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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos did an interview for the NYTimes where he spoke on artistic freedom defending Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais. The company’s employee walk out over trans jokes they made took him by surpise, he tells Maureen Dowd. He said comedians can only find out what’s acceptable by “crossing the line every once in a while. I think it’s very important to the American culture generally to have free expression.”
“We’re programming for a lot of diverse people who have different opinions and different tastes and different styles, and yet we’re not making everything for everybody. We want something for everybody, but everything’s not going to be for everybody.”
He described support for Chappelle being that it “wasn’t hard in that way. And rarely do you get the opportunity to put your principles to the test. It was an opportunity to take somebody, like in Dave’s case, who is, by all measure, the comedian of our generation, the most popular comedian on Netflix for sure. Nobody would say that what he does isn’t thoughtful or smart. You just don’t agree with him.”
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