Whitney Cummings is sharing her thoughts on the Joe Rogan-Spotify debate.
“Don’t look to why so many people trust joe Rogan, look to why so few people trust the mainstream media,” the actress wrote on Twitter on Saturday, Feb. 5.
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Don’t look to why so many people trust joe Rogan, look to why so few people trust the mainstream media
— Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) February 6, 2022
“Comedians did not sign up to be your hero,” she continued in another post. “It’s our job to be irreverent and dangerous, to question authority and take you through a spooky mental haunted house so you can arrive at your own conclusions. Stay focused on the people we pay taxes to to be moral leaders.”
Comedians did not sign up to be your hero. It’s our job to be irreverent and dangerous, to question authority and take you through a spooky mental haunted house so you can arrive at your own conclusions. Stay focused on the people we pay taxes to to be moral leaders.
— Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) February 6, 2022
Cummings quickly faced backlash for her comments.
Maybe add ‘to be funny’ to the list.
— marc maron (@marcmaron) February 6, 2022
“Maybe add ‘to be funny’ to the list,” wrote Marc Maron, while many other Twitter users agreed with his sentiments.
Comedians will tweet shit like, “The role of the comedian is to bring light into the darkness of all the terrors, tragedies, and fears we all share” and then you see them on stage and they’re like, “Married ass smells different than single ass!”
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) February 6, 2022
he told his 11M listeners “it’s more dangerous to be vaccinated than it is to get Covid”
but sure haha, he’s just a comedian asking questions https://t.co/96ptia9aYn
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 6, 2022
Rogan has issued an apology for racist language he’s used in episodes of his popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience”.
India Arie is the latest artist to pull her music from Spotify in the wake of Neil Young’s decision to remove his in protest of vaccine misinformation on Rogan’s show.
Young was followed by Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, as well as Mary Trump, niece of Donald Trump, who has removed her popular podcast.
