A comedian reminded CNN of a difficult part of his past Tuesday night when he was offered an opportunity by New Year’s Eve hosts Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen.
“Oh no. No, I don’t. The last black man to drink on this network got fired,” said Roy Wood Jr., known for his appearances on the “Daily Show.” ‘I’m going to stick to water for now. I need some stability.”
Wood appeared to be referring to ex-host Don Lemon, who was part of the network’s New Year’s specials during his run and drank during coverage. However, fellow Times Square guests Michael Ian Black and Amber Ruffin did not turn down the offer of an opportunity.
Wood co-hosts CNN’s weekly Saturday comedy quiz show, “Have I Got News for You,” with Black and Ruffin.
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Comedian Roy Wood Jr. (ABC)
Citroen was fired by CNN in 2023 following a series of controversies and the issues surrounding the recently launched AM show ‘CNN This Morning’.
The left-wing host was pushed out of his primetime spot to become part of a three-person hosting team on then-CEO Chris Licht’s revamped morning program, but the show never got off the ground.
Lemon memorably angered network colleagues in 2023 when he proposed to Nikki Haley, then 51 years old: was no longer “in her prime”.. At the time, Haley spoke presciently about the age issues of President Biden, who was forced out of the race a year later by members of his own party.
Lemon lasted another two months before Licht dropped him. Licht himself was shown the door in June of that year.
Lemon recently made media headlines with his blistering attack on Donald Trump supporters amid the schism among part of his base over H-1B visas.
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Don Lemon recently went on a tirade against Donald Trump’s supporters. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Congressional Black Caucus Foundation | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)
“You’ve been co-opted because you’re in a damn cult and you don’t even realize it because you have a stupid MAGA brain and you don’t understand it,” he said. “How stupid and stupid are you?”
He stood by his comments on his YouTube show on Tuesday, saying his critics were “outraged.”
“I’m not talking about all Trump supporters,” Lemon said. “I talk to MAGA-brained people who will say and do anything to make excuses for any behavior that Donald Trump does, any bad behavior that the MAGA movement does.”
He continued, “So yes, I stand by my words! And if you don’t like what I said, then that’s too bad, I don’t care!”
Lemon also denounced the “hypocrisy” of Trump supporters who attacked him for his language while defending their “cult leader.”
“This is how confused you are. You expect higher from me, an independent journalist, a former cable news host, than from the person sitting in the Oval Office. Because his mouth is worse than mine,” Lemon said .
Lemon also attacked Time Magazine last month for selecting Trump as his pick Person of the Yearand called the choice a “joke.”
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Ex-CNN host Don Lemon during an appearance on MSNBC last year. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
“If they wanted to make someone Person of the Year, I don’t know, they could have done it with anyone. They could also have done that with someone who actually stood for democracy, who stands for democracy in the country.” Lemon said.
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Kendall Tietz, Brian Flood and Lindsay Kornick of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
