{"id":683123,"date":"2021-08-25T12:36:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=683123"},"modified":"2021-08-25T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:36:32","slug":"report-comedy-central-cancels-the-office-diversity-day-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-comedy-central-cancels-the-office-diversity-day-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Comedy Central Cancels \u2018The Office\u2019 \u2018Diversity Day\u2019 Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Freport-comedy-central-cancels-the-office-diversity-day-episode%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=683123&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-138460766-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Though Comedy Central has been airing reruns of NBC\u2019s beloved, long-running sitcom, \u2018The Office,\u2019 for years, there\u2019s one episode you may not be able to find on the network going forward \u2014 \u201cDiversity Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The episode is famous for its politically incorrect storyline which features boss Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) forcing the paper company staff to participate in a racial diversity seminar where he speaks in an exaggerated Indian accent and reprises Chris Rock\u2019s notorious standup routine about different kinds of black people.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barstoolsports.com\/blog\/3379792\/comedy-central-pussies-cancel-diversity-day-episode-of-the-office\">Barstool Sports<\/a>, the cable channel has \u201cquietly omitted [the episode] from the rotation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barstool sportswriter and host of the podcast \u201cSpittin\u2019 Chiclets,\u201d Rear Admiral, noticed the second episode of season one was missing from a recent marathon of the show. He asked Comedy Central about its absence and said he received no reply, not even the \u201dstandard corporate boilerplate reply about potentially offending people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Said Rear Admiral:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20\">\n<p><em>It\u2019s really just treating folks like children, telling them that they\u2019re not equipped to handle\u2026[checks notes twice]\u2026Michael Scott imitating Chris Rock. As if people voluntarily tuning into a TV comedy was going to suddenly send them out into the streets. Ch***t, all they had to do is leave the episode up and quietly throw in one of those [Disclaimers] that airs before even goddamn BEVERLY HILLS COP II nowadays (I watched the entirely of BHC2 after seeing the trigger warning beforehand and still have no idea what warranted it). This isn\u2019t hard but I don\u2019t [know]why they make it so hard on themselves \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A simple, appeasing \u2018Times have changed and we\u2019ve reflected and blah blah blah and this art has not been calibrated to modern day sensibilities for your convenience but no other generation needed these because people already knew that shit coming in\u201d would have sufficed. But instead of just slapping up a trigger warning for an episode of \u2018The Office,\u2019 Comedy Central quietly omitted it from the rotation thus sending OCD-riddled completists into delirium <\/em><em>and<\/em><em> prompting me blog about it, drawing even more attention to this, dare I say, canceling of a modern day icon. Fret not as this doesn\u2019t mean that you can only watch \u2018Diversity Day\u2019 on some shady site that gives your PC cybercrabs; you just need to pony up to enjoy it on Peacock or buy it for $3 from any number of streaming outlets. It also means that Comedy Central doesn\u2019t get the first part of its name.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ricky Gervais, who created \u201cThe Office\u201d and starred in the original British version of the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ricky-gervais-jokes-the-office-would-be-canceled-today\">joked<\/a> in July that the show would be immediately banned if it were airing for the first time today. \u201cI mean now it would be canceled,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to when they pick out one thing and try to cancel it. Someone said they might try to cancel it one day, and I say, \u2018Good, let them cancel it. I\u2019ve been paid!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Carrell, too, said that networks would likely shy away from the series now. &nbsp;\u201cIt might be impossible to do that show today and have people accept it the way it was accepted 10 years ago. The climate\u2019s different,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/movies\/a23695483\/steve-carell-beautiful-boy-interview-2018\/\">Esquire<\/a>, \u201cI mean, the whole idea of that character, Michael Scott, so much of it was predicated on inappropriate behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire reached out to Comedy Central to confirm Barstool\u2019s claim but did not receive a timely response.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Comedy Central has been airing reruns of NBC\u2019s beloved, long-running sitcom, \u2018The Office,\u2019 for years, there\u2019s one episode you may not be able to find on the network going &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683123","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\/683123","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}