Chris D’Elia’s TV episode removed after sexual misconduct allegations
DAYS after numerous women accused comedian Chris D’Elia of sexually harassing them as teenagers, streaming services have removed his episode of “Workaholics” from their platforms.
He guest-starred in the first season as a pedophile, similar to a role he later played on the Netflix series “You.”
Comedy Central was the first to drop the May 2011 episode titled “To Friend a Predator,” which a spokesperson said has been taken off all its platforms.
Hulu and Amazon, which carry all seven seasons of “Workaholics,” also removed it from their libraries.
The sitcom starred Adam Devine, Anders Holm and Blake Anderson as friends who, in this episode, try to expose D’Elia’s character but wind up partying with him.
In the second season of the psychological thriller “You,” which was released in December, D’Elia played a successful comedian who grooms and rapes young women, some underage.
Last week, the “literal IRONY” of this casting led a woman on Twitter to share screenshots of emails she said D’Elia sent to her in 2014, when she was 16 years old and he was 34.
The messages show D’Elia requesting a photo of her that July and, the following January, asking if they can make out when they meet up.
“Imagine being 16 and being groomed by a stand up comedian twice ur age,” the woman tweeted, adding in the thread: “i am also definitely not the only underage girl he did this too just an FYI.”
The Twitter account @ SheRatesDogs, which has more than 500,000 followers, amplified the thread last Tuesday by quotetweeting it with a story of D’Elia allegedly exposing himself to a hotel worker in early 2018.
The account continued to reply with nearly two dozen accounts of women saying D’Elia had harassed them when they were teenagers or in their early 20s, soliciting nude images or physical intimacy.
D’Elia, whose representatives haven’t responded to The Post’s request for comment, told TMZ on Wednesday that he has “said and done things that might have offended people during my career, but I have never knowingly pursued any underage women at any point.” (In some of the tweeted stories and screenshots, D’Elia’s accusers said he knew how old they were at the time.)
“All of my relationships have been both legal and consensual and I have never met or exchanged any inappropriate photos with the people who have tweeted about me,” he continued.
“That being said, I really am truly sorry. I was a dumb guy who ABSOLUTELY let myself get caught up in my lifestyle. That’s MY fault. I own it. I’ve been reflecting on this for some time now and I promise I will continue to do better.”
In addition to “You,” D’Elia filmed three Netflix stand-up specials released in April 2015, June 2017 and April 2020, all of which remain on the platform.