Five women spoke to the Times about the comedian’s alleged sexual misconduct, including Tig Notaro.
Louis C.K. has been accused of sexual misconduct by several female comedians in a report by the New York Times.
The exposé, published on Thursday, alleges the comedian exposed himself and masturbated in front of two female comedians in 2002, masturbated while speaking to a female comedian over the phone in 2003 and asked to masturbate in front of another comedian, who declined, in 2005.
Chicago comedy duo Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, comedians Rebecca Corry, Abby Schachner and C.K. collaborator and onetime friend Tig Notaro all spoke to the Times for the story.
When contacted by the Times about the story, C.K.’s publicist Lewis Kay said, “Louis is not going to answer any questions.”
Notaro had addressed rumors about C.K. when promoting her Amazon series One Mississippi, which premiered early September. The traumedy is produced under C.K.’s FX Productions-based Pig Newton banner and though C.K. is a credited executive producer, Notaro said the pair had not spoken in two years and that he is not involved in the show. Though she didn’t elaborate on what caused their rift, comparisons were drawn between a sexual assault plotline in the second season and long-unsubstantiated rumors linking C.K. to sexual misconduct toward female comedians.
In One Mississippi, a character (played by Notaro’s wife, Stephanie Allynne) is sexually assaulted when her boss masturbates in front of her during a pitch meeting. The scene echoes a past Gawker allegation made by anonymous comedians that gained further traction after a Roseanne Barr interview last year. C.K. addressed the claims in a 2016 interview with Vulture, saying, “I don’t care about that. That’s nothing to me. That’s not real.”
After telling the The Daily Beast that C.K. should “handle” the rumors leveled against him, Notaro told THR they explored sexual assault in the show because, “We wanted to show that you can be assaulted without even being touched. Nothing can be said and you are still horrifically violated and scared.” Adding, “I know it’s very uncomfortable. But it’s not not happening.” The show premiered only a month before the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke, opening the floodgates in Hollywood for women, and men, to come forward with their stories of sexual harassment.
Now speaking to the Times, Notaro said she feels “trapped” by her association with C.K., who promoted her now famous “Hello, I Have Cancer” Largo set about her cancer diagnosis in 2012. “He knew it was going to make him look like a good guy, supporting a woman,” she said, adding that she learned of his reputation only after selling One Mississippi to Amazon.
Notaro confirmed to the Times that season-two storyline is a fictional treatment of the C.K. allegations.
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Yup. Another accuser coming out of the woodwork many years later.. Cosby, Spacey, Weinstein, all abusers many years after the fact. I’m calling bs on this. A cry baby world we live in.
What an insensitive naive bastard you really are Russ. You have absolutely no idea what you say. I believe what we are finally seeing are the victims of these hideous crimes over decades. Corey Feldman filed complaints with the San Bernadino police department in 1992, and named names. but they, the police were too focused in on Michael Jackson at the time, a personal friend of Feldman. Corey claims Jackson was not the monster the media portrayed him to be. Feldman knows who the pedos in Hollywood are and he has again, given those names to police. Lets see how far this investigation will proceed. Again I say Russ, you have no clue of you say and think otherwise. I assure you all this disgusting behaviour will be revealed, and I mean, all of it, and soon. Give your head a shake Russ!
Get off your liberal snowflake horse Johnny. You totally missed my point. If someone stuck a gun in your ribs and stole your wallet and Rolex, wouldn’t you report it right away? Maybe the bad guy will be caught. Over here in Thailand where I live, the statute is 3 years to report something like what is going on over in your paradise world. My grade 2 teacher looked at me funny, maybe I should scream and whine. Oh wait, I was in grade 2 half a century ago.
Russ, you’re a part of the problem. Here’s some insight on why women often don’t report:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/upshot/its-not-just-fox-why-women-dont-report-sexual-harassment.html