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In new audio that went viral over the weekend, the disgraced comedian is allegedly heard mocking the teenagers’ efforts for stricter gun control laws, calling the kids “boring” and questioning why their opinions matter.
“Testify in front of Congress, these kids, what the f—? What are you doing?” he said, according toCNN. “‘Cause you went to a high school where kids got shot, why does that mean I have to listen to you? Why does that make you interesting? You didn’t get shot. You pushed some fat kid in the way and now I gotta listen to you talking?”
The caption of the since-deleted YouTube clip claimed that the stand-up set took place on Dec. 16 at Governor’s Comedy Club in Levittown, New York, according toVariety.
An attorney for C.K. did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
On Feb. 14, 17 teenagers and adults were killed in theshooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Schoolin Parkland, Florida.
“He said he’s been to hell and back,” a comedian on the line-up told the website.
TheNew York Timespublished an article in November 2017 in which five women detailed their alleged experiences with C.K., including claims he masturbated in front of them.
Comedians Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov alleged that while with C.K. in his hotel room after their show at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in 2002, he “proceeded to take all of his clothes off, and get completely naked, and started masturbating.”
C.K. responded with alengthy statementin which he admitted that “these stories are true.”
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He added, “The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them … I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.”
“I lost $35 million in an hour,” he reportedly said during his October set.
source: people.com
