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Almost four years after hissexual misconduct scandal,Louis C.K.is preparing for a nationwide comedy tour.
Thecontroversial stand-up comedianannounced in an email Wednesday that he will be embarking on a cross-country, multi-city tour, beginning Aug. 13 in New York and concluding in December in Boston.
“Hello Person that you are being right now,” he wrote in the email, perDeadline. “I am writing to you today because I am going to be touring around the United States of America, performing stand-up comedy in theaters in several different cities.”
C.K., 53, acknowledged that COVID “is still a factor around the country and world,” adding that “we will see how this goes.”
“Our intention is to do every show we can do. We will comply with the local governments of each city in terms of health standards and practices. Like everyone else, we will just do our best under the circumstances,” he continued. “I’m really looking forward to seeing your faces as I tell some rather impolite jokes and stories.”
The full list of dates for the five-month tour are posted on his website.
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In November 2017, theNew York Timespublished a report in which five women detailed their experiences with C.K., including that he masturbated in front of them.
Comedians Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov said that while with C.K. in his hotel room after their show at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in 2002, he “proceeded to take all of his clothes off, and get completely naked, and started masturbating.”
C.K. responded with alengthy statementin which he admitted that “these stories are true.”
He added, “The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them … I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.”
source: people.com
