Whitney Cummings Faces Backlash for Thoughts on Joe Rogan Spotify Backlash
Whitney Cummings is getting a lot of attention for her thoughts on the Joe Rogan controversy, after 70 episodes of his program were pulled due to his repeated use of the N-word, as well as several artists pulling their discography off of Spotify for COVID misinformation shared on his podcast.
The 39-year-old 2 Broke Girls alum shared her thoughts on the situation on Sunday (February 6).
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“Don’t look to why so many people trust Joe Rogan, look to why so few people trust the mainstream media,” she wrote.
“Comedians did not sign up to be your hero. It’s our job to be irreverent and dangerous, to question authority and take you through a spooky mental haunted house so you can arrive at your own conclusions. Stay focused on the people we pay taxes to to be moral leaders.”
“Maybe add ‘to be funny’ to the list,” Marc Maron wrote in response, among many other responses.
A ‘comedian’s’ job is to make people laugh, and a lot of actual comedians manage to do that without saying s–t like this,” wrote another.
“He told his 11M listeners ‘it’s more dangerous to be vaccinated than it is to get Covid’ but sure haha, he’s just a comedian asking questions,” responded writer Eric Boehlert.
Joe Rogan also recently issued an apology.
Check out the tweet and some reactions…
Comedians did not sign up to be your hero. It’s our job to be irreverent and dangerous, to question authority and take you through a spooky mental haunted house so you can arrive at your own conclusions. Stay focused on the people we pay taxes to to be moral leaders.
— Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) February 6, 2022
he told his 11M listeners “it’s more dangerous to be vaccinated than it is to get Covid”
but sure haha, he’s just a comedian asking questions https://t.co/96ptia9aYn
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 6, 2022
Comedians will tweet shit like, “The role of the comedian is to bring light into the darkness of all the terrors, tragedies, and fears we all share” and then you see them on stage and they’re like, “Married ass smells different than single ass!”
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) February 6, 2022
comedians will be like “it’s our job to say things that make people uncomfortable” and then can’t even tell their racist friend to shut the fuck up
— i can be your long lost pal (@PallaviGunalan) February 6, 2022
Maybe add ‘to be funny’ to the list.
— marc maron (@marcmaron) February 6, 2022
A “comedian’s” job is to make people laugh, and a lot of actual comedians manage to do that without saying shit like this. https://t.co/CuVURgTCtj
— bailey (@baileysumthing) February 6, 2022