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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
I don't see any issue with him returning to comedy. His incidents occurred 20 years ago before he hit mainstream success, he owned up immediately and showed real remorse (IMO), and I believe he's truthful in saying that he's a different person now. FX found no incidents of sexual harassment in the years that he worked on Louie, which is the reverse of a lot of the other cases where the more famous a person got the more they abused those around them. I think he's paid his penance
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Penance? Pretty sure he was dropped by everyone, not that he was somehow punishing himself.
His alleged incidents ranged from the 1990s-2014. But at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter. Louie has been selling out shows again since 2019, he never left comedy, he simply had less of a platform, and even now, it’s going to be dependent on how his audiences and different companies feel about him. Look at Woody Allen. How long ago were his allegations from? It’s been more than 20 years, right? So does it matter anymore? Sure, to some, but he just keeps working because people keep paying him to work.
This is the thing I think people don’t really understand about being “cancelled.” So long as you’re not in jail, you can still do whatever it is you want to do, so long as someone will pay you to do it. There’s no “return to comedy” and HBO/Netflix/whoever not paying you isn’t paying your penance. Louie let the heat die down and then went back to doing what he wanted to do. Life in the public sphere is dependent on public opinion, and there won’t be any moment where everyone says “ok, you’re punished enough” because it’s never been about punishment. Just like there was never a moment where everyone said “ok, you’re done.” Lots of people never stopped liking him or wanting to give him their money. Just like lots of people didn’t like him when they heard the allegations, and might not like him even again. Not to punish him, they just literally do not like him, and that comes with the territory.