Amber Ruffin, going where every single other talk-show host will also go.

Saying nothing might have been even more polite.

I mean, I didn’t find it that funny, but “ineligible” seems harsh.

Never leave college. You’ll be safe there.

No, they aren’t. And throwing these words around at the drop of a hat only serves to cheapen them.

In my opinion, anything is fair game in comedy if you can make it work.

Fair enough. Here’s a perspective other than mine.

That’s my whole point: just because someone calls a comedy routine “harmful” doesn’t make it that.

I wonder if the people at Netflix, as well as a lot of other people who spent last summer pulling sitcom episodes from various platforms, wouldn’t acknowledge that maybe things got a little out of hand in that respect. When cooler heads had a chance to prevail, I think most could see that foregoing context completely…

What would you have them do? Take the special down, so that now no one who wants to see it can’t, when the other side always has the option of simply not watching it?

Am I transphobic or do I know nothing about transphobia? If you aren’t consistent, I’d almost wonder if you’re flinging these words around wantonly and rendering them meaningless.

Adhering to principles in the face of backlash if you believe in them. I’m not trying to come off as naive; of course being in business with Chappelle has financial benefits. But there is no shortage of fear-based decision making similar to pulling a comedy special because people have decided that jokes are harmful. I…

So because certain people decided they didn’t like these jokes, and dubiously claimed that they were “harmful”, that the special should be taken down? What is the appropriate end result here for someone who feels the way you do?

Not true.

Sticking to your principles in this day and age does take guts, yes. And I actually meant to add this to my original comment, but the crux of my issue with is that just because you decide something is harmful doesn’t make it harmful. And calling free speech, particularly jokes, harmful and worthy of suppression,…

If this ends with Netflix making some donation to a worthy cause, then fine. Nothing wrong with that. But, assuming that these employees genuinely wanted Netflix to remove the special, hopefully it shows some guts and leaves it up.

Maybe he’s rebooting Monk.

They suspended the employees because they crashed a meeting. That would get anyone suspended, optics aside.

Can’t believe one person’s personal issue with an enormously popular comedy special didn’t cause the parent company to remove it so that nobody would be able to enjoy it.

Please Don’t Destroy—for if the Lonely Island guys were too aggressively Alpha Male for you.