{"id":1487523,"date":"2022-05-22T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487523"},"modified":"2022-05-22T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T14:30:19","slug":"no-joke-white-comic-terror-on-the-prairie-actor-sues-talent-agency-alleging-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-joke-white-comic-terror-on-the-prairie-actor-sues-talent-agency-alleging-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"No Joke: White Comic, \u2018Terror on the Prairie\u2019 Actor, Sues Talent Agency Alleging Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-joke-white-comic-terror-on-the-prairie-actor-sues-talent-agency-alleging-discrimination%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487523&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/7751EDC3-C4AF-4C8F-8EBF-AD9A86A91F4B_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Comedian Tyler Fischer, whose spot-on impressions of former President Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and others have helped build a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/tylerfischer7\">huge YouTube following<\/a>, is suing a talent management company he claims rejected him for being white, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/21\/comedian-says-he-was-rejected-by-agent-for-being-white\/\">according to a report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fischer, who stars in the upcoming Daily Wire movie \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zCYVBMXI8zw\">Terror on the Prairie<\/a>,\u201d told the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/21\/comedian-says-he-was-rejected-by-agent-for-being-white\/\">New York Post<\/a> that AGI Entertainment Media &#038; Management officials first told him he was headed for stardom, then ghosted him. Then, after months of sitting by the phone, Fischer claims he received a call that delivered the wrong kind of punchline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018We love you,&#8217;\u201d Fischer, who is suing for discrimination in Brooklyn Supreme Court quoted AGI official Alex Brazil telling him. \u201c\u2018Everyone here loves you and thinks you\u2019re a star, but we\u2019re not taking you because you\u2019re white.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s when my stomach dropped,\u201d said Fischer.<\/p>\n<p>Fischer says he recorded the call on the advice of his therapist and claims to have strong evidence that his career was stymied because of his skin color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I said something like, \u2018So you guys like me, you want to work with me, you know I\u2019ve got what it takes, but the only reason is because I\u2019m white?\u2019 And he said, \u2018Yeah.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fischer, 35, is a star on the standup circuit, has 146,000 YouTube followers, and a weekly podcast, \u201cThe Tyler Fischer Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m currently suing a talent manager who told me they won&#8217;t work with me because I&#8217;m a white man. They just asked how much money I want to settle out of court. UPDATE: I will not settle. I will take this all the way even if I don&#8217;t get a dime. This &#8220;justified&#8221; racism must end.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tyler Fischer (@TyTheFisch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TyTheFisch\/status\/1526603407695433730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fischer says the agency offered to settle, but he refused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not settle,\u201d he said in a recent tweet. \u201cI will take this all the way even if I don\u2019t get a dime. This \u2018justified\u2019 racism must end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hoping this can draw some attention to getting back to why are we putting race and gender and pronouns and all this before who\u2019s qualified for the job,\u201d Fischer also said.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Fischer\u2019s lawyer,\u00a0Lawrence Spasojevich, said the sole criteria for his client should be whether he can make people laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Fischer\u2019s lawsuit seeks to enforce the idea that individuals should be judged by their qualifications; not by their race, their sex, their gender identity, their religion, or any other innate characteristic,\u201d Spasojevich told the Post. \u201cThat idea needs to apply to everyone equally or else it loses its legitimacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An AGI spokesman declined to address the specifics of Fischer\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we can\u2019t comment on active litigation, we are proud to represent a roster of artists who we work with based solely on their talent,\u201d the spokesman told the Post.<\/p>\n<p>Fischer tests his dramatic chops in the upcoming film \u201cTerror on the Prairie,\u201d in which he plays an outlaw cowboy. The western, which stars Gina Carano, Samaire Armstrong, and Nick Searcy,\u00a0is set to debut exclusively on The Daily Wire this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the Montana plains, a frontier woman must protect herself against a ruthless gang of outlaws hell-bent on revenge,\u201d reads the IMDb logline for the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Tyler Fischer, whose spot-on impressions of former President Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and others have helped build a huge YouTube following, is suing a talent management company he claims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1487530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}