“Because I knew if I did, I’d be getting more of the same weird treatment I’d been getting from him.” In a subsequent interview with The Daily Beast, Kirkman refused to speak further about the incident or identify C.K. “And this guy didn’t rape me, but he made a certain difficult decision to go on tour with him really hard,” she continued. My manager and my agent have told me that.” Say it if it’s true.’ If I say it, my career is over. And I’ve been told by people ‘Well then say it then. His guy friends are standing by him, and you cannot say a bad thing about him. And there’s a lockdown on talking about him. He is basically a French filmmaker at this point. He is probably at Cosby level at this point. In the podcast, which was deleted shortly after it was posted, Kirkman spoke of “another guy who is a very famous comic. Comedian Doug Stanhope, a friend of C.K.’s, later claimed the story was about him.Īlso in 2015, comedian Jen Kirkman described a male comic that many believed to be C.K. Speculation surfaced on Reddit and social media that the item referred to C.K. was not named explicitly in the piece, but it claimed that “our nation’s most hilarious stand-up comic and critically cherished sitcom auteur” invited two female comedians to his hotel room and proceeded to block the door with his body while he forced them to watch him masturbate. In March 2012, Gawker published a blind item that detailed an alleged incident at the Aspen Comedy Festival a few years prior.
Becky told the Times he did not recall a specific conversation with the two but asserted: “I never threatened anyone.” Goodman and Wolov said they have steered clear of trying to work on projects associated with Becky.Īllegations of misconduct against C.K. Goodman and Wolov told the Times they felt pressure from manager Becky to stop discussing their incident with C.K. Cox said she felt “outrage and shock” after learning of C.K.’s alleged offer. Courteney Cox, who was an exec producer on the pilot, told the Times she considered shutting down production but Corry opted to continue. She told the Times she has long been haunted by the encounter.
on a TV pilot in 2005 when he allegedly asked her point blank if he could go to her dressing room in order for her to watch him masturbate - an offer she refused.
has said he needed a break from the highly autobiographical series but didn’t rule out revisiting the show in the future.Ĭomedian Rebecca Corry told the Times she was working with C.K.
New episodes of the show have not aired since the conclusion of its fifth season in 2015.
The fate of “Louie” has been uncertain for some time. Pig Newton is a producer of FX’s much-acclaimed comedy “Better Things,” starring Pamela Adlon, and other development projects. The tarnish to C.K.’s reputation as a standard-bearer for comedians may also lead to fallout for FX, which has a production pact with C.K.’s Pig Newton banner. revolves around a man who becomes concerned when his teenage daughter begins to develop a relationship with a much older filmmaker who has been in the center of multiple sex scandals.
The film - starring, written and directed by C.K. 17 but already Thursday’s scheduled premiere in New York was tabled in anticipation of the publication of the Times’ story. The timing of the Times’ expose is sure to compromise the prospects for his latest indie feature, “I Love You, Daddy,” distributed by the Orchard. ejaculated.Ĭ.K.’s industry clout has grown significantly in the intervening years through his successful FX series “Louie,” his standup comedy tours and his innovative approach to financing and distributing his own standup specials and TV series “Horace & Pete” through his website. The women described themselves being “paralyzed” during the incident and running out of the hotel room after C.K. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., in 2002 and allegedly stripped naked and began to masturbate. Goodman and Wolov said they were shocked when he invited them to his hotel room during the U.S. Former Chicago comedians Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov are among the women who detail what they describe as a disturbing encounters with C.K.