CNN fires Reza Aslan over tweets blasting Trump

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Steve Harvey sparked controversy during his show, "The Steve Harvey Show," where he made offensive comments targeting Asian men. Harvey was showing a book cover of "How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men" when he asked "Excuse me, do you like Asian men?" and then answered, "No, thank you." He also said, "You like Asian men? I don't even like Chinese food." The talk-show host apologized for his comments saying, "I offer my humblest apology for offending anyone, particularly those in the Asian community, last week. It was not my intention and the humor was not meant with any malice or disrespect whatsoever."

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Ted Danson caused an uproar after he appeared in blackface and repeatedly used the n-word for a celebrity roast of Whoopi Goldberg at New York Friars Club in 1993. His segment prompted an apology from the head of the club after the city's former mayor, David Dinkins, said it was "way, way over the line." Goldberg, who was in a relationship with Danson at the time, however said she wasn't offended by the act. "Why anyone would take offense to Ted's roasting me in the tradition of the Friars Club is beyond me," she said in a statement.

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Kathy Griffin (r.) was fired by the network last month for a gory image of a beheaded Trump.

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Michael Richards is most famously known for his role as Kramer from "Seinfeld," yet his racist rant at the Laugh Factory in 2006 is a close second. Richards was performing at the Los Angeles comedy club when he screamed at two African-American men saying, "Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f--king fork up your ass" and then went on to repeatedly use the n-word. The actor has since gone on to apologize for his behavior. "I'm really busted up over this, and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience the blacks, the Hispanics, the whites, everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through," he said.

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YouTube star Logan Paul faced fiery backlash after he posted a video that included a suicide victim. Paul was filming in Japan's Aokigahara forest, known as the "Suicide Forest," when about six minutes in he and his crew came across the body of a young man who appeared to have hung himself from a tree. The 22-year-old said it was "supposed to be a fun vlog," yet countless celebrities and critics angrily shot back. Actor Aaron Paul tweeted, "How dare you! You disgust me. I can't believe that so many young people look up to you. So sad," before continuing, "You are pure trash. Plain and simple. Suicide is not a joke. Go rot in hell." Paul later apologized saying he's "I've never faced criticism like this before because I've never made a mistake like this before." He said he intended to raise awareness for suicide, but was "misguided by shock and awe, as portrayed in the video."

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Days after the 2012 mass shooting that left 12 people dead at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, Dane Cook made light of the situation with a joke. "... if none of that would have happened, I'm pretty sure that somebody in that theater, about 25 minutes in, realizing it was a piece of crap, was probably like, 'Ugh, fucking shoot me,'" he said at Los Angeles' Laugh Factory in regard to the "The Dark Knight Rises." He later apologized on Twitter, writing, "I am devastated by the recent tragedy in Colorado & did not mean to make light of what happened. I made a bad judgment call with my material last night & regret making a joke at such a sensitive time. My heart goes out to all of the families & friends of the victims."

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Reza Aslan is out at CNN.

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James Corden faced a slew of backlash after he made jokes about Harvey Weinstein and the sexual abuse scandal surrounding him on Oct. 13, 2017. Corden was hosting the amFAR gala when he decided to open his bit with remarks about Weinstein's alleged harrasment and assault against more than two dozen women. "It's a beautiful night here in LA - so beautiful, Harvey Weinstein has already asked it to go up to his hotel to give him a massage," he said at the event, amongst other jokes. Asia Argento, who came forward and said that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her, condemned the late-night host. "Shame on this pig and everyone who grunted with him #amfARLosAngeles," she wrote on Twitter. Rose McGowan, who alleged that Weinstein raped her, also blasted Corden. "YOU MOTHERF--KING PIGLET. Hearing the audience's vile roars & laughs shows EXACTLY what kind of HOLLYWOOD you really are," she wrote.

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Tracy Morgan's homophobic rant during a 2011 comedy show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee caused so much backlash the comedian soon apologized. Morgan, according to a Facebook post by an audience member, said that he would stab his son if he were gay and that being gay is a choice, in addition to other vulgar homophobic comments. He later apologized for the joke that he said "went too far and was not funny in any context."

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Daniel Tosh apologized for a joke he made during a comedy show in which he said, in regard to an audience member, "Wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by like, 5 guys right now? Like right now? What if a bunch of guys just raped her,'" according to the woman who said she called out the comedian for making generalizations about rape prior to his comment. Tosh was performing at the Hollywood Laugh Factory when the encounter happened, though comedy club owner Jamie Masada said it went down differently. "It was a comment," Masada said, "it wasn't a joke at the expense of this girl." Tosh however wrote on Twitter that he'd "like to sincerely apologize...the point i was making before i was heckled is there are awful things in the world but you can still make jokes about them."

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Rosie O'Donnell offered her version of an apology after she mocked an Asian accent during "The View." In a taping of the show, in which Danny DeVito appeared inebriated, she commented saying, "The fact is that it's news all over the world. That you know, you can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong. Danny DeVito, ching chong, chong, chong, chong. Drunk. The View. Ching chong.'" The comedian later said, "This apparently was very offensive to a lot of Asian people. So I asked Judy, who's Asian and works here in our hair and makeup department. I said, 'Was it offensive to you?' And she said, 'Well, kinda. When I was a kid people did tease me by saying ching-chong...So apparently 'ching-chong,' unbeknownst to me, is a very offensive way to make fun, quote-unquote, or mock, Asian accents.'