Actor, comedian and “Celebrity Jeopardy” champion Ike Barinholtz isn’t impressed by people who complain about the “cancellation culture” in his work.
“I think when people in comedies talk about cancellation culture, what they’re upset about is that they’re being called out on their shit,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in a wide-ranging new interview released Thursday. “And by the way, I don’t know of any comedians that have actually been canceled. [Dave] Chappelle just won a Grammy, Louis CK just sold out Madison Square Garden.”
Chappelle was criticized for his trans jokes, while Louis CK admitted to sexually harassing five women.
Barinholtz said social media has given a voice to people who have been marginalized.
“Now if you make a joke about them, they can bring you back and that makes a lot of people angry,” she said.
He told the magazine that there are more “landmines” to watch out for than before when working on the material.
“For example, there are some words that are just erased from your mental lexicon that I will remind people have been going on since time immemorial,” she said. “There were things where people in 1950 said, ‘Can you believe we can’t say what we said in 1920?’ And he goes, “Uh, I can totally believe that.”
Barinholtz will appear next month on HBO’s “White House Plumbers” and Hulu’s “History of the World: Part II.”
Read the full interview with The Hollywood Reporter here.
