Samantha Bee stings with the truth! And boy do we these righteous narratives now more than ever!
"Samantha Bee enlisted help from Terry Crews during Wednesday night's Full Frontal to urge the public to take male sexual assault and abuse seriously amid the #MeToo movement.
After emphasizing that one out of 33 men have been victims of attempted or completed rape, Bee said, "Sexual assault of men is a real problem and not a joke despite the way we tend to talk about it."
The TBS late-night host then premiered a mock PSA with Crews, where both called out people who joke about topics like "prison rape" and "boys being molested."
"Lots of things are funny that aren’t rape jokes. For example, spit takes," Bee says, as she and Crews showcased other examples of appropriate jokes. While seated across from each other, Crews jokes that he's "pregnant," and Bee spits water in his face. The pair also urge the pubic to "joke about off-brand merchandise" such as "Milk Cards."
"Something not funny is acting like high schoolers getting assaulted by teachers," Crews says, as he then explains that something "funnier" would be taking "a pie to the face that’s filled with bees."
The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star's appearance follows having his testimony to Capitol Hill about sexual assault in June. "I am an actor, author, former athlete, advocate and a survivor of a sexual assault," Crews said at the time. "Hollywood definitely has been a problem area, simply because so many people who view this as a dream. And what happens is, someone has power over these dreams ... you get tricked into thinking that this type of behavior is expected, that it’s part of the job, that this harassment, abuse, even rape, is part of your job description."
He went on to say, "I wanted these survivors to know that I believe them, I supported them and that this happened to me, too."
In the aftermath of Harvey Weinstein's downfall and the subsequent #MeToo and Time's Up movement, the actor has been outspoken about his own experience with sexual assault. Crews accused William Morris Endeavor's Adam Venit of groping his genitals at a party in 2016. Crews did file a criminal complaint against Venit, but the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office declined to prosecute due to the statute of limitations.
Watch the PSA below." - Billboard.com
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