But the other layer of skepticism surrounding this movie is rooted in the rumors of sexual harassment that have quietly dogged C. Now, a little over a month after it broke the many allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, the New York Times has released a new report in which several women claim C. Each woman recounts startlingly similar situations in which C. In the wake of these accounts, HBO has announced C.
Netflix says it will not move forward with his next planned standup special. FX, which has worked with C. To most, C. Both on his TV shows and in his standup, he alternates between being the forthright guy who knows better than everyone else and the self-loathing, out-of-touch guy who realizes he knows nothing at all.
His critically acclaimed shows — namely the autobiographical Louie and the experiment in sparseness Horace and Pete — are often heralded including by Vox as uniquely smart, the kinds of shows that will tell ugly truths few others will touch. But the allegations of such behavior remained rumors, whispered backstage and in comments sections.
Even when C. The day after the Times report dropped, C. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly. Many C. Comedy Arts Festival in , told the Times that when they tried to tell people about C. But now, 15 years after the alleged incident and a month after the Weinstein allegations have rippled far beyond Hollywood, C.
The rumors circled C. The first major attempt to report on said rumors came when Gawker ran a blind item in that at the time was widely believed to be about C. We've heard from several sources that this shameless funnyman whips [his penis] out at the most inopportune moments, often at times when his female companions have expressed no interest in watching him go at it.
A representative example: At the Aspen Comedy Festival a few years ago, he invited a female comedy duo back to his hotel room. The two ladies gladly joined him, and offered him some weed. He turned it down, but asked if it would be OK if he took his dick out. Thinking he was joking that's exactly the kind of thing this guy would say , the women gave a facetious thumbs up. He wasn't joking. When he actually started jerking off in front of them, the ladies decided that wasn't their bag and made for the exit.
But the comedian stood in front of the door, blocking their way with his body, until he was done. In a twist, comic Doug Stanhope shared the blind item on Facebook claiming that it was about him; at least a few commenters disagreed. What started as a post-show nightcap, they say, became something else very quickly. In , Gawker confirmed that the blind item was about C.
During the minute set, C. I asked him if that was true. While interviewing him for Maxim in , I asked C. Many air out their issues. Many of his bits throughout his storied career have been libido-driven. Regardless, C. But C. To put it in perspective, Rolling Stone once placed C. To be regarded in such a manner, according to Rolling Stone, ahead of iconic comics such as Woody Allen, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock is a heck of a compliment. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day.
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