Pop singer and actress Selena Gomez fired back at Paramout+ show “The Good Fight” Tuesday after the legal drama made a joke about a kidney transplant operation she underwent back in 2017.
Some context: “The Good Fight,” a spin-off of the hit CBS show “The Good Wife,” showed several characters brainstorming joke ideas for a comedy television executive played by Wayne Brady. Brady asks Liz (Audra McDonald) to put together something for one of his characters and the scene then unfolds with Marissa (Sarah Steele), Jim (Ifadansi Rashad) and Jay (Nyambi Nyambi) tossing out ideas.
In some weird attempt for the show to address cancel culture, Jay begins to ask what comedy topics should be off-limits, which leads people to list off answers including necrophilia, autism and “Selena Gomez’s kidney transplant.”
“I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently,...
Some context: “The Good Fight,” a spin-off of the hit CBS show “The Good Wife,” showed several characters brainstorming joke ideas for a comedy television executive played by Wayne Brady. Brady asks Liz (Audra McDonald) to put together something for one of his characters and the scene then unfolds with Marissa (Sarah Steele), Jim (Ifadansi Rashad) and Jay (Nyambi Nyambi) tossing out ideas.
In some weird attempt for the show to address cancel culture, Jay begins to ask what comedy topics should be off-limits, which leads people to list off answers including necrophilia, autism and “Selena Gomez’s kidney transplant.”
“I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently,...
- 8/4/2021
- by Samson Amore
- The Wrap
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