Posted on 04/18/2025 8:41:47 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Comedian Tyler Fischer is persona-non-grata at Fox after being accused of harassing a young female employee at the network's New York studios earlier this year.
Fischer, 38, was a frequent guest on Gutfeld!, the network's widely popular late night show that pulls in about five million viewers nightly.
But after boldly asking out a young female staffer during a visit to the network's Manhattan HQ in January, his appearances have dried up.
Fischer says his only 'crime' was innocently asking the woman out for coffee.
He'd been asked to appear on Gutfeld's show on January 30, and was in the building early for a meeting when he encountered the young woman sitting at her desk.
Fischer, speaking to Daily Mail, described it as a 'flirty little interaction'.
'I introduced myself, I said "Hey, I'm Tyler... I need to get going to the show to film, but would you ever get coffee sometime"' he recalls himself saying.
Moments later, he was approached by security.
The female staffer complained that he'd harassed her and reported it.
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(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This Man Asked A Woman For Her Number. The Internet Exploded. (11 mins)
He should have asked a guy, and he’d still be okay............
So he asked a woman out for coffee later. She reports him to security? Why in gods name does Fox stay in New York. This is the kind of crap you get.
I figured there was more to this story than what the guy posted on X.
Do not approach chicks with blue hair.
Per comments at the video, then many women wonder why nobody will ask them out and why they are alone.
Love this guy. What a shame. Very funny.
Also many woke comments there - mostly getting lots of dislikes.
Lower in the article it describes what would be an actual annoyance that would require a warning to not get physical with people in the building.
“the incident played out differently, claiming Fischer grabbed the woman’s phone and put his number in it forcibly, before returning it and ‘demand[ing] to know she had the number now.’
(snip)
‘And it wasn’t friendly’, the source said.
She was sitting at her desk and had not been interacting with Fischer when he approached her, he said.
The interaction was overheard by other network employees.”
His appearance does give off a short, wiry, hillbilly (think Gallagher in a ball cap) vibe, clearly beneath this young lady's standards for sharing a coffee and conversation. But calling security?
I posted before reading this side of the story. If he did grab the phone, etc. she had grounds to call security.
TBH, I didn’t appreciate older men asking me out when I was in my 20’s. Only I didn’t call security, back then, you just handled it.
Something very terrible about modern America is that on these little interaction annoyances people aren’t warned, or told that it better not happen again or else, instead careers are seriously impaired or even ruined, Fox turned this into a big business altering deal for the comedian, lots of his income is involved and the audience suffers, the harsher version describes jerk behavior, not criminal behavior, admonishment, not banishment.
When I was still working, my boss would say things like, “I like your necklace”... or “...That's a great color for you”. Was I supposed to run sniveling to HR?
Right. I didn’t like attention while at work either, so I went out and bought some wedding rings. That all stopped right away.
Thirty years ago when I started at Microsoft, HR told us that even asking a woman out could be considered harassment if she complained.
I brought up that surely that meant that if she asked you to not ask her again and you did that was harassment.
Nope. Once was enough.
Two sides to every story.
well if he grabbed her phone he was completely out of line.
Regards,
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