Adam Hills has led the backlash after Louis CK despite having previously admitted to allegations of sexual misconduct.
CK, who won the accolade for his record Sincerely Louis, was accused of masturbating in front of several women in 2017. He later.
The Last Leg comedian Hills expressed his view on the win while pointing out the non-existence of cancel culture.
‘To every journalist who asks me if we now live in a world where you can’t say anything anymore: We currently live in a world where you can masturbate in front of people you employ, and then win a Grammy for talking about it,’ he tweeted.
Hills, of course, refers to how CK joked about his sexual misconduct incident in his set.
In the show, he said: ‘I like jerking off, I don’t like being alone, that’s all I can tell you.
‘I get lonely, it’s just sad. I like company. I like to share. I’m good at it, too. If you’re good at juggling, you wouldn’t do it alone in the dark. You’d gather folks and amaze them.’
Feel Good star and stand-up comic Mae Martin wrote: ‘Can’t think of a joke about this, because it’s not funny to me at the moment.
‘I’m sorry to the young comics he assaulted, who lost so much & have to see this headline today/everyone who’s had a similar experience because of a spineless response from our community to assault.’
Fellow comedian Sarah Keyworth also expressed their anger at CK’s accolade.
‘CK winning a Grammy for best comedy album is an insult to all female/ non-binary comedians everywhere,’ they wrote.
‘It’s a message to us that our industry doesn’t care if we are abused by the men we work alongside, especially if those men are a cash cow. We should be furious.’
CK was accused of masturbating in front of a number of comedians and actresses in an article in The New York Times.
Two of the women said that CK stripped n**ed.n**ed and masturbated in front of them after inviting them to his hotel room, while another said that the comedian masturbated on the phone after she called him to invite him to one of her shows.
Addressing the allegations, CK said: ‘These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my d*** without asking first, which is also true.
‘But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your d*** isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them.
‘The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly.’
