Whitney Cummings confronted criticism over her remarks in help of Joe Rogan – amid the podcaster’s ongoing profession disaster over his previous use of racial slurs and platforming of COVID-19 misinformation – after she defended Rogan in a pair of tweets over the weekend.
The 39-year-old actress/comedian on Saturday took to Twitter, writing, ‘Don’t look to why so many individuals belief joe Rogan, look to why so few individuals belief the mainstream media.’
On Sunday, the Washington, D.C. native urged followers to concentrate on politicians as a substitute of entertainers when assessing morality.
The newest: Whitney Cummings, 39, confronted criticism over her remarks in help of Joe Rogan, 54 – amid the podcaster’s ongoing profession disaster over his previous use of racial slurs and platforming of COVID-19 misinformation – after she defended Rogan in a pair of tweets over the weekend
‘Comedians didn’t signal as much as be your hero,’ Cummings mentioned. ‘It’s our job to be irreverent and harmful, to query authority and take you thru a spooky psychological haunted home so you may arrive at your individual conclusions. Keep targeted on the individuals we pay taxes to to be ethical leaders.’
Plenty of individuals took exception of Cummings’ remarks, together with podcaster Marc Maron, who steered, ‘Perhaps add “to be humorous” to the record’ of a comic’s duties.
Author Jeff Yang shared a hyperlink to a 2012 story criticizing Cummings’ present 2 Broke Ladies for its portrayal of Asian-Individuals.
‘I keep in mind while you created a present that was irreverent and harmful,’ he mentioned, ‘that questioned authority and took me via a spooky psychological haunted home.’
Cummings defended Rogan in a pair of tweets over the weekend, garnering quite a few responses
Podcaster Marc Maron steered, ‘Perhaps add “to be humorous” to the record’ of a comic’s duties
Comic Pallavi Gunalan commented on the state of affairs, ‘Comedians will likely be like “it’s our job to say issues that make individuals uncomfortable” after which can’t even inform their racist pal to close the f*** up … “he’s a superb man, he helped my profession” wow so stunning you wouldn’t need to say something dangerous about him then.’
Author-comedian Mike Drucker mentioned of the politics of the business, ‘It seems like the first rule of being an edgelord comic is that no joke or topic is ever off limits except you’re making enjoyable of one other edgelord comic, through which case it’s the f**ing apocalypse.’
He added: ‘Comedians will tweet s*** like, “The position of the comic is to carry mild into the darkness of all of the terrors, tragedies, and fears all of us share” and then you definitely see them on stage and so they’re like, “Married a** smells completely different than single a**!”‘
Author Jeff Yang shared a hyperlink to a 2012 story criticizing Cummings’ present 2 Broke Ladies for its portrayal of Asian-Individuals
Some individuals identified the politics of the business taking part in into Cummings’ remarks
Author Eric Boehlert quoted Cummings’ tweet and identified that Rogan has stepped out of the comedy style along with his controversial discourse on COVID-19.
‘He instructed his 11M listeners “it’s extra harmful to be vaccinated than it’s to get Covid” … however certain haha, he’s only a comic asking questions,’ Boehlert mentioned. ‘It’s humorous to unfold lies throughout public well being disaster that’s killed practically 1M Individuals, proper??’
Legal professional Andrew Weinstein echoed an identical sentiment, saying of Rogan: ‘Peddling racism and disinformation to 11 million listeners won’t be one of the best ways for individuals to reach at their very own conclusions.’
Some identified that Rogan has stepped out of the comedy style along with his controversial discourse on COVID-19
Rogan – who was inked to a $100 million deal final yr by Spotify – has been on the heart of controversy in current weeks after various artists, starting with Neil Younger, pulled their materials from the streaming platform in protest of his materials over the pandemic and vaccines. (The service has eliminated an estimated 113 episodes of Rogan’s present and is now including a disclaimer previous to podcasts that embrace discuss COVID-19.)
Rogan confronted extra controversy after a montage of clips of him utilizing the N-word surfaced on-line, main him to reply in an Instagram submit that the footage was ‘taken out of context’ and that it’s not his ‘phrase to make use of.’
He added: ‘I’m properly conscious of that now, however for years I used it in that method … I by no means used it to be racist as a result of I’m not racist.’
