A court of law declined to convict him of a crime once, which means that he’s innocent of all crimes in perpetuity.

“It was just a mistake. He tripped and, by accident, he raped them. It could happen to anybody.”

Was there? Even in the old days they were snarky about pretty much everything. They were just better at it, and they had more cool kid cred because the coverage of everything else was fucking great.

Pretty awful. Sexist, classist, ableist. A disgusting comment.

I am so surprised at that comment that I’m wondering if that isn’t a hacked account, but then the comments preceding it (and after it) are worse.

As I stated to the commenter prior to you, I’m replying sincerely and not to offend you, but your comment is hateful. At home, wherever you are, in your real life and not within the illusory anonymous confines of the internet, ask yourself, how is speaking and thinking about women that way going for you in actual…

I’m replying sincerely and not to offend you, but your comment is hateful. It reflects more on the content of your character than hers, that you would choose to have sex with a woman who you find pitiful and have no respect for (see comment that you “just go with because she’s probably down for anything”). In more…

Look, who among us has not made the minor mistake of committing multiple horrific crimes?

It seems like one thing to have to grapple with your own personal positive memories of a serial rapist; it’s another thing to use those as the basis of a defense. I understand and even sympathize with people struggling with how difficult it can be to reconcile your experience with the larger horrible reality. That’s…

I was thinking the same. When someone does something like this there are lots of victims left in the wake. Obviously the direct victims of the abuse, and the focus should rightly fall on their well-being. But also the friends and family who have happy memories of the good aspects of that person who are left trying to…

I would say that if you want to feel sympathy for a guy that raped multiple women (and remember, convicted on two counts) because he’s a good friend of yours, go ahead and keep it to your fucking self.

It’s also possible the people they asked either a) have said all they had to say about the matter and don’t want to discuss it again and/or b) had no idea who this producer was and decided they didn’t want to be involved in their documentary.

That would be me. Sometimes I find him to be a little much, but other times I really enjoy him. And his work in Only Murders in the Building has been fantastic.

She told the story in one of her books, which apparently I’m the only person who ever read because nobody quoted it after she wasn’t interested in going into detail about the allegations.

What a weird series of statements...

I have to say, when I first saw that Martin Short article, I thought “What the F is this idiot talking about!?” Then I actually started to think “Wait, do I really like Martin Short? Do I just like him because I loved Ed Grimley and The Three Amigos when I was 8 years old?” So, i guess, sort of a fair question the…

Honestly I could enjoy a mean-spirited, catty and completely unfair takedown if it’s funny, but this wasn’t even that. I’d said it’s a weird piece but it seems obvious it was published to get precisely the viral reaction it did.

It just seemed arbitrary and mean-spirited, I guess. I mean, it’s fine for some entertainer to rub you the wrong way, but maybe you’re not the person to write a 2000 word profile on them especially if you don’t have any specific reason beyond their humor not appealing to your personal taste.

I don’t think Martin Short is that funny, but I would never waste anyone’s time lambasting him. I certainly wouldn’t publicly do so in long form if I was a writer for a reasonably well known media company, even if I was completely out of ideas for what to write about. Not only would it be boring and unnecessary, it’s…

Maybe their hearts weren’t really in this job. You know what they say in the business, you do one apology video for them, one apology video for you.