NBC has been slapped with a lawsuit by two men who allege that they were fired as camera operators on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” because they are white. In the lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court on Wednesday, Kurt Decker and Michael Cimino also allege that Questlove (above), the drummer of “Tonight Show” house band The Roots, demanded their firing. Decker and Cimino say that they had more than 40 combined years of “spotless” employment at NBC. However, they say, on June 19, 2017, while working on “The Tonight Show,” they received an “unsolicited racist and misogynist text”...
- 1/24/2018
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
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