Of course, an audience in a comedy club is excited to see a golden child of stand-up come through. Aside from the psychology of crowds often operating as one messy group brain, there is also an unannounced celebrity in the room. Clubs like the Comedy Cellar promise: “Anyone could drop by at any time! Even we don’t know!” In fact, the owner of the club, Noam Dworman, said he didn’t know. He said he was asleep when Louis C. K. showed up.
In that sense, the #MeToo movement has demonstrated that, as a money-driven society, we have been asleep to the continued marketing and monetization of known abusers for years.
What about the victims’ second chances? To argue that their talent must not match that of Louis C. K. or they would have gotten farther at this point in their careers, is missing the point. His actions affected their careers.
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