Why does society embrace the shameless yet punish those with principles?
, a quartet of fairly inoffensive comedians whose YouTube channel was in 2022 valued at $6m. But one day last year, Fulmer was unceremoniously deprived of his living. The problem was that he had pretended, in public, to be a devoted husband, but it then emerged that he’d had an affair. Scandal followed and the gang expelled him. “It was very shocking to us,” his colleagues explained, blocking him on social media as an extra precaution.
But of course that is not the Brand story. As we know, Sachsgate did not end him, and neither did an incident a year earlier where, on air, he’d called his Radio 2 show’s newsreader “a sex bomb” and threatened to “unleash hell on [her] thighs”. And neither did long-held “open secrets” in the industry that he was a sexual predator.
Well, that list does have something in common. Unlike the hapless DeGeneres, Fulmer or Teigen, these men didn’t attempt to con the world into thinking they were nice people. Like Brand, Louis CK was accused of sexual misconduct and made light of such behaviour in his show. Some of Tate’s online output might almost function as a how-to guide to sexual exploitation – a charge he was arrested for, but denies.
If your own standards are the measuring stick by which you are to be judged, better to have none at all
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