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Netflix employee fired in wake of Chappelle special furor

October 16, 2021 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Netflix said Friday that it had fired an employee for disclosing confidential financial information about what it paid for Dave Chappelle’s comedy special “The Closer," which some condemned as being transphobic.

2018 Breakthrough: Elsie Fisher of ‘Eighth Grade’

By LINDSEY BAHRDecember 13, 2018 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elsie Fisher was about to give up on acting right before Bo Burnham's coming-of-age project "Eighth Grade" came on her radar, and it's a good thing she decided to take one last chance...

Bo Burnham explores the awkwardness of ‘Eighth Grade’

By LINDSEY BAHRJuly 12, 2018 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An awkward middle school girl might be the last subject one would expect a 27-year-old male comedian to spotlight in his directorial debut, "Eighth Grade," but Bo Burnham has never exactly followed a script.