Netflix Source Disputes Mark Normand Claim Exec Called Muslims “Dangerous People”
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The comic claims the streamer insisted he not share a joke online over death threat concerns, but insiders say elements of Normand's tale are "not true, not correct, completely false."
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text Netflix is none too pleased with a claim being made by stand-up comic Mark Normand. Normand recently told an anecdote on his Tuesdays with Stories! podcast about the streamer’s handling of a sensitive joke from his new special, Mark Normand: None Too Pleased . Normand claimed Netflix executives insisted he not promote a joke about Muslims on social media, saying it would be too dangerous for the company. “We got to do a conference call,” Normand says. “There’s 18 Jews on there with a speakerphone and my Jews. And they go, ‘Yeah, bad news. We reviewed the special again, we’d like you to take out the Muslim joke.’ I go, ‘Oh, why?’ And go, ‘Well, the last time a comic did a Muslim joke, we got bomb threats. We got death threats. They said they were going to kill us. They ruined the whole studio, blowed the place up to smithereens. So we’d like to not use the Muslim joke.’ So I was like: I gotta fight for the joke here.” Related Stories Movies 'Project Hail Mary' Offers 4 Lessons Hollywood Should Learn -- But Won't TV "BTS 2.0 Is Just Getting Started": K-pop Supergroup Makes Grand Return to Global Stage With Netflix Event Normand then says the executives backpedaled, or perhaps clarified, they they didn’t want to remove the joke from the special, but only from a social media promo. “They said, ‘We’ve got to get it off socials … socials is where all the shit starts.'” Continued Normand: “I was like, ‘Okay, okay, I don’t love it, but okay. I will take it off on one condition: I want you to admit on this call they’re a dangerous people. You gotta admit it, or I’ll post again.’ I mean, I’m half joking … and they go, ‘Well, we’re not going to do that.’ And I’m like, ‘Why not?’ ‘Well, that’s offensive.’ And I go, ‘I just need you to say it ...
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