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Will Smith did the impression of a perfect person for 30 years, and Will Smith ripped Will Smith mask off and showed Richard Williams Will Smith was as ugly as the rest of Richard Williams, whatever the consequences are... I hope Will Smith doesn't put Will Smith mask back on again, and lets Will Smith real face breathe.... I see Chris Rock in both men.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
A lot of people forget who Will Smith is, then 10 minutes before Will Smith was about to get the biggest award... Will Smith acted like Will Smith was back in Philadelphia.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
When I heard those talking points coming out of these children’s faces, that really, sincerely, hurt me, because I know those kids didn’t come up with those words. I’ve heard those words before. The more you say I can’t say something, the more urgent it is for me to say it.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When I heard those talking points coming out of these children’s faces, that really, sincerely, hurt me. Because I know those kids did n’t come up with those words. I’ve heard those words before. The more you say I ca n’t say something, the more urgent it is for me to say it.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I took a lot of cold shots in business… but that day, they hurt me.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
No matter what they say about 'The Closer,' it is still (one of the) most watched specials on Netflix, the more you say I can't say something, the more urgent it is for me to say it. It has nothing to do with what you are saying I can't say. It has everything to do with my freedom of artistic expression.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
No matter what they say about' The Closer,' it is still( one of the) most watched specials on Netflix, the more you say I can't say something, the more urgent it is for me to say it. It has nothing to do with what you are saying I can't say. It has everything to do with my freedom of artistic expression.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
What's up, everybody ? It's me, Dave at home in Ohio, and I'm very excited to announce February 28 I drop the first of the Home Team specials, my man from Washington D.C., Earthquake, in his first Netflix special. Legendary. Please tune in the last day of Black History Month so we can make one more day of history. Let's go.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I can not believe you would make me audition for you, you look like clowns. I am not bluffing. I will take it all off the table.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don't know why the council would be afraid of litigation from a $24 million-a-year company while it's out a $65 million-a-year company, i cannot believe you would make me audition for you.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But I didn't see [ the death of ] Bob coming, man, Bob Saget just texted me and I saw the text yesterday and I never texted Bob Saget back because I was just busy. It happens.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I want everyone in this audience to know that even though the media frames it that it’s me versus that community, that is not what it is. Do not blame the LBGTQ [sic] community for any of this s--t. This has nothing to do with them. It’s about corporate interests and what I can say and what I cannot say, for the record, and I need you to know this, everyone I know from that community has been loving and supporting, so I don’t know what all this nonsense is about.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s been said in the press that I was invited to speak to the transgender employees of Netflix and I refused. That is not true — if they had invited me I would have accepted it, although I am confused about what we would be speaking about, i said what I said, and boy, I heard what you said. My God, how could I not? You said you want a safe working environment at Netflix. It seems like I’m the only one that can’t go to the office anymore.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
But you will not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's demands.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
You cannot have this conversation and exclude my voice from it. That is only fair, you have to answer the question -- am I canceled or not? Now let's go.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
To the transgender community, I am more than willing to give you an audience, but you will not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's demands.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Thank God for Ted Sarandos at Netflix, he's the only one that didn't cancel me yet.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't know what the trans community did for Daphne Dorman, but I don't care, because I feel like Daphne Dorman wasn't their tribe.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
As a trans person and a comedian, we mostly crack jokes about who we are and how we identify in my experience, and I'm only speaking for me, you can't ask for inclusion 24/7 and then conveniently want to be excluded because some truths are being told in a comedic fashion about your community.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Netflix's goal is to be TV, and to be that they have to cover everything, and that's their strength, they have so much content. It's a volume play to cover all of those bases. But when you do that, when you take risks, you're going to cause some controversy. It's impossible not to.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Gender is a fact. Every human being in this room, every human being on earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth. That is a fact.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If this is what being canceled is about, I love it, i don’t know what to tell you, except I’m a bad motherf---er.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
They canceled J.K. Rowling – my God, effectively, she said gender was a fact, the trans community got mad as (expletive), they started calling her a TERF.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
He set a very high bar for the people that came after him.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Does it matter about celebrity ? No, this is the streets talking for themselves. They don't need me right now.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What are Dave Chappelle signifying that Dave Chappelle can kneel on a man's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds and feel like Dave Chappelle wouldn't get the wrath of God ? that's what is happening right now. It's not for a single cop, it's for all of it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This man kneeled on a man's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Can you imagine that ?! this kid thought he was going to die, he knew he was going to die. He called for his dead mother.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I love my art form because I understand every practitioner of it, whether I agree with them or not I know where they're coming from. They want to be heard, they got something to say, there's something they notice. They just want to be understood, i love this genre, it saved my life.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Shooting up schools is a white kid's game. I hated school, too. It never occurred to me -- kill everybody in school ? It's f *** ing crazy.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We will not let those people die in vain, theyre our heroes, they are our friends. This is our city. Gem City, shine. Let them know!
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Listen, weve been through a tough time, there have been tornadoes, theres been Klan rallies, theres been shootings but were still hereand were still strong. And the only way but not the only way but the best way that we can honor our fallen is by getting up better than we were before.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Today the whole world is looking at you, gem City, shine!
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Even a guy like me that's just writing jokes, I have to listen more than I've ever had to listen'cause the gripes is coming so fast and furious. And I'm not dismissive of people's gripes. Might sound like it on stage, but I listen, as a president of a country that's as eclectic as ours.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
At the end of the show, it says created by Key and Peele, that hurts my feelings.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I was doing sketches that were funny, but socially irresponsible, i feel like I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
What I did was step off of the main stage, because those lights were hot, and I was trying to do other things with my life.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I would beseech the council to look deeply and to look hard, because this is a golden opportunity, literally you could kill the game. In this Trump era, there's an opportunity to show everybody that local politics reigns supreme. We can make our corner of the world outstanding.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
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