I used to think that comedian's apology was real, but the timeline changed my mind

For months, I defended a certain comedian after his old, offensive tweets resurfaced. I believed his video apology where he said he was 'deeply sorry' and had grown. Then I saw a timeline someone posted: he made those tweets in 2015, but he was still making similar jokes on a podcast in 2021. The apology video came out in 2023, right before his new special dropped. That two-year gap between the last bad joke and the apology, timed with a project, made it feel like a business move, not real regret. It's hard to see it as sincere now. Has anyone else had a specific detail like a date change their view on a public apology?

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charles_baker2823d ago

Yeah, saw a deep dive on that. The podcast clip from just a couple years ago really sealed it for me. Makes the whole apology feel like a press tour thing.

angela_patel7523d ago

Disagree tbh, people can mess up more than once on their way to getting better. That 2021 podcast joke could've been his last slip before he really got it. @charles_baker28, the timeline looks bad but i give more weight to the actual apology video, he seemed pretty broken up about it. Sometimes the business stuff lines up weird, doesn't always mean the feeling is fake.

olivia67023d ago

How many times do you let a guy mess up before you stop buying his excuses? I had a friend like this, always sorry after the fact. The real change happens when they stop making the jokes, not when they get better at apologizing. If he was still slipping up in 2021, that apology video is just damage control. You can't trust words when the actions keep telling a different story.