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The police, we're not sure. there has to be something we can do, can we generate outrage and shame? they began telling people. they soon heard that louis c.k.'s manager was very angry that they were doing so. ad they were new to the comedy scene. they were about to move to los angeles. this was a big player there and they felt like, we've angered this person, we can't possibly it? our material to his shows. louis c.k.'s manager represents some very top people. >> they felt like they were arriving into a scene with a lot of enemies. >> my understanding, according to your reporting is that even ...

Police? we're not sure. there has to be something we can do, can we generate outrage and shame? they began telling people. they soon heard that louis c.k.'s manager was very angry that they were doing so. and they were new to the comedy scene. they were about to move to los angeles. this was a big player there and they felt like, we've angered this person, we can't possibly you know, submit our material to his shows. for many, louis c.k.'s manager represents some very top people. >> they felt like they were arriving into a scene with a lot of enemies. >> my understanding, according to your rep...

What do you know about that? did people know that this is the kind of thing louis c.k. did? >> rumors about this behavior many years, especially the comedy world. the kind of thing, this talk about this circulated in back stage hangouts, in writers rooms at comedy clubs. eventually some of those rumors made their way online. published on sites like gawker and which no longer xifrtexists. but louis c.k. always denied it when it came to him and people asked him about it. the women subject to this action did not want to acknowledge it through all of the many years that these rumors circulated. so...

To report that they felt good about and the comedy world is a really problematic area because it is pretty -- there's just no hr department at a comedy club where you're working with somebody. so -- but that pattern of facts i think put glos you in a i hav isser place. >> people are being careful and full disclosure, i represent a woman who claimed brett radner raped her. >> the executive producer. >> yeah, the reducer, the hollywood produce er. >> and there was scrutiny by the media outlets to her story. and the two tests were somebody told that the times and was enough detail given that it f...

>> going to be broadcasting live from watertown, new york, on 2024. >> montreal, here we come. >> exactly. all right. thanks, bill. it was a tough weekend for the comedy world which lost two titans over the past two days. dick gregory, jerry lewis. gregory is being remembered for his hard-hitting satire on racial issues. the trail blazer was one of the first black comedians to find success in front of white audiences. he also tried his hands at politics making an unsuccessful run for mayor in chicago in the '60s and as a write-in candidate for president receiving 47,000 votes. later in life,...