LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Vaguely controversial comedian Rick Monroe won’t shut the fuck up despite his claims that he has been silenced.
“Like a lot of modern day truth tellers, I’ve been silenced,” said Monroe in his Netflix special: Canceled Trigger Warning – Offended???, which he was paid twenty million dollars to produce. “Just because I tell it how it is with jokes about identifying as an attack helicopter, there only being 2 genders, and doing that impersonation of a Chinese person by replacing the Rs and the Ls, they’re telling me I’m canceled. And that I’m not funny. That I’m corny. That I fucking suck. They just can’t handle the truth bombs.”
Monroe’s agent, Andrew Gardner, laments the rise of cancel culture and its effect on his clients and their ability to speak out against the “woke agenda”.
“We’re being silenced,” said Gardner during a nationally aired press conference. “My clients are told they’re not allowed to speak their minds and the only way they can share their opinions is on social media, TV, in print media, with a book deal, in interviews, through their lucrative streaming deals, and in public. It’s basically Nazi Germany.”
Fans of Monroe have rallied around the beleaguered comedian, watching his specials and buying his merchandise.
“I wear this hoodie to show I support free speech,” said superfan Johnny Espresso, proudly showing off his $120 Rick Monroe hoodie at a recent sold out show of the silenced comedian. “If they can cancel Monroe so he’s only allowed to win a Grammy and host SNL, then who’s next? I read an interview with Monroe that ran in three major newspapers the other day about the weight of being silenced and voiceless, and it really affected me. The next day, I bought tickets to the extra dates they added for his shows and I’ll be there showing my support by buying a $60 baseball cap.”
At press time, Monroe continued to rally against his cancellation during the press junket for his starring role in a new Mel Gibson movie.
