says it was “just the most plain everyday Louis C.K. stuff,” and that he wished the comic (who is not an accused sexual harasser, as Dworman calls him, but an admitted one) would have addressed his misconduct head-on. “What he didn’t do is that he didn’t go on and address the issue — he just went on and did a regular set,” the club owner told THR. “And I think that was a missed opportunity for him. I think that for a man who signed off from the public with this promise to, ‘I’ve talked for a long time, now I’m going to listen,’ he created the expectation of, Well now you’re back after nine months, what did you learn?”

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

http://www.tmz.com/2018/08/29/louis-ck-rape-whistle-joke-standup-comeback-comedy-cellar/




http://www.tmz.com/2018/08/29/louis-ck-welcome-back-more-popular-comedy-clubs-nyc/

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

http://www.tmz.com/2018/08/29/marlon-wayans-louis-ck-back-onstage/

 

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[Helico-pterFunk]

 

[EPDC]

I don't remember what it was that happened with Louis CK, but, correct me if I'm wrong, he didn't force himself on anyone correct? Didn't he ask first?

With regards to the women he messed with, they didn't say yes, but they never really say no, right?

I'm drawing a complete blank on what happened to CK.

Edit: Yeah, Louis CK is one strange, deviant ass sick individual. Not criminal, just sick.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html

 

[Flawless]

He lost his show and got fired from FX. They want him to never work again?

 

[playahaitian]

http://www.vulture.com/2018/08/louis-ck-comedy-cellar-women-describe-rape-whistle-joke.html#comments

 

[tallblacknyc]

I don't remember what it was that happened with Louis CK, but, correct me if I'm wrong, he didn't force himself on anyone correct? Didn't he ask first?

With regards to the women he messed with, they didn't say yes, but they never really say no, right?

I'm drawing a complete blank on what happened to CK.

Edit: Yeah, Louis CK is one strange, deviant ass sick individual. Not criminal, just sick.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html

A guy that juss randomly jerks off in any situation is a criminal in waiting.. Type of Nig that will try to masturbate and skeet on a chick when she sleeping on a train...Type of dude that masturbates in public and skeet on random b itches without them knowing..he juss hasn't taken his perversion that far yet(that we know of)

 

[EPDC]

A guy that juss randomly jerks off in any situation is a criminal in waiting.. Type of Nig that will try to masturbate and skeet on a chick when she sleeping on a train...Type of dude that masturbates in public and skeet on random b itches without them knowing..he juss hasn't taken his perversion that far yet(that we know of)

Can't argue against that.

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-club-months-admitting-sexual-misconduct.html

 

[man-machine]

I don't remember what it was that happened with Louis CK, but, correct me if I'm wrong, he didn't force himself on anyone correct? Didn't he ask first?

With regards to the women he messed with, they didn't say yes, but they never really say no, right?

I'm drawing a complete blank on what happened to CK.

Edit: Yeah, Louis CK is one strange, deviant ass sick individual. Not criminal, just sick.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html

He's an exhibitionist. Most likely if he wasn't famous he would pay call girls or web cam workers to watch him jack off. Being a celebrity of note he did what all of them do to some degree and used his star power to help gratify his sexual desires. Some folks can't get off unless someone is watching or they think someone is watching. I also think this was a bit of a power trip. Although he did ask he probably suspected most of them wouldn't say no because of who he was. Overall this is nothing new and just like anything else that involves human sexuality it comes in degrees. If you ever had a stranger flash you her Breasts or her snatch in public you encountered an Exhibitionist. A neighbor who routinely forgets to draw their shades or close their curtains before getting undressed or fucking is the same thing.

 

[gene cisco]

Does he need to make a blood sacrifice in order to make some people happy?

Then you have 'Internet journalists' stirring the pot making it seem like so many folks had fucks to give that he came out to try to work.

 

[REDLINE]

He's an exhibitionist. Most likely if he wasn't famous he would pay call girls or web cam workers to watch him jack off. Being a celebrity of note he did what all of them do to some degree and used his star power to help gratify his sexual desires. Some folks can't get off unless someone is watching or they think someone is watching. I also think this was a bit of a power trip. Although he did ask he probably suspected most of them wouldn't say no because of who he was. Overall this is nothing new and just like anything else that involves human sexuality it comes in degrees. If you ever had a stranger flash you her Breasts or her snatch in public you encountered an Exhibitionist. A neighbor who routinely forgets to draw their shades or close their curtains before getting undressed or fucking is the same thing.

 

[man-machine]

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

well it is true... he is a perv and not a rapist...

he just spanked his monkey in front of some hoes..

he was outta control, but acting like her raped cherubs from heaven is just over doin it..

someone high up, dont like this dude....

probably some femenazi..with a lot of pull

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

 

[Dr. Truth]

I still can’t believe dude is Mexican wtf

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

http://www.tmz.com/2018/09/11/norm-macdonald-defends-louis-ck-roseanne-barr-me-too-movement/

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

 

[playahaitian]

Comedy Cellar Owner on Louis C.K.: ‘He’s Not Banned by Any Means’
By Megh Wright

Louis C.K. Photo: Andrew Toth/FilmMagic

In the wake of multiple performances by Louis C.K. at both the Comedy Cellar and other New York venues, Cellar owner Noam Dworman has walked into the headlines again this week with two podcast interviews — one on Slate’s The Gistand another on the New York Times’The Daily. On The Gist, Dworman said that he is in communication with C.K. regarding upcoming appearances at the Cellar, while on The Daily he said he is open to C.K. returning to the venue at some point. “I don’t know when he’ll be back. He’s not banned by any means,” he said. “I think he will be back. That’s why we have the ‘swim at your own risk’ policy.”

On Slate’s podcast, Dworman responded to two comedians who have commented on the C.K. comeback controversy and Dworman’s choice to give C.K. a stage. Here’s what Dworman had to say about stand-up Ted Alexandro’s set about C.K. at the Cellar that went viral late last month:

I looked at him and I said “Ted, if you were to look me in the eyes right now and tell me that ‘Noam, 15 years ago I did something like what Louie did – I don’t do it anymore, I’m ashamed – but I did it,’” I said “Ted, would you expect me to say ‘Get your crap and get out of here, you don’t work here anymore”? And I think the answer to that is obviously no. That doesn’t happen in the real world. Somebody admits something or confesses something, a boss gets wind of it – if it doesn’t concern his current behavior, you don’t throw somebody out for that. Now interestingly, he would not engage on the question. He looked away like a dog looks away when there’s danger. And that has been telling to me – that when I make an argument like that, they don’t refute it, or they don’t acknowledge it in some way and then integrate it “Yes you’re right, but however…” like I could make the argument. But because everybody’s looking, we have to worry about the impact on #MeToo. That wouldn’t occur if nobody knew about it.

Twitter thread Paul F. Tompkins sharedearlier this month accusing Dworman of having “no moral courage”:

Well, first of all, I do have moral courage. It may not be the moral take that he has on things, but there’s no benefit to what I’m doing here except trying to not behave in the way that is because people on Twitter and social media are attacking me. Again, if I reached out to Paul F. Tompkins and said “Why don’t you come down, let’s talk about this,” there are competing principles, and that’s difficult especially when a principle becomes important. Like even “Thou shall not kill” – well actually, there are competing principles to that: self-defense, war, whatever it is, you know? … There are competing principles, so I object to that.

On The Daily, Dworman said that he doesn’t want C.K.’s admitted sexual misconduct, comeback, and the resulting online backlash to set a precedent for who he can and can’t give stage time to at the Cellar. “I have drawn lines, but those are my personal lines, and I don’t want to talk about them. But I’ll tell you this: When I draw a line, I don’t expect the club next door to draw the line. I do not judge them. If there’s somebody who walks in and I can’t bear to sit at the table with them, then I don’t need to book them, but I don’t want to be part of this team that is going to make sure that this person is punished: ‘Let’s lock arms, all the club owners, and make sure that Louie never gets to get onstage again!’” Dworman later added that it’s “beyond my purview as the owner of the Comedy Cellar — to start addressing that incident or every incident in a man’s past.” He later expanded on those thoughts:

I can’t be in a position where I’m gonna start getting phone calls about people who work for me, onstage or offstage, [saying] ‘He did this to me in the past,’ ‘He did this to me in the past.’ And I’m not denying that they’re true. Just any one of these incidents that we’re talking about here, the testimony on any one of these incidents might take eight hours. That is how much detail a system of justice requires. And you can’t ask employers – we don’t want to live in a country where employers start making drastic decisions.

Also on The Daily, Dworman posed the idea that it’s not just club owners who should be questioned about their standards for giving comedians like C.K. stage time, but the people who are calling for C.K. to get none:

I don’t mind living and dying based on what the audience feels. But the people who are saying that Louie shall not work, they need to be questioned more closely as to where they draw the line. What’s their worldview? What are their standards? How much evidence do they think is enough? How long is enough? How long should somebody go without working? What should they do when they’re not working? Should they become wards of the state? Can they do some jobs but not other jobs? Is it okay for Walmart to hire Louie, or is he so radioactive that nobody shall hire him? These are the tough questions. There’s dozens and dozens of very very important questions that are gonna be short-circuited here if we’re just gonna allow employers to decide “I heard what this guy did in his past – he shouldn’t work for me anymore.”

Later, Dworman broke down his perspective of both sides of the controversy. “People who feel that he should never work again, when they hear the ovation that has been recorded and released of him going onstage, they will feel repulsed by a society that seems to not take what they feel seriously enough,” he said. “Other people who believe in redemption, who believe in forgiveness, in second chances and these kinds of things, they might take the message that ‘Good, we have a society that manages to dole out punishment while at the same time forgiving sinners.’”

In both interviews, Dworman used Bill Clinton as an example of why he feels that standards toward sexual predators are inconsistent when it comes to backlash for people like C.K., and he stressed that he doesn’t want his opinion to be swayed by the social-media “mob.” What Dworman didn’t directly address — in his rhetorical framing of a comedian who “confesses” to misbehaving many years ago regarding something that “doesn’t concern his current behavior” — is that, had it not been for the women who came forward to the New York Timeslast year, it’s possible that C.K. could’ve continued his misconduct without ever admitting to it at all. “I don’t know,” Dworman said on The Daily, “and maybe I haven’t thought it through … I don’t know that there are many would-be sexual abusers who are looking at whether or not Louie gets to do his set or not.”

 

[playahaitian]

The Owner of the Comedy Cellar Is Upset with Louis C.K.: ‘My Life Has Been Substantially Affected’
By Anne Victoria Clark

Louis C.K. in September 2017. Photo: Rich Fury/Getty Images

Hey guys, don’t forget about Louis C.K.’s victims, and by that we of course mean Comedy Cellar owner Noam Dworman, who recently told HuffPost that he’s upset with C.K. for thrusting his club into the limelight by staging an unexpected comeback there.

“I’m very upset with him because my life has been substantially affected and his life has not, and I’m not sure he’s aware of it. I’m not sure that he gave it sufficient thought,” Dworman, who told The Hollywood Reporter last week that he had no advance notice of C.K.’s surprise set, said in the new interview. “On the other hand, I think he’s been disconnected from the world and didn’t realize. I am upset.” Referring to the sexual misconduct allegations that C.K. confirmed were true, Dworman added, “We were the place that never did that stuff … And now I’m the national symbol of it. The very opposite of what I always stood for. The very fucking opposite!”

Dworman said what he’s most upset about is that C.K. didn’t use his set to acknowledge or deal with his allegations in any way, something he called a “missed opportunity.” The owner stated the club would institute a new policy following the C.K. fallout: “Essentially ‘swim at your own risk.’ We don’t know who may pop in that’s not on the lineup. If someone does come in that you don’t want to see, you are free to leave, no questions asked and check completely on the house. Having said that, we don’t expect Louis back anytime soon.” Still, Dworman says he has the “absolute right to do whatever” when it comes to featuring comedians at the club: “Even if it means tolerating somebody who [people] really disapprove of, who really did something bad, whatever it is. As long as I don’t force somebody to be there that doesn’t want to be there. I think it’s okay.”

HuffPost also spoke with some of the Cellar’s employees, including one comedian named Joyelle who asked her full name not be used to avoid professional ramifications. Joyelle said she felt a “subtle discomfort” not only about C.K.’s surprise set but the industry’s treatment of women in general. “I’ve said this before — I’ve said this to Noam — as a black woman, I don’t always necessarily feel comfortable in the space because it’s dominated by white men. Now, there seems to be a white man who has been accepted after he’s an admitted sexual predator.” Joyelle also noted that allowing someone like C.K. onstage “means you do not think what he did was that bad … That’s what it says if you let him get on your stage and work on your stage.”

 

[playahaitian]

We Always Knew a Louis C.K. Comeback Would Be Easy
By Megh Wright

Louis C.K. Photo: Kevin Mazur Photography/2016 Getty Images

Since the New York Times reported on Louis C.K.’s surprise drop-in set at the Comedy Cellar in late August, coverage of what’s been billed by multiple outlets as C.K.’s “attempted comeback” has focused on the venues where C.K. has performed (including the Cellar and Carolines in New York) and the material included in his act during each performance. The New York Times published a new piece yesterday detailing C.K.’s latest two sets at the Cellar Monday night, which were notably not surprise drop-ins, but booked and announced performances on lineups alongside comedians including Michelle Wolf, Sam Morril, Godfrey, Matthew Broussard, and Joe Machi, to name a few. Now that C.K.’s performances have shifted from drop-ins to booked sets, the time has come to acknowledge one thing in the C.K. “attempted comeback” story: It’s not an attempt anymore. Nearly a year after he admitted that the multiple sexual-misconduct allegations leveled against him were true, C.K. is back.



According to the Times’ latest report, C.K.’s new material includes jokes alluding to his sexual misconduct, like, “They tell you that when you get in trouble you find out who your real friends are. It’s black people, it turns out. They’ll stick by you,” and “I think even hell you can survive. Hell is not that bad. I’ve been there.” While some audience members reportedly “filtered out” before C.K.’s set and there were two protesters outside the Cellar, the crowd “greeted him warmly,” and none of the comedians who performed publicly objected to sharing a lineup with him. The fact is — whether it’s tacitly or directly in support of C.K., or out of self-interest — the New York comedy-club community has welcomed C.K. back into the fold, which shouldn’t be surprising to those familiar with the scene. As comedian Guy Branum wrote last year, the so-called “boys’ club” mentality at venues like the Cellar “is the only real structure that exists in stand-up,” and men in the club scene know that publicly questioning that structure means, in Branum’s words, they’ll “be expelled.”

Speaking out gets even more complicated for women in the club scene. Stand-up Nikki Glaser, another Cellar comic, shared some prescient thoughts shortly after the C.K. news broke last year. “I tweeted Saturday about feeling scared to tweet about Louis stuff bc we are gonna forgive him someday & he & others will remember who spoke up,” she tweeted last November. “I got a lot of support, but also got a lot of reminders that I’m angry & it doesn’t look good. Just saying my fears have been confirmed.” Branum and Glaser’s points help contextualize why, two months deep into reports on these C.K. sets, comedians have kept mostly silent.



That’s not to say no one has spoken out against C.K. In addition to many women in comedy who have been vocal about him (including Aparna Nancherla, Laurie Kilmartin, Nell Scovell, Elayne Boosler, and most recently, comedy show host Padma Lakshmi), male comedians like Andy Richter, Paul F. Tompkins, and Andy Kindler have been outspoken about C.K. on Twitter, while Ted Alexandro, who has opened for C.K. before, made headlines when he delivered a scathing set about C.K. and Bill Cosby at the Cellar last month. “Do you want to live in a world where a man can’t politely ask a colleague if he can take off all his clothes and masturbate to completion? Is that where we are as a culture?” he said. “Why can’t we just let Louie go back to writing jokes about how men are the greatest threat to the safety of women?”

Others have called for accountability and structural changes in the wake of the C.K. story. “If we want a comedy industry free from abuse, the organizations and industry figures that knowingly enabled and protected Louis C.K. while he abused fellow comedians must be held to account,” Adam Conover tweeted last year, referring to the role C.K.’s manager Dave Becky played in silencing C.K.’s accusers. “Those of us who possess influence have the ability and responsibility to see that they are.” Stand-up and Late Late Show head writer Ian Karmel took the strongest stance yet last week when he tweeted that he will no longer perform at clubs that allow C.K. on the lineup. Referring to C.K.’s new line about losing $35 million “in an hour,” Karmel added, “Dude has had plenty of opportunities to say ‘I was wrong, I felt compelled to do something that violated people, I’ve been to therapy and addressed it, and anyone who feels the same urges should seek out help, too.’ But naw, it’s about how he lost a grip of money. Fuck that.”



No other comedians publicly backed Karmel or joined him in his decision, but that hasn’t come as a surprise to him. “If it was politically advantageous to come out against Louis returning without consequence, smarter, more career-minded comedians would have done it before me. Mostly, other comedians — specifically other male comedians, but also women — just don’t care,” he says. “Like, they’ll say they care, or they’ll say it’s bad that he’s coming back without showing much contrition or willingness to explain why he’s not going to whip his dick out around unwilling audiences anymore, but I feel like if people really cared, maybe they’d do more than just tweet about it.”

owner Noam Dworman has repeatedly stressed, as a venue where comedians are free to test out any material they want without restrictions. Why should comedians — like those sharing a lineup with C.K. on Monday — who have no involvement with C.K., fall on the sword when it could put their own careers at risk? And as Dworman has said, why should he censor comedians when there’s now a “swim at your own risk” policy, allowing audience members to leave when presented with comedians they don’t want to see? As we’ve seen each time C.K. has performed, the responsibility gets passed around from clubs to comedians to the audienceand back again. This cycle will probably continue as C.K. adds theater dates, builds an hour, and eventually, self-releases his next comedy special.


Meanwhile, a different cycle continues for the women who came forward with their stories about C.K. last year. “Since speaking out, I’ve experienced vicious and swift backlash from women and men, in and out of the comedy community,” Rebecca Corry, who accused C.K. of sexual misconduct, wrote earlier this year. “I’ve received death threats, been berated, judged, ridiculed, dismissed, shamed, and attacked. To see certain outspoken late-night talk-show hosts relentlessly go after Weinstein, Trump, and others for their misconduct, and avoid mentioning C.K.’s name is just weird. I wonder, if he did what he did to their wives, sisters, mothers, or daughters, would it still be not worth mentioning?”

It’s been a year since the NYT report on C.K. and two months since his first publicized drop-in set, and the answer to Corry’s question is a depressing one. While C.K.’s return to film and television remains unclear (FX severed ties with him last year, while Netflix won’t say whether they’ll have him back), his return to the comedy-club scene has arrived without much resistance. Meanwhile, anyone else out there who has been sexually assaulted or harassed by powerful people, but has not yet shared their story, are watching this all play out. “Maybe Louis never masturbates in front of an unsuspecting person ever again, but the fact that there were, at best, soft consequences for this shit is going to reverberate through our scenes,” Karmel says. “Like this entire fucking discussion has hinged on, ‘When does Louis get to come back?’ and almost never on, ‘How do we make our scene safer?’”

 

[Duece]

what exactly did he do?

 

[playahaitian]

what exactly did he do?

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/11/9/16629400/louis-ck-allegations-masturbation

 

[The Plutonian]

white...privilege

 

[playahaitian]

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[playahaitian]

Female comics clash over Louis C.K.’s return to standup
By Mara Siegler

April 12, 2019 | 7:53pm


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A panel of female comics at the Women in the World Summit had differing opinions on disgraced comic Louis C.K.’s comeback.


Cameron Esposito said, “You are a terrible person if you’re trying to get back in clubs this early . . . Could you at least give us a couple years to just have another person stand up and get a chance to talk?”

Judy Gold was more democratic.

“You cannot tell an artist not to do their work . . . If a comedy club is willing to have him, I believe in all freedom of speech, no matter what.”

Wanda Sykes, meanwhile, said it was up to audience reactions.

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

Is it really females clashing...

Or a few dykes in high places that just have it out for dude..

Does anyone really care..

Dude is fuckin sexually weird but he ain't a criminal

What exactly did he do

 

[phanatic]

Cameron Esposito said, “You are a terrible person if you’re trying to get back in clubs this early . . . Could you at least give us a couple years to just have another person stand up and get a chance to talk?”

Fucking cunt.

 

[playahaitian]

Hannah Gadsby calls Louis C.K. 'angry and bitter'

By Daniel Menegaz
June 12, 2019 at 04:17 PM EDT
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Hannah Gadsby quit comedy after Nanette, the Netflix stand-up comedy special that skyrocketed her to international acclaim last year – or so we thought.

Gadsby is currently touring the United States with a new stand-up set, Douglas. In the show, notes the Los Angeles Times in a recent interview with the comedian, Gadsby justifies the contradiction by joking that she “quit comedy the same way Louis C.K. said he was sorry.”

In November 2017, Louis C.K. admitted to and apologized for his sexual misconduct, including his masturbation in front of female comics. When he returned to stand up in late 2018, he did so with a flurry of controversial jokes, mocking the transgender community, the Parkland shooting survivors, and individuals with disabilities. He also poked fun at his own predatory behavior.

Gadsby thinks C.K.’s jokes stem from his inability to see a shift in his own power and privilege. “He is a joke now. And I think it’s important to keep making that joke,” she told the LA Times, “What the issue is, for a long time Louis C.K.’s comedy platform was that he was this hopeless guy bumbling through the world. And at some stage, he was no longer that, but that was still his voice. And I think he still believes that. He has not reassessed his position of power, and that is why he was able to abuse it. He still honestly thinks he’s the victim in all of this.”


She believes that C.K.’s material hasn’t changed and that neither has he. “He’s just angry and bitter,” Gadsby says, before asking, “why are we trusting a man who has a compulsion like that where it diminishes the humanity of the people around him? Why do we care what he thinks about the human condition?”

According to Gadsby, however, that doesn’t mean C.K. has no right to perform. “I could never advocate censorship. Censorship is useless because it leaves a gap where we learned a lesson.”

This is not the first time Gadsby has criticized C.K. In Nanette, Gadsby poignantly noted how as a society we care more about the reputations of problematic men like Louis C.K., Bill Cosby, and Harvey Weinstein than we do about their accusers.

 

[Flawless]

Is it really females clashing...

Or a few dykes in high places that just have it out for dude..

Does anyone really care..

Dude is fuckin sexually weird but he ain't a criminal

What exactly did he do

He flashed couple chics his dick and they are forever scarred.

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

He flashed couple chics his dick and they are forever scarred.

Next night they probably fondled a dude

And laughed about it..

 

[playahaitian]

Louis C.K. Reemerges With $7.99 Comedy Special During This ‘Shitty, Shitty Time’
By Devon Ivie@devonsaysrelax
Photo: Brian de Rivera Simon/WireImage

Several months after returning to the stand-up circuit and doing everything in his power to stop people from recording his sets, Louis C.K. has unleashed a new comedy special into the world to make us feel, uh, even more varying emotions amid the coronavirus pandemic. The special, titled Sincerely C.K., is going against the current norm by not being free, and costs $7.99 to purchase on his official website. “Anyway, for those who need to laugh, I hope my new show will help,” the comedian said in a statement. “For those of you that can’t laugh right now I just wish you all the peace you can grab in this shitty, shitty time.” In 2017, C.K. was accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, which included forcing young comics to watch him masturbate. He later admitted that “these stories are true” and that he “wielded that power irresponsibly.” Remember, definitely don’t pirate Sincerely C.K. He would sure hate that.