A comedian who appeared on “Last Comic Standing,” “America’s Got Talent” and other TV shows has been fired from Carnival Cruise Lines after a passenger accidentally recorded him using the n-word in his set.
According to TMZ, a female passenger recorded a clip of Rob O’Reilly’s set during a cruise. While she didn’t catch his actual use of a racial slur, she did catch him saying, “If you’re offended, leave.”
The video was shared on TikTok with a caption on the screen that read, “So on Carnival Cruise now and they’re very good at hiring someone who uses the N-word a lot on his show and when the issue was brought up he said and I quote ‘if you are offended, get out.'” The statement was met with cheers from the public.
O’Reilly, who once appeared as a correspondent for “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” has been fired and fired from Carnival Cruise Lines. In a statement they has written, “We do not tolerate this language or behavior. The person in question is no longer welcome on Carnival ships and the rest of his scheduled appearances have been cancelled.”
The passenger named Pamela Frilot — according to Complex — apparently shared additional information about what happened during O’Reilly’s set on another video. Frilot noted that as is common with many comedy shows – the audience was asked not to record the set. She notes that it was after he used profanity a few times that she and a friend started recording.
Past racist tweets by O’Reilly have been revealed since this incident and they are disturbing.
O’Reilly has not released a statement about the incident or the tweets.
