{"id":2572,"date":"2017-12-03T19:49:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T19:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/12\/03\/stephen-colbert-on-his-former-boss-louis-c-k-s-sexual-harassment-history-i-didnt-know\/"},"modified":"2017-12-03T19:49:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T19:49:46","slug":"stephen-colbert-on-his-former-boss-louis-c-k-s-sexual-harassment-history-i-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/12\/03\/stephen-colbert-on-his-former-boss-louis-c-k-s-sexual-harassment-history-i-didnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert on His Former Boss Louis C.K.\u2019s Sexual Harassment History: \u2018I Didn\u2019t Know\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-colbert\">Stephen Colbert<\/a> has known Louis C.K. for decades, and even reported to him when C.K. was the head writer at 1996&#8217;s short-lived &#8220;The Dana Carvey Show.&#8221; Despite their professional interactions, Colbert got candid during a Dec. 2 discussion with Samantha Bee about how he had no idea that C.K. had a reputation for harassing women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel dumb,&#8221; Colbert said at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, at the seventh annual fundraiser for New Jersey non-profit Montclair Film (via our sister site <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/12\/stephen-colbert-samantha-bee-tsunami-of-penises-montclair-film-benefit-1202219135\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline<\/a>). &#8220;I\u2019m not surprised that men are bad but\u2026 I didn\u2019t know about Louis C.K. I didn\u2019t even know about Cosby! And that\u2019s dumb.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/11\/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct-reactions-michael-ian-black-1201895877\/\" title=\"Louis C.K.: Michael Ian Black, Rachel Bloom, Jason Alexander, and More React to Sexual Misconduct Accusations\">Louis C.K.: Michael Ian Black, Rachel Bloom, Jason Alexander, and More React to Sexual Misconduct Accusations<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Bee said she is pleased that all of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/sexual-harassment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sexual-harassment\">sexual harassment<\/a> scandals are now coming to light.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s heartbreaking, but it\u2019s not surprising probably to most women I know in the comedy community,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It\u2019s definitely not surprising to any woman who lives on planet Earth. The speed and ferocity at which everything is coming forward at the moment is impressive to me, and I\u2019m happy to be alive in this moment. In a moment where people are feeling freer with their stories and we don\u2019t have to live with shame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch Colbert and C.K. together on &#8220;The Late Show&#8221; earlier this year:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.email.indiewire.com\/newslettersignup\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert has known Louis C.K. for decades, and even reported to him when C.K. was the head writer at 1996&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Fu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}