Marlon Wayans is pushing back on political correctness and said that he will not change his comedy style to survive in this day and age and appease the current generation.
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Experts sparred over cancel culture on Dr. Phil Monday, with one saying things are worse now than during "the Red Scare, McCarthyism" and another claiming college classrooms are "extremely conservative." Phil McGraw, better known as Dr.
Phil, introduced the topic in the episode titled "You Can't Say That!" "People are looking over their shoulders and watching their words out of fear of someone pointing a finger publicly and saying ‘You can’t say that! You can’t say that! You’re canceled and banished from society forever because you can’t say that!’" he said and condemned that mindset as a "mob mentality." He brought on executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center Shaun Harper and Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, to represent both sides of the cancel culture debate. Executive Director of the USC Race and Equity Center, Shaun Harper, on an episode of Dr.
Phil. (CBS) Lukianoff warned that while things were not "great" for free speech in 2001, cancel culture on campus has become exponentially worse in recent years, saying, "I have never seen anything like it in my career than I’ve seen over the last two years, and particularly going back to 2015." He explained further, "2015 is when I started seeing tenured professors getting fired for what they said.
Marlon Wayans is pushing back on political correctness and said that he will not change his comedy style to survive in this day and age and appease the current generation.
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Watch Below: Abbie Chatfield hits out at internet misogynist Andrew TateIn comments provided to The Daily Telegraph, the 28-year-old Bachelor contestant turned TV and radio host said that Sandilands, 51, should have been out of a job long ago following years of polarising commentary. “I have no idea how he hasn’t been cancelled”, Chatfield told the publication. “I don’t know why he’s not at least being reprimanded. I don’t know why advertisers still align.”In the years since he stepped up as co-host of the Kyle and Jacki O show in 2004, Kyle has found himself no stranger to many a controversy, most recently referring to Monkeypox as “the big gay disease floating around”. “It’s as baffling to me as it is to everyone else.
Meet any high-profile Indian director or producer these days, and the talk is all about bibles, writers rooms and showrunners, rather than making films. Driving down Mumbai’s main artery, the Western Express Highway, most of the billboards are promoting new premium drama series from Prime Video, Netflix and Disney+ Hotstar, rather than the latest Bollywood release.
comments he made regarding cancel culture, in which he eloquently stated it was more about ‘accountability. ’Also in the highly-praised interview with Times Radio, the Eurovision broadcaster was quizzed on author JK Rowling’s views on the transgender community, but Graham simply suggested speaking to actual trans people who have experience with such matters.
J.K. Rowling.During an appearance at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Tuesday (October 11), the presenter discussed his views on cancel culture with interviewer Mariella Frostrup.Norton said: “You read a lot of articles in papers by people complaining about cancel culture and you think, ‘In what world are you cancelled?’ I’m reading your article in a newspaper, or you’re doing interviews about how terrible it is to be cancelled? I think the word is the wrong word. I think the word should be ‘accountability’.”When asked about how that applies to Rowling, who is described as facing “anger, rage and attempts at censorship” for her views on transgender people, Norton replied: “What I feel weird about this is when I’m asked about it, then I become part of this discussion.One of the most sensible takes on ‘cancel culture’ I’ve seen.
The 1975 frontman Matty Healy has opened up about his feelings on ‘cancel culture’, and his reasons for quitting Twitter after a controversial post back in 2020.Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story to mark the release of their fifth album, ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, the frontman discussed deactivating his Twitter account back in 2020 following backlash to a Tweet he made after the death of George Floyd.Following Floyd’s death at the hands of policeman in the US and the subsequent public outcry and growth of the Black Lives Matter movement, Healy Tweeted: “If you truly believe that ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones.”The post also shared the video to The 1975’s single ‘Love It If We Made It’, which features the lyrics “selling melanin and then suffocate the black men / Start with misdemeanours and we’ll make a business out of them“. Many Twitter users then accused Healy of appropriating Black Lives Matter to sell and promote his own music, before he apologised for any upset and deleted his account.Speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read, Healy told us: “By that point, my reaction in the room to all that Twitter shit was like, ‘Oh fuck off! You know that I’m not using this as an opportunity to monetise the half-a-pence I get paid for a fucking YouTube play’.
Graham Norton’s comments about cancel culture got people talking on social media this week.
sit-down interview with Radio Times posted Wednesday, the late night host and television fixture railed on “Monty Python” icon John Cleese for not getting with the times and deriding so-called “cancel culture.” “John Cleese has been very public recently about complaining about what you can’t say, and I just think it must be very hard to be a man of a certain age who’s been able to say whatever he liked for years, and now, suddenly, there’s some accountability,” Norton told Mariella Frostrup at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.” It’s free speech but not consequence-free.”Cleese has been very vocal, particularly in the last year, about his qualms with being held accountable for his words and opinions, telling Fox News this summer that wokeness has had a “disastrous” impact on comedy and that “if you’re worried about offending people and constantly thinking about that, you’re not going to be very creative.”Cleese now has a series headed to the U.K.’s conservative, anti-cancel culture GB News station in 2023, in which he’s said he’ll be collaborating with satirist Andrew Doyle and encouraging “proper argument.”“You read a lot of articles in papers by people complaining about ‘cancel culture,’ and you think: In what world are you cancelled?” Norton said of the hot-button phenomenon. “I’m reading your article in a newspaper, or you’re doing interviews about how terrible it is to be cancelled.”The fix is to change the way we talk about “cancel culture” in the first place, he added.
has not been quiet about his political leanings and even moved from San Francisco to Arizona as a result, he says. Asked about former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s statements Tuesday about leaving the Democratic party, he said he wasn’t surprised.“As an actor, you’re always coming from a place of trying to get work. But at a certain point, you know, you have to worry about, I mean, I’m in my 50s now, late 50s — it’s going to catch you too, Brian,” Schneider said, joking to “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade, sitting to the actor’s right.
“cancel culture” on colleges Monday, with one expert analogizing the so-called phenomenon to “McCarthyism,” while the other suggested it was a “conservative” myth.The war of words transpired on Monday’s show during a segment on cancel culture called “You Can’t Say That,” Fox News reported.“People are looking over their shoulders and watching their words out of fear of someone pointing a finger publicly and saying ‘You can’t say that!'” declared the 72-year-old television host, whose real name is Philip McGraw. The Oklahoman entertainer further compared cancel culture to a “mob mentality” that results in people getting “banished from society forever.” McGraw then brought on two experts to debate the topic: the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Greg Lukianoff and Shaun Harper, Executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center.“I have never seen anything like it in my career than I’ve seen over the last two years,” exclaimed Lukianoff, who had Zoomed into the show.
Monty Python legend will host a new show on the channel from next year, claiming viewers should be “prepared to be shocked” by the topics he will cover.Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Cleese said: “There’s a massive amount of important information that gets censored, both in TV and in the press. In my new show, I’ll be talking about a lot of it.