Is this thread gonna get pulled too?
I guess if we're discrete and don't spell out the "w" word we are safe.
Didn’t know there was a previous thread. Sorry if I’m rattling some old bones. What made today’s announcement newsworthy was that they pulled the plug on the show permanently, not just suspended it.
I also did not realize, and wish to clarify so there’s no misunderstanding, that Don Pryor was the only one who used the offensive term and that he did so, by someone’s count, 34 times during the one-hour show.
In the past, Pryor has stepped in it a few other times and then continued to bring it back up while semi-apologizing for it at the same time. It’s part of his act but it obviously didn’t help him here.
Jefferies was suspended, in part, because he’s the show’s producer and, the management says, didn’t do enough to prevent Pryor from continually repeating the word.