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Showing Original Post only (View all)Louis C.K. Crossed a Line Into Sexual Misconduct, 5 Women Say [View all]
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=HomepageIn 2002, a Chicago comedy duo, Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, landed their big break: a chance to perform at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo. When Louis C.K. invited them to hang out in his hotel room for a nightcap after their late-night show, they did not think twice. The bars were closed and they wanted to celebrate. He was a comedian they admired. The women would be together. His intentions seemed collegial.
As soon as they sat down in his room, still wrapped in their winter jackets and hats, Louis C.K. asked if he could take out his penis, the women said.
They thought it was a joke and laughed it off. And then he really did it, Ms. Goodman said in an interview with The New York Times. He proceeded to take all of his clothes off, and get completely naked, and started masturbating.
In 2003, Abby Schachner called Louis C.K. to invite him to one of her shows, and during the phone conversation, she said, she could hear him masturbating as they spoke. Another comedian, Rebecca Corry, said that while she was appearing with Louis C.K. on a television pilot in 2005, he asked if he could masturbate in front of her. She declined.
Now, after years of unsubstantiated rumors about Louis C.K. masturbating in front of associates, women are coming forward to describe what they experienced. Even amid the current burst of sexual misconduct accusations against powerful men, the stories about Louis C.K. stand out because he has so few equals in comedy. In the years since the incidents the women describe, he has sold out Madison Square Garden eight times, created an Emmy-winning TV series, and accumulated the clout of a tastemaker and auteur, with the help of a manager who represents some of the biggest names in comedy. And Louis C.K. built a reputation as the unlikely conscience of the comedy scene, by making audiences laugh about hypocrisy especially male hypocrisy.
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Also, it's attitudes like this one that make victims not speak out in the first place.
WhiskeyGrinder
Nov 2017
#5
I'm not quite ready to surrender to the idea that all comedians who work blue...
Girard442
Nov 2017
#8