After comedic actor Kevin Hart stepped down from his Oscars hosting job because of past homophobic comments, Nick Cannon evidently got to work. On Friday (December 7), the Wild ‘N Out star unearthed three controversial tweets from comedians Chelsea Handler, Sarah Silverman and Amy Schumer.
He was questioning why Hart received so much backlash when Handler, Silverman and Schumer never caught any flak for their comments. In fact, they have all gone on to have undeniably successful careers.
“Interesting,” Cannon wrote alongside Handler’s 2010 “fag bird” tweet. “I wonder if there was any backlash here.”
Similarly, Cannon retweeted a 2010 tweet from Silverman which read: “I don’t mean this in a hateful way but the new bachelorette’s a faggot.” He then tacked one on from Schumer who tweeted in 2012, “Enjoy skyfall fags. I’m bout to get knee deep in Helen Hunt. #thesessions.”
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When challenged by a Twitter user to “audit’ his own tweets, Cannon took responsibility for any of his past remarks and insisted he only speaks the truth.
“Nope!!” he wrote. “You know I’ve been saying fucked up shit since twitter started! I don’t play that politically correct bullshit! Fuck politics!! Only truth!”
Hart was expected to host the ceremony in February. An alternate host hasn’t been announced.
