The debate over gender equity in comedy reached new heights as Luenell and 50 Cent clashed over his comedy festival’s all-male lineup.
via: Complex
“Proof you can’t make everybody happy,” he wrote. “I love luenell’s work that’s why I had them put her in Ghost. We saw her big ass was booked already, so we didn’t reach out.”
“You think I didn’t want Monique, Sommore, or Amy Schumer they on FIRE WTF,” he continued.
His response comes after Luenell spoke about 50 Cent’s comedy showcase that happened recently. She questioned the fact that there were no female comedians included.
“I want to say that the game is so misogynistic because I just heard about this comedy festival that my dear friend 50 is having right now,” she said. “I haven’t seen the paperwork, so I don’t know, but from what I heard…there were several comedians on the plane but not one female comic.”
“Now this might be mistaken, but this is the information I’ve got,” she continued. “There are men and women in the audiences in these shows so I think that their representation only makes sense.”
Luenell also acknowledged that 50’s been a huge help for her career, but she then made it clear that female comedians are “generating heat” based on her own shows are selling out.
The comedian also said that she wasn’t asked to participate in the festival.
50 Cent’s been having plenty of success lately — but he doesn’t want to be treated any differently though.
Last week, he posted a screenshot of a US Weekly article on Instagram about him nearing billionaire status and added the words “I don’t want this to make you think I don’t need a discount, because I want a discount,” he wrote, adding “LOL” to it.
In that US Weekly article he posted, he spoke about not being in a rush to become a billionaire.
"I’m not in a hurry to reach billionaire status," he said. "I’ve reached a point where I don’t want anything I don’t have. What’s the rush? I’ve bought every car I wanted, multiple times over."
First Hurricane Chris goes in on Fiddy for not including any Louisiana comics in his show, and now Luenell is coming after him? Curtis can't seem to catch a break.
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