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Roy's Job Fair

Comedy Central

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate change-makers in the LGBTQIA+ community. Comedian Sampson McCormick explains how Gay Black comedians have had to laugh through on-the-job hatred. @MsDaniFernandez – a proud member of the Roy's Job Fair two-timer club – details her new journey into writing LGBTQIA-based comic book content for DC Comics. What to do when you misgender someone? They/Them pronouns!! A non-binary Los Angeles-based advertising executive explains why pronouns matter and what companies can do to be more LGBTQIA+ friendly. Netflix fires the woke employees, and Snack Turner is born through Roy’s accidental fight against Juneteenth ice cream! Somewhere in the world, there is a Roy Wood Jr sex tape …on VHS. @Rod4Short laughs at this…way too loud.

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0:00.0	As a kid growing up in Chicago, there was one horror movie I was too scared to watch.
0:04.8	It was called Candyman. It was about this supernatural killer who'd attack his victims if they
0:09.5	said his name five times into a bathroom mirror. But did you know that the movie Candyman
0:13.9	was partly inspired by an actual murder? I was struck by both how spooky it was, but also how outrageous it was.
0:22.9	Listen to Candyman, the true story behind the bathroom mirror, starting October 3rd, wherever
0:28.1	you get your podcasts.
0:30.7	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:33.7	Your eyes are down. Why?
0:37.2	Now firing. Huh? Oh. Why? Now firing.
0:39.1	Huh?
0:39.7	Oh.
0:40.3	Netflix has laid off 150 employees, but most of these employees were working and creating and promoting projects that focused on marginalized communities.
0:56.0	Really?
0:58.0	They fired all the minorities in the gay people.
1:01.0	And the Asians and the Latinos.
1:03.0	Oh no.
1:04.0	I said all the minorities and the gay people.
1:06.0	That's about, yeah, that's all of us.
1:09.0	It is clear that Netflix is able to avoid the discrimination complaints and allegations
1:14.4	because so much of their workforce is diverse.
1:18.6	That's why I did what I did right here.
1:20.3	Third, you got Jacqueline, she black.
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