Monty Python’s John Cleese has taken the preemptive move to cancel himself before Cambridge University’s student union has a chance to do so, after the body blacklisted an art historian who performed a mocking impression of Adolf Hitler during a debate.
Rap mogul JAY-Z called veteran comedian Dave Chappelle is “super-brave” and “super-genius” friend, adding that while the comedian “pushed a lot of of buttons” with his Netflix special, The Closer, “great art is divisive.”
Veteran comedian Dave Chappelle proclaimed this week to a sold-out crowd of 19,000 people in San Francisco, California, “man, I love being canceled,” adding “I’m going through something — it might be history.”
The New York Times opinion section has run a column advocating for classic rock songs like Don McLean’s “American Pie” to be reconsidered and maybe even “toppled” like historic Confederate statues, arguing that reevaluating beloved songs will help create a world that is “inclusive and more just.”
Actress Dakota Johnson said “cancel culture is such a f**king downer,” adding, “I feel sad for the loss of great artists” who have been canceled in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
A full 72 percent of Americans agree America’s cancel culture is “out of control.” Why? Because overall, this left-wing fascism is un-American.
By his own standards, Aykroyd would have to renounce some of his most famous performances and their lucrative residuals. They include the 1983 movie “Trading Places,” in which he appears in black face, and NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” in which he famously used the phrase “Jane, you ignorant slut” to demean a woman during the “Weekend Update” segment.
The Old Vic cancelled a production from Monty Python star Terry Gilliam after staff reportedly complained about the director’s non-woke views.
Country singer Morgan Wallen has been banned from next month’s American Music Awards (AMAs) in Los Angeles despite being nominated for two awards, favorite country album and favorite male country artist. The cancelation follows blowback Wallen took after video of him using a racial slur emerged.
The following is an exclusive excerpt from the Babylon Bee’s new book, “The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness,” available on November 2.
A hard-left “news” site called Novara Media was briefly cancelled by YouTube. Among those calling most loudly for its reinstatement were the people it most hates: “right-wing” and “libertarian” media commentators. Why?
Comedian Dave Chappelle will be taking his recently-produced documentary about his pandemic comedy shows to ten U.S. cities after various film festivals blacklisted him amid controversy over his Netflix comedy special.
Thousands of children’s books, such as Dr Seuss, have been slapped with trigger warnings by Cambridge University for alleged racism.
Country music icon Travis Tritt took to Twitter to thank the Atlanta Braves for refusing “to be bullied” by “wing nut cancel culture’ after he sang the National Anthem before game six of Major League Baseball’s National League Championship Series (NLCS) between the Braves and Dodgers.
Former Comedy Central Daily Show host Jon Stewart defended veteran comedian Dave Chappelle over his latest Netflix special, The Closer, stating, “his intention is never hurtful.”
As the old adage goes, the children of the revolution always eat the fathers of the revolution, and comedian Ricky Gervais looks forward to the day when the children of today’s woke generation call their parents fascist.
A mob at an anti-Dave Chappelle Netflix protest was captured accosting comedian and videographer Vito Gesualdi who was holding a sign, which read “We Like Dave.” The mob destroyed the sign, while one protester repeatedly shouted, “Repent, motherf**ker!”
Left-wing activist and actress Alyssa Milano says Netflix should pull veteran comedian Dave Chappelle’s special “The Closer,” adding that it is “really important to hold people accountable” in this new era of cancel culture.
UC Berkeley professor and top scientist David Romps publicly resigned on Monday after claiming his colleagues refused his request to invite a “canceled” scientist to speak on Berkeley’s campus. Romps was the head of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center (BASC), writing that the center should be “a purely scientific organization, not a political one.”
Comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan slammed the pro-transgender cancel mob protesting Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix comedy special, The Closer, suggesting that rather than protest, these woke activists should “make your own special” to respond.
Hollywood is quietly standing behind Dave Chappelle and Netflix chief Ted Sarandos against the Gay Mafia.
“Airplane!” director David Zucker has hit out against cancel culture, saying that it is ruining comedy and making studios do silly things like putting trigger warnings on classic movies.
Members of the Swedish Muslim Nyans Party have called for a sculpture by recently deceased Mohammed cartoonist Lars Vilks to be burned.
Fears that Halloween might offend certain children have caused several elementary schools to cancel the holiday this year.
Jon Stewart declared that cancel culture does not exist, arguing that proponents of it are merely upset over “democratized criticism.”
German composers Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss are among 45 historical figures whose names could be removed from city streets in Munich due to their political beliefs.
Netflix is so far refusing to cave to the woke Alphabet mafia over Dave Chappelle, with a top company executive reportedly sending an internal memo defending the comedian against accusations of transphobia.
Acting legend Joan Collins says she is sick and tired of cancel culture, saying the people promoting the destruction of lives are “sick “morons.”
A woke mob’s cancel culture attack on professor Dorian Abbot has backfired spectacularly. Princeton University has reportedly decided to host a remote lecture by Abbot, which thousands of students have already signed up for, that was canceled by MIT after the professor was targeted for supporting “merit-based evaluations.”
An audit concluded that a village named after war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson is “problematic” because of his alleged support of slavery.
Baroness Claire Fox told Breitbart that free speech advocates in the West need to think of new approaches to fight for free speech.
A China-born music professor at the University of Michigan was forced out of teaching a Shakespeare class — and reported to the Office of Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX — after showing the classic 1965 film Othello to his class. The movie offended woke students because it features legendary actor Sir Laurence Olivier with darkened skin playing the title role.
Veteran comedian Dave Chappelle’s comedy special “The Closer” — which calls out woke trans activists and #MeToo feminists — has a 96 percent positive audience score on the leftist film and television review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. Meanwhile, the site’s professional critic class have left negative reviews.
Despite massive outside pressure from activists, NASA has rejected calls to rename the James Webb Space Telescope.
NBA great Shaquille O’Neal no longer wants to be called a “celebrity,” referring to them as “crazy” people. Speaking to the New York Post, the former Lakers champion center said he now wants to be known for his acts of kindness rather than his fame.
Pop star Rihanna’s annual Savage x Fenty lingerie show is under fire for featuring non-black women with braids in their hair.
Actor Johnny Depp told a film festival audience this week “no one is safe, not one of you,” because of cancel culture. It only takes one sentence, the Pirates of the Caribbean star said, to have the “carpet pulled” out from under you.
Former President Donald Trump reacted to Ohio State Senator and anti-Trump politician Matt Dolan declaring his U.S. Senate bid on Monday, stating, “I know of at least one person in the race who I won’t be endorsing,” as “the Republican Party has too many RINOs.”
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher lamented that snitching on people has become bipartisan and said he doesn’t want to live in a world “where you can’t trust your neighbors and you’re always looking over your
As the mainstream media attacks her for expressing skepticism about the coronavirus vaccine, rap superstar Nicki Minaj has hit back against cancel culture, comparing it to the suppression of free speech in Communist China.
