Interview · moment 29 of 49
Netflix Legal Pushback on the Stormy Daniels Joke
from #232 - Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show · #232
3 min
Guest
Schultz describes Netflix lawyers objecting to a joke about Stormy Daniels' STDs because it could hypothetically impact her ability to work as a prostitute, and discusses how manufactured outrage from bloggers creates fake news cycles.
- Tim has crazy jokes in the special, but Netflix pushed back on one particular line about Trump and Stormy Daniels.
- Netflix's objection confused Tim, especially since there's a female genital mutilation joke in the first ten seconds.
- The lawyer argued that saying Stormy Daniels has STDs could hurt her ability to do her job, even though the job itself is illegal.
- Tim does jokes about coronavirus and makes some Chinese jokes, but they're specifically about political figures, not Chinese people.
- He criticizes the predictability of outrage and notes that good comedy reviews are useless; he needs anger and outrage instead.
- The reviewers didn't even watch the last episode, where Tim explicitly explains how media outrage cycles work.
- Bloggers create fake news stories, real organizations react as if it's legitimate, and then bloggers react to the coverage, manufacturing news from nothing.