60 women accusing Bill Cosby of rape is plausible. But 61? No freakin’ way.

Good for Cher! A mother’s heart is a deep abyss that, if you go far enough, you always find forgiveness.

I still dont care. He can make up whatever bullshit story he wants for whatever reason. Whether he is a comic or “clapter comic” whatever that is. His entire audience and the public large already agree that its fine, no one is bothered by it. Lie, embellish, whatever, so long as he entertains.

The doxxing is the only…

Yeah but his embellishments caused someone to get doxxed and harassed for something that wasn’t true.

I’m not a fan of Minhaj, but this is a stupid controversy. Comedians embellish & make shit up. That’s part of the job. The goal isn’t to tell the truth, it’s to make you laugh.

I’ll have to read the New Yorker piece first, but did everyone really think each joke a comedian tells is akin to testimony in a court of law?

when your best defence is “hey, don’t exaggerate, only a hundred of our employees ACTUALLY committed sexual assault”, you might want to rethink how you run things...

If ‘only’ 25% of Arby’s employees turned out to be child molesters and Arby’s was proven to be actively covering it up, every location would be, rightfully, burned to the ground.

Oh, wow - Only 25%? That’s...So great. If only it was 27% then we would have a real problem on our hands - BUT - 25%? - No worries. Can we talk about Trans Youth and the destruction of the moral fabric of the United States now???

“Despicable, but mostly false allegations” sounds a lot like “Fiery, but mostly peaceful protests”.

ESH

Sending sexually explicit images of someone to their partner or loved one for to get back at them... sounds like renege porn.

Or picture one of the kids whose parents signs them up thinking they’re going to be on six episodes and they end up being contracted into six years.

Then again, NBC was responsible for The Biggest Loser, and that show was...not good. I know folks who worked on that, and NBC deserves a lawsuit if anything similar was happening on other shows.

I’ve been on a popular reality TV show (not the networks mentioned) and had a similar experience. Crew would show up reeking of alcohol from the night before, and would often make lewd comments toward the cast. Post-show, one of the producers started texting me about how big his dick was. I never complained for fear…

Shocked. I’m so shocked. You just can’t believe how shocked I am at this.

As someone who works in reality TV, I say good for them.

I stopped watching “reality” tv during MTV’s The Real World Hawaii because the producers let Ruth drive while intoxicated because it made for good TV but next episode threatened to kick her off the show if she didn’t get help.

I’m a proponent of shifting the verb tweeted -> X-creted, but yes, refusing to play their branding game altogether is probably the best choice.

I’m not allowed to talk about…. This is so dumb. I’m not allowed to talk about any of my previous work