The New York Comedy Club canceled a performance by comedian Ari Shaffir after the organization received threats due to the performer's off-color remarks about late athlete Kobe Bryant
The New York Comedy Club canceled a performance by comedian Ari Shaffir after the organization received threats due to the performer's off-color remarks about late athlete Kobe Bryant.before Roy Wood Jr. replaced him in the role, was scheduled to perform Tuesday night, a representative for the club confirmed to, but the club canceled his booking after learning about a joke that Shaffir had tweeted. "We're not working with him anymore," the representative said.
, reports that the day of the longtime L.A. Laker's death, Shaffir tweeted a video of him saying, "Kobe Bryant died 23 years too late today. He got away with rape because all the Hollywood liberals who attack comedy enjoy rooting for the Lakers more than they dislike rape. Big ups to the hero who forgot to gas up his chopper. I hate the Lakers. What a great day.
Shaffir added that he posted his video before he learned children were on board the helicopter whose crash killed Bryant and eight others on Sunday, and that fans asked him for a "Kobe post." "Kids dying like that, it's horrible," he wrote. "All the other people dying, that [sic] horrible too. It's horrible he died. Really really sad. What a terrible thing that was that happened.
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