A comic reminded CNN of a troublesome a part of its previous on Tuesday night time when he was provided a shot by New 12 months’s Eve hosts Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen.
“Oh no. No, I do not. The final Black man to drink on this community acquired fired,” mentioned Roy Wooden Jr., who’s recognized for his “Day by day Present” appearances. “I’ll preserve it with water for proper now. I would like some stability.”
Wooden gave the impression to be referring to ex-host Don Lemon, who was part of the community’s New 12 months’s specials throughout his run and would drink throughout protection. Fellow Occasions Sq. friends Michael Ian Black and Amber Ruffin did not flip down the provide of a shot, nevertheless.
Wooden co-hosts CNN’s weekly Saturday comedy quiz present, “Have I Received Information for You,” alongside Black and Ruffin.
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Comic Roy Wooden Jr. (ABC)
Lemon was fired by CNN in 2023 after a collection of controversies and the struggles of the newly launched AM present “CNN This Morning.”Â
The left-leaning host was pushed out of his primetime spot to change into a part of a three-person internet hosting crew on then-CEO Chris Licht’s revamped morning program, however the present by no means acquired off the bottom.Â
Lemon memorably angered community colleagues in 2023 when he advised Nikki Haley, then 51 years previous, wasn’t “in her prime” anymore. On the time, Haley was presciently speaking about age issues for President Biden, who was compelled out of the race a 12 months later by members of his personal occasion.
Lemon lasted two extra months earlier than Licht dropped him. Licht himself was proven the door in June of that 12 months.
Lemon lately made media headlines along with his blistering assault on Donald Trump supporters amid the schism amongst a part of his base about H-1B visas.
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Don Lemon went off on Donald Trump supporters in a latest rant. (Picture by Leigh Vogel/Getty Photographs for Congressional Black Caucus Basis | Picture by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)
“You’ve been co-opted since you’re in a f—ing cult and you do not even understand it as a result of you’ve gotten silly MAGA mind and you do not get it,” he mentioned. “How silly and dumb are you?”Â
He stood by his feedback on his YouTube present on Tuesday, saying his critics had been “butthurt.”
“I’m not referring to all Trump supporters,” Lemon mentioned. “I’m speaking to the MAGA-brained individuals who will say and do something to make excuses for any conduct that Donald Trump does, any unhealthy conduct that the MAGA motion does.”
He continued, “So sure, I stand by my phrases! And in case you don’t like what I mentioned, then too f—ing unhealthy, I don’t care!”
Lemon additionally known as out the “hypocrisy” of Trump supporters attacking him for his language whereas defending their “cult chief.”
“That is how tousled you might be. You may have a better expectation of me, an impartial journalist, a former cable information host, than you do for the one who sits within the Oval Workplace. As a result of his mouth is worse than mine,” Lemon mentioned.
Lemon additionally attacked Time Journal final month for selecting Trump as its Individual of the 12 months, calling the selection a “joke.”
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Ex-CNN host Don Lemon throughout an look on MSNBC final 12 months. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
“In the event that they needed to make somebody Individual of the 12 months, I don’t know, they might’ve achieved it with any particular person. They might have achieved it to somebody who truly stood for democracy, who stands for democracy within the nation,” Lemon mentioned.
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Fox Information Digital’s Kendall Tietz, Brian Flood and Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.
