CHAPTER 188

Noam’s written about around the world. He tells the New York Times,

I think we’ll be better off as a society if we stop looking to the bottlenecks of distribution — Twitter, Netflix, Facebook or comedy clubs — to filter the world for us.

He tells the Hollywood Reporter,

Listen, we are really a free-expression outfit, so let me digress and say that I’ve heard and seen comedians who work for me engage in real vile anti-Semitism, and I’ve never thought I would book them less or even said boo to them. I always felt this is their business. I don’t have to like them, and people should not take me allowing them to perform as my approval of their character or the things they’ve done in their lives.

He tells the BBC,

I was worried about the reaction, you know. We’re living in a time now of a kind of call-out culture where if you do or say the wrong thing people look to get even with you, so I was very worried. I am worried.

He records four podcasts about Louis.

Author: Why did you not just say no comment?

Noam: Because I thought that would have made me look bad, that I was being cowardly about it and, I don’t know, I think people would have been more angry to see me not even ready to take responsibility for it.